Yesterday, an informal meeting of the prime ministers of the seven Vilnius Group countries, who had already received an invitation to join NATO at the Alliance’s Prague summit in November last year, ended in Bucharest. Participating: prime ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Slovenia was represented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Vnesheconombank provided the Pension Fund with a 43 percent return in foreign currency The Russian Pension Fund invested 39.2 billion rubles in the funded part of labor pensions last year, and, as the head of the Pension Fund Mikhail Zurabov said last Friday at a conference on pension reform, the average return on investments exceeded 20% per annum.

German police are increasingly discovering home arsenals Since the beginning of April, a law has come into force in Germany, according to which gas pistols owned by the public and even scarecrow pistols are now subject to registration if the owners take them outside their own home. German police have been pushing legislators to tighten the rules for storing pseudo-weapons for a long time, but today concerns about blowguns or potato-shooting bazookas are fading into the background.

Yesterday, a football match between the Spartak and CSKA teams, whose fans are known for being particularly aggressive, ended without serious incidents. In the morning, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate took unprecedented security measures - more than 3 thousand police officers were gathered at the Dynamo stadium alone.

Dynamo Moscow scored the maximum number of points in the three opening rounds of the Russian Championship. Moreover, the “blue and white” beat all their opponents with a minimal advantage. And in all these matches, Dynamo captain Alexander TOCHILIN stood out from his partners, on whose face after the game with Torpedo-Metallurg there was a huge bruise - the result of one of the tough martial arts. - Alexander, one-goal victories are becoming common for Dynamo.

French singer sues Russian TV program The popular gossip television program "Public People" was met with pushback from one of its heroes, a singer named Nilda Fernandez. This French citizen, now living in Russia, was featured in one of the January issues. In the usual yellow press style for “Public People”.

Three coalition soldiers were killed at a checkpoint near Baghdad as a result of a car bomb explosion. Iraqi authorities say it was an act of "martyrdom" by two women who committed suicide, one of whom was pregnant. The Iraqis did not name them. According to the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera, the pregnant suicide bomber's name was Nour Qaddour al-Shammari and her comrade-in-arms was Wadad Jamil Jassem.

The Prosecutor General's Office threatened the government The scandal around the State Fisheries Committee, apparently, has not ended, but is just beginning. Last Friday, First Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov announced to the whole country that he had ordered the government to seize documents. True, Mr. Kolesnikov wanted to seize only one document, which, in his opinion, does not comply with the law. Namely, government decree No.

Zarina Gizikova wins medals in splendid isolation The European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, which started in the German city of Riesa, became the most unusual for the Russian team - only one gymnast represented the country in individual competitions. Based on the results of previous performances, Alina Kabaeva and Zarina Gizikova had the right to start in Rize.

The call for jihad against the United States, made in the heat of a rally, threatens the head of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of All Rus' (CDUM), Mufti Talgat Tajuddin, with criminal prosecution for inciting religious hatred.

The Ministry of Finance decided to save the Nizhny Novgorod region The agreement that the April coupon on the Euroloan is almost 1 billion rubles. -- the Nizhny Novgorod government will repay using a budget loan from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and a long-term loan from Sberbank of Russia, achieved.

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The President intends to strengthen the Space Forces Vladimir Putin's Saturday visit to the headquarters of the Space Forces (HF) on April 5 was unexpected and swift, like an attack from space. The command learned about the distinguished guest’s desire to visit Kaluzhskaya, where the “brain” of the troops is located, two days in advance. Accustomed to scrupulous precision in everything, the “cosmonauts” calculated: the visit to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief lasted 1 hour 37 minutes.

The Planet group, controlled by Sibneft shareholders, has completed the consolidation of a controlling stake in the largest producer of dairy products in St. Petersburg - Petmola. Thus, a food holding company close to Roman Abramovich has sharply strengthened its position in the food market of Russia, including the north-west. Petmol occupies about 40% of the St. Petersburg and approximately 4% of the Russian market, producing about 450-460 tons of dairy products per day.

The phenomenon of patriotism of Russian doctors is worthy of study. How can it be: our state is weak and greedy, there is no money, it’s a shame to talk about the salaries of medical workers out loud, and yet our doctors are all at their jobs every day, the competition in medical universities is consistently high, without cronyism, even nurses can get into a decent clinic they don't take it.