Militants detonate five bombs in Baghdad The less time remains before the parliamentary elections in Iraq scheduled for January 30, the more daring the militants' antics become. Yesterday, Baghdad was overwhelmed by a wave of terrorist attacks - five car bomb explosions occurred in the capital. At least 30 people died on the spot and died from their wounds. They are all Iraqis, most of them law enforcement officers.

Policemen answer for rampant terrorism in Dagestan The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Adilgerey Magomedtagirov, yesterday fired almost the entire leadership of the Makhachkala police. It paid for the fact that, according to the minister, it “could not give an adequate response” to the terrorists who have been continuously attacking local authorities for the last six months.

What does the inauguration of the US President look like from a diplomat's point of view? Yuli VORONTSOV, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States in 1994-1998, a participant in meetings and negotiations between Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton, shared his memories with Vremya Novostei. - The main event of the inauguration is the taking of the oath. The Russian Ambassador is invited to it along with the entire diplomatic corps.

The SCO is looking for new methods to combat terrorism It is difficult to get rid of the feeling that there is some kind of “cultural” intrigue hidden in the program of the 10th anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which opens today in the capital of Kazakhstan.

Dozens of former Yukos employees are moving to Rosneft The ranks of Rosneft managers have been replenished with another ex-YUKOS employee. Yesterday, the state-owned company officially announced that the former vice president for transport and logistics of YUKOS RM (the division responsible for refining and marketing of products), Alexander Sapronov, will take a similar position at Rosneft - vice president for logistics, refining and sales.

A corruption scandal is brewing at Volkswagen An investigation into bribery cases at the Czech car manufacturer Skoda , a subsidiary of Volkswagen, that began last week threatens to develop into a corruption scandal that could become one of the largest in the German economy. The initiator of the initial investigation was the Volkswagen management itself. The focus of the internal audit was the former HR chief of the Skoda plant, Helmut Schuster.

The main intrigue of the political life of Ukraine remains the struggle among Viktor Yushchenko’s entourage for the post of prime minister of the country. Among the contenders are Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Solidarity party and head of the budget committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, socialist leader Alexander Moroz, head of the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Anatoly Kinakh. Petro POROSHENKO told Vremya Novostei about his political views and plans.

Fires in the Far East are being extinguished with the help of American satellites and Russian bulldozers In the south of the Far East, the situation with forest fires is approaching critical. On average, ten major fires are reported daily in the region. The most tense situation is in the north of the Primorsky Territory, in Yakutia and Sakhalin. In the Khabarovsk Territory, seven and a half thousand hectares of forest are engulfed in fire.

CLUBS DJ Aki Nawaz , aka Propa-Gandhi (UK). Dub party from the patriarch of the Asian underground style, producer Asian Dub Foundation. Suzy Wong Bar , 22.00. "Marimba Plus" A mixture of academic, jazz and ethnic music performed by graduates of the Conservatory. Jazz Town , 21.00. Simba Vibration. A new project by the former vocalist of the Markscheider Kunst group Seraphim Selenge-Makangila. Cheerful summer music. Bilingua , 22.00.

At the current G8 summit, Russia should officially assume the powers of chairman of this organization for the coming year. The situation causes a lot of contradictory comments.

In a week, Kyrgyzstan will receive a president There are six days left before the early presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, and few doubt that the current acting head of state will be elected as the new head of state in the first round on July 10. President, Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Confidence in the outcome of the elections arose after the conclusion of an agreement in May between Bakiyev and the second main contender for the presidency, Felix Kulov.

The next stage of the Russian Beach Volleyball Championship - the Sport TV Channel Cup - was won in Belgorod by the country's strongest men's pair, Roman Arkaev (Norilsk) - Dmitry Barsuk (Krasnodar). This team recently performed well at the World Championships in Berlin, where they were classified in ninth place. In order to participate in the Belgorod tournament, Arkaev and Barsuk deliberately missed the World Series stage in Stavanger, Norway.

Press Secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Andrei Savinykh commented on the statement of the candidate for the post of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who called Belarus one of the “strongholds of tyranny.” This statement was made during the consideration of her candidacy for the US Senate. According to Mr. Savinykh, which he outlined to Vremya Novostey, Ms.

Boeing and Airbus have new leaders In the largest aircraft manufacturing corporations - Boeing and Airbus - the period of “interregnum” has ended. On July 1, the Boeing board of directors elected James McNerney to the positions of chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of the corporation, and on June 25, Gustav Humbert took the helm of Airbus. Mr. McNerney's path to the heights of corporate power was actually opened by an unknown woman. And Mr.

The capital of the 2012 Summer Olympics will be named tomorrow The 117th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opens in Singapore. During its work, a number of important issues relating to the Olympic movement will be discussed. And of course, the key one will be the election of the capital of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, in which Moscow is also participating.