Russian planes crash most often The air routes of Russia and other CIS countries turned out to be the most dangerous in the world in 2006 . According to a recently published report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), civil aircraft flights in our country end in accidents twice as often as in Africa, and 13 times more often than the world average.

Alexander Veshnyakov was left in the elections At a meeting on Wednesday, the Central Election Commission proposed appointing the former head of the commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, as honorary chairman of the Russian Foundation for Free Elections. The main place of work of the former head of the Central Election Commission is still unknown. But his willingness to participate in the work of an organization involved in the elections suggests that Mr.

Gazprom will deploy its personnel in the Sakhalin-2 project Shareholders of Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project , yesterday officially announced the signing of a purchase and sale agreement with Gazprom for a controlling stake for $7.45 billion. According to the document, Sakhalin Energy will remain the operator of the project, but with the start of liquefied natural gas production its head from Shell, Ian Craig, will be replaced by a representative of Gazprom.

The European Commission is preparing a landing party of trade auditors Brussels appears to be tired of its own poor performance in trade disputes like the Russian-Polish meat dispute. Yesterday, European Commissioner for Trade Peter Mandelson spoke in Brussels with new plans for his department. They imply the joining of efforts of specialists from European bodies, representatives of governments and business. Mr Mandelson's speech came at the right time.

One of the leaders of young art in Kyiv, the group “R.E.P.” (“Revolutionary Experimental Space”), Nikita KADAN told Vremya Novostey about how contemporary art is structured in Ukraine. -- Which institutions work with contemporary art in Kyiv? — Today there are two of them: the Center for Contemporary Art at the National University “Kiev-Mohyla Academy” and the PinchukArtCentre.

The future president of France will be more restrained towards Russia than Chirac I recognized Nicolas Sarkozy’s small, but strong and strong palm right away. He easily identified from eleven photographs of the hands of candidates for the French presidency, collected by journalists from the Le Figaro newspaper. Only the nationalist candidate Philippe de Villiers refused to participate in this game invented for voters.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky opened the Scandinavian Triad festival Today, the second concert of the mini-festival of Scandinavian music, initiated by the famous conductor Gennady Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky, is planned in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Only four of the twelve candidates - Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Bayrou, Ségolène Royal and Jean-Marie Le Pen - will make up the pair that will advance to the second round of the presidential election. Nicolas Paul Stefan Sarkozy de Nagy-Boxa is the son of Hungarian immigrants of Jewish origin, former aristocrats. Born on January 28, 1955 in Paris. After receiving a law degree, he quickly made a career in politics.

E.ON CEO Wulf Bernotat is preparing to acquire Russian energy companies The German energy concern E.ON maintains a constant interest in cooperation with Russia. This was stated in an interview with the Hamburg weekly Manager Magazin by the head of E.ON, Wulf Bernotat (the text of the conversation will be published in tomorrow's issue of this publication). He noted that the company intends to “invest heavily” in Russia.

Igor Zamansky almost deprived CSKA of victory in the regular season The leaders of the Russian Basketball Federation and the directorate for holding the men's super league championship did not use the practice of their colleagues from other team sports. The matches of the last round of the regular season were not scheduled for the same time, as was already done in football, volleyball and ice hockey.

The Belgian KVS group bought a Russian bank Foreign financial institutions continue to buy Russian banking assets. The first major transaction this year was the acquisition of a 92.5% stake in Absolut Bank by the Belgian banking group KBC. As stated in its official statement, the entire Russian credit organization was valued by the buyer at $1 billion (761 million euros).

Russian ideas about the good life differ from Soviet ones “People are like people... in general, they resemble the old ones... the housing issue has only spoiled them.” This common Bulgakov quote comes to mind when studying the results of a March survey conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. Our fellow citizens tried to tell sociologists what the Russian dream looks like.

Zurab Nogaideli will have his valves replaced in the USA Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, 42, will undergo heart surgery today. Doctors at the famous American Cleveland Clinic must replace his two valves with titanium grafts. Zurab Nogaideli participated in UN Security Council hearings on Abkhazia last week in New York, and then went to Houston, where he underwent a scheduled examination on April 15. It turned out that surgery was necessary.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. 1/8 finals. "East". "Rangers" -- "Atlanta" -- 7:0 (series score 3:0) -- Tyutin (0+1), "Pittsburgh" -- "Ottawa" -- 1:2 (series score 1:3) - - Volchenkov “O” (1+0). "West". “Calgary” – “Detroit” – 3:2 (series score 1:2), “Minnesota” – “Anaheim” – 4:1 (series score 1:3), “Dallas” – “Vancouver” -- 1:2 (series score 1:3). Swedish center Mikael Nylander scored his first hat-trick in the current Stanley Cup.

For several days the weather remained in the grip of a fine anticyclone, no significant precipitation was observed, and the average daily temperature was above normal. But in the next 24 hours the weather will change - a high-altitude trough will stretch across the entire territory of European Russia, combining both southern and northwestern cyclones into its system.