Vladimir Putin fired for the first time a governor appointed on the presidential recommendation Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday for the third time exercised his right to remove governors from office with the wording “due to loss of trust.” At the same time, the “victim” - Governor of the Amur Region Leonid Korotkov - became the first head of the region in Russian history to be dismissed after he voluntarily (in February 2005) went through the procedure of confirming confidence and

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The generals entrusted their secrets to society The Russian Ministry of Defense has released its next annual report, “Armed Forces of the Russian Federation-2006”. Presenting a very weighty volume to the public, Chief of the General Staff Yuri Baluevsky described it as follows: “Today’s book is a concrete implementation of the Ministry of Defense’s policy of openness to society.” As the Army General said, the purpose of the book is objective and broad coverage of the life of the army and navy.

The crisis has not spared any of the contenders for the championship A round before the end of the first round of the Spanish Championship, the composition and number of applicants for the championship title and vacancies in European competition remained the same as before the New Year. The short winter holidays clearly did not benefit the leaders, who, as if by agreement, staged an attraction of generosity for clubs that did not really count on it.

There will be virtually no sunny days in the northwestern region over the next three days. On Friday it’s raining here, the temperature during the day is +10...+15oC, on Saturday it’s raining in places, +11...+16oC. On Sunday there will be gaps in the clouds, short-term rains and in places, during the day the air will warm up to +12...+17оС.

Gazprom and Kazakhstan once again finally agreed on gas sales The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev was once again marked by the achievement of agreements on the terms of Gazprom’s purchase of Kazakh gas. This time, after the talks in Astana, Mr.

Vladimir Putin, dismissing the governor of the Amur region Leonid Korotkov , used a rather amorphous formulation from subparagraph “d” of paragraph 1 of Article 19 of the law “On the general principles of the organization of legislative (representative) and executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.” Opponents of the new scheme for appointing governors pointed out that it is the reference to “loss of trust” that will most often be used when removing regional

Russians believe that they will not be allowed to honestly choose parliament According to opinion polls, Russian citizens believe that the State Duma elections in December will be falsified and will not reflect the will of the people. Moreover, at the moment, only two parties overcome the barrier of 7% - United Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

The Easter Festival was held in Moscow and 24 Russian cities From April 8 to May 9, Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky and invited musicians gave more than 120 concerts as part of the symphony, choral, ringing and theater programs of the Easter Festival. There were over a thousand participants in the festival, and the audience numbered more than 40 thousand people. The symphony program in Moscow was not as extensive as in previous years, but non-trivial and strong.

26 Russian tennis players are playing at the Australian Open The Australian Open started yesterday in Melbourne. At the first Grand Slam competition this season, Maria Sharapova is at the very top of the tournament bracket. Due to the refusal of the top Belgian in the world ranking, Justine Henin-Hardenne, to compete on the Green Continent (for family reasons), the Russian woman was “seeded” number one.

Russian officials kindly rejected all proposals from foreign investors At the first meeting of the permanent committee of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) this year, the most difficult aspects of foreign businessmen's stay in Russia were discussed yesterday: from the adoption of a law on access to strategic sectors of the economy to the size of advertising blocks on television.

Oleg Vyugin leaves government service “To be honest, I regret that Vyugin has now chosen business,” Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said yesterday at a cabinet meeting, announcing the personnel decision. - Our choice three years ago was correct. Vyugin worked for three years, and did well. But here, as they say, you can’t force yourself to be nice.

Russian Machines buys stake in Magna Oleg Deripaska is building up his engineering empire, expanding abroad, as he promised after purchasing the English LDV plant last year. He will become a shareholder in the Canadian Magna group , the world's largest company for the production, development and implementation of automotive systems, assemblies, modules and components, whose annual revenue exceeds $20 billion and whose divisions operate in 23 countries.

On May 2, 1997, Tony Blair , flashing a wide smile, rose to the podium installed in front of the entrance to the residence of the British Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street. The day before, the Labor Party inflicted a crushing defeat on the Conservatives and led the country after almost eighteen years of political exile. “We came to power as New Labour, and we will govern as New Labour,” said 44-year-old Blair, the youngest British prime minister in a century and a half, at the time.

Joining the Asian Development Bank is postponed The cooling of Russian-American relations, until now expressed in threatening rhetoric, has received the most concrete confirmation in the field of economic cooperation. Washington blocked Russia's entry into the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at negotiations that took place in Kyoto during the bank's annual meeting of shareholders.