Georgia showed Europe the administrator of South Ossetia Yesterday, two significant events occurred at once related to frozen conflicts in the post-Soviet space. The leaders of the parliaments of unrecognized Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria met in Sukhumi. And in Brussels in front of European parliamentarians for 15 minutes. The head of the provisional administration of the Tskhinvali region, Dmitry Sanakoev, loyal to Tbilisi, spoke in Ossetian.

Gennady Onishchenko promises to apply new enforcement measures to banks The Central Bank agreed with the Prosecutor General's Office on joint participation in protecting the rights of bank borrowers and conducting inspections in credit institutions , which receive complaints from offended clients. This was stated yesterday by the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, summing up the results of a meeting dedicated to the protection of rights in the field of consumer lending.

Exhibition of Oleg Kulik in the Central House of Artists The event aims to become one of the main ones of the season. For the first time in history, the entire Central House of Artists with its three floors was given to one person - Oleg Kulik, who placed his archive for 20 years, from 1987 to 2007, in the enfilades of the Soviet exhibition hangar.

Alexander Dolinin’s book “Pushkin and England” is addressed not only to Pushkin scholars Alexander Dolinin’s book “Pushkin and England” (Moscow, “New Literary Review”) is equipped with a deliberately modest, almost frightening subtitle “Cycle of Articles.” Formally, the author is right: he does not pretend to have a “comprehensive” coverage of the problem, but has outlined its outline, constructively comprehended the work of his predecessors, and outlined prospects (primarily related to the

Former police officers suspected of dozens of murders The investigation of the Moscow prosecutor's office into the murder of a traffic police officer in the city two years ago, who was shot in broad daylight while checking documents, led to truly sensational results. Last spring, several people were detained on suspicion of involvement in that crime, most of whom turned out to be former police officers.

Gazprom completes the formation of a resource base from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean After Gazprom announced that it was part of the project to develop Kovykta , the Rosnedra commission in just one and a half working days made the only correct decision: the head of the department, Anatoly Ledovskikh, was recommended not to revoke the license for this field from RUSIA Petroleum.

Why is the head of the space industry changing? First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov yesterday held a visiting meeting of the military-industrial commission dedicated to solid-fuel rockets, against the backdrop of a scandalous story with the early termination of powers of the head of the parent enterprise of the rocket and space industry.

Another mine accident claims the lives of eight miners Miners are dying again in Russia. Following the terrible accidents at the Ulyanovskaya and Yubileinaya mines in the Kemerovo region, which claimed almost one and a half hundred lives in the spring, trouble came to Vorkuta. On Monday evening, at least eight miners were killed in an explosion at the Komsomolskaya mine, owned by the Vorkutaugol company. The fate of two more remains unknown.

Today marks ten years since the peace agreement in Tajikistan was signed in Moscow. It put an end to one of the most terrible wars on the territory of the former USSR, which lasted for almost five years. Former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, ex-Minister for CIS Affairs Anatoly ADAMISHIN told Vremya Novostei columnist Arkady DUBNOV how the negotiation process between the Tajik government and the Islamic-democratic opposition led by the late Said Abdullo Nuri began.

Anatoly Chubais takes RAO UES to the finish line RAO UES of Russia held one of its last shareholder meetings yesterday in Zelenograd. In the fall, the shareholders of the energy monopoly will have to urgently approve a plan for the final stage of the company's reorganization before its division on June 30, 2008. And most likely, a few days before the termination of RAO UES, its shareholders will meet for the last time to consider the results of 2007.

Former British Prime Minister will tackle the Middle East problem The situation in Gaza will be the main topic of today's negotiations between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem and with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, the administrative center of the West Bank. The same issue was discussed yesterday in Tel Aviv at the meetings of Sergei Lavrov with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

Unitex profitably resold Yukos assets to Rosneft The purchase of Yukos assets outside of the auctions held in the spring is costly for Rosneft. Yesterday the company announced that it had signed agreements with the company Unitex on the acquisition of distribution networks of 495 gas stations and eight oil depots in the central region for 16.3 billion rubles.

Grigory Yavlinsky unveiled his presidential program Yesterday, Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky, at a round table, presented to the public the program “Seven Steps to Equality of Opportunity,” with which he will go to the presidential elections , and the party to the parliamentary elections.

High-tech medical centers should start operating in the fall New high-tech medicine, for the sake of which the Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov endured the bullying of State Duma deputies for many months, is about to turn into a “fact”, given in sensations.

Rosstat notes the recovery of market activity This year's early harvest seems to have corrected the negative consequences of the introduction of the “new market policy” in Russia , which does not imply the participation of foreigners in trade. With the beginning of the “high” season for the sale of vegetables and fruits, the situation in the markets, which were empty in the spring, stabilized.