Russian metallurgists again oppose Ukrainian The largest Russian metallurgical companies have joined forces in the fight against the low prices of their Ukrainian colleagues. The Ministry of Economic Development yesterday announced the start of an anti-dumping investigation into flat cold-rolled steel produced in Ukraine.

In Khabarovsk, 12 TV channels will be turned off until August Residents of Khabarovsk will be left without television broadcasting for almost a month. Yesterday, the city administration announced that from July 10 to August 4, from 9.30 to 18 hours local time, 12 major television channels will be switched off.

The parliamentary majority began the fight for morality on television A group of deputies from the United Russia faction is preparing to fight eroticism and sex on television. Corresponding amendments to the laws “On Advertising” and “On Mass Media” have been submitted for consideration by the chamber.

The structure of "Basel" won the tender for the purchase of the Pljevlja thermal power plant The newly created structural division of Basic Element, the En+ company, which manages the holding’s assets in the aluminum, energy and oil businesses, as it became known yesterday, won the competition for the purchase of the Pljevlja thermal power plant in Montenegro (208 MW of installed capacity), offering for an asset of 45 million euros and 31.1% of the shares of the nearby coal mine “Rudnik Ugol”

European authorities are ready to fine Microsoft 2 million euros daily The European Commission yesterday preliminary approved the implementation of its decision to levy a fine of 2 million euros per day from Microsoft. The ruling was made back in December last year (due to the fact that the corporation ignored the requirements of European antitrust authorities), and therefore Bill Gates’ company will have to pay more than 400 million euros.

Exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky at the ERA Foundation “The publisher is an artist” is not such an extravagant figure in Russian history. The Silver Age gave us a wonderful drawing art critic and journalist Alexander Nikolaevich Benois, whose works are best able to illustrate the materials of the leading publications of the turn of the century: “Old Years”, “World of Art”, “Capital and Estate”... His work sublimates the universal language and images era.

Will prepare for the “democratization” of Kazakhstan Yesterday, the Kazakh parliament approved Danial Akhmetov as the country's prime minister, agreeing with the proposal of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Danial Akhmetov, 52, led Kazakhstan's previous government, which resigned as Mr. Nazarbayev took office on Jan. 11 for another seven-year presidential term. All key ministers also retained their posts.

Yuri Roslyak was promised the best place out of turn The housing problem, which spoiled the lives of Muscovites throughout the twentieth century, may seem like a minor nuisance compared to a problem that could ruin their afterlife. At yesterday's meeting of the capital's government, it became clear that in the near future the possibilities of cemeteries near Moscow will be exhausted, and there will simply be nowhere to bury the deceased citizens.

George Bush accused of violating the US Constitution Lawsuits have been filed in the courts of two American cities demanding the immediate abolition of the federal program for electronic wiretapping of telephone conversations of US citizens. The plaintiffs were the American Civil Liberties Union in New York and the Center for Constitutional Rights in Detroit. They called the program itself and the executive actions related to it “illegal and unconstitutional.” In addition to President George W.

The unexpected rise in the charts of a little-known group from Bishkek, City 312, is the latest example of the influence of the domestic film industry on pop music. The group's album "Out of Access Zone" was released a year ago in a small print run, about a thousand copies. Soon, two songs from the album ended up in two blockbusters: “Day Watch” and “Peter FM” and became hits. These songs are “I’ll Stay” and “Out of Access” respectively.

Prosecutors did not believe in the illness of Private Sychev The military prosecutor's office considers junior sergeant Alexander Sivyakov guilty of beating Andrei Sychev. This conclusion is contained in the indictment, the reading of which began yesterday in the Chelyabinsk Garrison Military Court.

New cinema of Eastern Europe at the Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow Film Festival ended successfully without showing the public any radical changes. If the programs themselves have somehow settled down, the viewer has managed to get used to “Eight and a Half”, and to “Asian Extreme”, and to “Around the World”, then the main question continues to hang in the air: how does the MIFF differ from other festivals of the so-called “ A" category.

Russians love Nesunov more than bribe takers The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), as part of a comprehensive study of psychological attitudes and social motives of behavior of the population, decided to find out from Russians what, from their point of view, a person’s success in our country most depends on. How do people treat the person who offered a bribe, the official who agreed to take it?

Lithuania will be ruled by a minority cabinet Yesterday, the Lithuanian Seimas approved 54-year-old Gediminas Kirkilas as Prime Minister of the interim Minister of Defense of the Region. The representative of the Social Democrats was supported by 85 deputies, 13 voted against. Within 15 days, the new prime minister must form a government and submit it to President Valdas Adamkus for approval.

Pan Kaczynski was carried past Weimar President Lech Kaczynski's refusal to go last Monday to Weimar, Germany, for a meeting that had been in preparation for six months with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Jacques Chirac caused a political storm in Poland. Kaczynski's decision became known just a few hours before the start of the event. Now it has been postponed indefinitely.