The Ministry of Education and Science's report on innovative technologies received criticism and additional funding Nanotechnology seems to be quietly becoming another Russian priority project. At a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers held yesterday, Mikhail Fradkov called nanodevelopment a platform on which it is necessary to build work on diversifying the economy.

The government celebrated Anti-Corruption Day Today the world celebrates Anti-Corruption Day. The Russian government celebrated it the day before at its regular meeting. When a state with an underdeveloped judicial system begins not so much a systemic, but rather a demonstrative fight against corruption , this, at best, resembles shadowboxing. At worst, it can lead to the fact that stronger bureaucratic clans, using harsh law enforcement practices, deal with weaker ones.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Washington" -- "Ottawa" -- 6:2 -- Semin "V" (1+0), Ovechkin "V" (0+3), "Dallas" -- "Phoenix" -- 3:0 -- Zubov "D" (1+0), "Anaheim" -- "Nashville" -- 4:0, "New Jersey" -- "Montreal" -- 2:1 (OT), "Edmonton" -- "Carolina" " -- 2:1. In all five matches of the next game day, victories remained with the hosts.

The next “triumphants” have been named The winners of the Triumph Prize, awarded for the fifteenth time, were composer Sofya Gubaidullina, film director Eldar Ryazanov, artist Bogdan Stupka and Yuri Shevchuk, referred to in the press release as “poet” and “composer”. If Shevchuk is a composer, then, it seems, it is not in the sense that is meant in this word when talking about the world-famous renovator of the musical language Sofya Gubaidullina.

In the Euroleague, Moscow clubs turned out to be stronger than Istanbul clubs At the end of the first round of the main group stage of the ULEB Euroleague, both Russian participants met with clubs from Istanbul. Our teams have played very successfully against opponents from Turkey in recent years, and this week was no exception. The leader of octet “C” and the current winner of the CSKA trophy on the road defeated Fenerbahce - 74:64.

Anatoly CHUBAIS's answer to an investor's question about his attitude to the fact that Gazprom is actively buying up stakes in generating companies: isn't it possible that generation is moving from one state pocket to another, and there will be no competition, since everything will be under state control? - I have always tried to use common sense on this issue. And not to over-politicize it, but not to under-politicize it either. What does this mean?

Ford may double production in Vsevolozhsk The Russian division of the American corporation Ford - Ford Motor Company CJSC - can double the production of cars at its plant near St. Petersburg, to 150 thousand per year. This was discussed yesterday at a meeting between the Governor of the Leningrad Region Valery Serdyukov and the Vice President of Ford Europe Jim Titro, ITAR-TASS reports.

Affected shareholders rally against each other The shares of deceived co-investors, who have been regularly taking to the streets of Russian cities with posters for a year now, have entered a fundamentally new stage.

Russia's first book about James Bond has been published The book by Natalya Golitsyna and Andrei Shary “Sign 007: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” opened a new series of the publishing house “New Literary Review” “Heroes of Our Childhood”. In the future they promise works of the same kind about Fantômas, Winneta, Zorro, Dracula... It really made sense to start with James Bond.

This week the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE Foreign Ministers) met in Brussels. The results of the work of the Vremya Novostei council were commented on by Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE, Ambassador Alexei BORODAVKIN. -- Why did Russia react so sharply to attempts by Western countries to recall the allegedly unfulfilled “Istanbul commitments” of 1999 on the withdrawal of weapons from Georgia and Moldova?

Monday, December 11 Channel One 5 . 00, 9 . 00, 12 . 00, 15 . 00, 18 . 00, 23 . 30, 3 . 00 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 "NATIONAL SECURITY AGENT". Series 11 . 20 Understand. Forgive 12 . 20 Lolita. 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 “FIVE MINUTES TO THE METRO.” Series 19 . 10 Wait for me 20 . 00 “BLOOD SISTERS.” TV series (S) 21 .

The European Central Bank raised rates The European Central Bank yesterday raised the interest rate by 0.25 percentage points, from 3.25% to 3.5% per annum. This decision of the regulator did not come as a surprise to market participants - the ECB had long been expected to tighten monetary policy.

Minority shareholders of RAO UES want to receive dividends 23 times higher than last year's Anatoly Chubais refused to speak for the first time at yesterday’s annual conference “RAO UES of Russia - an open company.” Moreover, at this event, contrary to tradition, neither the chairman of the board of directors of the energy holding, Alexander Voloshin, nor the majority of board members, nor the heads of subsidiaries were present at this event. And Mr.

The Atlantic continues to surprise with its activity, giving rise to one cyclone after another. They rush closer to northern latitudes, leaving most of the European territory on the warm air side. The prevailing southwesterly winds leave winter no chance. The first ten days of December are coming to an end, and the weather is like October. St. Petersburg has already set more than one heat record, and on December 7, the absolute maximum temperature for that day was exceeded in Moscow.

Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport will undergo a large-scale reconstruction in 2006-2007. The management of the airport, 100% of whose shares are controlled by the state, decided this year to build another one next to the existing Sheremetyevo-1 terminal building. Due to this, the total area of ​​the terminal will be 31.25 thousand square meters. m, and the capacity will increase to 5 million passengers per year.