Pyongyang is under diplomatic siege Tomorrow, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The most important topic of the negotiations, which will take place exactly a week after the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1718 on the nuclear test in the DPRK, is the implementation of the sanctions imposed by this document against Pyongyang. Ms Rice wants these sanctions to be "swift and effective".

But in Bishkek they expected more Yesterday, details of agreements between the United States and Kyrgyzstan regarding the financial conditions for the presence of an American military base on the territory of the Bishkek Manas airport became known. Deputy of the Kyrgyz parliament, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Public Rating” Bolotbek Maripov spoke about them yesterday at a specially convened press conference.

The Prime Minister asked the Minister to be responsible for housing and communal services reform It looks like there will be changes in housing and communal services reform. True, it is definitely impossible to answer the question of what shifts today. Either the Minister of Regional Development in charge of this area, Vladimir Yakovlev, will be dismissed, or several urgent laws will be adopted that develop the Housing Code in a liberal, anti-monopoly manner.

Alan Greenspan pointed out to Russian authorities the risks in the financial system One of the world's leading economists, former head of the American Federal Reserve System Alan Greenspan, yesterday in New York at the Renaissance of Capital conference, commented on the financial situation in our country. His assessments turned out to be quite restrained and not at all optimistic.

Moscow will reserve at least 50% of places in markets for Russian agricultural enterprises It seems that Moscow will be the first to implement the new market policy, proclaimed by President Vladimir Putin “in order to protect the interests of Russian commodity producers and the indigenous population.” According to the decree of the capital's government, signed recently by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, starting in November, trading places for Russian farmers and goods from domestic agricultural enterprises

A United Russia candidate was killed in the Primorsky Territory In the small coastal town of Dalnegorsk, one of the two main candidates for mayor, 31-year-old Dmitry Fotyanov, was shot yesterday afternoon. The assassination attempt happened on the eve of the elections scheduled for October 22. Considering that Dalnegorsk has not been able to acquire a full-fledged mayor for two years now, for various reasons, and Mr.

The head of Chechnya invites foreign investors President of the Chechen Republic Alu Alkhanov said yesterday that he has no plans to leave his post. “It’s the press that likes to speculate that I’ll leave tomorrow or they’ll send me away,” he said at a press conference in Moscow. “I said before and I say today: this is the will of the Almighty and the President of the Russian Federation,” he explained. In the meantime, the higher powers have not shown themselves in any way, Mr.

Oleg Kulik at the TERRITORIA festival When the organizers of TERRITORIA called their creation a “contemporary art festival,” the first thing they did was set up not themselves, but the journalists. The editors immediately assigned art reviewers to the event, but it turned out that the program included concerts, films and performances (not counting the comic book exhibition).

The cartel promises to cut production to increase oil prices The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will reduce production by 1 million barrels per day. This decision will be officially announced at the extraordinary OPEC conference, which began yesterday evening in the Qatari capital Doha. The main reason is the prolonged fall in oil prices, as a result of which its price has already fallen by $20 since August of this year.

The CIS anniversary may be moved from Minsk to Almaty The anniversary - to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Commonwealth - the CIS summit may take place where it was finally proclaimed - in Almaty, where on December 21, 1991, the leaders of 11 Soviet Union republics gathered (with the exception of Georgia, which joined to the CIS later).

The President did not find a “clear and understandable” program for the development of the electric power industry Vladimir Putin was indignant at yesterday's meeting on electricity issues - the third this year.

The ambitions of RUSAL, which is preparing to become the leader of the global aluminum industry after merging with SUAL, seem to make its partners worry about the future of their projects. Therefore, until the company has become larger and has not revised its program, they rush to remind them of its obligations to them.

The US President saw a second Vietnam in Iraq US President George W. Bush for the first time acknowledged the similarities between the attacks on American soldiers in Iraq and the 1968 Vietnamese communist offensive on American positions during the Vietnam War. This eloquent confession was made yesterday in an interview with CBS. The head of the White House admitted that the level of violence in Iraq has increased significantly.

Monday, October 23 First 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 21.00, 23.30 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 10, 20.00 “BLOOD SISTERS”. TV series (S) 11 . 10, 21.30 "STAYING ALIVE." TV series (S) 12 . 20 Without complexes 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 30 Test purchase 15 . 20 Criminal Russia 16 . 00 "LOVE IS LIKE LOVE." TV series (S) 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Wait for me 19 . 10 "FIVE MINUTES TO THE METRO." Series 22 . 20 Special investigation 23 .

Greens are outraged by Reykjavik's decision to open the whale hunting season This week Iceland announced the resumption of commercial whaling. The local fisheries ministry said it would allow its citizens to commercially harvest 30 minke whales and nine fin whales in the 2006-2007 season. This amount, according to Reykjavik, will not harm the population of marine mammals and is therefore environmentally friendly.