"Petersburg" is gaining a foothold in the media market The financier will manage the licensing of Russian electronic media. Minister of Press and Mass Communications Alexander Sokolov signed yesterday an order appointing him to the position of acting. Director of the Licensing Department Boris Boyarskov, who recently served as Vice President of Eurofinance Bank. Mr. Boyarskov is familiar with the media industry first-hand.

Tokyo bills Japanese hostages in Iraq For the Japanese, who were recently taken hostage in Iraq, their “adventure” will cost a pretty penny. Yesterday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced that these risky guys will at least partially reimburse the state for the costs of their release, including the cost of air tickets.

Werder justifies the forecasts of the Bayern president A month and a half ago, Bayern President Franz Beckenbauer congratulated Werder on their championship. Then, 14 rounds before the end of the championship, Bayern was nine points behind the leader, and Kaiser Franz was quick to be accused of excessive pessimism. But it seems that Beckenbauer was right: in the nine rounds since then, the Munich team have been able to reduce the gap over Werder by just one point.

The president of an advertising agency was shot by "people from the guardhouse" The Moscow District Military Court recently received materials on one of the most notorious assassination attempts of 2002 - an attack on the president of the News Outdoor Russia agency, Maxim Tkachev. Five former and current servicemen of the elite unit of internal troops No. 5380, stationed in Moscow, are accused in the case. All suspects demanded that their case be tried by a jury.

Kharkov handed over An-148 to Voronezh Serial production of the An-148 regional aircraft, developed by Ukrainian aircraft designers, will be organized not in Kharkov, as originally planned, but in Voronezh. Yesterday, Deputy General Designer of the Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex (ASTC) named after.

66-year-old Ayaz MUTALIBOV is the first president of Azerbaijan, the first overthrown president in the CIS and the only ex-president in the post-Soviet space, who has been living in Russia for 12 years. Everyone who led Azerbaijan after him demanded that Moscow hand him over. Recently, the Azerbaijani prosecutor's office again accused Mr.

But he won’t tell Putin about this today Today in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin will receive Nursultan Nazarbayev. The President of Kazakhstan will make a short stop in Moscow on his way home from Germany. There, at the international fair in Hanover, Mr. Nazarbayev opened “Kazakhstan Day” on Sunday, and yesterday in Berlin he met with Chancellor Schröder.

Spain withdraws troops earlier than promised Spain is indeed, as promised by new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, beginning to withdraw troops from Iraq. The new government of Spain officially began working this week, and Zapatero immediately ordered the return of soldiers to their homeland. In doing so, he is fulfilling a key campaign promise he made more than a year ago. “This is the will of the population,” the prime minister emphasized.

A powerful explosion occurred in Moscow on Sunday evening near the Vietnamese hostel building at 25 Ogorodny Proezd. There were no casualties - 19 people were slightly injured by glass fragments, nine of whom were sent to the hospital. However, the incident caused a lot of noise, literally and figuratively. The blast wave broke glass and doors in almost the entire 9-story building of both the Vietnamese hostel itself and in two neighboring residential buildings.

It took Volgograd law enforcement agencies less than ten days to solve the criminal case initiated against participants in the pogrom at the clothing market in the Traktorozavodsky district on April 7 of this year. On April 16, the prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region officially announced that six detained suspects in the beating of market traders from Afghanistan and Tajikistan had already been charged.

Moscow will retain the city's "quality mark" on cassettes and discs The city authorities again clashed with antimonopoly authorities over the fight against audio and video piracy. It seems that the methods of eradicating unlicensed and counterfeit products proposed by the Moscow City Hall are causing persistent irritation among employees of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

Sverdlovsk authorities want to change the lifestyle of Mansi for 600 rubles a month Sverdlovsk officials began to solve the financial problems of the Mansi living in the region. According to the chief federal inspector for the Sverdlovsk region, Viktor Baidukov, it was decided to deal with the problems of small nations after the Ural embassy found out that of the 147 Mansi living in the Middle Urals, more than half do not receive any help from the state. Mr.

CLUBS Blues festival of the Blues.ru portal. On stage Levan Lomidze and Blues Cousins, Nikolai Sadikov and Blues Hammer Band, Mikhail Petrovich Sokolov and Bluesmakers, Scolder Blues, Dr. Agranovsky, Yuri Kaverkin and Wrong Way Band, Mikhail Mishuris and his orchestra, Louisiana Jumpin' Cats, Blues Doctors (Ekaterinburg), Big Blues Revival (St. Petersburg), JAM (Nizhny Novgorod), Baryshev and Blackmailers (Vladimir), Svet & Al (Minsk). "B2" , 21.00. Gold Blade (ex-Membranes; UK).

The feds announce the last part of the series about the Chechen highlanders The war in Chechnya, quite firmly forgotten by the Russian media, has suddenly returned to the pages of newspapers and television screens in recent days. The peacefully scandalous news about the “misuse” of funds allocated for post-war reconstruction and favorable comments from politicians about the upcoming elections to the Chechen parliament were again replaced by operational reports and loss figures.

Opposition contenders share the left flank While Russian democrats in prisons, as well as in Russian and foreign newspapers, are discussing the fate of Russian liberalism, active party building has unfolded on the left flank of the political spectrum.