Vladimir Putin signed a law abolishing the full autonomy of the Academy of Sciences The long-running debate surrounding the fate of the Russian Academy of Sciences has come to an end. We can say that scientists are literally put at the service of the state.

Baltic LNG should allow Gazprom to play in the globalization of business Negotiations have resumed with potential participants in the Baltic LNG (Baltic Liquefied Natural Gas) project on the construction of a small LNG plant on the shores of the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg. As a source close to Sovcomflot told Vremya Novostei, decisive meetings with nine companies from the “long list” are being held these days as part of the Gastech international exhibition in Abu Dhabi.

The main notable feature of the weather in European Russia is extreme heat. Over the past 24 hours, air temperatures in the northwestern and central regions again exceeded the climate norm by eight degrees or more. The abnormal heat is caused by Atlantic cyclones. Moving one after another across northern Europe, they reliably block the paths of Arctic air into the interior of Russia. And the weather pattern will not change in the coming days.

Kazakhstan received a promise from the OSCE The name of the country that will be entrusted to lead the OSCE in 2009 remains unknown. The inability to reach a compromise on the candidacy of the future OSCE chairman turned out to be one of the main results of the annual session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of this organization, which has 56 states in its ranks, which ended yesterday in Brussels. The main candidate for the chairmanship was Kazakhstan.

Negotiations on increasing wages in Moscow ended in a “difficult compromise” It seems that the authorities of even the most affluent city in the country are unable to bring the minimum wage closer to the most modest consumer needs of citizens. Next year, the minimum wage in the capital should increase by 25%, but this will still not allow it to reach the subsistence level.

Yesterday, a closed meeting of the Six countries was held in Paris, at which the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, China, Great Britain, France, the United States and Germany once again tried to agree on a draft UN Security Council resolution on imposing sanctions against Iran.

Exhibition of Konstantin Rozhdestvensky at the Tretyakov Gallery The exhibition, organized by the Tretyakov Gallery and the International David Shterenberg Foundation for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kazimir Malevich's student, Konstantin Rozhdestvensky, can disappoint. Moreover, precisely those who treat Malevich’s painting system not as a set of recognizable clichés. In terms of the “Malevich school” brand, Rozhdestvensky is doing fine.

In the nomination “Modern Dance – Best Performance”, experts chose four performances. Two small solos - both from Chelyabinsk - “Audrey” by Maria Greif, who made a charming dedication to the famous actress, and “Nesolo” by Vladimir Golubev, who created a new genre of dance stand-up comedy. And two full-length works - “She Rides a Bicycle” by Elena Prokopieva (the creator of the “Fortress Ballet” moved from Irkutsk to St.

CLUBS "Techno-atmosphere" . Douglas Grid (Germany), DJs Helga, Max Grabke, Anrilov. Minimal. "Shanti" , 21.00. "Jazz Contact" . Funk, jazz, Latin, original compositions. Jam Session. “Club on Brestskaya” , 19.30. "White prison" . At the B2 club, 20.00. "Bugotak" . Throat singing. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00. Avis Dei . Medieval music. "Vermel" , 21.00. CONCERTS "Music for two organs." Anastasia Sidelnikova and Fyodor Stroganov will play organ music by I.-S.

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus announced their desire to create a new organization to replace the USSR. On December 21, eight more former Soviet republics joined them. And in 1994, Georgia was the last to join the CIS.

The World Bank believes that the Russian economy is simply lucky Western experts admire the quantitative indicators of economic growth in Russia, but they assess its quality much more modestly. Yesterday, the chief economist of the Russian office of the World Bank, John Litvak, presented another report on the Russian economy . Despite the ominous thirteenth serial number, the report does not predict troubles or crises for Russia.

Sergei Mironov and Boris Gryzlov want to elect senators differently United Russia unexpectedly proposed electing senators by popular vote. Thus, the party in power intends to establish control over the upper house of parliament. The idea of ​​electing senators has long been promoted by the head of the Federation Council, and now also the leader of the new pro-Kremlin party A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov - five years ago he first proposed electing his colleagues.

Prime Minister of Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski yesterday did not rule out the possibility of removing Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Andrzej Lepper from his post. “I can only say that it is impossible to cooperate with people who committed such actions, but it has not yet been established that they actually did it,” said the head of government, awaiting the results of the investigation.

The meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE Foreign Ministers), which lasted two days in Brussels, ended without result. As the Vremya Novostey newspaper expected the day before, the heads of foreign affairs departments of the 56 OSCE member countries were unable to adopt a general political declaration because they did not agree on its provisions.

In the Sverdlovsk region, Mironov’s party leaves... from Mironov’s party The creation of a “relevant left,” loudly announced at the federal level, is facing big problems in the regions. At the end of last week, the presidium of A Just Russia decided on candidates for the post of leaders of party cells in a number of regions.