A meeting of the four mediators in the Middle East settlement will take place in Moscow on Sunday. Foreign ministers from the European Union, the United States and Russia will take part in it, and Secretary General Kofi Annan from the UN. Last Friday, President Putin held talks in the Palestinian Authority, and before that in Israel and Egypt.

Private doctors had to get to patients bypassing checkpoints Medical assistance during the holidays for Moscow residents is no longer an emergency. The problems with the movement of cars with a red cross on board around the city that began before the weekend were not eliminated with the start of the new work week. Vigilant police still consider the ambulance primarily as a potential means of transporting explosives and require doctors to present some kind of special pass.

Adygea does not want to return to Kuban Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev again uttered words that shook the entire republic. If a little more than a month ago, after Mr. Tkachev’s sensational interview about his vision of the situation in Abkhazia, anxiety spread across towns and villages from Psou to Inguri, now the population of Adygea, which acquired the status of a republic within the Russian Federation and separated from Kuban in 1991, had to worry.

Russian Post organized the delivery of free special envelopes for veterans of the Great Patriotic War Special envelopes “Letter from a Veteran 2005” were printed and handed over on the eve of May 9 by branches of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Post” to local veterans’ councils for distribution directly to all WWII veterans in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Assistant to the Prime Minister considers reform of the benefits system a threat to the prestige of the army The military is slowly being drawn into the anti-monetization war, remembering that the people and the army are united. A platoon of soldiers from a motorized rifle brigade, which is based in Teply Stan on the outskirts of Moscow, tried to travel by metro to the city center for official business.

Another sabotage group eliminated in Nalchik On the eve of the May Day holidays, the special services of Kabardino-Balkaria neutralized another sabotage group. During a fierce battle that broke out on one of the streets of Nalchik on the night of April 29, four militants were killed and two more were captured. There are also losses among law enforcement forces - one policeman was killed, two were wounded.

Forecast for the coming days The day before, a cyclone moving beyond the Volga turned out to be the culprit of rain and cold weather. But the cold snap will not last. An Atlantic cyclone is approaching the western borders of European territory. Southern winds will begin to blow out warm air, and the temperature will rise to +12...+18°C. And on Thursday it will become noticeably warmer at night, and during the day to almost +20°C. And there is little rain, short-term and not everywhere.

RWE will compete with E.ON for the Yuzhno-Russkoye field The competition of German energy companies for access to gas production in Russia has reached a new level. Germany's largest electric power concern, RWE, announced its intention to receive a share from Gazprom in the Yuzhno-Russkoye field development project.

CLUBS "A Manifesto for Attractionism" The parallel cinema club "Cinephantom" presents a video performance by Aristarkh Chernyshov and Vladislav Efimov - a demonstration of video and video documentation of installations using a special pump tool. Both Chernyshov and Efimov individually are serious artists in a good sense. But their joint projects are quite crazy, but always very witty and satirically evil acts. In the premises of the Fitil cinema, 20.00. "White prison".

The victory of the Belgorod Lokomotiv-Belogorye in the fifth, decisive match of the super final series of the Russian championship over the Moscow Dynamo with a score of 3:0 coincided with the 51st birthday of the railway coach Gennady Shipulin. However, he had almost no time for celebrations and celebrations. The very next day after the triumph, he went to Sochi, where a beach volleyball tournament is taking place.

Government Draft government orders appointing state representatives to the boards of directors of joint stock companies with state participation have been submitted to the government by the Ministry of Economic Development and will be considered by the end of January 2005. These orders apply, in particular, to Gazprom, RAO UES of Russia, JSC Russian Railways, ALROSA, and Aeroflot.

“I have experienced the feeling of freedom twice already in my life. The first time was after nine years in prison in the USSR and the second time was after nine years in government,” said former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky after tendering his resignation as minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs.

Bad ice did not prevent Russia from reaching the second stage of the World Cup At the World Ice Hockey Championship in Austria, the Russian team will today play the final match of the first group stage against the Belarus team. The result of this meeting will be included in the standings of Group “E” of the second stage, where head coach Vladimir Krikunov’s team secured their place after two rounds, defeating the hosts of the tournament - 4:2 and drawing with the Slovaks - 3:3.

Angarsk petrochemical company lost a claim for 10 billion rubles YUKOS has more creditors. His “daughter” Angarsk Petrochemical Company (ANHK) lost the case yesterday and now must pay more than $300 million under a promissory note issued back in 1996.

China gave Taiwan a couple of pandas Yesterday, the historic visit to China of the Chairman of the Taiwanese Kuomintang Party, Lian Chan, ended. On Friday, he met in Beijing with Chinese party and state leader Hu Jintao - there have been no contacts between the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China since 1949. Hu and Lien promised to end the long inter-party feud.