The government will make concessions to oil workers to reduce inflation For the office of Mikhail Fradkov, driving down inflation is the goal of the year. The government promised the president and the country to achieve single-digit annual price growth for the first time - about 9%. In fact, this is how the prime minister began yesterday’s meeting at the White House, designed to contain, despite everything, the rapid growth of consumer prices.

The global thirst for energy, which leads to the growing dependence of the world economy on oil and gas, calls not only for the search for new, cleaner sources of energy. Sometimes scientists try to revive old and well-forgotten energy resources. It seems they haven’t gotten around to firewood yet, but they are already seriously looking at coal. German chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim tried to improve the technology for converting coal into liquid fuel.

The provocation of the Kyrgyz secret services brought the president to the brink of resignation The provocation undertaken by the security services of Kyrgyzstan against the ex-speaker of the country's parliament Omurbek Tekebaev, in whose luggage upon arrival in Warsaw on September 5 a nesting doll with almost 600 grams of low-grade heroin was found (see Vremya Novostey on September 8 and 11) , is developing into a grandiose political scandal.

CLUBS Billy Cobham (drums, USA) and his Culture Mix project consisting of: Stefan Rademacher (bass, Germany), Jean-Marie Ecay (guitar, France), Jukkis Uotila (keyboards, Finland), Junior Gill (percussion, UK), and also special guest Marco Lobo (percussion, Brazil). One of the greatest jazz drummers, considered by many to be the best jazz-rock and fusion drummer of the last 30 years, legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra lead singer Billy Cobham is back in Moscow.

Vnesheconombank awarded personalized scholarships to students Chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev yesterday presented personalized scholarships to the best students of leading Russian universities. VEB grants are established for students who achieve “excellent” grades and have demonstrated extraordinary abilities in their studies and scientific activities.

George Bush fights for civilization in Iraq Yesterday, President George W. Bush's address to the nation was broadcast live from the Oval Office of the White House on all US television and radio channels. Presented as a “reflective speech,” it became the final chord of mourning events dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the September 11 tragedy.

Chronicle of sporting events The Russian company Space Communications and the Chinese China Netcom will broadcast from the 2008 Summer Olympics to Russia and the CIS countries. This decision was made in Sochi at a meeting of the Russian-Chinese subcommittee on communications and information technologies, reports the press service of the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Russian Federation.

It has long been accepted that children are happiness for parents. For example, the 19th-century French literary critic Sainte-Beuve said: “If by the age of forty a person’s room is not filled with children’s voices, then it will be filled with nightmares.” But a recently published work by American scientists contains exactly the opposite conclusions. This study was carried out by researchers from the University of Florida under the direction of Associate Professor of Sociology Robin Simon.

On Thursday at 22:00 Moscow time, an Atlas V launch vehicle took off from the American spaceport at Cape Canaveral, carrying the New Horizons interplanetary probe. This is the first spacecraft in human history to reach the orbit of Pluto, the most distant planet in the solar system. So far that the path of the American probe from Earth to the target will last almost ten years: the maximum approach of New Horizons to Pluto should, according to scientists, occur in July 2015.

The mayor of Volgograd will be judged by his place of work Yesterday, the prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region completed the investigation of the criminal case against the mayor of Volgograd, Evgeny Ishchenko. The case was transferred to the court of the Central District of the city. The mayor of Volgograd is accused of crimes under Art. 285 part 2 (abuse of official powers), art.

Yuri Zhdanov relieved of command of special economic zones Yesterday it became known that the head of the Federal Agency for the Management of Special Economic Zones (RosSEZ), Yuri Zhdanov, which is part of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, has been relieved of his post. The corresponding order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. According to the official wording, Mr. Zhdanov resigned of his own free will in connection with a transfer to another job.

Yuri Luzhkov proposed extending paid leave for young mothers to seven years The mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, in the heat of the demographic rush that has gripped Russian officials at all levels in the past few months - after the president's annual address to the Federal Assembly - came up with an unprecedented initiative. He seems to think it's time to make all new mothers professional housewives.

The Ministry of Industry and Energy asks Yuri Trutnev to substantiate claims to projects with the participation of foreigners The accusations of the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev against the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project (implemented on production sharing terms) - the Sakhalin Energy company - are beginning to bother the Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko, who oversees the project. Mr.

Yesterday, the ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and the head of the OSCE mission accredited to Georgia visited South Ossetia. This interest is not accidental. Presidential elections and a referendum on independence are scheduled for November 12 in the unrecognized republic. Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Murad DZHIOEV answered questions from special correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper Mikhail VIGNANSKY.

South African Jervan Labb came up with an interesting remedy in the fight against malaria. His invention is an ordinary wristwatch with a built-in sensor - a blood analyzer. Labba's "malaria monitor" alarms its owner four times a day: a small needle pricks a person in the wrist, and then the device checks the sample taken for the presence of the malaria pathogen in the blood.