Bundestag deputy Joachim Pfeiffer: “If Gazprom is blocked, it will be right” Today, the European Commission in Brussels will begin discussing a package of new EU laws , the purpose of which should be to further liberalize the electricity markets and natural gas trade. One of the most important legislative acts coming for consideration provides for the alienation of large energy concerns from their transport networks - power lines and gas pipelines.

Intelligence scares Americans about the Cold War The head of the US intelligence community, Mike McConnell (pictured), told Congress yesterday that Russian and Chinese intelligence work in the US has intensified to Cold War levels .

The New Images of America festival opened in Moscow The second mass landing of American filmmakers was timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States, so a significant part of the program is devoted to all sorts of influences and the search for the “Russian trace” in the wilds of American independent culture.

Russian specialists have learned to control satellites using SMS Soon, the Space Mission Control Center will be able to fit into a regular laptop. Russian scientists, using nanotechnology, have created a satellite that can be controlled from a mobile phone via SMS messages.

Vnesheconombank and NOVATEK intend to jointly invest in the construction of a power plant in Tarko-Sale An unattractive for investors, but strategically important project - the construction of a power plant with a capacity of 1200 MW in the polar Tarko-Sale (Purovsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) - implemented using an investment guarantee mechanism, has attracted the interest of the state corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)" .

Arriving on an excursion to Buchenwald, I first of all began to look for the famous inscription “To each his own.” I imagined a typical arched gate in front of the entrance, with a clock above which, like a horseshoe, Goethe’s saying would be inscribed in the correct Gothic font. I found it, but not in a visible place, as I had imagined, but at the exit, and not on the outer, but on the inner side of the grate, only at eye height - a small cast phrase.

Special services eliminated an elusive terrorist in Dagestan The Russian FSB yesterday officially announced the destruction of the most dangerous and elusive surviving terrorist of the North Caucasus - 38-year-old Rappani Khalilov, nicknamed Rabbani (pictured on the right) . He was identified as one of two militants killed on the outskirts of the Dagestan city of Kizilyurt on Monday.

The date of the presidential elections in Uzbekistan has been announced Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan Mirzo-Ulugbek Abdusalomov yesterday officially announced the start of the election campaign for the election of the country's president. The elections are scheduled for December 23 this year, and the campaign starts on September 21.

The new owner of the collection of Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich guarantees its return to Russia Details of the sensational deal between the family of Galina Vishnevskaya, the Sotheby's auction house and businessman Alisher Usmanov, who single-handedly bought the entire collection of musicians on Monday, became the topic of a press conference at the Balchug Hotel.

Russia will try to reduce the share of trade enterprises in small businesses Ignoring the “acting” prefix, which all federal ministers currently wear, the small business association OPORA is holding consultations with members of the cabinet. By the end of 2007, as OPORA President Sergei Borisov told Vremya Novostei, a development strategy for both the organization itself and small businesses in general until 2010 will be prepared.

Bank of England persuades Northern Rock depositors to go home British monetary authorities carried out a number of emergency operations to combat the liquidity crisis that befell the country at the end of last week . The Bank of England offered a financial injection of 4.4 billion pounds to credit institutions, and 28 billion pounds to the worst-hit Northern Rock bank. In addition, British Finance Minister Alistair Darling guaranteed the bank's depositors the safety of their funds.

Women's Euro 2007 starts in Belgium and ends in Luxembourg Tomorrow the European Women's Championship starts in the Belgian cities of Hasselt and Charleroi. It will follow the same pattern as a similar men's tournament that ended late last week in Moscow. First, the four quartets will have first stage matches, after which the outsiders of the groups will go home. At a further stage, two sixes will be formed, after which the semi-finalists will be determined.

Former worker and deputy Vasily Shandybin will go to the State Duma from the Agrarian Party Today, the leader of the Agrarian Party, Vladimir Plotnikov, will announce the inclusion of one of the most recognizable and colorful left-wing politicians in the country, former deputy of the Communist Party faction Vasily Shandybin, on the party electoral list. It is possible that a prominent representative of the working people will be included in the top three of the federal list of “farmers”.

The government has amended the banking law The government is fulfilling the president’s instructions to ensure accessibility of banking services for the broad masses of Russians. Recently it introduced amendments to the State Duma to the law “On Banks and Banking Activities”, which introduce the concept of “internal structural division of a bank”. This is an office that can open outside the region where the bank or its branch is present.

Russians want to see a strong president in power, but not his friends and acquaintances According to Russians, the country's ideal president should be half “father of the nation” and half an effective manager. Sociologists from the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion came to these conclusions after conducting a survey.