The administrator of the trading system (ATS) of the electricity market proposed to the Russian Trading System (RTS) a project for organizing trading in settlement futures for electricity. According to the plan of the chairman of the board of ATS, Dmitry Ponomarev, his company, RTS, as well as a software developer company, should establish a new derivatives exchange.

An old friend asked me to find in the second-hand bookstores a thirty-year-old publication, “Psychopathology of Neuroses” by the Polish researcher Antoni Kempinski (Warsaw, Polish Medical Publishing House, 1975). Contrary to the ideas about the wickedness of psychiatrists raised in the territory of the former Soviet Union, the book turned out to be extremely smart and clear.

Elections to the lower house of the Belarusian parliament will be held on October 17, according to yesterday’s decree of President Alexander Lukashenko. CEC Secretary Nikolai Lozovik told VN that the nomination of candidates will begin on August 8 and end on September 6. Registration of candidates will be carried out until September 16, after which the campaign campaign will begin, which will last a month.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky asks to fire Viktor Gerashchenko from Yukos for his inability to negotiate with the government Viktor Gerashchenko did not live up to the hopes placed on him by the disgraced shareholders of YUKOS. During the three weeks that he spent in the chair of the chairman of the company's board of directors, he failed to establish contact with the authorities and achieve a deferment in paying the company's debt to the state.

Deputies are trying to amend the law on the monetization of benefits The government law on the monetization of benefits, the second reading of which in the Duma is scheduled for August 2, may undergo changes. Yesterday, the chairmen of four relevant Duma committees told reporters about the proposed amendments to the bill.

Security forces will look up to the FSB President Putin has finally begun reforming the “security bloc,” the options and scope of which have been discussed at all levels of government and within the departments themselves for at least the last six months. As his press service announced yesterday, the head of state signed two decrees - one dedicated to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the other to the FSB.

CLUBS "New Composers" . Duet of Valery Alahov (electronics) and Hermes Zygott (root of sound, trumpet, saw). It was “Composers” who started the fashion for using Russian-language samples from Soviet films. They were the first to record with Brian Eno and hit the British charts.

The famous traveler was not as peaceful as previously thought Britain is ready to reconsider the moral character of one of its national heroes. The glory of the great traveler James Cook, who occupies the same place in the pantheon of great Englishmen that Erofey Khabarov and Semyon Dezhnev share in our country, is under threat.

Without waiting for the State Duma's decision to replace pensioners' benefits with cash equivalents, Novosibirsk scammers began to use the hype around this process for their own purposes. According to Valentina Lukyanova, head of the mayor's committee for drug supply, scammers have appeared in Novosibirsk who come to pensioners' houses under the pretext of issuing cash compensation for benefits on medicines.

The events in South Ossetia taught all residents of Georgia to pronounce the name of the 49-year-old Russian Major General Svyatoslav Nabzdorov without hesitation. The commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces is either criticized for supporting the “separatists” or thanked for his decisiveness in separating the parties or delivering humanitarian cargo. The general is busy 24 hours a day.

The Seimas did not hand over the suspected deputies to the prosecutor's office The Lithuanian Seimas refused to revoke the immunity of three deputies accused by the Prosecutor General's Office of bribery. We are talking about Vytenis Andriukaitis (Social Democratic Party), Vytautas Kvetkauskas (New Union) and Arvydas Vidiūnas (Fatherland Union). Mr. Andriukaitis is Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, Mr.

The Danube Cooperation Process (DCP), created two years ago at the initiative of Austria and Romania, has proven to be a viable structure. This conclusion was reached by the participants of the second ministerial conference of the PDS, held yesterday in Bucharest. It was attended by representatives of 13 member countries, the European Union, the Stability Pact for South-East Europe and three observers - Russia, France and the USA.

Our arrows are aimed at four "gold" Russian shooters will go to the Olympics in Athens in three groups. The first, which will include stand-up athletes performing in the trap exercise, flies to Greece on August 5. In three days they will be followed by the masters of bullet shooting.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) issued a negative review of the draft rules for connecting communication networks and their interaction developed by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. Thus, the conflict between the two departments continues: a month ago, the FAS terminated another ministry project establishing a list of licensed services.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Burmeister Vladimir Burmeister was born in Vitebsk, studied in Moscow (at the Moscow Theater College named after Lunacharsky), worked in Moscow, in Moscow in 1971 and died. He did an incredible amount for the Moscow ballet - in fact, thanks to him, there is a second ballet theater in the capital, which rightfully dances the classics.