Peruvians are trying to kick out a Belgian investor In southern Peru, mass protests against the privatization of state-owned electricity producers Egasa and Edesur have been ongoing for a week now. In clashes between demonstrators and police, two people died (both students, 23 and 30 years old, died from being hit in the head by tear gas grenades), and more than one and a half hundred were injured.

Another foreign businessman kidnapped in Tbilisi A subject of Her Majesty, one of the managers of Agribusiness Bank, 59-year-old Peter Shaw, was kidnapped in Tbilisi on Wednesday night by seven terrorists dressed in police and army uniforms. Thus, after a short break, Georgia is once again becoming “unreliable” for foreign businessmen.

The state will invest pension money The Duma and the government yesterday finally figured out how Russians should save for their old age. Everyone will save, even those who don’t want to. Those interested will most likely be disappointed by the savings rules set out in the law on investing pension money, which the Duma approved yesterday in the second reading. At first glance, the law gives everyone the opportunity to make their old age secure.

Today at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, a ceremony will take place to officially present candidates for the 2008 European Football Championship. Joint applications were submitted by Austria and Switzerland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, Greece and Turkey, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the northern four - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. And only two countries exhibited individual projects - Russia and Hungary.

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Gref proposes a new increase in tariffs for natural monopolies The Ministry of Economic Development proposed to the government a plan to increase tariffs on the products of natural monopolies, which will ultimately lead to a fairly significant increase in inflation this year: instead of the predicted 12-14% there will be 14.9-15.2%.

Anatoly Grebnev died Yesterday morning, the famous Russian screenwriter and playwright, Honored Artist Anatoly Grebnev tragically died. He was 78 years old. He was hit by a car near the Matveevskoye Cinema Veterans House, where he had recently lived. Anatoly Borisovich Grebnev is the author of scripts for almost 30 films, including “July Rain”, “I’m Twenty Years Old”, “Prokhindiada, or Running in Place”, “St.

A competitive trading sector is emerging in the electric power industry After Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko recently announced the start date of the competitive electricity market - September 1, work began on creating rules for its functioning. It is assumed that wholesale buyers of electricity will be required to buy 15% of the volume they need at the market price.

The prosecutor's office of the Sakhalin region has put on the federal wanted list another, third suspect in the case of an attempt on the life of the deputy head of the Pacific Regional Directorate of the Federal Border Guard Service, Major General Gamov. On May 21, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, unknown criminals threw Molotov cocktails at his apartment. The officer and his wife received severe burns, and a week later General Gamow died in the burn center of the Japanese city of Sapporo.

The Prosecutor General's Office has prepared for a new battle over the “Kotlyakovsky explosion case” . The explosion at the Kotlyakovskoye cemetery was preceded by a long and loud scandal surrounding the work of the Russian Foundation for Invalids of the War in Afghanistan (RFIVA). This structure was endowed with unprecedented customs and tax benefits, which allowed the “Afghans” to earn huge sums, and it was headed by Valery Radchikov.

Russians are asked to pay attention to national census issues The All-Russian population census has already started in Russian regions. The census will officially begin only on October 9, but statisticians decided to conduct surveys in hard-to-reach regions in advance. As Minister of National Affairs Vladimir Zorin reported yesterday, 565 residents of the Magadan region have already filled out the questionnaires.

India's new president will 'send a signal' to Muslims and Pakistan The President of India, the largest democracy in the world, will be 72-year-old Abdul Kalam, a legend of national military design thought, who is popularly called “Rocket Man.” Although the presidential elections, which are held in India in the central parliament and state legislatures, will not take place until July 15, Kalam's victory seems certain.

But in a couple of years and if the president allows The state will not only gradually withdraw from the media market, but over time will completely abolish the Ministry of Press. With such an invigorating statement, the head of this department, Mikhail Lesin, opened the conference “Media Industry: Direction of Reform.” True, the Ministry of Press will not disappear without a trace: instead, Mr.

City authorities and artists exchange gifts Another cultural and property conflict - a struggle for a small plot of land in the priceless Arbat region - resulted in a press conference, traditional for such cases. It turned out that according to some official papers (of the Moscow Property Department), the site was empty.

Among the outstanding figures of our time who were included in this year's list of British people who received honorary awards in honor of the anniversary of the Queen's reign, there is also a representative of Formula 1. Having enormous authority among many generations of racing drivers, Professor Sid Watkins, head of the medical commission of the International Motor Sports Federation (FIA), became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.