Rada deputies understood Berezovsky differently So did Boris Berezovsky give money for the election of President Viktor Yushchenko? At the end of last week, representatives of the Ukrainian parliamentary commission, which is investigating information about illegal financing of the presidential campaign in 2004, met with the oligarch in London. Following the meeting, the deputies made contradictory statements.

The autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) was held in Strasbourg, at which deputies elected the new Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Spaniard Mateo Sorinas Balfego.

Russia beat Luxembourg with a score of 5:1 The fate of second place in the third European qualifying group for the 2006 FIFA World Cup will be decided on October 12 in the meeting between Slovakia and Russia. Moreover, our team in Bratislava will be satisfied with only one result - a victorious one. This is precisely the conclusion that can be drawn after the Russians beat Luxembourg with a score of 5:1.

Pirate chasers share their experiences On October 3, Moscow hosted the annual meeting of participants in the non-profit partnership of software suppliers (NP SPP), whose members include both Western companies that have long been present on the Russian market and domestic firms engaged in the production and distribution of software products. Computer piracy remains one of the main problems of software manufacturers in Russia, and the main goal of the partnership participants is to combat it.

If you noticed, no one is ever extradited to Russia now. Moreover, the Russian state loses any personal case in any court outside Russia - be it the story of the oligarchs Gusinsky and Berezovsky, the Ichkerian emissary Akhmed Zakayev, or unknown citizens. This is a kind of punishment for the government’s use of justice as an applied political tool.

The grandees of the Dark Continent were left out of the World Cup While the strongest teams of the Old World were just preparing to take to the field in the qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup, sensational news began to arrive from the Dark Continent one after another. The revolution in African football, as recent events here have marked, has led to the fact that the upcoming World Cup in Germany will be held without recognized leaders of the continent.

The history of the prize for the novel of the year has been enriched with the most ridiculous shortlist Talking about the long list of candidates for the Booker - Open Russia Prize (see Vremya Novostei, June 28) , I suggested that the spectacularly meaningless beginning of the current novel competition will be remembered more than its subsequent stages. I was wrong - there is no limit to perfection!

The health condition of 29-year-old Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the son of the ex-president of Georgia, has stabilized. The middle of Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s three sons was admitted to the intensive care unit of the 9th Tbilisi Hospital with a stab wound to the chest, which caused a large loss of blood. According to the testimony of friends, in the company of whom he spent a Saturday evening, the tipsy young man retired to the bathroom, where he stabbed himself with a knife, aiming at his heart.

Chinese scientists have clarified the height of Chomolungma Geography textbooks and reference books published in hundreds of languages ​​of the world will have to be corrected. Yesterday, the Xinhua news agency reported that scientists from the State Administration of Geodesy and Cartography of the People's Republic of China published the results of their latest measurements of the highest peak on the planet - Mount Qomolangma (Everest).

At the tournament for the title of the strongest chess player on the planet with the participation of eight grandmasters in San Luis (Argentina), the situation did not change after the first two rounds of the second round. The undisputed leader, Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, who has already won six victories here (with three draws), is still, as at the equator of the competition, ahead of his closest pursuer, Russian Peter Svidler, by two points.

The State Duma stood up for poor students From now on, it will be very difficult for secondary school principals to get rid of a bully and a poor student and kick him out. At the end of last week, the State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On Education”, defining the procedure for expelling high school students for malicious violations of discipline from general education institutions. Among the initiators of the bill are traditionalists belonging to different factions.

The peace prize will be divided in half by the agency and its director The International Peace Prize was awarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Director General, Egyptian Muhammad ElBaradei. The decision was a recognition that in recent years the agency has played an important role not only in technical issues related to nuclear energy, but also in world politics. The IAEA has existed since 1957 and includes 139 countries.

Mikhail Fradkov has his own economic program Mikhail Fradkov seems tired of waiting for ministers to develop measures that will help bring growth rates to the trajectory of doubling GDP over a decade. Moreover, to all such calls the prime minister heard the same answer in different interpretations: “it’s impossible.” Apparently, having finally lost faith in the ability of his subordinates to carry out the president’s instructions, recorded in his message to the Federal Assembly in 2002, Mr.

Forecast for the coming days For quite some time now, the European territory of Russia has been protected from cyclonic attacks by a powerful and high anticyclone, its center is located near Moscow. Because of it, the weather is warm and without rain, but it is warm only in the daytime, and at night it is cool, with frost in places. Atmospheric pressure is abnormally high; its value on Sunday reached record levels: 766 mmHg. Both today and tomorrow it will remain very high.

Another militant base was stormed in Makhachkala A fierce battle with the use of heavy armored vehicles and grenade launchers broke out yesterday morning in the very center of Makhachkala. Having discovered a group of saboteurs in a private residential building, security officers were immediately ambushed and were forced to wage a siege of the captured building for almost four hours.