The new Moscow prosecutor has assembled his team The new prosecutor of Moscow, Yuri Semin, as Vremya Novostey learned, recently completed a personnel purge in the area entrusted to him. He himself took office on July 18, as part of the personnel reform initiated by the new Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. Like other associates of the head of the supervisory authority, he immediately continued work to renew the ranks of the prosecutor.

Russian battalion departs for the Middle East Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Ministry of Defense to assist Lebanon in eliminating the consequences of hostilities. Yesterday, at an extraordinary meeting, the Federation Council, with 124 votes, supported the president’s proposal to send a separate bridge battalion to Lebanon.

The Ministry of Justice of Belarus appealed to the Supreme Court with a claim to suspend the activities of the Party of Belarusian Communists (PKB). The official reason for the claim is failure to provide documents on the size of the party. PKB leader Sergei Kalyakin explained that the party leadership refused to provide the Ministry of Justice with a detailed list of its members, limiting itself to a minimum list of a thousand names.

Maria Fedorovna spent the last years of her life in her homeland, Denmark. This period of her life is described in some detail in the memoirs of her youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. These memoirs were recorded by J. Worres and republished in 2004 by the Zakharov publishing house. We present excerpts from these memoirs and some comments to the attention of our readers with the kind consent of the publisher. Electricity bills The Grand Duchess loved Denmark since childhood.

Born Princess Dagmara of Denmark (before converting to Orthodoxy - Maria Sophia Frederica Dagmara) - the daughter of the Danish king Christian IX and Queen Louise. The princess was initially engaged to the heir to the Russian throne, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, but soon lost her fiancé, who died of tuberculosis.

A new dispute is flaring up between Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and President Viktor Yushchenko. Yesterday, the presidential secretariat re-sent seven decrees signed by Yushchenko to the government for their signature by the prime minister. A week ago, Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign them, since the decrees had already been published.

Alfa Capital wants to become universal Alfa Capital is dissatisfied with its status as one of the largest players in the collective investment market. And although it has achieved the greatest success in this segment, in the future the investment structure intends to develop as a universal company, engaging, in addition to mutual funds, in corporate business, as well as trust management.

The anniversary film festival of the CIS and Baltic countries “Kinoshock” has ended The winners of all three competitions have been announced: the main competition, short films and films shot on video. The main jury, chaired by film expert Armen Medvedev, made a completely correct choice for the anniversary forum: the prizes were distributed relatively evenly across the entire spectrum, without forgetting who’s boss.

The verdict was handed down in the “Sychev case” The Chelyabinsk garrison military court yesterday announced the verdict in the most scandalous army criminal case of recent years - the case of private Andrei Sychev, who was maimed by his colleagues, as the military prosecutor's office believed, as a result of hazing. The court considered the guilt of the main accused, junior sergeant Alexander Sivyakov, to be completely proven and sentenced him to 4 years in prison.

In Argentina, even during the military regime, there was a more developed civil society than in Russia today For some time now, it has become a sign of good taste in certain circles to sing hosannas to Vladimir Putin when comparing the current regime with the one that existed during the time of Boris Yeltsin. I would like to disagree with these statements. The construction of the so-called presidential vertical throws us further and further back to the ever-memorable communist times.

Yuri Trutnev sent Oleg Mitvol to Sakhalin The powerful international outcry that the Ministry of Natural Resources’ campaign against the Sakhalin-2 project provoked forced the head of the department to carry out “explanatory work.” Foreign media correspondents were gathered for a briefing in Moscow. Judging by news agency reports, Mr.

The government will help the president remove governors without trial The vertical of power, despite its constant tightening, lacks efficiency. And this is recognized by the supreme power itself. The Russian government has decided to simplify the procedure for removing governors actually appointed by the president from their positions.

Alexander Lebedev intends to legally pursue the purchase of Boeing-787 aircraft by Aeroflot State Duma deputy, actual owner of the National Reserve Corporation (NRK) Alexander Lebedev intends to sue the Russian government for the fact that it has not yet chosen a promising long-haul aircraft for Aeroflot. NRK owns 30% of Aeroflot shares. The controlling stake in the airline (51.17%) belongs to the state.

"The Other Russia" hopes to write a program for a united opposition by the end of the year The organization “The Other Russia” has entered a new phase of preparing the draft of its own program. At a meeting of other Russians held on Monday at the Arbat Hotel in Moscow, a working group was created that will prepare the “Program of National Consent.” Before the start of the meeting, participants expected provocations, in particular the appearance of the “Young Guards”.

Today, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will join yesterday's dialogue between US and Afghan Presidents George W. Bush and Hamid Karzai on protecting democratic values ​​and the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The interlocutors will discuss the anti-terrorist fight in the region where Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding. Bush wants to ease tensions between Islamabad and Washington and Kabul.