The first TV channel about funerals and death will appear in Germany In the competition for the attention of viewers in the widest range of existing private cable and satellite television channels, specialization begins to take on extremely specific forms.

The Federal Tax Service asks citizens to help it collect taxes The government will devote the second half of the year, which will go down in the current history of Russia as an election period, entirely to President Vladimir Putin. More precisely, his last message to the Federal Assembly . Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov announced this yesterday, opening the next government meeting.

The European Court punished Russia for the death of a Chechen human rights activist The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) yesterday again punished the Russian authorities for crimes committed against civilians in Chechnya , awarding 85 thousand euros in compensation for moral damage to the daughter of Chechen human rights activist Zura Bitieva. Her mother, according to the applicant, was killed by Chechen law enforcement officers for actively opposing the war.

Monday, June 25 First 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 21.00, 0.10 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 "NATIONAL SECURITY AGENT". Series 11 . 20 Understand. Forgive 12 . 20 Without complexes 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 30 Test purchase 15 . 20 Criminal Russia 16 . 00 "LOVE IS LIKE LOVE." TV series (S) 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 "STREET OF BROKEN LAMPS". Series 19 . 10 Wait for me 20 . 00 "TATYANA'S DAY". TV series (S) 21 . 30 "DEATH TO SPIES." Series 22 .

Seeing the title “The General’s Daughter,” an ordinary connoisseur of modern literature will decide that he is being offered a remake of the story about how Pyotr Grinev married Masha Mironova. A more enlightened reader, sensing the author's cunning, may recall the immortal romance about the poor fellow titular adviser. Both will be wrong. It's simple: Dmitry Stakhov's novel "The General's Daughter" ("Friendship of Peoples", No. 5) is really a remake, but... "Dubrovsky".

Fire at nursing home kills ten people Another “social” tragedy occurred on Thursday night in the Omsk region. Ten elderly people died as a result of a fire in one of the local nursing homes. Such emergencies are no longer rare. In March alone , a fire in a nursing home in the Krasnodar region killed 63 people.

The name of the future head of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office has been announced Today, as expected, the Federation Council (SF) will consider the candidacy of the future head of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the prosecutor's office - a new, virtually independent investigative body created in connection with the recent adoption of amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and the law "On the Prosecutor's Office" RF" .

The Supreme Court denied the victim of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict protection of his constitutional rights The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation yesterday celebrated World Day of Refugees and Forced Migrants in its own way - it refused to satisfy one of the applicants, elderly Ingush Yakub Kushtov. Mr.

Russia has entered the main technological race of the 21st century The first meeting of the Government Council on Nanotechnologies , formed on June 9, was held yesterday under the chairmanship of First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. It became organizational - the participants discussed the state and directions of development of the nanoindustry in the country, as well as the action plan for the implementation of the presidential initiative “Strategy for the Development of Nanoindustry”.

Europe needs good neighbors and reliable pipelines The fate of the European Union's constitutional treaty is the most pressing topic at the summit of a united Europe that opened last night in Brussels. The conflict between presiding Germany and dissident Poland overshadowed all other items on the agenda. Berlin set out to break the deadlock in the process that stumbled in the 2005 referendums in France and the Netherlands on ratification of the draft EU constitution.

"Prana" does not expel anyone from the central office of YUKOS The unknown Prana LLC , which in early June became the full owner of the 22-story YUKOS building on Dubininskaya Street in Moscow, is in no hurry to kick the bankrupt company’s employees out onto the street. The “YUKOS” sign still hangs in front of the main entrance to the building, and the workers of this oil company still go to work as before. “Currently about 300 Yukos employees work in the building.

Performances by Marie Chouinard at the Chekhov Festival Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard brought two programs to Moscow: one, combining “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and “The Rite of Spring,” has just been performed, the second (“Chorale” and “Chopin’s 24 Preludes”) will be shown from Sunday to Tuesday. It is still unknown whether the performances of the second program will have any merits. There is only one good word to say about the first one: it was not long.

Refugees around the world celebrated their “professional” holiday World Refugee Day was first celebrated six years ago, on June 20, 2001. Previously, the date was related exclusively to African refugees, but in the year of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the General Assembly, with the consent of the Organization of African Unity, expanded the scope of this specific holiday to the whole world.

Some United Russia members want to change the head of the election headquarters for the Duma elections As Vremya Novostei learned from a source in the United Russia faction in the State Duma, the secretary of the party’s general council and vice-speaker of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, may soon lose his post as head of the party’s election headquarters. True, the candidate tipped to replace Mr. Volodin denied to Vremya Novostei the possibility of such a replacement.

On Friday in the northwestern regions there will be almost no precipitation, during the day +17...+22оС. At the end of the week there are rains, heavy in places, thunderstorms, squalls up to 18 m/s, hail, during the day the temperature drops to +18...+23oC. In the central regions, intermittent rain in places, during the day in the northern half +14...+20оС, in the southern half +20...+26оС.