Oleg Mitvol showed maps of pollution of the Azov Sea Deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol continued yesterday a correspondence discussion with Ukrainian officials about the principles for assessing the extent of environmental damage in the Kerch Strait and, most importantly, about the mechanisms for eliminating this damage. In a clear display of offended misunderstanding, Mr.

By 2010, Russia will produce about a million foreign cars per year Foreign automakers continue to develop the Russian market . Yesterday it became known about the plans of the Korean Hyundai Motor to build a plant in the north-west of Russia, and Peugeot-Citroen seems to have chosen the Nizhny Novgorod region. If we summarize the existing plans of global automobile companies, it turns out that in three to four years over a million foreign cars will be assembled in Russia per year.

Putin's supporters decided to keep him in power at any cost, and his opponents decided to remove him from the Duma elections through the courts Yesterday at the Tver Drama Theater, delegations from 79 Russian regions created an all-Russian movement of supporters of the current president “For Putin!” On the same day, the first brave souls appeared who were going to remove the president from the list of the party in power in the parliamentary elections through the Supreme Court.

The prosecutor convicted of organizing a murder was recognized as a victim of inhuman treatment The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) yesterday ordered Russia to pay compensation of 6 thousand euros to the former prosecutor of the environmental prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Grishin.

Christophe Marthaler staged La Traviata at the Opéra Garnier The premiere series of La Traviata, a performance staged by Christophe Marthaler at the Parisian Opera Garnier, has ended. The play is about what lies behind the luxurious façade of this building and its breathtaking interiors. And what is hidden is known - loneliness, suffering and death of stage idols. Seeing such a plot in La Traviata is both difficult and easy.

Moscow will “adopt” children from single-parent families The city authorities believe that the well-being of single-parent families can be improved with the help of the so-called alimony fund. The idea of ​​​​creating such an institute, which, in essence, would act in the role of a parent who left the family, but did not shy away from financial support for children, was voiced yesterday by the head of the city’s social sector complex, Lyudmila Shvetsova.

Election commissions will create a festive atmosphere at voting stations The last review of the country's election management was organized yesterday by members of the Central Election Commission during an audio-video conference with the election commissions of the constituent entities of the federation.

General Director of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery FEDOROV shared with Vremya Novostei correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA his vision of the political situation on the eve of the parliamentary elections on December 2 and some thoughts about the future of the domestic party system in the new political cycle.

The board of directors of Russian Railways may be given the right to dispose of part of the company’s property Among the three domestic monopolists, the most obedient to the government is Russian Railways OJSC. Then comes RAO UES, which soon, in less than a year, if the reform of the electric power industry does not stall at the very end, will not exist at all.

The government is preparing to adjust the inflation forecast for 2008 upward Apparently, Russians will have to get used to high inflation again , which seemed to be curbed last year. According to officials and non-governmental economists, it is not possible to expect the growth rate of consumer prices in Russia to reach the government-projected growth rate in the near future.

Experts do not rule out the appearance of NATO bases in Georgia and the division of Abkhazia Yesterday, the last train of 34 wagons and platforms with Russian military property of the former 12th Russian military base in the Adjarian city of Batumi crossed the border of Georgia and Armenia, went through the customs procedure and headed to the 102nd base in the city of Gyumri.

“Vise” by Valery Todorovsky on Moscow screens In a hot seaside city lives - and lives well - a successful young DJ Denis (Maxim Matveev). He loves music, knows how to command the audience with its help, he has a completely fulfilled personal life, in general, what more could you ask for. But there can never be too much of a good thing, and at one far from wonderful moment, Denis needed money, and he couldn’t find anything better than to try to earn it on drugs.

Alexey Miller and Yuri Boyko looked into 2011 Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller and Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko were unable to agree on a price for 2008 , but at the same time made significant progress in discussing the terms of gas supplies in the near future. “The agreement on the principles for setting gas prices for the medium term has been completed,” Gazprom’s press service reported yesterday.

Andris Piebalgs plans to make Europe the main consumer of Turkmen gas EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs yesterday announced Ashgabat's readiness to supply gas to Europe bypassing Russia .

The Ministry of Finance recognized the state monopoly on alcohol turnover as non-market and criminal The idea of ​​introducing a state monopoly on alcohol circulation has acquired new opponents. The Ministry of Finance prepared a draft government report in response to the Accounts Chamber's proposal to establish a state monopoly on alcohol circulation.