It will soon be impossible to get to the ports of Vyborg, Vysotsk and Primorsk The construction of a new freight railway line across the Karelian Isthmus, which will relieve congestion on the St. Petersburg-Helsinki mainline, which is literally smoking from an oversupply of trains, is being postponed again. JSC Russian Railways, it seems, has not yet been able to find a common language with investors who are interested in increasing cargo flow to the ports of Vyborg, Vysotsk and Primorsk.

Architectural News Agency appeared in Russia “Architecture is first and foremost an art. We believe that the art of architecture is worthy of the attention of the general public, just like the art of painting and music." The Architectural News Agency (AAN) began its work with such an almost categorical manifesto. It is architectural news that has recently been completely lost among construction news, investor news, and real estate market news.

Garage craftsmen will find legal competitors Moscow authorities seem to be trying to find a new stable source of income, forcing numerous garage workshops to either close or work, including for the city treasury.

Establishing a peaceful life in the Caucasus is no easier than ending the war Both unofficial possible successors to Vladimir Putin have made their mark in the North Caucasus. About two weeks ago, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov flew to Chechnya, promising to speed up funding for the reconstruction of Grozny, destroyed by the war.

Creditors are making Yukos bankrupt YUKOS creditors at their meeting yesterday decided to petition the arbitration court to declare the company bankrupt and introduce bankruptcy proceedings. The court, by law, must render a verdict based on this decision. Thus, bankruptcy, quite possibly, will follow the previously planned scenario, according to which on August 1, at a meeting of the arbitration court, YUKOS will go bankrupt.

The first student satellite will go into orbit today Tonight, the Dnepr launch vehicle will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which should launch into orbit, to an altitude of about 500 kilometers, a cube 70 by 70 centimeters and weighing 85.5 kilograms. This is the first domestic spacecraft, created by “non-professionals” - students and graduate students of the Moscow Higher Technical University named after. Bauman.

Why does the president meet with party leaders? Last Monday - the day before the announcement of the merger with the Russian Party of Life - the leader of the Rodina party and the faction of the same name in the State Duma, Alexander Babakov, was awarded a personal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Kremlin press service, Mr.

The Brazilian national team was entrusted with a debutant coach There has been a change of coach in the Brazilian national team. Which is actually what was expected. It is unlikely that Carlos Alberto Parreira's past merits would have allowed him to remain in his post - the Brazilians' performance at the World Cup can only be called a failure. But the choice of the Brazilian Football Confederation turned out to be more than sensational.

The Moscow International House of Music has completed its third concert season, increasingly showing itself as an active concert organization and slowly growing into the consciousness of the public - including those who, having purely philharmonic interests and conservative habits, did not go to the new halls of the Moscow International Music Theater in the first couple of seasons. was walking.

Polish authorities will forcibly buy out companies in the fuel and energy sector facing the threat of a hostile takeover. New Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said yesterday that the state will not leave companies of “strategic importance” unprotected. “The mere possibility of this should have a terrifying effect on suspicious capital,” the prime minister believes. The bill on the nationalization of fuel and energy enterprises will be ready by September.

The prosecutor demanded a new punishment for Alexey Pichugin Former Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin, already sentenced last year to 20 years in prison for organizing several attempts and murders, also deserves life imprisonment. This opinion was expressed yesterday by state prosecutor Kamil Kashaev, speaking in the Moscow City Court in the debate on the new Pichugin case.

The aviation concern lacks qualified personnel The deep crisis in which the European aerospace concern EADS has been in recent months remains in the spotlight, even despite the successful Farnborough Air Show for Airbus. Yesterday in the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt, Rüdiger Lütjen, head of the EADS labor council, expressed his opinion about the causes of the problems of Airbus (part of the concern).

CLUBS "Project Vetrov". A project of musicians from St. Petersburg rock bands. The project is headed by poet and musician Alexander Vetrov. The group does not have a permanent composition - you never know who else will take the stage.

Chronicle of sporting events At the second category BTA tennis tournament with a prize fund of 600 thousand dollars in Stanford (USA), American Chanda Rubin returned to the court, who had been absent for more than a year due to an ankle and knee injury. At one time, the dark-skinned Rubin was among the top ten in the world rankings, with seven tournament victories on her record. Chanda's return was not as strong as her compatriot Serena Williams' a week ago, winning three matches in a row.

US supported Israeli military operation US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday that “a ceasefire that returns us to the status quo that existed before the conflict would be a false promise.” She also supported Israel's demand for the immediate disarmament of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement. “The settlement of the Lebanese-Israeli conflict must be based on permanent principles.