Clients of a regional airline are taken out on charters Aeroflot organized two unscheduled flights yesterday to the Kaliningrad region to deliver passengers to the Kaliningradavia company, whose activities have been suspended by the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor).

Deputies equated themselves with members of the government, but lost some benefits Russian parliamentarians decided to personally take part in the reform of preferential benefits. Yesterday, deputies of the lower house, having adopted in the first reading amendments to the laws on the status of members of the Federation Council and the State Duma, eliminated a number of their privileges and also set limits on their own expenses.

Aman Tuleyev wants to expand his holdings at the expense of Altai Yesterday, an extraordinary session of the regional Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region vested Aman Tuleyev with the powers of governor of the region. 35 deputies unanimously voted for his candidacy, proposed by Vladimir Putin. Thus, Mr. Tuleyev headed the Kemerovo region for the third time. Let us recall that Mr. Tuleyev’s powers ended only in April of the following year.

Western aircraft manufacturers hope to make peace without outsiders European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso expressed yesterday the hope that the European Union and the United States will be able to amicably resolve the conflict over government subsidies to national aircraft companies. The case is already being called the largest commercial dispute ever before the World Trade Organization (WTO).

There is rivalry in the Russian direction in Kyiv Today, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko arrives in Moscow. The Secretary of the Security Council was ahead of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose visit did not take place on April 16 due to the tense situation associated with the sowing campaign.

Condoleezza Rice was not allowed near Russian missiles and warheads Yesterday, during the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Moscow, she did not hear the answer that she probably wanted to hear. It concerned not freedom and democracy in Russia, which overseas guests love to talk about, but Russian military power. Moscow made it clear that it does not agree to inspections of its nuclear facilities by the Americans.

Exhibition “Black on White” at the Gary Tatintsian Gallery In the cartoon “Three from Prostokvashino,” the cat Matroskin, softened and grown fat from affection, boasted to Uncle Fyodor’s mother: I can not only purr, but also make jam, and milk cows, and cross-stitch, and use a sewing machine too... To imagine the avant-garde not with the feat of Matrosov, but with the labors and days of the cat Matroskin, you will agree, this is radical.

Andrei Sharonov will supply gas to the stock exchange Gazprom's two-year struggle for the right to sell part of its gas at free prices is close to completion. The last obstacle on the way of the concern to its cherished dream has been overcome - the Ministry of Economic Development publicly approved this idea yesterday. “This is necessary, we support it,” Interfax quotes Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Andrei Sharonov.

All Russian confessions are waiting for the first steps of the new head of the Vatican Representatives of various faiths in Russia hope that under the new Pope, religious differences will become a thing of the past. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church allowed himself to give a very high assessment to the potential of the highest hierarch of the Roman Catholic Church.

Capital legislators are concerned about the “export” of children The death of a Russian child, beaten to death by his American adoptive mother, which shook the whole world, forced deputies of the Moscow City Duma to raise the problem of adopting Russian children abroad.

Ukrainian authorities promise not to spoil Russians’ holiday in Crimea The head of the consular department of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, Ivan Kukhta, yesterday denied rumors about the tightening of the “regime for crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border” and invited Russians to vacation in Ukraine.

According to an expert survey conducted by the PRT communications group, representatives of Ukrainian business express concern about the current political situation in Ukraine and the actions of the new executive branch. When asked whether the change of government in Ukraine had a positive impact on your business, more than half of the respondents (56%) answered negatively. Another 42% of entrepreneurs feel uncertain about their future.

The winners of the “Silver Wreath” award were sent far and long At the Strastnoy Theater Center, a ceremony was held to present the “Silver Wreath” award established by the Moscow government, the Moscow Committee for Culture, and the Moscow House of Photography. According to IDF director Olga Sviblova, the professional photo award stimulates the development of photography in Russia and helps to overcome the inferiority complex in relation to the West.

The mayor of Krasnodar will go to court again The prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar region has completed the investigation of the second criminal case against the former head of Krasnodar Nikolai Priz. In the first case, a month ago, he was already found guilty of exceeding official powers, but now the official is charged with three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - embezzlement on an especially large scale, negligence and, again, abuse of authority. Mr.

The organizers of the largest automobile scam were sentenced The trial of the scandalous case of smuggling expensive foreign cars into Russia has ended in the Basmanny Court of Moscow.