Moscow has calculated the costs of preventing protests by beneficiaries Calculating the financial costs incurred by Moscow to maintain social stability during the reform of preferential payments turned into another scandal yesterday at a meeting of the capital's government.

Not all Spaniards want negotiations with Basque separatists The fight against terrorism has taken on an unexpected character in Spain. Yesterday, lawyers for those accused of involvement in the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings threatened to derail their upcoming trial unless authorities increase their fees. At a press conference in Madrid, they said the Justice Ministry had decided to pay each lawyer just 315 euros, including 30 euros to cover travel to meet clients in prisons across Spain.

Yavlinsky's party will not unite with Gaidar, Chubais and Putin Last Saturday, the XIII Congress of the Yabloko party took place in the village of Moskovsky, which bore the proud title of “unification”. On it, the Yabloko members renamed themselves the Russian United Party “Yabloko”. However, the congress put another bold point in a series of ellipses that crowned negotiations on unification with the “Union of Right Forces”.

Foreigners’ access to subsoil will become transparent and rare Russian officials talk almost daily about energy security, but this does not stop them from establishing increasingly serious restrictions on foreigners’ access to subsoil resources.

Carla Del Ponte has another victim Bosnian Serb Dragan Zelenovic appeared yesterday for the first time before judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

Watch from June 15 on Moscow screens “Hell” (France - Italy - Belgium - Japan, 2005, Danis Tanovic). Three Parisian sisters rarely see each other, and it is unlikely that any of them can call themselves happy. Nevertheless, the memory of the past (also very sad) forces them to get together again...

The Scandinavian anticyclone has finally migrated to the European territory of Russia. It has noticeably warmed up and will give residents of the northwestern and central regions a summer-like fine and warm day with a temperature of +23...+29oC. However, the fine anticyclone will not stay long. Tomorrow its center will move to the Urals, giving way to cyclones and atmospheric fronts.

CLUBS "Einstein and Margarita, or Discovered in Translation." Video production of the opera by Iraida Yusupova and Alexander Dolgin based on the story of the novel by Albert Einstein and the wife of the “Russian Rodin” Sergei Konenkov, Margarita. The story became notorious after it became clear that Margarita provided services to the Soviet intelligence services.

The US President came to look the Iraqis in the eyes Yesterday, American President George Bush unexpectedly showed up in Baghdad. The day before, at his residence at Camp David, he held a meeting on Iraq. In the evening, the president announced to other members of the administration that he was tired and was going to retire to read. In fact, Bush flew by helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington under cover of darkness. Another 11 hours later he arrived in Baghdad.

Nissan has signed an agreement on industrial assembly, and General Motors has already laid the first stone of a plant in Shushary As part of the international economic forum taking place in St. Petersburg yesterday, the Japanese automaker Nissan signed an agreement on the construction of an automobile plant with the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and a memorandum of intent with Smolny. At the same time, next door, in Shushary, the first stone of the General Motors plant was laid.

Roland Garros participants began preparations for Wimbledon Justine Henin-Hardenne and Rafael Nadal won the French Open in singles. The Belgian in the final prevailed over our Svetlana Kuznetsova - 6:4, 6:4, and the Spaniard won a strong-willed victory over the first racket of the world, the Swiss Roger Federer - 1:6, 6:1, 6:4, 7:6 (7 :4). Henin-Hardenne won her third Roland Garros, equaling Monica Seles and Arantha Sanchez in this indicator.

Russians aspiring to Japan change their names and surnames Russian women from the Far East responded to the tightening of entry rules into Japan by massively changing their surnames. The Land of the Rising Sun consulates in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok recently received instructions not to issue visas to women under the age of thirty to visit the islands. According to the Deputy Consul General of Japan in Khabarovsk, Mr.

Mikhail Fradkov proposes changing the structure of government Rumors about Mr. Fradkov’s imminent resignation remain rumors for now, but the prime minister, meanwhile, continues to be active, improving the structure of the cabinet entrusted to him. Now he conceived a new plan for reorganizing the government. According to Vremya Novostey, in general terms this plan has already been outlined to the president, who positively assessed these proposals.

Biography of Pasternak recognized as a national bestseller The winner of the “National Bestseller” award was Dmitry Bykov. Three of the six members of the small jury voted for his book “Boris Pasternak” (M., “Young Guard”, 2005; series “Life of Remarkable People”) (including last year’s laureate Mikhail Shishkin). Two judges gave preference to Zakhar Prilepin’s novel “Sankya”, one - to Andrei Rubanov’s story “Plant and It Will Grow”.

How mobile operators are going to switch to rubles The State Duma intends to outlaw the very mention of the seditious words “dollar”, “euro” and other yen with tugriks, not to mention the use of these monetary units in industry, trade and services. Prices in conventional units and without VAT are fascinating, no doubt. But the consumer does not immediately become sober about the “internal course” of a trading enterprise.