The city authorities intend to fully legalize the operation of city markets The authorities of Moscow, which as the capital has significantly outstripped other regions of the country in the development of forms of retail trade, were satisfied with the result of the “new market policy” that has been in force in the country for just under six months.

Parties actively used the state symbol for advertising purposes Celebrations to mark National Flag Day, which has been celebrated in Russia since 1994, took place across the country on Wednesday, with parties seizing the opportunity to showcase themselves to future voters. The Union of Right Forces held a traditional rally in memory of the defenders of the White House on New Arbat, and United Russia honored the Russian flag at the Olympic rowing canal in Krylatskoye.

All front-line bomber flights have been suspended in Russia Yesterday, a Su-24 front-line bomber crashed in the Khabarovsk Territory. Fortunately, there were no casualties, as the crew managed to eject. After the disaster, the Air Force command decided to suspend all flights of front-line bombers until the circumstances of the incident were clarified. The plane took off from Khurba airfield on Thursday to carry out a scheduled training flight.

Countrywide trusted The American mortgage market seems to be starting to feel its way. Yesterday, Bank of America announced that it had invested $2 billion in the largest US mortgage company, Countrywide Financial Corp., which suffered significant losses amid a liquidity crisis. In addition, Bank of America, along with the largest retail banks JPMorgan and Wachovia, announced they had raised $500 million each from the Federal Reserve.

Kazakhstan is looking for its own recipe for modernization When in 1998, the famous sociologist and economist Andre Gunder Frank came up with the treatise ReORIENT (“REORIENTATION”), which suggested the historically transitory nature of the geo-economic hegemony of the West and that until the 19th century, eastern countries dominated global trade and economic development , especially India and China, his ideas, if they aroused interest, were moderate, and only on the left spectrum of the

One of the city's most influential businessmen was detained in St. Petersburg Today, as expected, the future fate of a well-known businessman in St.

A Swiss court has so far left in prison a Russian who killed an air traffic controller Russian Vitaly Kaloev, who killed a Swiss air traffic controller responsible for a plane collision in the skies over Lake Constance, will remain in prison for now. It was previously expected that by decision of the cantonal court he would be released today. However, the Swiss Federal Court ruled that the decision of the Zurich cantonal court on the early release of the 51-year-old Russian should be deferred.

The Television Academy began nominating candidates for TEFI This week TV academics began work on the shortlist for their professional awards. TEFI, as always, is in a fever, corporate, personal and public interests are becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile, the number of academicians has already increased to 285 people, and everyone must take part in the voting...

The Central Election Commission counted votes in the Duma and presidential elections Today at the Central Election Commission the all-Russian training of the GAS “Elections” system is ending . On the penultimate day, journalists were allowed to participate in the training and were assured that neither a power outage nor hacker attacks would prevent the election commission from correctly counting votes in the federal elections of parliament in December 2007 and the presidency in March 2008.

Sergei Ovcharov has finished filming a film based on Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard St. Petersburg director Sergei Ovcharov made his previous film, “The Tale of Fedot the Archer,” in 2001. Only eight copies were printed, but producer Sergei Selyanov admitted that the box office exceeded all his expectations. And this is when the rental has not yet been built.

The 88-year-old hero will be tried The Estonian authorities decided to put in the dock the first Estonian Hero of the Soviet Union and the chairman of the country's Anti-Fascist Committee, Arnold Meri. 80 elderly witnesses were called to the trial to confirm Mr. Meri's participation in the genocide against the Estonian people in 1949. Although more than half a century has passed since then, in Estonia this is a crime without a statute of limitations.

England returned to Wembley and lost Big football has returned to the legendary Wembley Stadium. But the England team failed to celebrate this event with a victory. In the first match after the reconstruction of the famous arena, which lasted seven years and cost 762 million pounds, the British lost to the German national team in a friendly match - 1:2.

In Osaka, six sets of awards will be played without Russians Even before the start of the current championship, the first world record was set in Japan. It is already known that athletes from 203 countries will take part in the current world athletics championship. This is one more power than at the 1999 World Cup in Seville, Spain. Such a wide representation is explained by the fact that both championships were held on the eve of the Olympic Games.

The management company of the Bank of Moscow wants to create an “Olympic” mutual fund The opportunity to make money at the 2014 Sochi Olympics excites the minds of not only builders, hoteliers and bankers, but also management companies. General Director of the Management Company of the Bank of Moscow, Elena Kasyanova, recently said that this fall the company plans to create a new mutual fund focused on shares of companies that will benefit from the pre-Olympic boom.

The President of Tajikistan has banned the population from throwing money at weddings In Tajikistan, the struggle to eliminate economic backwardness continues. According to the President of the Republic, Emomali Rahmon, the country hosts too expensive holidays, which in modern realities is an unaffordable luxury. Therefore, Mr. Rakhmon decided to strictly regulate noisy and crowded feasts according to the long-standing Eastern tradition.