The President signed a law on the creation of a financial institution Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law establishing the Development Bank . He announced this yesterday at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, expressing hope that the creation of the bank will begin in the very near future. The Prime Minister, who will head the bank's supervisory board, has already informed the president about his proposals for the work of the future bank.

On Wednesday, the heat will still persist in most of the European territory of Russia. This time it will be supported by an Atlantic cyclone rushing from the north of Germany. Most areas of the middle zone will be in its warm sector, which receives hot air from southwest Europe. Therefore, during the day it is again around +30°C. Dry weather will continue to prevail, with thunderstorms possible only in the north of the central region closer to the cyclone.

The Moscow City Court refused to recognize the Poles killed in Katyn as victims of repression Another wedge has been driven into the already not rosy relations between Russia and Poland - this time by the Moscow City Court. The capital's Themis yesterday refused to accept for consideration the application of human rights activists from the Memorial society with a request to recognize the Polish soldiers who were shot in Katyn in 1940 as victims of political repression .

But maintains relations with Putin The noticeable cooling in relations between Washington and Moscow does not prevent US President George W. Bush from maintaining friendship with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, whom the American once looked into the eyes of and concluded that this man could be trusted. “There are serious tensions between the West and Russia.

United RUSAL and SUAL will help the UN improve the environment The United Company "Russian Aluminum" decided to expand its activities in the field of ecology and take its initiatives on environmental issues beyond the company. Yesterday, she signed a memorandum of intent with the United Nations Development Program to implement joint actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov , who was involved in the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov and was acquitted by the jury, received another charge. According to Sadretdinov’s lawyer Ruslan Koblev, the new and second charge of fraud was brought against Sadretdinov as part of an old criminal case initiated back in 2003.

The European Commission responded asymmetrically to Gazprom The Gazprom Board of Directors yesterday took note of information about the concern’s comprehensive program of activities in foreign markets, the strategic goal of which is to create “a global diversified energy company, a world leader in the oil and gas industry.” Meanwhile, Europe continues to frantically search for asymmetric measures to reduce dependence on energy resources from Russia.

Minsk cuts social benefits Today the lower house of the Belarusian parliament is going to consider a bill to reduce social benefits . In the life of a country where 67% of citizens receive some kind of subsidies, this event could become a turning point. It is planned to reduce subsidies for travel, medicine, housing and communal services and a number of other benefits.

The Public Chamber proposes to change the distribution scheme of presidential grants for NGOs Deciding which non-profit organizations are worthy of receiving grants from the state will now be decided not only by the Public Chamber and the presidential administration.

At the sale of energy sales assets, there was competition only for the Nizhny Novgorod company RAO UES of Russia continues to sell energy sales assets. However, there is practically no significant activity at the auction : of the five auctions held this week, only one had competition - for the sale of 49% of the shares of the Nizhny Novgorod Sales Company. It was sold to the alliance of Transneftservice S and Integrated Energy Systems (IES) for 2.05 billion rubles.

Member of the board of RAO Vladimir AVETISYAN, whose area of ​​activity is the sale of energy sales assets, yesterday after the auction commented to journalists on the peculiarities of the auctions , including answering the question of whether the starting price was inflated or not. - In my opinion, an objective market assessment was already included in the initial auction price. But what happened today at the auction for the Nizhny Novgorod company gives us very serious optimism.

"Europe - Russia - Europe" at the Tretyakov Gallery The exhibition, which opened in the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, is timed to coincide with two significant dates: the 150th anniversary of the Tretyakov Gallery (the exhibition closes the museum’s anniversary year) and the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome by the European Union, which gave rise to European integration.

The English prosecutor's office has accused Andrei Lugovoy of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) yesterday officially named the main accused in the scandalous case of the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko , who died last November in London from poisoning with the rare radioactive material polonium-210.

More than ten years have passed since the MMM pyramid collapsed overnight, but during this period the name Mavrodi has become a household name, and the letter combination “MMM” is already integrally associated with the period of early capitalism in Russia. Sergei Mavrodi was always looking for ways to make money.

The trial of the warrant officer who beat up the private has begun The military court of the Nizhny Novgorod garrison began considering a high-profile case of beating a subordinate by a warrant officer in the Russian army. As a result of the “barracks showdown,” Private Vladimir Shurayev was in a coma for more than a month and will most likely remain disabled for the rest of his life.