Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov appointed his acting successor Against the backdrop of protracted consultations on the formation of a new cabinet of ministers, yesterday it became more or less clear who could take the vacant post of the country's chief financial intelligence officer. Oleg Markov, who until recently worked as deputy to Viktor Zubkov , who was appointed prime minister last Friday, became the new head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (FSFM). True, Mr.

The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya collection remains in Russia Back in July, Mstislav Rostropovich's widow Galina Vishnevskaya announced that she was putting up for auction a collection of art treasures that she and her husband had been collecting for many years after forced emigration from the USSR.

The cause of the Proton-M accident could have been a malfunction in the connection of the rocket stages Kazakhstan is ready to soon bill Russia for the failed launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle earlier this month. Examinations carried out at the site of the fall of the Proton debris, as one would expect, revealed in the soil that the maximum permissible concentrations of heptyl, which is part of rocket fuel, were several times exceeded.

Global warming has devalued the feat of Roald Amundsen The last serious news from the field of travel geography ended a hundred years ago. Well, maybe eighty - at the moment when people finally crawled around the entire globe and discovered almost everything that was possible on its surface. Then, of course, there were still notable achievements - like Chkalov’s and Gromov’s flights across the North Pole to America or the submersion of the bathyscaphe to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Israel offers Russia reciprocity Israel expects to sign an agreement with Russia on mutual abolition of the visa regime by the beginning of 2008 . “We are determined to implement the visa-free regime from January 1 and formalize it within the framework of a bilateral agreement between Russia and Israel,” said Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Strategic Planning of the Jewish State, yesterday.

CLUBS Sergey Letov. Bilingua , 21.00. Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as songs of his own composition in Portuguese. Forte , 21.00. Oleg Kireev Quartet.

The French Foreign Minister is preparing Sarkozy's visit to Russia Today in Moscow in the first half of the day negotiations will take place. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with the head of French diplomacy, 67-year-old Bernard Kouchner. A professional doctor and founder of the international organization Doctors Without Borders was appointed head of the French Foreign Ministry on May 18. In this capacity he comes to Russia for the first time.

In order to get into the Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky “threw a glass in the face of the entire world community” Yesterday the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia held its 19th pre-election congress in Moscow. Interest in this event was spurred by the inclusion of entrepreneur Andrei Lugovoy, who is accused by the British authorities of the murder of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, as number two on the federal electoral list of the party . Mr.

The Ivan Limbach Publishing House published the book “Kitchen: Lectures by Mr. Puf, Doctor of Encyclopedia and Other Sciences on the Art of the Kitchen” Prince Vladimir Odoevsky in the 19th century was something like Lomonosov in the eighteenth. He literally permeates all the horizons of his contemporary culture: wherever you move, you come across his trace everywhere.

The Dagestan special services are wondering who they managed to destroy The Dagestan city of Kizilyurt was declared a counter-terrorist operation zone for a day yesterday. For more than twelve hours, the special services waged a siege there on a residential building in which unknown militants were holed up.

North Korea notified its partners at the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue yesterday that their next round would preferably be held after the Oct. 2-4 meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun. A few hours before this information was made public, the organizer of the six-party talks, China, said that it was difficult for it to convene the round on the scheduled date - September 19.

Warming in Moscow houses is delayed due to Indian summer It looks like Muscovites, freezing in their apartments due to damp and windy weather, will have to make do with electric heaters and woolen socks for now. In the near future there will be no centralized heating in the capital, even in trial mode.

The 2007 Albert Lasker Prize winners have been announced in the United States. The American honorary award is given to physicians (or those who are somehow related to medicine by the nature of their activities) and is highly valued among professionals. It is sometimes considered a kind of preliminary stage of selection for the Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine (it is alleged that 72 Laskerovka laureates were later awarded in Stockholm).

The ruling center-right New Democracy (ND) party of Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis won Sunday's general elections in Greece . In a unicameral, 300-seat parliament, it will have 152 deputies, including 40 seats reserved for the winner. Yesterday Karamanlis received instructions from Greek President Karolos Papoulias to form a government. The ministers are expected to be sworn in tomorrow.

Iran is left without allies The issue of the Iranian nuclear program became the central topic of the 51st session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which opened yesterday in Vienna. The event takes place against the backdrop of a sharp escalation of contradictions between Tehran and Western powers. The United States and its allies do not trust the Iranians and accuse the IAEA of being too accommodating.