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 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.

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".

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 .

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.

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.

Pyongyang is happy with Moscow and is waiting for Bush to leave Yesterday, American-North Korean contacts unexpectedly resumed - US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Hill arrived in Pyongyang straight from the American military base in Osan, South Korea. In the North Korean capital, he held negotiations with his North Korean counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister of the DPRK Kim Kye Gwan.

Foreign manufacturers of auto components agreed with Corus on the construction of a steel plant Foreign automakers and component suppliers coming to Russia, as it turned out, are not satisfied with the steel produced by Russian metallurgists. As it became known yesterday, the steel concern Corus , one of the world's largest metallurgical companies, will build a plant near St. Petersburg specifically for the new “Russian” automobile industry.

Chronicle of sporting events Chinese basketball player Song Min Min, the tallest active player in the world (height 236 cm), signed a contract with the Mexican club Fuerza Regia and will begin playing for this team on September 6, when the national championship starts. In the meantime, Song Min Min, who arrived from China in the United States in 2005, continues to play for the Grand Rapid Flight club in the American International Basketball League.

Raiffeisenbank refuses Impexbank products Raiffeisenbank and Impexbank, which will soon merge , will unify their financial products for clients. As of June 20, Impexbank stopped issuing the “ideal card” with deposit and overdraft capabilities. Now you can only get debit plastic from Impexbank. Raiffeisenbank explains this with a fundamentally different approach to such proposals - a deposit must remain a deposit, and only a real credit card can be a convenient card.

Alexander Ryazanov left Gazprom because he helped Dmitry Firtash The campaign of Ukrainian entrepreneur Dmitry Firtash , co-owner of 45% of the shares of the notorious gas trader RosUkrEnergo, for Russian energy assets ended ingloriously.

The names of young Russian gymnasts, including Maxim Devyatovsky, have been well known in recent years. However, the presence in the team of such celebrities as Alexey Nemov and Svetlana Khorkina, who were actually “brands” of this sport, overshadowed the rest. With the departure of the leaders, the picture changed, and young shoots began to come to the fore. This season has drawn attention to 22-year-old Maxim DEVIATOVSKY, who won the title of absolute European champion.

E.ON sold its last non-core asset The German concern E.ON got rid of its last non-core asset. Yesterday the company announced that a controlling stake in the Austrian mobile operator One had been sold. Thus, seven years after the founding of E.ON, the concern became a completely energy company. “The last shares have been sold, the ownership of which goes beyond the scope of our core business,” a representative of E.ON told Vremya Novostei.

Ramzan Kadyrov promptly carried out constitutional reform Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has begun the procedure of bringing the republican constitution into conformity with federal legislation.

"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.