American journalist arrested for silence Yesterday, New York Times journalist Judith Miller was taken into custody for four months right in the courthouse after she again stated that she would not reveal the source of her scandalous information. “If journalists cannot guarantee the confidentiality of their sources, then they will not be able to hold the government accountable or publish materials that are objectionable to the authorities,” Ms. Miller said.

This time - through the WTO Fearing a renewed rise in oil prices, which are already approaching $50 per barrel on the New York stock exchange, American senators made another attempt to fight OPEC. The cartel decided to reduce its production back in December, and now the organization does not rule out that at the next summit, scheduled for January 30, production volumes will be reduced again.

On July 8, the State Duma is due to consider the law on special economic zones in the second and third readings. The president personally insisted on the speedy adoption of this bill, which was lost in the depths of government offices for more than three years in endless approval procedures.

Ten grandmasters begin super tournament in Dortmund On Friday, one of the three largest and most prestigious traditional chess super tournaments starts in Dortmund, which is comparable in importance to the annual competitions in the Dutch Wijk aan Zee and the Spanish Linares. Many elite chess players gathered in Germany. Among those who will compete for the main prize of the tournament are exactly half of the top ten grandmasters rated by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

The war between terrorists and civilization has reached Great Britain Terrorists are close to us, they participate in summits and in preparations for the Olympic Games. And they never tire of reminding us that there is a war going on in the world. Yesterday London became the target of terror - the day after it was named the capital of the 2012 Olympics, snatching victory from Paris.

Leaving the State Duma, Mikhail Zadornov called on the government to change economic policy Today's last meeting of the spring session of the State Duma will be, to some extent, a milestone. And not only because of the adoption of a number of, without a doubt, most important bills for the country. Today, parliamentarians will decide on the resignation of one of the oldest, most famous and active deputies, Mikhail Zadornov, who decided to go into banking business.

The city authorities will complete the construction of five-story buildings without displacing residents Residents of Moscow five-story buildings who were not included in the city program for the demolition of dilapidated housing stock, it seems, can no longer count on moving to new houses. Having built up the entire city with commercial housing, the city authorities decided not only to save on major renovations of old houses, but also to make a profit from it.

The government will reveal all the positive aspects of the “autocitizen” in a few years. Russians will be able to appreciate all the delights of compulsory motor liability insurance in the form in which they were described by insurers and officials three years ago, before the introduction of compulsory liability insurance for car owners, no earlier than in a few years.

Thirty-two of the 50 states (plus one district) in the United States have source protection laws. Where there are no such laws, the corporate principle applies: a journalist must protect the source of information in any way, even if the court has ordered it to be disclosed. Failure to cooperate with the court can result in a three-month prison sentence. But cooperation with the court and violation of corporate ethics means for a reporter leaving journalism with an informal wolf ticket.

A meeting of the Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) was held yesterday in the financial capital of Europe - Frankfurt am Main. The main and only item on the agenda was the development of a monetary policy for this financial institution in the context of the current depreciation of the single euro currency against the dollar.

Yesterday Sasa Karadzic, the son of 60-year-old Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was arrested by NATO soldiers at his father-in-law's home in Pale. Sasha lived there with his wife and two children. This town, 16 km east of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was considered the patrimony of Karadzic. Several dozen military personnel in 16 vehicles and two helicopters took part in the operation.

Terrorists, in fact, managed to disrupt the G8 summit Explosions in London occurred about an hour before the official opening ceremony of the G8 summit in Scotland. When Tony Blair met the heads of state at the Gleneagles complex, he already knew about the tragedy. Only its scale was not known. But by the end of the first meeting, Tony Blair was determined that he needed to be in London. He spoke to journalists, read them the newly adopted G8 joint statement on terrorism and left Gleneagles.

The company is getting rid of assets in Russia Group MENATEP, the main owner of YUKOS, no longer sees prospects for working in Russia. Having received Mikhail Khodorkovsky's shares in December and becoming the largest owner of the group, the disgraced oligarch's associate Leonid Nevzlin, who owns 68% of the company, intends to devote the near future to the sale of Russian assets of Group MENATEP.

Sergei Ivanov reported on the reduction of military losses in the Caucasus Yesterday, combat helicopters circled over Rostov all day long: Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov was completing an inspection tour of Russia's largest military district - the North Caucasus. After a meeting closed to the press with the governors of the southern regions, Mr.

Another exhibition of Konstantin Batynkov has opened, unexpected and typical The press release for Konstantin Batynkov’s exhibition “Marines” at the VP Gallery calls the author “a recognized painter.” The certification is fair, although Batynkov works primarily as a graphic artist, but also as a photographer and even a creator of objects and installations.