The first Russian special economic zone was opened in an open field It turns out that officials’ statements that “special economic zones will be created in an open field” must be taken literally.

North Korea promises to test nuclear weapons North Korea announced yesterday that it will "conduct nuclear tests in the future with a firm guarantee of their safety." In a statement, the DPRK Foreign Ministry, which did not specify the date of the tests, said that they were necessary to deter the United States, which poses “an extremely serious threat of nuclear war, sanctions and pressure.” North Korea promised not to be the first to use nuclear weapons and “to adhere to international

The consequences of the geopolitical cataclysms that shook the world at the end of the last century are not yet fully understood, but their influence on world politics is becoming more and more obvious. There is a growing gap between generally accepted norms of international law and new realities.

And the second “Nobel” of this year went to the New World. The physics prize was awarded to John Mather, an employee of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and George Smoot from the University of California, Berkeley, who showed the anisotropy (heterogeneity) of cosmic microwave background radiation and that its spectrum corresponds to the so-called. an absolute black body whose temperature is 2.7 degrees above absolute zero.

Restrictions in the supply of electricity will begin after minus 15 The start of trial fires in the Russian capital coincided with another aggravation in relations between the mayor's office and Moscow power engineers. The city authorities seem to have already come to terms with the inevitability of restrictions in the supply of electricity to enterprises in the coming winter, but the desire of power engineers to pull the switch even at non-critical temperatures came as a surprise to them.

Guus Hiddink expects surprises from Israel and victories from Russia The Russian national team yesterday began preparing for the next matches of the European Championship qualifying round. The first of them - with the Israeli team - will take place in Moscow on October 7. The second - with the Estonia national team - on October 11 in St. Petersburg. And, according to the President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko, Guus Hiddink’s team faces the task of winning both of these meetings.

Dmitry Medvedev demands that Gazprom be allowed to increase its power assets First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev yesterday made it clear that the purchase by the Gazprom group of a controlling stake in Mosenergo is a matter of national importance. “The acquisition of a controlling stake in Mosenergo will be an important step in the development of Gazprom as a gas energy corporation,” he said.

According to experts, Russians have long lived separately from the state Former adviser to the Russian President on economic issues, Andrei Illarionov, wrote an article in which he invited citizens to voluntarily separate from the “corporatist” state, privatized by representatives of the executive branch.

The Russian-Kazakh gas agreement needs to be finalized The Presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan, Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev, yesterday demonstrated the strength of their neighborly ties. The heads of state arrived in the capital of the West Kazakhstan region, the city of Uralsk, to take part in the Forum of Border Regions.

Officials can make money by buying out plots of land from enterprises The government intends to soon submit to the State Duma a bill establishing a new procedure for the purchase of land plots in state or municipal ownership. The bill, which was approved at a cabinet meeting on September 21, is expected to be adopted at the autumn session, with a view to coming into force on January 1, 2007.

Robert Dudley wants to prove to Yuri Trutnev the efficiency of TNK-BP production TNK-BP intends to talk with the Ministry of Natural Resources about a large number of inactive wells - the main complaint against the company from the Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev. As TNK-BP Managing Director Robert Dudley told reporters yesterday, the company sent a written request to the Ministry of Natural Resources for a meeting with the minister in the next 30 days.

President Putin demanded better protection of gas pipelines and energy facilities For the second day in the mountains of North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia (KCR), repair work is being carried out on the exploded sections of the North Caucasus - Transcaucasia, Mozdok - Tbilisi gas pipelines and the Kavkasioni power transmission line.

An anniversary week has begun at the Moscow Conservatory On Monday afternoon, in the Small Hall of the Conservatory, festive guests read solemn speeches in a solemn atmosphere, and in the evening the first concert of many planned for the anniversary week took place. The audience in the Great Hall was mostly young, not luxurious, but the atmosphere, speeches and musical content were distinguished by a special pomp, seemingly completely befitting the occasion.

Russian police provided forceful support to the Foreign Ministry Russian special services yesterday carried out a massive exemplary attack on Georgians and citizens living in the capital and allegedly engaged in criminal activities here. A variety of objects were included in the “development” - one of the capital’s largest casinos, the Tbilisi hotel house, which until recently operated at the Georgian Embassy, ​​several restaurants and even a small cafe in Khimki.

Today, the gas agreements reached in January are widely discussed in Russia and Ukraine. Who won, who lost, how will the Ukrainian political crisis be resolved, what will happen there after the March elections to the Verkhovna Rada? However, behind the political fuss, few see the main changes in Russian political strategy. In my opinion, these changes were made in Vladimir Putin’s report at a meeting of the Russian Security Council on the eve of the New Year holidays.