Human rights activists tried for inciting religious hatred In the Tagansky District Court of Moscow yesterday, hearings began on charges against the organizers of the exhibition “Beware of Religion!” at the Andrei Sakharov Museum. Human rights activists are charged with inciting hatred and enmity and humiliation of human dignity on the basis of nationality and attitude to religion.

26 retired senior US military and diplomats intend to denounce the foreign policy of President George W. Bush. The group calls itself Diplomats and Military Leaders for Change. They argue that the administration has damaged the US's international credibility and made the world situation less predictable and more dangerous.

The Minister of Natural Resources uses administrative resources The new head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, seems to have decided to turn his ministry into a powerful and influential structure. Yesterday he said that the main problem of subsoil use in Russia is the large number of large undeveloped deposits. And he warned that he intends to legitimize the state’s right to take away the license from those who do not extract raw materials.

Western funds entered the Russian commercial real estate market The office market did not show any surprises last year: the rise in prices did not exceed 8-10%, as in previous years, about 400 thousand square meters were commissioned. m of new class “A” and “B” offices, demand slightly exceeded supply. Meanwhile, an event that quite possibly will determine the trends of the next decade was the entry of the largest Western investment funds into the commercial real estate market.

Of the four Rostovugol mines, only two were sold Yesterday, an auction was held to sell the property of the liquidated Rostovugol OJSC, once the largest coal miner in Eastern Donbass. The auction can be considered only half successful: out of four mines, only two were sold. On the eve of the auction, the Don authorities held consultations with potential buyers of the property of the bankrupt Rostovugol, hoping to sell them all four mines at once. Two circumstances forced me to hurry.

Krasnoyarsk pensioner offers the governor of California a leading role Krasnoyarsk pensioner Fyodor Kobzar decided to decorate his city with a temple of seven religions, and hopes to bring this idea to life with the money of a Hollywood star and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actually, the idea of ​​the temple came to Fyodor Fedorovich recently - after he decided to be baptized in his old age.

The referendum law was passed with unprecedented speed The State Duma immediately adopted in the second and third, final reading the constitutional law “On Referendum”, which practically nullifies the possibility of holding all-Russian referendums, with the exception of those initiated by the authorities themselves.

Charters will become more expensive by winter This year, for the first time, seasonal charter programs operated on imported rather than Russian aircraft have a chance to become widespread in the domestic tourism market. As a result, as experts predict, the average cost of charter transportation will increase by 15 percent.

The General Staff was finally subordinated to the Ministry of Defense The dual power that has reigned in the Russian military department for the past few years has less than a month left: after the State Duma adopted by 382 votes against four extremely significant amendments to six articles of the federal law “On Defense,” the General Staff, in fact, lost its status as the second “center of power.” After the decision of the Duma members is approved by the upper house of parliament, which should

From June 14, a festival of performances by Declan Donnellan is taking place in Moscow. The famous English director presents only three performances, two of which - “Boris Godunov” and “Twelfth Night” - are known to every more or less theatrically knowledgeable Muscovite.

Midfielder of the Russian national team Dmitry ALENICHEV, despite the defeat in the first round from the Spaniards, received positive reviews. The head coach of our team, Georgy Yartsev, hopes for this in the meeting with the championship hosts. According to the coach, the combination on the right flank Evseev-Alenichev still has to prove itself.

The recently appointed Minister of Defense of Georgia, Georgiy BARAMIDZE, gave his first interview to the Russian media in his new post to the correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper in Tbilisi, Mikhail VIGNANSKY. --Will the aggravated situation in South Ossetia spoil Russian-Georgian relations? Tbilisi claims that weapons have arrived in the unrecognized republic across the Russian border...

Demand for suburban housing approximately doubles every year Realtors call the past year “the year of cottage settlements.” More than 140 of them were recorded at various stages of construction, with an average of 35-40 houses in each of them. Today, cottage villages are usually divided into three price categories depending on the class of houses: economy (up to 200 thousand dollars), business (200-600 thousand dollars) and VIP (600 thousand dollars and above).

Officials called the privatization of Krivorozhstal “the most profitable deal” Officials of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, having locked themselves out from indignant representatives of the political opposition to the current government, on Monday pulled off the most profitable deal in the entire history of Ukrainian privatization.

Russia prohibits giving money to Charles Taylor Russia has cut off access to finance to former Liberian President Charles Taylor, as well as his current wife Jewel, son Charles Taylor Jr. and other associates. According to yesterday’s decree of President Vladimir Putin, everyone under Russian jurisdiction was ordered to proceed from this. Russia froze Taylor's accounts following the UN Security Council's decision on June 12. Taylor has been wanted by Interpol since December 2003.