The Ministry of Defense has paid for the shelling of villages in Kamchatka For 70 million rubles. The budget of the Russian Ministry of Defense will be eased in the near future. The High Command of the Navy will be forced to allocate this money for the restoration of seven villages in the Kamchatka region that were damaged by ammunition explosions at burning artillery depots of the Pacific Fleet.

The ban on the operation of Il-96-300 has been lifted The head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor) Alexander Neradko yesterday lifted the ban on the operation of Il-96-300 aircraft, which he introduced on August 22.

The ashes of the general were buried with honors in the Donskoy Monastery Many years after their death, General Anton Denikin and the philosopher Ivan Ilyin, together with their spouses, returned to their homeland. Yesterday in the Donskoy Monastery, in a solemn ceremony, their ashes were buried in their native land.

US Ambassador William Burns will not lecture Russia Yesterday the annual meeting of the American-Russian Business Council (ARBC) took place in Moscow. The meeting was the 13th in a row, but for the first time in the last ten years it was held in Moscow. The last time such a meeting was held in the Russian capital was in 1994.

Serial killer of old people tracked down by white coat In Udmurtia, at the end of last week, a man was detained, suspected of a series of murders of lonely elderly people throughout Russia.

Two rounds of the World Championship went without draws At the World Chess Championship in Argentina, after four rounds played, the prospects of the participants became quite clear. It would be a mistake to believe that the entire eight will fight for the world title. The reality of modern chess is such that usually only three or four players can lay claim to this title.

Konstantin Raikin released standard entertainment In Satyricon, the third Moscow theater, the name of the modern (now, however, he is already over seventy) English (for some reason we stubbornly call him American) comedian Ray Cooney appeared on the poster. The play “Funny Money” was staged; in the original, its very name amuses the ear: Funny money. Like the two previous ones (“No.

On the eve of today's EU-Russia summit in London, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy and Security, Javier SOLANA, gave an interview to INTERFAX correspondent Olga GOLOVANOVA - especially for Vremya Novostei. — How do you assess the dynamics of relations between the European Union and Russia? What results does the EU expect from the summit in London? - Our relations are developing well, I would characterize them as businesslike.

Croatia's application for EU membership was not even considered The foreign ministers of the 25 European Union countries refused on Monday to discuss the issue of admitting Croatia, which had hoped to become an EU member in 2007, into the community. According to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the EU does not want to consider the application in the context of the crisis associated with the admission of Turkey.

Chechen special services eliminated Grozny's "main saboteur" Chechen special services yesterday announced the destruction of the famous field commander Supyan Arsanukaev, considered the organizer of most of the major terrorist attacks in recent years. According to the investigation, it was he who carried out the explosion in the village of Znamenskoye (Nadterechny district of Chechnya) on July 19 of this year.

Running for City Duma from United Russia is becoming unprofitable Former vice-speaker of the Federation Council Andrei Vikharev, who left his post in 2003 at the request of the head of the Senate Sergei Mironov, decided to return to politics. True, to the regional one. Mr. Vikharev decided to become a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, elections to which will be held in March.

Russian and European business have identified mutual interests Russia's accession to the WTO is a necessary condition for the formation of a Common Economic Space (CES) between Russia and the European Union. This conclusion is contained in the statement of the Round Table of Industrialists of Russia and the EU, adopted yesterday at a meeting in London on the eve of today's Russia-EU summit. Let us recall that the economy is one of four common “spaces” that Moscow and Brussels agreed to create.

The management of Severstal-Auto recently announced that the company intends to increase the share of purchases of imported components for its cars. This will be done in connection with the implementation of a “strategy to combat the strengthening of the ruble,” designed to optimize costs.

Switzerland extradited Evgeniy Adamov Swiss authorities yesterday, after lengthy deliberation, finally decided what to do with former Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Evgeny Adamov, who has been languishing in a pre-trial detention center in Bern for the sixth month. The prosecutor's offices of two countries - Russia and the USA - wanted to get him on similar charges of fraud. American authorities brought charges against Mr. Adamov before Russian ones.

Due to the sale of Sibneft, the Omsk region may lose half of its budget The Minister of Finance of the Omsk Region, Natalya Frolova, through State Duma deputies, sent a letter to the Russian government stating that in the Irtysh region, in the event of the sale of Sibneft to Gazprom, a financial disaster could break out. “The government of the Omsk region is concerned,” says Natalya Frolova, “about the proposed transaction to purchase shares of the Sibneft company by Gazprom.