What awaits the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade if German Gref leaves? Yesterday, Minister of Economic Development German Gref, who had been practically absent since February, returned to work. After holding a short operational meeting with his deputies, the minister went to the president.

Foreigners have “grown up” to a blocking package The process of liberalization of the Russian insurance market seems to have moved forward. As it became known, the share of participation of foreigners in the authorized capitals of domestic insurers will be increased from 15 to 25%. In addition, as part of Russia's accession to the WTO, supervisory authorities will remove a number of other “insurance” restrictions.

On Sunday, an Il-62 passenger plane made an emergency landing at the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport, with 174 passengers on board. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the airliner, owned by Domodedovo Airlines, was operating a flight from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Moscow. A few minutes after takeoff, the crew reported problems in one of the four engines.

PVR and SEPR can go to the elections together The Party for the Revival of Russia, led by State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev, and the Socialist United Party of Russia, whose leader is Alexei Podberezkin, are negotiating possible cooperation in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The most likely embodiment of such cooperation seems to be an electoral bloc, and the parties are now discussing the effectiveness of this solution. However, it is possible that the matter will not reach the block.

US Health Secretary Tommy Thomson said the US would support the creation of an “anti-tobacco alliance” and would withdraw its objections to the pact, which would sharply limit the rights of the tobacco industry. "I'm going to support this, much to the surprise of many around the world," he told a World Health Organization conference. The so-called Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the first international treaty aimed at reducing the harmful effects of smoking.

Russia returns to Asian arms markets Yesterday, Russia and Malaysia initialed a contract for the supply of 18 Su-30MKM multirole fighters over the next five years worth more than $900 million. On the Russian side, the document was signed by First Deputy General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport Sergei Chemezov. The Su-30MKM won the tender, where the main competitor of Russian products was the American F/A-18E/D (“Superhornet”) aircraft.

Oleg Kuvaev posted the first “cartoons” with Masyanya on the Internet in 2001. In just a matter of months, these simple flash videos acquired the status of an all-Russian hit, and some of the cartoon girl’s especially successful words became proverbs. However, despite Masyanya’s enormous popularity, Kuvaev was unable to make the project generate substantial profits for a long time.

After the grand opening of the V International Chekhov Theater Festival, during which Tverskaya Square was showered with fire by Spanish “Demons,” the mayor of the capital held a meeting with theater workers.

The essence of the amendments to the Tax and Budget Codes is explained to the regions The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has begun explanatory work in the regions in connection with the amendments being prepared by the ministry to the Budget and Tax Codes of the country. These amendments should become a “material” part of the bills on the reform of powers and local self-government, the consideration of which in the second reading in the State Duma is expected in June this year.

46-year-old Navratilova and 17-year-old Kuznetsova won the WTA tournament as a pair The victory of the unique tandem ended the doubles competition at the 1st category BTA tournament with a prize fund of $1 million 224 thousand in Rome.

The main producer of the channel was Kirill Nabutov The management of the NTV channel continues to update its management. Yesterday, NTV General Director Nikolai Senkevich appointed famous television journalist Kirill Nabutov, who previously held the post of General Director of the St. Petersburg television company Adam's Apple, as his deputy general director and chief producer. According to Mr.

The Patriarchate again accuses Catholics of unfair competition The Russian Orthodox Church has lost hope of establishing relations with the Vatican in the near future. The communication service of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate issued a corresponding statement yesterday after the Holy See announced the opening of a metropolitanate in Kazakhstan.

The government has completed the process of agreeing on the list of property to be included in Russian Railways OJSC. Of the 2,046 enterprises in the Russian Railways industry, which, according to Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, will be registered before July 1, almost half of the organizations will leave, and the authorized capital of the JSC will be about 1.6 trillion rubles.

60 days to prepare to fight for a year The European Union finally really has its own rapid reaction force. This was announced yesterday in Brussels by the EU defense ministers. Europe's 60,000-strong force must be deployed within 60 days to be able to fight anywhere in the world within a year.

Prime Minister Held a meeting on current problems in the Russian fishing industry. The meeting was held as part of the development of a concept for the development of the fishing industry in Russia, which will be considered at one of the upcoming meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers. According to preliminary data, the draft concept will be considered at a government meeting on June 5. Held a meeting with the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov.