The party in power urgently needs a president On Saturday, the Duma faction “United Russia” made a country trip to the Lesnye Dali boarding house to meet with President Vladimir Putin. During a discussion with United Russia of political and economic problems, the president received an offer to lead the party in power.

Dmitry Tursunov reaches the fourth round of Wimbledon for the second year in a row All matches in the fourth round of singles competition are due to take place today at the British Open. In the women's tournament, three Russians continue to fight for the title. The winner of Wimbledon two years ago, Maria Sharapova, will meet with the 16th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta, Elena Dementieva will face the black American Shena Perry.

Nobody wants to buy Turkmen gas for $100 As expected, the Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Ivan Plachkov, who arrived in Ashgabat last Friday to purchase 11 billion cubic meters. m of gas for the fourth quarter, received an offer to buy it for $100. A day earlier, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, faced with Turkmenbashi’s inflexible position on the price issue, interrupted the negotiations.

CLUBS Sergey Babkin. A member of the duet 5`nizza will sing songs around the fire at the next carnival of the Chinese pilot Zhao Da club. The theme of the carnival is camp. Rubber boats and tents will be set up on the club's summer veranda, and they will serve potatoes and stewed meat. 21.00. Big band of Igor Butman. "Le Club" , 20.30. CONCERTS "Edison Denisov Space" .

Blokhin's team was greeted at home as heroes The Ukrainian national team began the World Cup with a crushing defeat, and ended with the same defeat. However, Oleg Blokhin’s team, which lost to Italy in the quarter finals of the World Championship - 0:3, was greeted at the Boryspil airport as heroes, with fireworks and flowers - a place in the eight best teams in the world for Ukraine is a real feat. Rewards were also handed out immediately upon arrival.

The annual meeting of shareholders of the Bank of Moscow summed up the results of work in 2005. Last year, the bank (more than 62% of the shares are controlled by the Moscow government) showed stable growth: the balance sheet currency increased 1.47 times, amounting to 221 billion rubles as of January 1, profit before tax increased by almost 44%.

Geneticists warn: eating people is unhealthy Scientists suggest that ancient people, who roamed the expanses of the African savannas many thousands of years ago, knew how to brutally take revenge on their enemies even after death. It turns out that homo sapiens managed to give wild predators a hard life as ulcer sufferers. We are talking about large cats, such as lions and cheetahs, which still carry traces of their ancestral diet in their bodies.

Past World Championships have often confirmed the truth that one outstanding star could lead his team to the final. Examples of this are 1986, when Diego Maradona was a soloist in the Argentina national team, as well as the finest hour of Roberto Baggio, who pulled Italy onto the podium on his shoulders in 1994. But today there are no players of this caliber. The class of stars has leveled off, as has the level of the national teams.

May 30 -- June 30, 2006 “Vremya Novostey” and the “Medialogy” company offer you ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the Russian media. Political ratings are published on Mondays: over the course of a month, you can sequentially familiarize yourself with the ratings of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, governors of the Russian Federation, ministers of the Russian Federation and foreign politicians.

The Japanese politician avoided harsh claims against Moscow Former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (pictured) , who headed the cabinet from January 1996 to July 1998, died at the age of 68. He died on Saturday at a Tokyo medical center. At the beginning of June, part of his intestines was removed, after which the patient was in critical condition and did not regain consciousness.

The Moscow Film Festival ended yesterday As usual, the main event of the festival was the very fact of its holding. For ten days, the MIFF was a source of news and the object of general criticism. However, the festival organizers are no strangers to this; the competition program is almost always criticized. Here, for example, is what journalists wrote in 2004: “The competition program of the XXVI MIFF, to put it mildly, did not shine.

Long list of nominees for novel prize announced For the fifteenth Russian Booker Prize, the nominators - publishing houses, magazine editors, several libraries and literary departments - nominated 48 works.

This week - perhaps as early as Tuesday - the conflict between the Ukrainian authorities and the opposition, which has been blocking the work of the Rada since June 27, will be resolved. Some of the opposition's demands will be fulfilled.

The Kaliningrad Regional Duma canceled the annual message of the governor The parliament of the westernmost Russian region did not dare to go against the will of Governor Georgy Boos. At the last meeting, the Kaliningrad Duma members, despite the protest of the local Public Chamber, agreed with the governor’s idea and canceled his annual message to the regional Duma. (The newspaper Vremya Novostey wrote about this initiative of Mr.

Suspect in the murder of Ivan Kivelidi detained On Friday, MUR and FSB operatives detained a suspect in one of the most scandalous and mysterious crimes of the 90s - the murder of the chairman of the Russian Business Round Table (RBT), head of Rosbusinessbank, Ivan Kivelidi. Vladimir Khutsishvili, a former deputy banker and member of the board of directors of Rosbusinessbank, had already been detained as a suspect in this case shortly after Mr. Kivelidi's death in 1995, but was then released.