Leonid Reiman seeks liberalization of foreigners’ access to strategic industries Yesterday, Minister of Information and Communications Leonid Reiman, in fact, entered into a dispute with Kremlin representatives of the security forces, who are lobbying for strengthening prohibitive amendments to the bill on foreigners’ access to strategic industries. He believes that the interests of the state in the communications market are already quite reliably protected by existing laws.

Football "Zenith" has replaced its president There has been a change in the composition of the Russian football champions. Instead of Sergei Fursenko, who resigned from the post of president of St. Petersburg Zenit, the chairman of the board of Gazprom Neft OJSC, chairman of the board of directors of SIBUR Holding OJSC, Alexander Dyukov, entered the game. He was also appointed chairman of the board of directors of the football club.

Ak Bars players made peace to defeat CSKA Only one unexpected result was recorded in the quarter finals of the Russian Hockey Championship. The St. Petersburg army team, playing in Yaroslavl, secured victory by the end of the first period, scoring three unanswered goals. I was a little surprised by how easily Ak Bars Kazan beat CSKA. The quarterfinal day began in Magnitogorsk and Ufa.

The Central Bank proposes to make publicly available information about the owners of credit institutions Information about the real owners of banks should become public knowledge. This is the opinion of Mikhail Sukhov, Director of the Department of Licensing Activities and Financial Recovery of Credit Institutions of the Central Bank. According to him, the amendments necessary for this should be adopted into the law on deposit insurance .

The leadership of the Central Bank commented on the bill on revoking licenses of violators of the law on money laundering The adoption of a bill on the participation of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (FSFM) in the procedure for revoking licenses from banks could increase the volume of money laundering in credit institutions, says First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Gennady Melikyan.

The US may place another radar near Russia Counting down the last months of its stay in the White House, the George W. Bush administration is in a hurry to push forward as much as possible the program for creating a missile defense (BMD) system . In addition to ten interceptor missiles in Poland and a powerful targeting radar in the Czech Republic, its components could also be deployed in Turkey.

The president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (PMR), Igor SMIRNOV, spoke about the prospects for interaction between Tiraspol with Chisinau and Moscow after the self-proclamation of Kosovo’s independence in an interview with Vremya Novostei. — On the eve of yesterday’s hearings in the State Duma, in a joint statement with the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, you promised to work together to achieve independence.

Longtime colleague of John Paul II received the Prize for Progress in Spiritual Sciences On March 12, the name of the next winner of the most expensive scientific award in the world, the Templeton Prize, was announced. 820 thousand pounds sterling ($1.6 million) will be received by 72-year-old Michal Geller, a Polish astrophysicist, mathematician, as well as a Catholic priest and theologian.

Moscow is not yet ready to recognize South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria It seems that Russia is not yet ready to recognize the independence of the unrecognized republics in the post-Soviet space - South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria. This conclusion can be drawn based on the results of the first parliamentary hearings in the State Duma of the Russian Federation after the self-proclamation of Kosovo’s independence and its recognition by a number of states.

Today a forum opens in Moscow, organized by the Federation of Migrants of Russia, established in February last year . Let us recall that this public organization, which includes representatives of national diasporas from at least 26 countries, was created to protect the rights and adaptation of labor migrants from far abroad to Russian society.

Gennady Onishchenko will wean Russians off fatty and salty foods It is necessary to inculcate a healthy lifestyle, in particular the habit of healthy eating, from infancy . Yesterday, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, announced this. To do this, potential mothers and fathers themselves should be immediately protected from the zombie influence of advertising of harmful products - fast food, chips and sweet carbonated water.

Alexander Knyazev played Bach's cello suites “All suites for solo cello” is a program that arose unexpectedly: due to illness, Mario Brunello was unable to perform, and the Italian cello star was replaced by a Russian one, Alexander Knyazev. The move is serious: all six suites by Johann Sebastian Bach are not just a solo concert, but an action, if not a feat. Firstly, it bypasses a wide audience: there is zero entertainment here.

Russia in the mirror of the main street of St. Petersburg Not long ago, in a telephone conversation, a wonderful Russian writer, honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, expressed the idea of ​​​​the desirability of creating an association of great avenues of the world. I hung up the phone - and after some time this thought returned to me, like a beloved woman and a boomerang return. And really, why not? Below are some thoughts on this lofty occasion.

The Constitutional Court will determine whether it is possible to register at a summer cottage Yesterday the Constitutional Court devoted itself to the housing issue. First, the judges made a decision that will affect citizens purchasing housing in common shared ownership with minor children, and then began to consider the case, which is intended to determine whether citizens can register in a dacha if the garden house turns out to be the only place of residence.

Russians expect the new president to control prices and develop democracy The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) tried to find out what Russians expect from the third President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev . The survey was conducted on March 8-9 with the participation of 1,600 people in 153 settlements in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia.