America will not give Russia a missile veto American plans to deploy missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe may become one of the topics of discussion at tomorrow's Russia-EU summit in the Portuguese city of Mafra. This issue is not included in the official agenda of the forum, but it “may arise when it comes to European security,” Sergei Yastrzhembsky, the special representative of the Russian President for the development of relations with the European Union, said yesterday.

Vladimir Khotinenko’s film “1612” will be released in time for the November holiday This film was highly anticipated. What was known about it excited the imagination: an order from the presidential administration, a lot of money allocated for the project by Viktor Vekselberg, the dubiousness of the newly appointed holiday, the meaning of which the film was intended to clarify.

Dmitry Rogozin may be appointed Russia's permanent representative to NATO Last night information appeared that State Duma deputy, spiritual inspirer of the unregistered Great Russia party and ex-leader of the Rodina party Dmitry Rogozin has been appointed Russia's permanent representative to NATO. Reuters, citing a source in the Kremlin, reported that President Vladimir Putin had already signed a corresponding decree on Tuesday. “According to unofficial information, this is so.

The Kostroma region will be headed by Altai senator Igor Slyunyaev The new governor of the Kostroma region is expected to be confirmed today by deputies of the regional Duma. A candidacy for this post was submitted to the local parliament yesterday by Russian President Vladimir Putin. United Russia member Igor Slyunyaev, a member of the Federation Council from the Altai Territory, became the presidential candidate. His inauguration is planned immediately after his confirmation in office. Mr.

SCO countries create an "anti-Orange" youth organization Recently, the youth movements of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries decided to create a youth association. The idea of ​​creating a youth wing of the SCO was presented a year ago at the annual meeting with the heads of participating countries by Russian President Vladimir Putin. She was liked by both Russian youth and Komsomol members of other countries.

English Arsenal and Manchester United scored 11 goals between them The middle of the group stage in the Champions League is the time for decisive games. The third and fourth rounds pit the rivals against each other in a playoff-style: one match at home and away. These games are often defining. The habit engendered by the Champions League of pre-determining the match of the round this time made a mistake. We managed to highlight it, but we saw the best football not where we expected.

The Blue and Whites of Moscow and Kazan set the tone on the continent After the second round of the men's Champions League, both Dynamo teams, representing our country in the tournament of the strongest teams of the Old World, are leaders in their groups of the preliminary stage. Yesterday, the champions of Russia, the volleyball players of Kazan "Dynamo-TTG", playing in quartet "C", defeated the Greek "Olympiacos" on the road - 3:0 (25:18, 25:19, 25:23).

The chief of the general staff of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia, Anatoly Zaitsev, told Vremya Novostey about the shelling of a Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Lethal fire was opened on Sunday at approximately 23:00 in the Ochamchira region over the sea area. “It was a Predator type reconnaissance aircraft (“Predator” - Ed. ), which, according to our information, is supplied to Georgia by Western partners. He filmed the location of Abkhaz military units.

Heineken is going to acquire Minsk Syabar Negotiations on the sale of the Belarusian brewing company Syabar to the Dutch Heineken have entered the final stage. A source close to the negotiations told Vremya Novostey about this yesterday.

Vladimir Putin wished the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, common sense The railway congress, which opened in the Kremlin yesterday, attracted a constellation of high-ranking speakers. There, the president of Russian Railways (RZD), Vladimir Yakunin, called the mode of transport entrusted to him “the source or prerequisite” of all the good things that have happened in our country over the past 170 years.

Two more suspects in the Nevsky Express bombing were detained The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev, announced yesterday that two more suspects have emerged in the case of the bombing of the Nevsky Express high-speed train in August of this year . Despite the fact that the minister refused to specify the names of the new defendants in the high-profile case, citing the secrecy of the investigation, their names became known almost immediately.

Prices for basic food products frozen until February Yesterday, major producers and large chain food retailers , on the urgent advice of the government, committed themselves to freezing prices for socially important food products. These are recognized as wheat and rye bread, milk with at least 1.5% fat content, kefir with 1% fat content, sunflower oil, and chicken eggs.

Tomorrow the Russia-EU summit will take place in the Portuguese city of Mafra . Our country will be represented by President Vladimir Putin. He will hold talks with the top leadership of the European Union - the Prime Minister of the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, Jose Socrates, the head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, and the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana.

Grozny can be recognized as a city of military glory A linden park was inaugurated yesterday in the Chechen regional center of Vedeno. The park, in fact, existed before - according to some sources, Count Leo Tolstoy walked along these alleys during his service in the Caucasus.

Beijing is in no hurry to strengthen the national currency The low exchange rate of the yuan to the dollar haunts the US authorities . Yesterday, several officials spoke about the need to urgently strengthen the Chinese currency. Earlier, following a meeting of G7 finance ministers, European and Canadian colleagues expressed a similar opinion.