Palestinian ministers arrested in response to Israeli kidnappings Yesterday, the Israelis responded to the kidnapping of 19-year-old Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit by counter-arresting a number of Palestinian leaders. The sudden attack by militants on an Israeli checkpoint, which led to the death of two soldiers and the capture of Corporal Shalit, was a great humiliation for the Israeli army. Now the Palestinians are humiliated.

G8 foreign ministers meet in Moscow The main topic of yesterday's meeting in Moscow of the G8 foreign ministers was Tehran's nuclear program.

On the screens of Moscow - an ideal domestic film for the middle class The film “Communication” was composed by Avdotya Smirnova, widely known as the co-host of the TV show “School of Scandal.” First she wrote a script, which, following her other works - “Giselle’s Mania”, “The Diary of His Wife”, “The Walk” - was to be shot by director and producer Alexey Uchitel. And then I took up directing, and as it turned out, it was not in vain.

Experts are alarmed by chaotic amendments to election legislation The political action club “November 4” discussed the rapidly changing electoral and party legislation at its regular meeting. Most experts agreed that the amendments adopted by the State Duma to abolish the “against all” column and return to early voting do not correspond to the entire previous logic of legislative development.

Mufti demands to initiate a criminal case against the Rostov newspaper The Chairman of the Main Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Rostov Region, Mufti Flyur Arslanov, appealed to Governor Vladimir Chub, Prosecutor of the Rostov Region Anatoly Kharkovsky, as well as Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak with a request to give a legal assessment of one of the publications in the newspaper “Evening Rostov”.

The retired vice president of Transneft is working for the company again Yesterday there was a meeting of the company’s shareholders (100% of the voting shares belong to the state represented by Rosimushchestvo), Transneft vice-president Sergei Grigoriev told Vremya Novostey. Transneft promises to disseminate detailed information about the decisions made today.

The fun begins at the World Championships. But of all the quarterfinal pairings, it’s difficult to single out the most intriguing one. Each of them has its own zest. The confrontation between Brazil and France, who competed for the world title in 1998, is interesting from the perspective of unpaid debts to the Europeans by the South Americans.

The trial of the murder in February of this year of a famous Kazakh politician, one of the opposition leaders Altynbek Sarsenbaev, his bodyguard Vasily Zhuravlev and driver Bauyrzhan Baibosyn continues for the third week in Kazakhstan. The most high-profile criminal case in the history of the country is being considered in open mode by the Alma-Ata Regional Court, sitting in the city of Taldy-Kurgan.

United Russia wants to provide the president's successor with its party card State Duma Speaker and United Russia leader Boris Gryzlov told reporters yesterday that the party will nominate its candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. He emphasized that “a party president is a generally accepted practice” and similar experience is used in most countries, including the G8 countries.

The intelligence services of St. Petersburg are preparing to receive G8 leaders The police and special services are actively clearing St. Petersburg on the eve of the G8 summit. All employees of security structures are extensively checked and interviews are conducted with them. Some of the private detectives, as well as ordinary citizens, were instructed to immediately hand over their weapons for temporary storage. Special passes have already been prepared for St.

Shostakovich's "Golden Age" at the Mariinsky Theater It seems that the authors did not agree with each other what kind of performance they were staging. Stylish, cold, functional scenography by Zinovy ​​Margolin with mobile light planes, fluorescent lamps, film and photo projections, flavored with computer special effects - quite, let’s say, “Forsyte-esque”.

The government allowed the ruble to become convertible The government is lifting restrictions in currency legislation that it itself introduced three years ago. Then, in 2003, the president, in his annual message to parliament, for the first time set the task of achieving the conversion of the ruble. The Ministry of Finance responded to this task with a new version of the law on currency regulation and control.

Films from the out-of-competition program of the XXVIII MIFF Not a single self-respecting international festival can do without films from different parts of Asia, and Moscow is no exception. Not all of the films shown in the out-of-competition program have already found their Russian distributor, but in any case it makes sense to remember at least a few titles and, if necessary, find and watch these films without fail. “Men at Work” (Iran, 2006, Mani Haghighi).

A German broker wants to create an airline for smoking passengers The global fight against tobacco seems to have reached a stage where any entrepreneur who allows his customers to smoke expects to be more successful in comparison with competitors who strictly follow the precepts and recommendations of the World Health Organization.

A local plane was lifted in the Far East Certification tests of the new Su-80 aircraft for local airlines began in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Yesterday, the first test flight lasting one hour took place on the territory of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association named after Yu.A. Gagarin (KnAAPO), part of the Sukhoi Holding Company. The aircraft was flown by Sukhoi Design Bureau test pilots Yuri Vashchuk and Alexey Lilye. The flight went as usual.