-- The Bakiev-Kulov tandem is one year old. Many in Kyrgyzstan believe that its political resource has been exhausted. What is your answer to this? — I don’t think so, since the tandem is only gaining strength. Those politicians who want the tandem to fall apart are pursuing their own departmental, narrowly corporate goals. I will be honest with you: I worked as a governor in the south, Felix Shershenbaevich was the governor of the Chui region. We did not communicate closely with him.

Indonesia continues to count losses from earthquake The number of people officially declared dead from Saturday's earthquake in the area of ​​the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta yesterday exceeded five thousand people (according to the latest data - 5137). There is no exact information about the number of wounded, injured, homeless people. Most likely, the total number of victims will be in the hundreds of thousands.

“A Seedy Family” on the stage of the new Theater Arts Studio The wise Sergei Zhenovach for the first performance of the new theater, formed from the students of his course, chose a non-finito image, the unfinished novel by Nikolai Leskov “A seedy family” (Family chronicle of the Protozanov princes. From the notes of Princess V.D.P.). For young theater, the non-finito image is the most rewarding.

Sharapova and Federer unhappy with Roland Garros schedule Maria Sharapova's return to the court after an almost two-month break almost turned into a sensation. In the first round match of the French Open against the black American Mashona Washington, our prima was very close to defeat, but she showed her inherent fighting qualities, repelled three match points and saved the game - 6:2, 5:7, 7:5. After Sharapova easily won the first set, nothing foreshadowed a protracted fight.

A pro-American president won in Colombia In Colombia, the current head of state, 53-year-old Alvaro Uribe (pictured) , won the presidential election. 62% of eligible voters in the country of 44 million voted for his re-election. His opponent, Senator Carlos Gaviria, nominated by the leftist opposition, trailed by almost 40%.

Russian businessmen are ready to support vocational schools and technical schools Russian business is seriously concerned about the country's shortage of qualified specialists in areas in demand by the market. It turned out that more than 15 years after the start of market reforms, domestic education is still poorly adapted to the modern requirements of employers. Moreover, according to experts, the gap between the needs of society, the economy and the supply of the education system is growing.

— Felix Sharshenbaevich, your tandem with Kurmanbek Bakiyev is one year old. Your political opponents in Kyrgyzstan believe that this union has outlived its usefulness... - Each of the expressed judgments has the right to life. But today, unfortunately, I emphasize that, unfortunately, stability in the country is maintained due to the fact that its leadership includes representatives of both the South and the North of Kyrgyzstan.

In the Jewish Autonomous Region, pregnant women and nursing mothers are starving in the hope of getting a salary. 94 workers of the Khingan mining and processing plant in the Jewish Autonomous Region declared an indefinite hunger strike. Among the hungry are pregnant women and nursing mothers. Desperate workers are demanding that the company's management return their arrears of wages and pay redundancy benefits for ten months. This is the second protest at the plant in the past month.

Chechen President Alu Alkhanov addressed parliament for the first time For the first time in the history of the Chechen Republic, its President Alu Alkhanov addressed a message to parliament. Alu Alkhanov himself was elected to his post in August 2004, and parliament appeared only in November 2005, so last year the president simply had no one to turn to.

All leading global concerns will assemble cars in Russia The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, called yesterday an “automotive day”: two large foreign concerns - Volkswagen and General Motors - signed agreements with the Russian government on the organization of assembly plants in our country.

The government has finally abandoned the goal of doubling GDP Yesterday, at its regular meeting, the government's budget commission tried to come up with the most correct of all forecasts of economic development until 2009. Based on this forecast, budgets for the next three years will be written. The main dispute over the “correctness” of the forecast, as usual, occurred between the country’s chief financier Alexei Kudrin and chief economist German Gref.

Director of PA "Mayak" reinstated The head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, put an end to the year-and-a-half conflict between the director of the Chelyabinsk chemical plant "Mayak" subordinate to him and the department of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Ural Federal District. Arriving in Yekaterinburg on Monday, Mr. Kiriyenko announced the reinstatement of Vitaly Sadovnikov, head of Mayak Production Association.

The investigation into the bombing of a train from Grozny has been completed The Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office yesterday transferred to the Moscow Regional Court the materials of the criminal case regarding the bombing of the Grozny-Moscow passenger train in June last year. Two of his defendants - Muscovites Vladimir Vlasov and Mikhail Klevachev - at the end of last week received an indictment - the result of an investigation carried out by the prosecutor's office and the FSB.

Joe Meno. Turn it up loud. Translation from English Natalia Smirnova. St. Petersburg: Limbus, 2005. The Teen series of the St. Petersburg publishing house "Limbus" is perhaps one of the most relevant publishing projects at the moment. If the space of children's literature is at least filling up (the other day even the first "children's" prize was awarded), then the teenage niche is somehow chronically empty.

Gazprom faces a battle for the gates to Southern Europe Today, the next meeting of the Russian-Turkish intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation will be held in Istanbul. The delegation led by Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko will discuss problems and prospects for cooperation with Turkish Minister of State Kurshad Tyuzmen.