Belarusian opposition activist Andrei Kim was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for attacking a police officer. This decision was made yesterday by the Central District Court of Minsk. Andrei Kim was detained in January after one of the business protests. In winter, individual entrepreneurs opposed the ban on hiring workers except for close relatives. Businessmen did not want to create private unitary enterprises, which would involve paying more taxes.

Yesterday, the Latvian government approved the report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the implementation of the declaration “On the condemnation of the totalitarian communist occupation regime implemented by the USSR,” adopted by the Seimas in 2005 . The report states that the issue of recognizing the fact of “occupation” remains on the agenda of Russian-Latvian relations.

ECB's fight against inflation helped euro set new record The dollar/euro exchange rate continues to decline and cross psychological marks. Yesterday, quotes of the European currency rose to $1.6. The reason for the rise in price of the euro was a statement by a member of the governing council of the European Central Bank (ECB) about a possible rate increase if the rate of growth in consumer prices does not slow down.

Representatives of the Leningrad Military District accused Soldiers' Mothers of sabotage The conscription campaign in St. Petersburg was marked by a loud scandal. The headquarters of the Leningrad Military District accused the organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" of forgery of documents.

Israel will pay more than $3 million to the family of British journalist James Miller, who was killed five years ago in the Gaza Strip during the “second intifada” (the Palestinian uprising of 2000-2003). Miller was filming a documentary and died from Israeli fire. On May 2, 2003, in the Palestinian city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, an Israeli tank platoon was on a mission to discover underground tunnels used to smuggle weapons and explosives.

Viktor Zubkov convinces IOC experts that Sochi is preparing for the Games as planned A large landing party of Russian government officials, led by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, descended on Sochi to meet the International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission , which was inspecting the city’s preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics for the first time. Yesterday, Mr. Zubkov visited Krasnaya Polyana to personally answer to the IOC representative commission. The first thing Mr.

Forward of the Russian national hockey team Alexei MOROZOV, in a conversation with Vremya Novostei correspondent Oleg EREMIIN, did not hide the fact that the team faces a difficult path of adaptation to the hockey rink and Canadian time, and spoke about the tasks for the World Championship, which will be held from May 2 to 18 in the country maple leaf. - You won all three matches at the final stage of the Eurotour in the Czech Republic.

On Monday, the 10th Beijing Auto China 2008 auto show began work in the Chinese capital, for which all the world's automakers had been preparing for a long time and carefully.

Watch from April 24 on Moscow screens “The Forbidden Kingdom” (USA, 2008, Rob Minkoff). An American teenager, with the help of a magic staff, is transported to Ancient China, where he is forced to participate in a battle with the army of the Jade Emperor, who has imprisoned the Monkey King in his dungeons.

The concept for the development of the Kaliningrad tourist zone will have to be rewritten The Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Elvira Nabiullina, recently signed an additional agreement defining the boundaries of a special economic zone of a tourist and recreational type on the territory of the Curonian Spit nature reserve in the Kaliningrad region. This agreement automatically changes the original concept of the Kaliningrad tourist zone.

The official reasons for the unsuccessful launch of Proton-M have been announced The investigation into the circumstances of the March launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the American AMS-14 communications satellite, which was considered unsuccessful, has been reached. Yesterday on the website of the State Space Research and Production Center named after.

Electricity investors have created an “expert lobbying structure” Buyers of large power generating companies yesterday announced the creation of a non-profit partnership, the Council of Energy Producers and Strategic Investors in the Electric Power Industry.

Undocumented foreigners will be sent to a special detention center for three months It is quite possible that soon migrants who are in Russia without documents will be sent to “special institutions” where passportless foreigners can be held for three months. Yesterday, United Russia State Duma deputy Vladimir Pligin and his colleagues on the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction (representing all four Duma factions) introduced a corresponding bill to the lower house.

Those accused of murdering Andrei Kozlov left the dock In the Moscow City Court, where hearings are being held in the case of the murder of Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozlov , another scandal broke out yesterday. The defendants refused to comply with the demands of the judge presiding over the trial, Natalya Olikhver. First, they left the courtroom without permission, along with Alexei Frenkel, who was removed for arguing.

The desire of Ukraine and Georgia to join the North Atlantic Alliance has become a serious irritant in their relations with Russia, turning into a difficult problem in the development of cooperation between Russia and the West. In Germany, these issues are addressed by the influential Science and Policy Foundation, an independent research center that develops political strategy for the federal government.