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.

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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.

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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.

Czech diplomat received eight years for failed murder Former Secretary General of the Czech Foreign Ministry Karel Srba was sentenced to eight years in prison for the attempted murder last summer of journalist Sabina Slonkova, the author of materials about corruption among government officials. But the killer hired by Srba reported the impending assassination attempt to the police, and all the organizers of the assassination attempt were arrested without delay. Srba did not admit his guilt.

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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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.

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The police will now fight the militants The second Chechen war is considered over, the military and security officers will relinquish their leadership powers in the next two months, and the police will have to catch all remaining enemies. In official language, control of operations in Chechnya from yesterday until September 1 should completely transfer to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Second term in freedom Anatoly Bykov was amnestied in the courtroom page 2 Is summer cancelled? In July, as forecasters expect, there will not be much heat in the capital either. And the rains will not stop p. 3 Military secret of Pankisi Special report from a troubled gorge on the Russian-Georgian border p. 6