By raising the retirement age, economists hope to help business If the Russian government learns to spend less, then over the next 15 years we will witness a two to threefold increase in the rate of economic growth. Experts from the Expert Institute and the Liberal Mission Foundation are confident of this, who presented the report “The Burden of the State and Economic Policy: The Liberal Initiative” on Friday.

President Held a meeting in Ryazan with the governors of the Central Federal District. The leaders of the Ivanovo and Kaluga regions, in particular, raised the issue of the incorrect behavior of the government, which, according to them, does not listen to the opinions of the regional heads. The governors of the Tula, Belgorod and Oryol regions drew the president's attention to what they considered to be an incorrect customs policy regarding the import of meat and dairy products.

Tupolev signed a major contract The Ulyanovsk Aviastar-SP plant and Tupolev OJSC announced a contract with the Egyptian leasing company Sirocco Aerospace International for the supply of 25 Tu-204-120 aircraft. According to Felix Myasnikov, the general director of Aviaexport, which is participating in the deal as an intermediary, the contract amount is $350-355 million.

The prosecutor's office agrees to give him a suspended sentence The main financier of the Media-Most holding, Anton Titov, may soon be released from prison. Last Friday, the state prosecutor asked the Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow, where the trial is taking place, to find Mr. Titov guilty of fraud, money laundering, using false documents and to sentence him to 5 years and 4 months in prison suspended.

Russia and China intend to work together to defend their oil fields in Iraq The head of LUKOIL, Vagit Alekperov, also flew to China with Vladimir Putin. A source in the presidential administration told the Vremya Novostei newspaper that one of the important topics of negotiations between the leaders of the two countries will be Iraqi issues, in the discussion of which Mr. Alekperov will participate.

Americans are preparing for defense in East Africa The war on terrorism is increasingly spreading to Africa. Yesterday, the US State Department warned Americans and other citizens about the danger of new terrorist attacks in the east of this continent. The statement said terrorists may attempt to carry out an attack in the state of Djibouti similar to the one carried out last week in Kenya. The Republic of Djibouti is located in northeast Africa and borders Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia.

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Bin Laden has a double The voice that threatened the entire anti-terrorist coalition led by the United States from a tape and praised the terrorist attacks in Bali and Moscow is “55-60 percent” not that of the number one international terrorist Osama Bin Laden. This conclusion was reached by Swedish researchers who carefully studied the audio recording, which was broadcast live last month by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera.

United Russia is building up its bureaucratic apparatus The end of last week can be called a benefit concert for United Russia. Powerful events held in Moscow should, in the opinion of the organizers, tell the voter clearly and unambiguously: there is such a party! And not just any one, but the most important one. Almost the party in power. Apparently, to demonstrate strength to regional politicians, United Russia has been actively building up its bureaucratic apparatus over the past week.

In accordance with FIFA regulations, the Spartak football club can count on compensation for Dmitry Sychev only in the amount of the funds that were spent on his preparation. This is how on Saturday the head of the FIFA department for the legal status of football players, Gianpaolo Monteneri, commented on the situation with Sychev and his club at a seminar as part of the 4th Football Market exhibition.

Niyazov did not forgive the chief security officer Former Minister of National Security Poran Berdyev was killed in Ashgabat, the Deutsche Welle radio station reported over the weekend. The “violent death” of the ex-minister occurred on November 25, the day when an assassination attempt was made on President Saparmurat Niyazov. General Berdyev was one of the key security officials in Turkmenistan.

The Law “On Communications” will be supplemented with this right At a plenary session on Friday, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the government bill “On Amendments and Additions to the Law “On Communications”. The new version of the law was presented in parliament by the Minister of Communications and Informatization Leonid Reiman.

“House of Fools” is released in Russian cinemas This film has been on everyone's lips for a long time - it was awarded in Venice, included in the Golden Eagle shortlist, recommended from Russia for the Oscar - but was never shown to the general public. And now on December 6 it is released (as written in the press release - they chose not to remember that the film had already been released, in one separate St. Petersburg cinema). On Friday, “House of Fools” was shown to journalists.

The housing and communal services reform was adopted in a stripped-down version On the second attempt, the bill on housing and communal services reform nevertheless passed through the Duma. On Wednesday, five votes were not enough to approve it, but on Friday, with 226 votes needed to make a decision, the project was supported by 244 deputies. This time, presidential spokesman Alexander Kotenkov clearly conveyed the Kremlin’s position, and the centrists understood the hint correctly.

RAO UES of Russia does not want to report to the board of directors on all issues The confrontation between the management of RAO UES of Russia and its shareholders continued at a meeting of the energy company’s board of directors on Friday. The Council criticized RAO's investment program for the next year and did not approve the implementation of the current one.