The authorities of St. Petersburg almost allowed the “March of Dissent” The administration of St. Petersburg agreed with the “dissenters” on a procession and rally in the city center. Personally, the Chairman of the Committee on Law and Order of the city administration, Leonid Bogdanov, handed the notice to the organizers. This happens extremely rarely. Usually, it is not so high-ranking committee employees who are responsible for issuing decisions, but here the chairman himself.

The names of the State Prize laureates have been announced Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding State Prizes in the fields of literature and art, science and technology. After changes to the state bonus system were adopted in 2004 , six State Prizes of 5 million rubles each remained. each - three in the field of science and technology, three in the field of literature and art.

Production of Russian global satellite navigation receivers begins Receivers of the domestic global navigation satellite system (GLONASS) have finally appeared in Russia. They were demonstrated yesterday to First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov at the Russian Research Institute of Space Instrumentation (RNII KP).

The Prime Minister was asked to cancel cash registers for small businesses “Give us cheap gas and electricity and abolish cash registers!” These are the main requirements of small businesses to economic authorities today. These statements were also made at the Government Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship.

Pentagon chief showered Bishkek with pleasantries Yesterday, on his way from Afghanistan, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made a stop in Bishkek. Since December 2001, the American Gansi air base has been stationed at the airport of the Kyrgyz capital Manas, providing logistical support to the US military contingent in Afghanistan.

The intelligence services decided to deal with dangerous ideology A regular meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) was held in Moscow yesterday, at which several important organizational issues were adopted. Opening the meeting, FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, who heads the NAC, noted that thanks to the efforts of the intelligence services and other departments, the number of terrorist attacks in Russia has almost halved.

Russians are asking the question: why, with constant and stable growth in the country’s economy, positive achievements have such little impact on the lives of citizens? Among the reasons, there is one that the Russian authorities have been so actively fighting lately - the predominance of the raw materials sector of the economy over the manufacturing sector. We are not even talking about the notorious “oil needle”, but rather about what advantages the raw materials sector can provide.

“Death Proof” by Quentin Tarantino on Moscow screens “Grindhouse” is a joint project of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, a cinephile almanac that pays tribute to the trashy films of 30-20 years ago, which could be consumed in abundance in shabby cinemas, usually located in bedroom ghettos and called times “grindhouses” (that is, “crushing machines”).

Strabag and Deutsche Bank have begun creating a joint venture Deutsche Bank and the Austrian construction company Strabag yesterday submitted documents to the European Commission to approve the creation of a joint venture DB Development, Interfax reported. The company announced plans to organize a joint venture in early April, shortly before Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element became the owner of a 30% stake in Strabag.

CLUBS Pushkin's birthday at the Gogol' club. In honor of the birthday of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, a big and cheerful celebration is being organized in the courtyard on Stoleshnikov Lane, where famous writers, musicians, actors and artists will congratulate the birthday boy on his 208th birthday.

60 years ago, a plan to save post-war Europe was unveiled On June 5, 1947, US Secretary of State George Marshall delivered his famous speech at Harvard University, in which he announced a program of measures to restore post-war Europe. This program went down in history under the name “Marshall Plan,” which immediately became the subject of fierce political struggle.

“ETA’s decision is completely contrary to the peaceful aspirations of the Basque and Spanish societies,” this is how Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero assessed the intention of the Euskadi ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom) group from today to resume the fight “for the independence of the Basque Country with weapons in hands and on all fronts." An ETA communiqué that appeared yesterday in the Basque newspaper Berria blamed the Zapatero government for breaking the

Vladimir Putin suggested that Yuri Luzhkov not rush to leave The Kremlin does not intend to immediately change the leadership of the Russian capital and shake up the Moscow electorate on the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections.

Cash prize announced for fake photo of Loch Ness monster British bookmakers intend to turn the massive influx of tourists onto the shores of Scotland's Loch Ness, where the Rock Ness music festival will take place this coming weekend, into a fairly profitable event.

"Media-Soyuz" with the assistance of the information agency "Integrum-Techno" compiled a rating of the most frequently mentioned and cited news agencies and online news resources in the media. The rating was compiled based on the results of monitoring media reports from the largest Russian database "Integrum-Techno" for the period from January 1 to December 31, 2006.