“If Putin had installed Ivanov, everyone would have spent six months building relationships with the new president.” Vremya Novostei correspondent Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA asked political scientists about the meaning of replacing the prime minister and the chances of possible successors to the president in light of the appearance of an unexpected head of government.

Having dismissed the government, the president left with Dmitry Medvedev to inspect national projects Having dealt with the affairs of adults in Moscow and replacing the Prime Minister, President Vladimir Putin arrived in the capital of Chuvashia - Cheboksary, where yesterday evening he completely devoted to children. Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev showed him national projects in action. “This is not a special milestone and certainly not a summing up.

Okruashvili will be in opposition One of the most odious politicians of modern Georgia, 33-year-old Irakli Okruashvili, will present his own party and the parliamentary faction supporting it by the end of September. To create a faction in the 235-seat Georgian parliament, he will need to unite ten deputies. Irakli Okruashvili himself refrains from commenting, but Georgian journalists have already found out the address of his party’s office on the Gamsakhurdia embankment.

The Russian military tested a new weapon Surprising the world with a new, “unparalleled” weapon is becoming a tradition in Russia. This time the demonstration took place on the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11 - the Russian military tested a super-powerful vacuum bomb. The strategic missile carrier Tu-160 dropped it with a parachute at the training ground.

Yesterday, the Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Konuzin, spoke about the agenda of the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) opening on September 18 in New York. According to Vremya Novostey , Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili intends to use the UN General Assembly rostrum to bring charges against Russia, in particular in connection with the incident of a rocket crash near the Georgian village of Tsitelubani.

United Russia may nominate its own presidential candidate Yesterday, a regular meeting of the Central Election Commission of Russia took place, at which the procedure for preparing and holding elections to the State Duma in the Kamchatka Territory was determined. This federal subject was formed on July 1, 2007 by merging the Kamchatka Region and the Koryak Autonomous Okrug , so there were two election commissions on the territory of the Kamchatka Territory.

Vagit Alekperov will give CNPC a stake in Turgai Petroleum in exchange for another asset LUKOIL is ready to give CNPC its share in the Kazakh Turgai Petroleum in exchange for participation in any other Chinese mining project, the president of the Russian company, Vagit Alekperov, said yesterday. This decision puts an end to more than two years of dispute between the companies over who should own the Kazakh asset.

The Moscow Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko opens a new season At the troupe's meeting held yesterday, theater director Vladimir Urin spoke about how the troupe continues to inhabit the building, which was renovated (raised from fire ruins) at the beginning of last season. Performances that disappeared during nomadic life are being restored in the repertoire.

The government pays little attention to banks The success of the Russian banking system is largely explained by macroeconomic conditions, and it needs comprehensive reforms , believes the rating agency Standard & Poor's, which yesterday presented its annual report “Risk Analysis of the Banking Sector: Russian Federation.” Increasing transparency and reducing the number of banks are hampered by both resistance from business structures and insufficient government attention to the banking sector.

New Horizons will train on Jovian moons On Thursday, January 18, NASA announced that the New Horizons probe is approaching Jupiter's orbit. This is the first “way station” on the long journey of the research vehicle to the boundaries of the Solar system. In July 2015, New Horizons should approach Pluto and begin studying this dwarf planet. But already in February of this year, the probe will test its technical capabilities on the largest giant planet.

Viktor Chernomyrdin was appointed the first Prime Minister of Russia on December 14, 1992 , approved by a majority vote at the Congress of People's Deputies. (Before this, Yegor Gaidar was only acting prime minister.) On August 10, 1996, after the presidential elections, Viktor Chernomyrdin was again appointed prime minister; the State Duma, by a majority vote, approved his appointment as head of the cabinet. He served as Prime Minister until March 1998.

State security interests do not fit within the law The Moscow District Military Court (MoVS) yesterday announced the verdict in the case of Igor Arsentyev, an employee of one of the research and testing institutes of the Ministry of Defense, who was accused of transferring secret information to one of the foreign intelligence services. He was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security colony and stripped of the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The Russian President began Operation Elections by replacing the Prime Minister “I heard you collect my quotes there. The more you collect them, the more you will see a through line. Analyze them all and you should see the content of the end-to-end design. If you see him, then I can calmly leave.” (Mikhail Fradkov at a meeting with government pool journalists on December 27, 2006) Operation “Elections” has launched in Russia .

The former President of the Philippines will sit The six-year trial of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada ended yesterday in Manila. The anti-corruption court sentenced him to life imprisonment for embezzling $77 million and abuse of power . The court also ordered the freezing of Estrada's accounts, which contain about $87 million received from illegal gambling, securities trading and tax evasion. This money will go to the treasury.

The cyclone moves further and further to the east, leaving heavy rains in the Komi region, where 17 mm fell, and the Samara region, where the amount of precipitation per day was 14 mm. In the arctic air that spread in the rear of the cyclone, frosts continued to cover the northern and northwestern regions. The weather in the middle zone will be influenced by the next Atlantic cyclone approaching from Scandinavia. In the central region the weather will be spoiled by the North Atlantic cyclone.