Valentina Matvienko is being lured into the list of St. Petersburg United Russia with a lifelong social package St. Petersburg parliamentarians decided to make life easier for retired governors. On the eve of the start of the political struggle for seats in the future city parliament, deputies of the United Russia faction came up with a legislative initiative guaranteeing lifelong benefits to city leaders at the end of their term of office.

The head of E.ON Ruhrgas Burkhard Bergmann became honorary consul of Russia The head of the largest German gas company E.ON Ruhrgas and member of the board of the E.ON concern Burkhard Bergmann yesterday became the first honorary consul of Russia in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Presenting him with a consular patent at Jägerhof Castle in Düsseldorf, where Napoleon stayed, Russian Ambassador to Germany Vladimir Kotenev said: “I am glad that Mr.

“A Just Russia” began preparing for future work in the Duma The newly formed party “A Just Russia” (its members included the Russian Party of Life, the Party of Pensioners and “Rodina”) began legislative activity and introduced six bills to the State Duma.

The President did not receive a recipe for the development of the energy complex from the government Vladimir Putin yesterday held another - already the sixth - meeting in the Kremlin on the problems of developing the country's energy complex. And although this time it took place not at the Novo-Ogarevo residence, but in the Kremlin and lasted more than four hours, apparently there were no more details about the future of Russian energy.

Vladimir Samsonov did not help the Belarusian national team in Moscow The arrival of former first racket of the world Vladimir Samsonov in Moscow for the match of the Belarusian national team against Russia as part of the qualifying cycle of the 2007 European Championship caused an unprecedented stir among table tennis fans in the capital. No additional advertising was needed for this meeting - the stands of the Chertanovo sports complex were one hundred percent full.

Canadian resident accused of spying for Russia Yesterday, the trial of Paul William Hampel, suspected of espionage, began in Montreal.

Vladimir Putin addressed Europeans through the press Today Vladimir Putin will arrive on a two-day visit to Helsinki, where the next Russia-European Union summit will take place tomorrow. And yesterday, the British newspaper Financial Times and several other European newspapers published an article by the Russian president, written in anticipation of this event. Let us note that this is Putin’s second speech in the world press in the past week.

Windshield wipers and antiseptics are not the only liquids that poison unfortunate Russians. Ordinary tap water can also be life-threatening. Yesterday, the Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the United Russia party, Boris Gryzlov, proposed approving another national project - "Clean Water". As checks have shown, “only 12% of the water coming through the pipes can be drunk, up to 15% cannot be drunk, in fact, this water is poison and poisons our citizens for 5-7 years,” Mr.

More than 50 Chechen police officers came to Moscow to eliminate Movladi Baysarov The story of the murder of the former commander of the FSB operational combat group “Highlander” Movladi Baysarov, who publicly went over to the opposition to Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov and was shot last Saturday in the center of Moscow, according to the official version, during an attempt to arrest, is becoming increasingly scandalous.

The cause of the plane crash in Irkutsk, according to experts, was crew error Experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) yesterday officially reported to members of the government commission headed by Transport Minister Igor Levitin their conclusions about the causes of the crash of the S7 (formerly Siberia) airline A310 plane at Irkutsk airport last summer.

Disinfectants are the main source of alcohol poisoning Yesterday, the Volgograd branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosspirtprom" launched the production of so- called "folk vodka" ; 53 rub. for half a liter. Meanwhile, the number of people poisoned by alcohol substitutes in the region in a calendar month is approaching half a thousand people.

The second anniversary of the “Orange Revolution” passed routinely Yesterday, the Kiev Maidan of Independence did not see the official celebrations dedicated to Freedom Day. Only about a thousand people, mostly pensioners, celebrated the second anniversary of the “Orange Revolution” in the capital’s square. The contrast between today's everyday Maidan and the bright orange crowds of two years ago is striking.

The head of Verkhovna Rada, Lord John Brown, again failed to solve key problems in Russia The head of British BP, Lord John Brown, arrived in Moscow yesterday to once again pay visits to the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller, the president of Rosneft Sergei Bogdanchikov and the Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov. However, the meeting with the head of government scheduled for today will not take place. As an Interfax source noted, the main reason was Mikhail Fradkov’s workload.

Former head of the group's central council, Klaus Volkert, was arrested in the Volkswagen case. A corruption scandal that began last summer is flaring up at Volkswagen with renewed vigor . On Tuesday evening, the first arrest in this case became known: one of the most important defendants, Klaus Volkert, the former chairman of the central council of the enterprise, a public trade union body through which the workforce participates in the management of the concern, was jailed. Mr.

They want to overcome the alcohol crisis in Russia with the help of bureaucratic bodies and “people's vodka” The alcohol crisis, provoked by the authorities’ attempts to control the entire circulation of alcohol in the country , is forcing the state to look for new measures that could alleviate the severity of the situation.