The government approved a new procedure for regulating gas prices The press service of the Russian government last Friday announced the signing of a resolution “On improving state regulation of gas prices.” It officially enshrines the idea of ​​officials about equal profitability from 2011 on supplies of gas produced by Gazprom and its affiliates to the domestic and foreign markets.

The other day, about a hundred activists from the youth organizations of the United Russia and A Just Russia parties - the Young Guard and Ura movements - started a fight near the United Russia office. Rally against counter-rally, word for word, wall to wall, and it was necessary to separate the fighters with the help of a water cannon. As a result of the political battle, there are injuries, there are also burnt enemy flags, and there are no detainees.

The winners of the National Children's Literature Award have been announced “The Cherished Dream,” unlike “The Big Book,” has its second season completely completed. Not just the “Russian national team for children’s literature” was announced, as the “adult” jury did, but the winners.

Roger Federer won his tenth victory over the Russian Sunday afternoon at the French Open in the French capital began with troubles for the Russians. In the 1/8 finals of Roland Garros, Dinara Safina lost to the American Serena Williams - 2:6, 3:6, and Mikhail Youzhny lost to the Swiss Roger Federer - 6:7 (3:7), 4:6, 4:6 .

The most popular auto racing of mankind - Formula 1 - is becoming more and more similar to theatrical art in terms of deception as the basis of the spectacle. But if in real theater this is “deception that elevates us” and the strategy of theater as art, then in Formula 1 racing deception becomes an elementary team tactic.

Of all the idols of St. Petersburg, only Kerzhakov shot The Russian national team, having casually defeated the Andorran team 4:0 in St. Petersburg, is now heading for Zagreb, where it will continue to prepare for the most important qualifying match for the 2008 European Championship at this stage with the leader of Group “E” Croatia. But in St. Petersburg they were very happy about the usual routine victory over a football dwarf.

By June 1, when the law on financial guarantees for tour operator activities came into force, the Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm) managed to add 1,333 companies to the register that insured their liability to clients. Russian citizens, when concluding an agreement with a travel agency, must now check whether it is on this register. Otherwise, the concluded agreement will be illegal, warned the head of Rostourism, Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, at a press conference last Friday.

Chronicle of sporting events Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. Eastern Conference Finals. “Cleveland” – “Detroit” – 98:82 (series score 4:2). Cleveland reached the finals of the National Basketball Association championship for the first time in its history. Moreover, the Cavaliers won the series against Detroit, having started it with two defeats. In the sixth game, a black newcomer to the hosts, Daniel Gibson, set a personal record for scoring in the NBA.

The next round of the qualifying tournament was marred by scandal Football Europe was looking forward to the confrontation between the national teams of two neighboring countries - Denmark and Sweden - with particular interest. Rarely do fights between teams from these now friendly countries (despite the fact that there have been more wars between the two kingdoms in world history than between any other states on the planet) turn out to be boring.

The Kaliningrad region presented a development plan for 25 years At the end of 2006, the Kaliningrad region presented itself in the Federation Council. Kaliningrad has been preparing to present its capabilities at the Chamber of Regions for a long time; the presentation was postponed several times. As a result, they decided to “link” it to the strategy and program for the socio-economic development of the region.

The government refused to introduce licensing of meat importers Russia will not tease the European Union and the World Trade Organization with meat.

On June 3, 1907, the Second State Duma was dissolved by royal decree When, at the height of the revolutionary events of 1905, Nicholas II, under pressure from Witte, reluctantly signed the Manifesto on October 17, it seemed that the Constitution in Russia would have a long life. And monarchies too. The emergence of the Duma satisfied and calmed various political forces.

Mikhail Kasyanov began his presidential campaign Last Saturday , the congress of the People's Democratic Union (PDU) nominated its leader, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, as a presidential candidate. The nomination was not ignored by Kasyanov’s ideological enemies - representatives of the pro-Kremlin youth movements “Nashi” and “Young Russia”, who staged their own protests at the congress.

Russia is stepping up efforts to bury soldiers from past wars Russia continues to bury its soldiers killed six decades ago or more. Search teams find and bury those who died decades ago, and who lay there all these years, not buried. Today the search work has intensified.

The Government Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending, to which the authorities have assigned the role of catalyst for the development of the mortgage market , recently placed the first issue of a new financial instrument - mortgage securities. They were covered by mortgage loans issued according to uniform standards, with an average credit history of about two years and an average interest rate of 14.33% per annum. The placement was successful: with an issue volume of 2.9 billion rubles.