The "Orange" government will do the impossible The results of early parliamentary elections in Ukraine have not entered into legal force . Last night, the Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the Central Election Commission from publishing their results in the official media - “Voice of Ukraine” and “Governmental Courier”.

Former FSB lieutenant colonel has been formally charged with involvement in the “Politkovskaya case” Yesterday it became known that former lieutenant colonel of the capital's FSB Directorate Pavel Ryaguzov was formally charged with involvement in the murder of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya , who was shot dead on October 7 last year. This was announced by the Investigative Committee (IC) under the prosecutor's office.

Exhibition by Diana Machulina at the Gelman Gallery “Whose fly is this?” - a question formulated by Ilya Kabakov in the early period of his creativity (the title of one of his most famous paintings “Anna Evgenievna Koroleva: “Whose fly is this?” - Ed. ) still remains on the agenda in Russian contemporary art. The young generation of artists strictly follows the precepts of their older colleagues, recognizing loyalty to tradition as a sign of stable progress.

The Russian team won a strong-willed victory over England Football Russia has acquired another memorable date. October 17 will go down in the history of the Russian national team as the day of victory over England - 2:1. Now it depends only on Guus Hiddink and his players whether yesterday's match at Luzhniki will become truly historic.

Best British Novel of 2007 announced at London's Guildhall On the last day before the Booker final, the obsessive inscription “Favorites – Ian McEwan and Lloyd Jones” flashed on the award website for so long that in the end even close relatives stopped believing in the possibility of their victory.

The corporate war between the shareholders of the Russian insurance company Ingosstrakh is flaring up with renewed vigor . Yesterday, the owner of 38.5% of the insurer's shares, PPF Investments, announced that it rejects the accusations made in the media by the majority shareholder of Ingosstrakh, the Basic Element holding. Allegedly, PPF Investments illegally acquired shares of an insurance company owned by the companies Investment Initiative, Vega and New Capital.

Britain drags the world into the fight for Antarctica While the United Russia Duma members, who staged a reality show last summer with the planting of the Russian flag on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, are preparing for re-election on a jingoistic wave, British diplomats are going to start fighting for the shelves at the opposite pole of the earth, trying not to attract public attention.

"A Just Russia" may cease to exist in the Sverdlovsk region The conflict between the Sverdlovsk branch of A Just Russia and the federal leadership is over - State Duma deputy Evgeny Roizman left the party . He informed the electorate about his decision via LiveJournal. “I’ve made a decision - I’m leaving A Just Russia.” I just don't want to have anything to do with it. And I would also like to forget... This was the first time in my life that I entered somewhere. And how lucky!..

Roszdrav counted the number of idle medical equipment All medical equipment that was supposed to be delivered to the Russian regions as part of the national project “Health” and installed in medical institutions (health care facilities) in the summer will be in place by the end of the year .

The Imperial Porcelain Factory traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow Large porcelain sets are always associated with some kind of official ceremony, very important, very pompous, very rich, and at the same time, as often happens in diplomacy, slippery, cold, fragile and insincere. It’s good, really, when these sets cease to be an allegory of real politics, but are deposited in the funds of museums. There they play the role of subjects of museum diplomacy.

Gazprom reduces investments in the development of the Bovanenkovskoye field Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors for Production Issues Alexander Ananenkov yesterday held an off-site meeting on the development of the Bovanenkovskoye field. It should give a start to the development of gas resources of a new province - the Yamal Peninsula - and become a worthy replacement for the depleting reserves of the Nadym-Purtazovsky region.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner project has a new director The civil division of the American aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing yesterday announced the appointment of a new head of the Boeing-787 project. The change in leadership comes just days after Boeing admitted that the design of the plane, also known commercially as the Dreamliner, had encountered serious problems that had pushed back its previously scheduled delivery date by six months.

US and Israeli leaders want to learn about Iran from Vladimir Putin After the Russian president’s visit to Tehran, several heads of state immediately wanted to hear personally from Vladimir Putin what his impressions were of his conversations with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . One of these days, according to Vremya Novostey, a telephone conversation on this topic may take place between Vladimir Putin and George Bush.

The riots in the colonies, the FSIN is confident, were initiated by “seasoned criminals” Three people were killed and, according to various sources, from six to 20 were injured as a result of the riots that broke out on Wednesday night in the Kirovograd juvenile correctional colony No. 2 (Sverdlovsk region). The Russian penitentiary system has not experienced such emergencies since the 90s of the last century.

Tomorrow a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Russian-Belarusian Union State will be held in Minsk. Energy will be one of the main topics of negotiations. Problems related to the supply of Russian oil and gas to Belarus have been clouding relations between the allies for a whole year.