Mikhail Kasyanov's visit to China brought more results than expected Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov was pleased with the results of his official visit to China that ended yesterday. A number of Russian experts who participated in the preparation of the trip feared that the negotiations would take a rather harsh tone, since Russian-Chinese relations could not be called smooth at all. However, the fears turned out to be in vain. As Mr.

Sergey Veremeenko accompanied Senator Ralif Safin and General Director of Stankoimport Sagadat Khabirov The main contenders for the post of head of Bashkiria have been identified. This is the current president Murtaza Rakhimova, the former top manager of LUKOIL, and now senator Ralif Safin, as well as the former manager of Mezhprombank, and now adviser to the chairman of the executive committee of United Russia, Sergei Veremeenko. However, Mr.

An increasing number of Russians are becoming participants in the pension reform every day. And, if now the question “who - the state or a private company - should be entrusted with managing the funded part of their labor pension” worries only the most “advanced”, then by December 31, all working women under 45 and men under 50 will have to decide on the choice of a pension investor years.

An unprecedented fiasco of volleyball players For the first time in the history of the European Championships, our country’s team will not end up on the podium. After Nikolai Karpol's team suffered their second defeat in the tournament (0:3) from the German national team, they finally lost their chances of reaching the semifinals. In addition, the Russians lost the opportunity to win a ticket to the World Cup, where the first Olympic licenses will be awarded.

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The prosecutor's office is again investigating hazing at the Nakhimov School Officers of the St. Petersburg Nakhimov School will again have to answer to the prosecutor's office about how the torture of cadets in this elite naval institution became possible. The boys’ mothers managed to get the court to decide to re-examine the hazing between Nakhimovites.

Itera left Uzbekistan The once successful gas company Itera has recently been plagued by continuous failures. Yesterday another episode appeared in a series of troubles. Chairman of Uzbekneftegaz Shavkat Mazhitov announced to reporters that Itera had withdrawn from the Kandym project for the integrated development of oil and gas fields in Uzbekistan.

Prodi found himself in the same situation as his enemy Berlusconi Yesterday, the Chairman of the European Commission, Italian Romano Prodi, underwent an unpleasant procedure. At a hearing in the European Parliament, he answered questions about the “statisticians’ case.” The fact is that financial abuses, fictitious contracts, and secret accounts were discovered in the European statistical agency Eurostat. The European Union lost 900 thousand euros because of this.

September 28 will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Prosper Mérimée Merimee is "Carmen"? Not only that. Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) is a collection of ironic plays “The Theater of Clara Gasoul” (1825), published under a double mask (the plays of the fictional Spanish comedian Clara Gasoul were published not by Prosper Mérimée, but by a certain Joseph Lestrange).

Forecast for the coming days On the European territory of Russia, the weather is again changing to a drier and warmer mode. Today in the center of Russia the rains associated with the passage of a cold atmospheric front will stop, and pressure will begin to rise.

According to the US Congress, Russia is the world's second largest arms seller Another attempt has been made to characterize the modern world arms market. The US Congressional Research Service yesterday made public its research data. According to her data, in the ranking of traders of this specific product, “gold” again went to the United States, which replenished the world’s arms reserves by $10.2 billion.

This is the only way the interim administration hopes to stop the terror The wave of violence in Iraq is not abating. Yesterday, Aqila Al-Hashemi, a member of the Interim Governing Council of Iraq (IGC), became his latest victim. She died in hospital from wounds received during the assassination attempt on her last Saturday.

In a speech at the UN General Assembly, US President George W. Bush passionately called on the world community to fight “the old evil” - human trafficking and the supply of sex slaves. He threatened to impose sanctions against countries that do not prevent this. John MILLER, director of the US State Department's Office for Combating Trafficking in Persons, is currently in Moscow. He told the Vremya Novostey newspaper about Washington’s attitude to the situation with the slave trade in Russia.

The Russian capital will host the World Climate Conference Throughout the next week, the main topic of conversation in Moscow will be the weather. Moreover, along with ordinary people, top officials of the state will also be included in its discussion - the World Conference on Climate Change opens on Monday at the World Trade Center. The event will last from September 29 to October 3 and promises to become a notable event not only in climate science, but also in Russian socio-political life.

Yesterday, the Zemgale District Court of Latvia began reading the verdict of 83-year-old Nikolai Larionov, accused of genocide. Prosecutor Antra Chirone asked for eight years in prison for the former KGB officer. There are about 150 investigative episodes in the case, so reading the verdict can last several days. Larionov is accused of deporting five hundred people from Latvia to Siberia in 1949.