The first Iran-Iraq summit in recent history ended in Baghdad yesterday. Before leaving, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that in two days he had held 20 meetings with the Iraqi leadership. “We signed seven agreements regarding the development of cooperation in the fields of insurance, customs regulation, industry, education and transport,” the guest said.

The Sverdlovsk governor failed to get rid of his oldest political enemy Strong friendship with United Russia does not guarantee regional leaders the fulfillment of all their wishes - this law of the vertical of power was again proven in the Sverdlovsk region, where Governor Eduard Rossel was forced to agree to the retention of his long-time political opponent, Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkady Chernetsky, in power.

The British Council suspended work in St. Petersburg The conflict between the Russian authorities and the British Council has entered a new stage.

Any elections in Russia are won by the authorities The preliminary results of the presidential elections were announced yesterday morning by the head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, after 99.73% of the protocols of the election commissions were entered into the GAS “Elections” system. The final figures differed somewhat from the first data for Siberia and the Far East, announced on the post-election night.

The dolphin defeated the bear, but the elections were declared invalid Last Sunday, not only the third president was elected in Russia. For example, in the Ivanovo region the composition of the local Duma was renewed ahead of schedule, in Moscow they voted for regional deputies, and the resort and Olympic capital of Sochi chose the mascot of the XXII Winter Games in 2014 .

Investigators introduced journalist Lurie to reading The Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as Vremya Novostei learned, has completed its investigation into the case against the famous journalist, 44-year-old Oleg Lurie . The other day he began studying the investigation materials, after which they will be submitted to the court. Mr.

NATO Secretary General, Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, expressed concern yesterday that showing a film attacking Islam could harm the alliance's forces in Afghanistan: "If because of it the troops find themselves under fire, then I am alarmed." The 15-minute film “Fitna” (translated from Arabic as “Troubles”) was made under the direction of the Dutchman Geert Wilders, a parliamentarian and leader of the far-right Freedom Party, which has nine seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch

Expobank was sold at a high price to the British bank Barclays The British bank Barclays is buying the Russian Expobank for $745 million. Since the beginning of the year, this is the second major transaction in the Russian financial market with the participation of a foreign strategic investor ( at the beginning of February, the sale of a third of Rosbank to the French Societe Generale was completed ).

What's happening with HDTV in Russia Digital television broadcasting in our country is needed not only and not even so much in order to improve the quality of the “picture”. More important is the opportunity to significantly diversify the content of television programs. So far, 63% of Russians can watch only four terrestrial television programs, and in some areas there is no television broadcasting at all. However, in Moscow and St.

Colombia's neighbors are preparing for war The successful operation of the Colombian military against the camp of the ultra-left organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on the territory of Ecuador led to a diplomatic scandal and aggravation of relations between Colombia and two neighboring countries - Ecuador and Venezuela.

Russia condemns the substitution of UN powers in Kosovo Yesterday, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Kamynin, said that the creation of the International Steering Group for Kosovo (ISG) “runs counter” to UN Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999 and to the “agreed principles of the Kosovo settlement.” The IWG was created on February 28 in Vienna by 15 states that recognized the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo or are planning to do so.

Politicians, political scientists and economists on the main tasks of the third president of Russia Vremya Novostey correspondents decided to find out from politicians, political scientists and economists what main tasks the third president of Russia will have to solve and what obstacles he will face.

Tourism will save Spitsbergen for Russia and increase employment in Dagestan At yesterday's board meeting of the Federal Tourism Agency, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Naryshkin called the past year very successful for the industry. And even more than that, it was a “turning point”: the flow of tourists to Russia began to grow, and therefore the state intends to use it to solve the social problems of the regions.

Attempts to cover the Pension Fund deficit using the Unified Social Tax may lead to an increase in “gray” wages Throughout Russia's modern history, taxes have been steadily declining. The apotheosis of reducing the tax burden on ordinary citizens was the introduction of the lowest 13 percent income tax in Europe . Now this trend may be broken. Working Russians may soon begin to contribute significantly larger amounts of taxes to the pensions of their compatriots retiring.

President Putin distributed instructions to President Medvedev The traditional Monday meeting between President Vladimir Putin and members of the Cabinet of Ministers turned out to be special and festive this time. It took place the day after the confident victory of the Putin-Medvedev combination in the presidential elections. Therefore, Vladimir Putin began with congratulations.