"Slavic Bazaar" and other summer festivals While in the village of Emmaus in the Tver region, a large rock festival took place quietly and peacefully, without disturbing either public or artistic peace, with a couple of headliners and a mass of little-known groups (including “Pilgrim” by Moscow City Duma deputy Andrei Kovalev, who sang the album “ Glory to Russia!” to the scolding of a bored audience), and in the Ryazan region, for reasons vaguely reminiscent of political ones, the most branded

Rosgosstrakh will sell 15% of shares to its employees One of the largest Russian insurance companies, Rosgosstrakh, will sell 15% of its shares to its employees next year. The head and co-owner of the Rosgosstrakh group, Danil Khachaturov, spoke about this yesterday. In his opinion, in this way it is possible to increase the loyalty of company employees. Market participants call the decision to sell such a large stake to ordinary employees unprecedented and estimate it at $400 million.

Psychologists have discovered a new syndrome among Russians The unseasonable warmth of January 2007 never ceases to be food for thought not only for Russian meteorologists, but also for psychologists. It turns out that despite the fact that many people seem to have nothing against the lack of cold weather, the weather anomaly by its very existence affects their mental state.

Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoy to Britain sparks a diplomatic scandal Moscow's official refusal to extradite Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoy , accused of murdering Alexander Litvinenko with the radioactive element polonium-210 in London in November 2006, caused an extremely harsh reaction from the British authorities. The Times newspaper, citing the press service of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, emphasizes that this decision by Moscow “extremely disappointed” Great Britain.

Deputy Prime Minister of Poland fell victim to a special operation “This is a scandal. I received a resignation decree from the hands not of the president, but of the minister of his office, Andrzej Draba,” the leader of the Polish populist Self-Defense party Andrzej Lepper (pictured) was indignant yesterday. On Monday, Polish President Lech Kaczynski removed him from his post as deputy prime minister and agriculture minister.

In the Arkhangelsk region, the case of employees of the Russian Standard Bank was sent to court. According to the Arkhangelsk Prosecutor's Office, employees of the local branch of the bank, Anatoly Stebnovsky, Sergei Cherepanov and Yulia Toporova, were charged with fraud with consumer loans on an especially large scale. During 2006, they called bank clients who had overdue loan debts.

The arrest and disappearance of the former speaker of the Chechen parliament will cost Russia 40 thousand euros Today the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will announce its ruling in the case of the brothers Yakub and Ayub Magomadov . The brothers lived in Chechnya and accused the Russian authorities of the illegal arrest and subsequent disappearance of their third brother, Ayubkhan Magomadov. This happened in October 2000.

In the US-Russia FedCup semifinals, sports took a backseat The upcoming semi-final match of the Fed Cup between the national teams of Russia and the USA on July 14-15 was in the center of attention of the world press even before the start. In the entire 45-year history of the unofficial women's team world championship, the current meeting, like no other, received scandalous overtones, finding itself under the political radar.

The Senate fought with the Duma throughout the spring session, but continued to stamp out laws approved by it. On Wednesday, the Federation Council ended its spring session with difficulty. More precisely, with shock labor. The agenda of the last meeting included more than 80 issues.

London bombers receive life sentences Woolwich Crown Court, south-east London, yesterday sentenced four bombers to life imprisonment for attempting to detonate improvised explosive devices on London transport on 21 July 2005. Mukhtar Saeed Ibrahim, 29, Yasin Omar, 26, Ramzi Muhammad, 25, and Hussein Osman, 28, will spend at least 40 years in prison before they are eligible to apply for clemency. They are all from Africa - Ethiopia and Eritrea - who moved to the UK in search of a better life.

The sentence to the founder of MMM came into force The Moscow City Court yesterday recognized as legal the sentence of the founding father of the most famous financial pyramid in Russian history, MMM JSC, the legendary Sergei Mavrodi. In April, a court sentenced him to four and a half years in prison for fraud. The former head of MMM served almost the entire term of his sentence in a pre-trial detention center. On May 22, he was released from Matrosskaya Tishina.

AFI Development will invest almost half a billion dollars in the Postal project The development company AFI Development plc, owned by the famous entrepreneur Lev Leviev, announced yesterday its intention to implement a large project called “Pochtovaya” in the center of Moscow. The plan provides for the purchase of rights to develop a land plot with an area of ​​2.67 hectares and a construction area of ​​231.68 thousand square meters. meters from their owner - the MR Group company.

For the first time, a Russian lawyer has been brought to criminal responsibility for disclosing state secrets For the first time in Russian practice, a lawyer is being held criminally liable for disclosing information containing state secrets in connection with his defense of his client.

IAEA delegation travels from Tehran to Pyongyang Yesterday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced the start of a summer trek to the two hottest nuclear spots on the planet. A representative delegation headed by Deputy Director General of the agency Olli Heinonen landed in Tehran. She will stay in Iran for two days and then head to North Korea.

Göttingen hosts an exemplary early music festival The Lower Saxony university town, which is remembered for the great crowd of students on the streets and the parks with centuries-old oak and linden trees, has been hosting one of the largest forums of early music in the world - the Göttingen Handel Festival - for almost ninety years.