A Spanish company will manage UK airports The well-known British airport operator British Airport Authority (BAA) has agreed to become part of the large Spanish construction corporation Ferrovial. The decision was made by the BAA board of directors late on Monday. According to Reuters, the deal is valued at 10.1 billion pounds, or 950.25 pence per share ($18.9 billion). “The board considers that an attractive price has been offered for BAA,” the British company said in a statement.

The UN is interested in those who have two homelands Yesterday the United Nations published a report by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the problems of international migration. The document, informally called by the author “a preliminary road map for a new era of mobility,” analyzes the impact of migration processes on the socio-economic development of the entire international community and its individual members.

On the night of June 6, the fishing trawler “Priozerny” sank in the eastern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. As reported by the North-Eastern Border Coast Guard Department, the crew of the Priozerny was fishing for crab in the north-eastern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk near the Kamchatka village of Oktyabrsky, Ust-Bolsheretsk district.

Almost all Russian seaports are illegal The next meeting of the Maritime Collegium under the Russian Government was held yesterday in St. Petersburg. The meeting was chaired by the head of the board, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov. The line-up of participants was quite impressive.

Watch from June 8 on Moscow screens "The Omen" (USA, 2006, John Moore). There probably wasn’t much need to remake Richard Donner’s classic 1976 mystical thriller.

Alexey Miller marched victoriously through Amsterdam Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller yesterday confirmed the unofficial status of the vanguard of the new Russian foreign energy line. His speech at the World Gas Congress in Amsterdam was defiant and patronizing at the same time. And not so much in terms of content (he didn’t say anything fundamentally new), but in terms of form and manner of presenting the material. Mr.

Last week, a group of scientists from Ohio University suggested that 250 million years ago, the Earth survived the impact of a giant asteroid, which left a truly indelible mark on our planet. Perhaps it was because of this cosmic collision that Australia subsequently separated from the ancient continent of Gondwana.

The Polish Dance Theater performed at the Moscow Ramps Poznań Ballet has an impressively long history for a traveling modernist company: the theater has been in existence for 33 years. It has quite a serious reputation - two years ago the theater participated in the Lyon Dance Biennale (and this is - well, how can a film get into the Cannes competition).

Six years ago, Russian diver, silver medalist of two Olympics, 1992 and 1996, Irina Lashko decided to compete for the Australian team. The reason for such a serious step was that Lashko was not included in the Russian team at the Sydney Olympics. Then the International Swimming Federation for the first time included synchronized jumping in the program of the Olympic Games and put forward a strict condition that only those athletes who make up synchronized pairs can compete in individual events.

Gasunie's chances of becoming a shareholder in the North European Gas Pipeline have increased The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, paid tribute to the hosts of the World Gas Congress, which is taking place in Amsterdam. Following the results of negotiations on the sidelines of the forum with the President of the Dutch state-owned company Gasunie, Marcel Cramer, it was announced that the parties had made serious progress in discussing cooperation within the framework of gas pipeline projects.

A tetralogy of spectacles has been published in Russia The Interros company composed and sent its epic in honor of Russian performing arts to the world. Three thick books (“Russian Theatre”, “Soviet Cinema”, “Our Cartoons”) plus the video installation “Central Television” shown at the Art Moscow festival in May - this is the result of large-scale work on the development of Soviet media space.

Tax officials will monitor the process of alcohol denaturation Tax officials will soon be monitoring the addition of poison to alcohol. The government, by its resolution, transferred to the Federal Tax Service (FTS) the functions of monitoring the process of denaturation of alcohol-containing products.

Kuznetsova made Safina understand Sharapova’s condition The winner of the 2004 US Open, St. Petersburg resident Svetlana Kuznetsova, reached the semi-finals of Roland Garros. Yesterday she beat Muscovite Dinara Safina - 7:6 (7:5), 6:0. The first game of this match exactly the opposite repeated the decisive set of the previous round meeting between Safina and Sharapova.

Championship participants are looking for weak opponents The Ukrainian national team, which is the last of all World Cup participants planning to arrive in Germany, continues a series of friendly matches. Oleg Blokhin's team defeated the Libyan team - 3:0. Andriy Shevchenko did not take part in this meeting, as in previous ones. But even without their leader, the Ukrainian team easily dealt with a far from formidable opponent.

Policemen face jail time for trying to extort testimony from teenagers A criminal case has been transferred to the Sovetsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don against two Don police officers who beat minors in an attempt to extract confessions from them. Meanwhile, the public organization “Women of the Don”, with a Western grant, launched an entire campaign in the Rostov region aimed at making friends with teenagers and police officers.