A meeting of G7 financiers took place in London Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was the focus of a meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bank governors in London on Saturday. Seeing him off, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown remarked that Mr. Greenspan had served “not only for the benefit of the United States but for the entire world” over the past 30 years.

All ballots have been counted According to the results of counting 100% of the votes in the Moscow City Duma elections, United Russia gained 47.25%, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 16.75%, Yabloko - 11.11%. Such data was distributed by the Moscow City Election Commission. In addition, the LDPR received 8%, the Russian Party of Life - 4.77%, the Greens - 2.64%, Free Russia - 2.2%, the Social Justice Party - 1.22%, Narodnaya Volya - 0, 6%. Data from all 3,234 sites was processed.

Is it good to work as an international journalist? In Soviet times, this profession was one of the most prestigious in our country. Nowadays, we often hear that international journalism is going through a crisis in Russia.

The draft law “On Personal Data” faced obscurantism The State Duma adopted the bill in the first reading on November 25.

New rewards for galophiles and avant-garde artists They say that a self-respecting award should be accompanied by scandals from time to time. Otherwise, what should journalists write about? It's not about books, is it? For example, the French Embassy in Moscow has been quietly awarding its awards for ten years. The Maurice Waxmacher Prize has now been awarded to Sergei Buntman for his translation of the novels of Jacques Roubaud (St.

Signs of Soviet sports are beginning to clearly appear in Russia. It’s not even about the presence of athletes in the party in power, as during the triumph of the leading and guiding force of the CPSU. It’s just that sports in the country seem to be starting to be made part of state policy. In a bad way. Now, apparently, the state will decide who and how much money to give for high-achievement sports. Directly or indirectly.

A Syrian was frozen in absentia in the US US authorities have frozen the bank accounts of Syrian Suleiman Khalid Derwish. According to Washington, it provides material support to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The decision was made after the publication of al-Zarqawi's threat to kill everyone who dares to take part in the Iraqi elections scheduled for January 30.

Oleg Deripaska talked with the President of Uzbekistan about the future of the aluminum smelter The head of Basic Element, Oleg Deripaska, met with the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov in Tashkent at the end of last week. According to the press service of the Uzbek president, the meeting discussed, in particular, the environmental aspects of the company's planned modernization of the Tajik Aluminum Smelter (TadAZ). It is not reported what else Mr. Deripaska talked about with Mr. Karimov.

UN Secretary General questioned about abuses of Iraqi oil The seventh UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has to be pretty nervous. This, perhaps, did not happen to his predecessors. The independent commission called on the carpet for the third time the 66-year-old citizen of Ghana and the first career UN official to achieve the honor of leading this organization in 1997.

Germany as a mediator between Russia and Poland The main result of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's first state visit to Warsaw was her statement of readiness to “make every effort” to ensure that Poland was also integrated into the new large-scale Russian-German project to build the North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP).

VSMPO-AVISMA will not be able to satisfy the global demand for titanium due to courts and searches It seems that the misfortunes that have recently befallen the VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of titanium products, will entail new troubles both for the company and for the global titanium industry as a whole.

Matches between the super league giants take place with enviable regularity Every week there is at least one match from the “super” category. Under this motto, the second half of the first round of the Russian Championship among men's teams of the Super League “A” is taking place. And although the tournament calendar scatters matches on different days of the week, which is difficult to avoid due to the wide geography of the championship, a certain stability in the schedule still exists.

The police continued their offensive against the Limonovites and Rodinets Members of the recently abolished National Bolshevik Party (NBP) were again “suffered” by the police late last week. On Thursday, they “stormed” the apartment of party lawyer Maxim Gasovich, where they seized party documents and detained several non-resident Limonovites. And on Friday, police blocked NBP press secretary Alexander Averin, who managed to withstand a 3-day siege, in his apartment.

Real stars appear in Russian football extremely rarely, and for a young player, and even a foreigner, to reveal his talent here is an extraordinary and in many ways surprising event. However, the Brazilian midfielder of CSKA Daniel Carvalho proved by his own example that the surrounding conditions are not a hindrance to real talent.

Today in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana, a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the 55 member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE Foreign Ministers) will begin. Vremya Novostei special correspondent Katerina LABETSKAYA talks about the problems in this organization with Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander GRUSHKO, who oversees Russia’s relations with the OSCE.