Government Approved the concept of creating a system of personal registration of the Russian population. According to the document, the system should be created within seven years.

World-famous oenologist and wine consultant Michel Roland yesterday in Moscow spoke about how Sibneft President Evgeny Shvidler produces Chateau Thenac wines in France. As you know, in 2002 he acquired the trading house of the same name, and, sources from his circle emphasize, with personal funds. Now the production volume is 125 thousand bottles per year. According to Mr. Roland, Mr. Shvidler acquired one of the best castles in the province of Bergerac, east of Bordeaux.

Watch from June 16 on Moscow screens “Eros” (USA - Italy - Hong Kong - China - France, 2005, Wong Kar-Wai, Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh). An almanac of three short stories by three famous directors, dedicated, as is easy to understand from the title, to the sensual side of human existence. Any film fan will consider watching a film with such names in the credits as a matter of principle - but will almost certainly remain disappointed.

The jury did not believe the prosecutor who accused the pop idol of pedophilia Another stage in the scandalous biography of Michael Jackson ended yesterday. A Santa Maria jury acquitted the singer of all 10 charges of child sexual abuse, attempted forcible restraint, and drugging a 13-year-old for the purpose of seducing him. It took almost a week of closed sessions and 32 hours of jury deliberations to save the pop idol from facing 20 years in prison.

Lithuania proposes to file a class action lawsuit against Russia Yesterday Lithuania celebrated the Day of Mourning and Hope - the 64th anniversary of the start of Soviet mass deportations. On June 14, 1941, the first echelons departed for Siberia and the Far East. "We know the real historical truth. This obliges Lithuania to tirelessly prove it in words and deeds," President Valdas Adamkus said yesterday.

Iturup authorities ask to evacuate the population A state of emergency has been introduced in the settlements of Iturup Island in the Kuril Islands. Due to fuel shortages, there is no electricity on the island 12 hours a day . Local authorities have already proposed evacuating the entire population of the island by the fall, but yesterday the governor of the Sakhalin region, Ivan Malakhov, said that this would be too much.

The President joined the discussion at the St. Petersburg Forum Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to personally patronize the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. And, perhaps, not only because of love for his hometown. Firstly, the forum is a good platform for bilateral negotiations with colleagues from the CIS.

The premiere of "War of the Worlds" took place in Tokyo. The main blockbuster of the year - Steven Spielberg's fantasy on the theme of Wells's "War of the Worlds" worth $ 130 million - was first presented to the esteemed public at the world premiere, which took place in the capital of Japan on June 13, two weeks before the official release date of the film in American and world box office.

The Ministry of Education and Science begins a campaign to popularize adoption Finding parents for orphans in Russia is hampered not only by the “socio-economic situation in the country”, not only by the imperfect organization of the work of guardianship authorities, but also by insufficient “awareness about the possibility of adopting a child into a family”, or, simply put, by the lack of propaganda for this act .

As we have already reported, beach volleyball masters Natalya Uryadova and Alexandra Shiryaeva created a real sensation at the World Series stage in Milan, rising from the bottom of the qualifications to an honorable seventh place. Immediately after returning home, Vremya Novostei correspondent Ilya TRISVYATSKY spoke with one of the co-authors of the record-breaking result in the history of domestic scourge at competitions of this rank, Natalya URYADOVA.

Every step of Mosenergo seems like sabotage to Yuri Luzhkov Angered by the May blackout, Yuri Luzhkov, it seems, was not satisfied with the presidential approach to identifying the leaders responsible for the energy crisis, which left half of Moscow without power on May 25.

Boris Berezovsky changes the heads of the publishing house Disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky decided from London to make his contribution to the leapfrog of personnel changes that have recently swept through Russian print media. Yesterday he gave a shake-up to the leaders of his only remaining major media project in Russia. During a teleconference with the Kommersant publishing house, Mr.

Chinese poachers are no longer afraid of Russian border guards The “Amur-Putin” special operation, traditional at the beginning of summer, which began the other day on the border with China, promises to be especially hot for Russian border guards this year. The fact is that Chinese fishermen, even before the demarcation of the area of ​​​​the Tarabarov and Bolshoy Ussuriysky islands, begin to develop the waters that still belong to Russia.

Borders were destroyed at the main architectural exhibition in Russia The exhibition of architecture and design "Arch-Moscow", which ended last Sunday, has changed its format several times over the ten years of its existence. In 2001, they first came up with the “Arch-Catalogue” - an exhibition-rating of the best Russian architects, and in 2003, “Arch-Moscow” finally got curators.

Sonia Gandhi flew to meet Vladimir Putin Russia and India are convinced that terrorism must be fought decisively and through common efforts, but “without any double standards.” This was stated yesterday in Moscow by the leader of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in India, the chairman of the Indian National Congress (INC) party Sonia Gandhi.