Russian mushrooms will fight weeds in Europe Special mushrooms will be delivered from Russia to the UK to help combat Heracleum mantegazzianum, a giant weed that reaches 15 feet (4.5 meters) in length. Damage from this plant, which covered the banks of British rivers, amounts to millions of pounds.

Yesterday, a 300,000-strong demonstration took place in Hong Kong (Hong Kong) to protest against the planned adoption of a new anti-subversion law in the coming days. The action coincided with the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the return of the former British colony to Chinese rule.

The appointment of Marvin King as head of the Bank of England on Monday came as no surprise to anyone. This was announced by the country's Finance Minister Gordon Brown at the end of September. Since 1998, King has served as deputy head of the Central Bank, as well as chairman of the monetary policy committee.

Forecasters hope that summer will come this year Summing up the results of the first month of summer, Moscow meteorologists decided to please the residents of the capital. It turns out that last June was not the coldest in the entire 120-year history of meteorological observations.

Chechens are scared in Pankisi, but in Russia it’s even worse Refugee children rarely go to Russian-language schools. Many of these teenagers will attend their universities in mosques held by preachers of Wahhabism Eduard Shevardnadze assures that there have been no militants in the gorge for a long time

Passengers ignored the transit agreement to Kaliningrad The very first day of the agreement on a simplified procedure for the transit of Russian citizens through the territory of Lithuania turned into an embarrassment. Yesterday morning, at the Kena border station, Lithuanian border guards removed 47 Russian citizens from the Chelyabinsk-Kaliningrad train who had neither Lithuanian visas nor new papers called “simplified travel document for travel by rail” (STR).

VTB and ROSNO signed a cooperation agreement Vneshtorgbank (VTB) and ROSNO signed a cooperation agreement, the press service of the credit institution reported. VTB will provide comprehensive banking services to the insurance company, its branches and subsidiaries, as well as provide consulting and information services in the banking and financial sectors.

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Pascal COUSHPAIN is the Swiss Minister of the Interior, who this year is serving on a rotating basis as President of the Swiss Confederation. Mr. Couchpin's ministry also oversees social affairs, and until this year he served as economics minister, in which capacity he visited Russia in 2001, visiting Moscow and Perm. The other day he comes to Russia again. In an interview with Igor SEDYKH in Geneva, given specifically for the Vremya Novostey newspaper, Mr.

June has ended. In the center of Russia, the first month of summer turned out to be unusually cold and rainy - the average monthly air temperature was only 12.8°C. In just 21 days of June, about 80 mm of precipitation fell - approximately the monthly norm. The beginning of July will not bring significant changes in the weather.

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The Prosecutor General's Office recently finally agreed with the decision of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs to close the scandalous criminal case related to the epic with the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed highway. Initially, investigators suspected that representatives of RAO VSM, created to implement an ambitious project, with the participation of St. Petersburg and federal officials, stole $200 million.

The struggle for the purity of their own ranks in the Russian special services is becoming almost universal. As it turned out, last week FSB officers, together with operatives of the Moscow Department for Economic Crimes, exposed a gang of border guards working at the capital's Sheremetyevo-2 airport. According to the investigation, border guards, for a fee of 10 thousand dollars, helped everyone, including those who were on the federal wanted list, illegally leave the country.