The President ordered German Gref to meet the 10% target The rate of inflation, which exceeded all possible limits, despite the efforts of the monetary authorities, worried the head of state. At a meeting on Friday with Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref, the president found out what the prospects are for maintaining the price growth parameters planned by the government.

When political life in a country is strictly controlled by the supreme power, this life becomes not only virtual, but also ritual. The actions of local authorities turn into rites of loyalty, a demonstration of quasi-actions to strengthen the power vertical. A striking example of such a completely meaningless ritual from a practical point of view was shown to us by North Ossetia.

A new product is expected on the electronic entertainment market Microsoft and Sony have created a new generation of game consoles, or, as they are also called, game consoles. For Sony this is already the third version of their products, for Xbox it is the second, although it bears the Xbox 360 index. Both companies promise gamers more and more realistic video and sound, and more and more exciting game plots.

For the Soviet "occupation and annexation" of the Baltic states The US Senate demands that Russia repent to the former Soviet Baltic republics. “The Government of the Russian Federation must make a clear and unequivocal statement recognizing and condemning the Soviet Union's illegal occupation and annexation from 1940 to 1991 of the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,” said the document, unanimously approved by US senators on Friday.

Khodorkovsky's lawyers and the authorities accused each other of putting pressure on judges Today marks the second week of announcing the verdict in the capital’s Meshchansky District Court in the case of ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev. By the end of last week, nothing significant had happened: for five days the court assessed only one episode out of eleven charged against the defendants.

The anniversary “Maxidrom” pleased with the lineup of performers Good sound, entertainment from Radio Maximum DJs, plus unusually long pauses - this is how the festival appeared in the year of the decade.

Last week, Yandex for the first time presented not a new Internet service, but a replicable (“boxed”) software product called “Spam Defense.” It is a technology implemented in the free Yandex service. This is a mailbox for cleaning e-mail from unsolicited advertising mailings - so-called spam. Now the Spam Defense product is offered to protect corporate computer networks and mail servers of Internet providers. Servicing one mailbox will cost the customer no more than one dollar per month.

CSKA repeated the UEFA Cup final Football has returned to Russia. Yesterday Moscow honored the winners of the UEFA Cup. There were nightly celebrations around the capital the night after the final, there was a meeting at the airport, but everyone who wanted to personally greet the army team came yesterday to Luzhniki, which for the first time in many years was filled to capacity. That evening CSKA met with its most important rival - Spartak.

Harmony and Norilsk Nickel failed to create the world's largest gold miner Harmony's attempt to take over its South African rival Gold Fields failed. Along with it, the hopes of Vladimir Potanin (Norilsk Nickel owns a 20% stake in Gold Fields) to become a shareholder of the world’s largest gold mining company, which could have been formed after the merger of two gold producers in South Africa, also collapsed.

Dmitry Kozak may return to work in Moscow As soon as President Vladimir Putin appointed Dmitry Kozak as presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District (this happened in September 2004, almost immediately after the Beslan tragedy), observers immediately began to say that Mr. Kozak would not stay in his new position for long. Moreover, the post of either prosecutor general or prime minister was most often mentioned as the next career step.

London Arsenal won the FA Cup This was the last tour of the best English clubs to the capital of Wales - Cardiff. The beautiful Millennium Stadium has been home to the finalists of every cup final held in the home of football for five years. But now the forced exile has come to an end, and from next season a new, even more impressive 90,000-ton building, whose name is Wembley, will open its doors again.

The former head of Minatom was briefed on the claims of his homeland Representatives of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland on Friday appealed to the Ministry of Justice of this country with a request to release on bail the former head of Minatom Evgeny Adamov, who has been in the Bern pre-trial detention center since May 2. Local authorities, in turn, on the same day familiarized Mr.

Nina Chusova continues to amuse the audience Having staged Tartuffe at the Art Theater last fall, Nina Chusova seemed to have set a record for the rollicking meaninglessness of classic comedies. The savory, juicy, loud, selflessly stupid performance appealed to the audience for whom it was made; Oleg Tabakov played the fool to his heart's content; the critics doused the director with a well-deserved bucket of slop and tried to reproach him.

Forecast for the coming days In the next day or two, the central and black soil regions will remain in the zone of warm air, and the reins of power will be taken over by an anticyclone, the center of which will be over the Upper Volga.

Applicants for the “National Bestseller” have been named The list of candidates for “National Bestseller” can be included in textbooks. It has everything. Even one strong text is the charming, intelligent and delicately structured novel by Oleg Zayonchkovsky “Sergeev and the Town” (M., “OGI”). This elegant composition of “ordinary” stories from Moscow region is unlikely to receive an award. Is it a great honor for Zayonchkovsky to be included in the top six of “Natsbest”?