The national project “Affordable and Comfortable Housing” is considered one of the most problematic. For its successful implementation, the government plans to focus, in particular, on low-rise individual construction, and wooden construction. Will it be possible to provide Russians with truly affordable housing in this way, and what shape will our cities and towns take if this project is implemented?

June 19 Group "N". Saudi Arabia - Ukraine (“First”, 19.50) The Ukrainian national team will play its second match at the World Cup today, and this time Oleg Blokhin’s team won’t even be satisfied with a draw. “We will manage to win. Still, the Saudi Arabian national team does not play such fast football, and their championship is not so fast and intense, and they do not like this speed,” said the second coach of the Ukrainian national team Semyon Altman.

There are more penalties and red cards at the World Cup The closer the World Cup playoffs get, the more players will be unable to participate. This is not only about the national teams of Serbia and Montenegro, Paraguay, Iran and Côte d'Ivoire, who no longer have a chance to take first or second place in their groups. Even among the winning teams there are many disqualified and sent off.

Beauty will save football. If, of course, he ever has to be saved from something. But every World Cup is, first and foremost, a celebration of the beauty of football. These are bright moments, impressive goals and spectacular combinations. From each World Championship you expect vivid impressions that will remain in your memory for a long time.

MIFF has become a subject of general interest Passions are running high around the Moscow Film Festival. A scandal is the best advertisement, and never before has the MIFF been able to position its own presence in the cultural life of the capital so successfully than this time. And it's all thanks to Michael Haneke, an Austrian director whose name is popular among film buffs but has been largely unknown to gossip reporters until now.

The parliamentary elections in Slovakia, held on Saturday with high voter turnout (54.6%), ended in a sensation: the opposition Social Democratic Party Smer-SD won (29.14%). The communists did not even overcome the five percent barrier. The ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority. In the new 150-seat unicameral parliament, the Slovak Democratic Christian Union, led by the current Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, has 31 seats, and the Social Democrats have 50.

Nazarbayev “got” Putin, Hu Jintao and Nobel laureate Peres as guests The Second Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), held on Saturday in Almaty, is one of those events that cannot end in failure, since it does not have clearly defined tasks. The CICA summit is an image project designed to raise the international rating of Kazakhstan and its President Nursultan Nazarbayev. From this point of view, the Almaty meeting was undoubtedly a success, and Mr.

Dutch fans had to take off their pants before the match The sponsors of the World Cup literally left several fans of the Dutch national team, who were going to support their players during Friday's match in Stuttgart with the Ivory Coast team, without their pants.

It took very little time for domestic scientists to begin implementing the new government program “Development of Nanotechnologies in Russia.” Only in May, the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko told the president about the need to create a national laboratory in which all work on nanotechnology would be coordinated and government funds would be distributed for research.

In recent months, the most fashionable topic in the world energy sector has become biological fuels - various substitutes for petroleum products made not from fossils, but from plant or animal raw materials. News and analytical articles about biodiesel, bioethanol and other environmentally friendly fuels have flooded the media. Perhaps the main initiator of this craze was US President George W.

Businessmen agreed to cede a controlling stake to the government The initiators of the AirUnion alliance nevertheless agreed that the controlling stake in the new united air carrier should belong to the state. They did this very diplomatically, publishing at the end of last week a new version of the audit assessment of the assets of the alliance member companies, from which the conclusion followed that during the consolidation the company would become state-controlled.

In the northwestern and central regions of the European territory of Russia, summer will assert its position in the coming days. A very warm ridge of the western anticyclone developed to high altitudes, blocking the way for Atlantic cyclones. The weather promises to be dry and hot; in the daytime the thermometer will rise to 23-29°C, in the north-western regions on Tuesday in some places up to 32°C.

For Russia in Brussels they will find a separate line The US-EU summit will be held in Vienna on June 21. US President George W. Bush, who is participating in it, will be informed, among other things, about the results of the summit of 25 EU member countries that recently ended in Brussels. These results, it must be said, are modest. “Nothing new” - this is how the Prime Minister of Luxembourg and one of the most active supporters of European integration, Jean-Claude Juncker, assessed them.

Opposition deputies failed to present their housing initiative to the State Duma The United Russia Duma did not provide representatives of opposition factions with the opportunity to show off to voters during the discussion of amendments to the Housing Code. The first reading of the bill, prepared at the suggestion of Yabloko member Galina Khovanskaya and Rodinets Oleg Shein, scheduled for last Friday, did not take place.

Russia persuaded the European Union to fork out Moscow defended its opinion that the Palestinian people, who gave preference to the radical Hamas movement in the parliamentary elections in January, should not suffer because of this. Despite the fact that this movement is recognized as “terrorist” in the United States and Europe, the European Union decided to resume financial assistance to Palestine.