The government discussed crop prospects, weight gain and milk yield Yesterday, when the spring sowing season began in the Stavropol region - one of the main breadbaskets of all Russia - the White House was discussing this issue on a nationwide scale. “It has become a good tradition to annually consider measures to carry out seasonal field work,” Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov opened the meeting with these words.

At Samara airport on Saturday morning, a Tu-134 plane crashed while flying Surgut-Samara-Belgorod. Six people died and twenty were hospitalized. According to the preliminary version, the plane touched the ground outside the runway during landing, after which it traveled about 400 meters, flipped over the left wing and caught fire. The press service of the company that owns the aircraft, UTair, reported that “all procedures related to preparing the aircraft for flight were completed.

Chronicle of sporting events The basketball players of CSKA, the current champion of the ULEB Euroleague, in the fifth round of the “Top-16” stage on their court defeated the Greek “Olympiacos” (Piraeus) - 83:79 and took first place in Quartet “E” ahead of schedule. In the quarterfinals, Italian Ettore Messina's team will meet the second team of Group D. The army's likely rivals are the Israeli Maccabi (Tel Aviv), the Italian Virtus and the French Pau-Orthez.

Moscow companies spend thousands of dollars on American officials The American research institute Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) has published another report estimating the costs of lobbying in the United States.

Severstal acquired the US machine-building enterprise Victory Industries Severstal announced a new acquisition yesterday. Its subsidiary company, Stoic Firm, specializing in servicing the equipment of the company’s enterprises, bought the Victory Industries, Inc. mechanical engineering plant in the USA. for 885 thousand dollars. For many foreign metallurgical and other manufacturing enterprises, ownership of service assets is atypical - they prefer to deal with contractors.

Russia finally achieved the signing of an agreement on the construction of a trans-Balkan oil pipeline Russia, Greece and Bulgaria took another step yesterday towards the implementation of the project for the construction of a new large oil pipeline in Europe - the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline, through which it is planned to pump raw materials extracted primarily in the Caspian Sea.

UN Security Council ready to tighten sanctions against Iran Tightening international sanctions against Iran is almost inevitable . Yesterday, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Russia, USA, China, Great Britain, France), with the participation of Germany representing the European Union, agreed on the text of a new resolution on Iran and presented it to the non-permanent members of the Security Council.

Alexander Veshnyakov thinks that from now on the head of the Central Election Commission in Russia will not be able to remain for a third term The new head of the Russian Central Election Commission will be elected at the organizational meeting of the new composition of the Central Election Commission, which will take place on March 26 or 27.

Being a convinced patriot of my Motherland, this is why I am sure that our country needs a political and military-defensive alliance with the United States. Not joining NATO, but a direct agreement on joint defense and military-technical cooperation between Russia and the United States. Once the illusion of a unipolar world in which one great power, the United States, can determine the course of international events has completely dissipated, we will all face the reality of global chaos.

Now elite pilots will race without the great Michael The first race of the 2007 Formula 1 World Championship starts this weekend at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Australia. It will open not only a new season, but also a new era in the history of this sport.

Mikhail Prokhorov is rapidly leaving leadership positions at Norilsk Nickel Mikhail Prokhorov, as part of the division of assets with his partner Vladimir Potanin, announced yesterday that he was leaving the posts of general director and president of Norilsk Nickel. But this will not happen at the end of the year, as he previously promised, but now. Mr.

Business associations do not have time to coordinate their interests in the upcoming tax reform Russian business associations seem to have so far failed to consolidate their lobbying capabilities.

"Troika Dialog" in the offices of "Ingosstrakh" will be replaced by the management company "Pythagoras" The management company Troika Dialog will close three units sales points located in the offices of Ingosstrakh and open separate offices. Ingosstrakh explained that the premises previously rented by Troika will be needed by another company. Market participants believe that it will be the management company Pythagoras, recently acquired by Ingosstrakh.

The Vremya publishing house recalled Nikolai Glazkov Nikolai Glazkov (1919-1979) is called a “genius” (or simply a great poet) and a “graphomaniac” (which, alas, has its own reasons). Often these polar characteristics are uttered by the same people. And in almost every conversation on “Glazkov topics”, three standard stanzas emerge with almost iron inevitability. One is about “the twentieth century, an extraordinary century”, the other is about the exposed pessimist-raven...

Elections in Dagestan broke records of scandalousness Elections in Dagestan were declared invalid in seven polling stations. But this, according to the deputy chairman of the republican election commission, Mustapa Kurbanmagomedov, “doesn’t make a difference”: there are 1,801 polling stations in the republic. The official election results - to the extent that they are still considered valid - have not yet been made public.