The Duma agreed to forgive militants and federal military personnel for non-dangerous crimes during the second Chechen campaign The State Duma on Friday approved in all readings the presidential draft resolution on amnesty for militants and federal military personnel in the North Caucasus who have not committed serious or especially serious crimes.

Switzerland closes doors to workers from other countries By a majority of more than two-thirds, the Swiss voted in a referendum on Sunday in favor of amendments to the asylum law and a new law on foreigners. These laws are intended to restrict the entry of immigrants into the country. They have already been adopted by parliament, and they were submitted to a popular vote by the Social Democrats, “greens” and human rights organizations.

“Alive” by Alexander Veledinsky on Moscow screens The film begins in war, but all the battleism of the first scenes is limited to choking excerpts of off-screen radio interception and unclean mountain snow, through which two people are dragging a third. They drag him to save his life, but to die themselves.

The State Duma approved the 2007 budget in the first reading The State Duma on Friday adopted the draft federal budget for 2007 in the first reading. As expected, the deputies had virtually no questions regarding macroeconomic indicators. Regions, national projects and security have become priority areas for funding. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin even promised to return to Russia the economic potential of the Soviet Union by the end of next year.

A paradoxical phenomenon has been happening in world football over the past ten years. On the one hand, clubs are bought by millionaires and turned into world teams, often surpassing the strongest national teams in composition. On the other hand, despite huge investments and frantic migration flows of football players, new great clubs practically do not appear.

August 22 -- September 22, 2006 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

In Kamchatka they came up with a new way to combat child poaching A new subject is being introduced in schools in the Kamchatka region this academic year. In addition to mathematics, biology, literature and other sciences, high school students from only two dozen educational institutions on the peninsula will also study ichthyology.

Ossetian and Ingush children rested together Russian human rights activists on Friday held a presentation of a holiday camp for children from the Ossetian-Ingush conflict zone of 1992. Several dozen Ossetian and Ingush children from the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia spent ten days in one of the boarding houses near Moscow. Funds for the program were allocated by French charities on the initiative of the Civic Assistance Committee and the Ingush branch of the Memorial human rights center.

Ananenkov and Ryazanov did not divide Gazprom Neft The Gazprom board of directors will discuss the concern's strategy in the oil business on Wednesday. The four-page document was approved by the Gazprom board back in May (see Vremya Novostey, May 26) . But, as follows from the materials to the council, which Vremya Novostei was able to review, there are serious disagreements in the monopolist’s management on this issue.

FOOTBALL. September 26--27. Champions League. Group stage. 2nd round. September 28. UEFA Cup. 1st round. Return matches . Russian Championship. Premier League. 21st round. September 30. “Shinnik” - “Rostov”, “Tom” - “Amkar”. October 1st. "Rubin" - "Lokomotiv", "Moscow" - "Spartak" (M), "Zenit" - "Spartak" (Nch), "Dynamo" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Saturn" - CSKA.

The death of terrorist number one has not yet been confirmed The Saudi government has denied claims by the French newspaper L'Est Republiquin that the intelligence services became aware of the death of Osama Bin Laden, the founder and leader of the international terrorist network Al-Qaeda. “This information is speculative and not confirmed by independent sources,” Riyadh said in a statement.

Since Lokomotiv lost to Spartak in April, the railway workers have not known defeat in 17 rounds in a row. In six of these matches, Loko goalkeeper Alexei Polyakov managed to keep his goal intact. But in the game with CSKA, the Lokomotiv goalkeeper's nascent dry streak ended. Alexey POLYAKOV, however, was not upset: as the goalkeeper admitted to Vremya Novostei correspondent Andrei VDOVIN, statistics and tracking of various Lokomotiv series are not his strongest point.

Two Moscow exhibitions are dedicated to Empress Maria Feodorovna and her family The upcoming reburial of the ashes of Empress Maria Feodorovna gave occasion to remember her. They are already saying that Russia is discovering a forgotten great woman. Great is a strong word. However, Maria Feodorovna herself is worthy of attention, and, more importantly, the era of Alexander III comes to light with her. And he is not the most famous of the autocrats. What about Alexander III?

Kinoshok offers films about love and revenge The Kinoshock festival ends today. In the evening, the jury will announce its verdict, which in any case will be the result of a compromise - the competition turned out to be too heterogeneous.

At the economic forum they talked about Siberia, mineral resources and IT technologies Last week, the Baikal Economic Forum (BEF) was held in Irkutsk with the participation of more than a thousand people representing federal and regional departments, Siberian governors, big business and the legislative branch. “Venue” was the most popular term that speakers used when talking about the event (second place went to the phrase “public-private partnership”).