US Air Force in the service of Afghan drug lords The growth of drug production in Afghanistan is as much an ongoing concern of the world community as global warming. Everyone talks about it, but no one knows any radical means of combating these universal human scourges. At the end of October, an international conference on combating the drug threat was held in Kabul.

Tens of thousands of criminal cases are annually initiated and submitted to the courts by a special secret unit of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its employees monitor compliance with the law at closed military and industrial facilities of special strategic importance for the state. These include the Baikonur complex, which, although located on the territory of Kazakhstan, nevertheless falls under the jurisdiction of Russia.

The base club of the German national team emerges from the crisis The German Bundesliga has become a little closer to Russia since Sunday. After the draw for the qualifying round of the World Championship, which determined the bronze medalist of the last World Cup as the Russians' opponent, there is now special interest in the German championship.

Premier of La Scala Roberto Bolle danced at the Bolshoi For both Roberto Bolle and Svetlana Zakharova, this “Giselle” is not a debut, although Bolle danced for the first time in Yuri Grigorovich’s version, and ballet dancers like to count the number of versions of the same performance in which they performed on different stages.

In Russia they are trying to count the number of HIV carriers On the eve of World AIDS Day celebrated on December 1 in Russia, heated debate has flared up about the number of citizens infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. The assessments of domestic and foreign experts differed quite significantly. Foreigners insist on the figure of 1 million people, while Russian officials are ready to recognize only 403 thousand 100 people.

CLUBS 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. CONCERTS Mikhail Mordvinov (piano) plays works by Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin. Mansion of Prince Golitsyn , 19.00.

For the Russian team, the easy life at the World Cup is over The Russian men's team continues its victorious march in the World Cup. The next defeated opponent was the outsider of the competition Egypt - 3:0 (25:19, 25:18, 25:19).

Russian athletes took third place in Norway Last weekend, several stages of the Winter Sports World Cup took place. Russian athletes won several awards, the most significant of which was the bronze medal for Russian skiers in the men's relay. In Beitoshtolen, Norway, the Russian quartet of Vasily Rochev, Nikolai Pankratov, Alexander Legkov and Evgeniy Dementyev finished behind the two Norwegian “fours”.

Following the results of the parliamentary elections held in Croatia on Sunday, the ruling Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) retained the majority of seats. “Croatian voters have shown that they trust the HDZ and the policies we have pursued over the past four years,” Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said before the final results were tallied.

Nuclear experts and the Minister of War went to the DPRK Today in Pyongyang, for the first time in seven years, the heads of the military departments of North and South Korea - Kim Il Chol and Kim Jang Soo, arriving from the South on a special flight, will meet.

The prosecutor demanded 12 years in prison for the academician for the illegal export of Russian space technology The Moscow City Court yesterday refused to change the preventive measure in the form of arrest for academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Igor Reshetin, accused of committing a number of serious crimes - illegal export of technology, smuggling, theft by embezzlement and money laundering.

Last year's government decision on fuel supplies to power plants will not be implemented. This week marks a year since the electric power “monument” appeared in Russia - the second power unit of the North-Western Thermal Power Plant in St. Petersburg , which remains idle to this day due to lack of gas. The head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais, failed to solve the gas supply problem within a year, although he repeatedly turned to Vladimir Putin and negotiated with Gazprom. Mr.

The closed case of the Tu-154 crash near Donetsk was reopened The Investigative Committee (IC) of the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office has resumed its investigation into the causes of the crash of the Tu-154 plane that occurred near Donetsk in August 2006. Despite the fact that this case was closed in early November due to the death of the only accused - the pilot of the plane, the deputy head of the St.

Before the elections, Sverdlovsk authorities decided to pay pensioners a one-time benefit A week before the elections to the State Duma, the Sverdlovsk authorities took a desperate step - each regional pensioner will be paid 1 thousand rubles. This is the first result of the regional governor Eduard Rossel’s campaign trip to problem municipalities. The head of the region went on his tour in early November - being a candidate for State Duma deputy (Mr.

Sergey Chemezov headed Russian Technologies The process of forming the state corporation (GC) “Russian Technologies” , with which the authorities pin hopes for improving the situation in the field of both military and civilian technologies, apparently no longer tolerates delay. Yesterday, just three days after the signing of the law on the creation of a new structure, it became known that Vladimir Putin had appointed its leaders. There were no surprises.