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.

There will be no union in Central Asia for a long time The presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov know each other very, very well, since Soviet times. Both of them are veterans of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. They are the only ones who have since retained power in their hands in the republics they have led for almost two decades.

Stavropol governor asked to resign Yesterday it became known that the Governor of the Stavropol Territory, Alexander Chernogorov, submitted his resignation . “This is my personal decision made by me. It concerns a change in the position that I currently occupy,” said the head of the region. He explained that the reason for his proposed resignation from the post of governor was “personal issues” related to solving family problems - the death of his father and the serious illness of his mother.

The head of the Samsung group of companies, South Korea's largest industrial conglomerate, Lee Kun-hee, resigned, INTERFAX reports. "Today I will leave the post of chairman of the board of directors of the company. There are still many things that need to be done, but I am leaving and taking with me all the mistakes of the past," he said on local television.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The playoffs began with an extravaganza in Lyubertsy The first day of the knockout tournament gave basketball gourmets a miracle match. The ending of the meeting "Triumph" (Lyubertsy) - "Dynamo" (Moscow) was simply fantastic in its drama and beauty of the game episodes. Although the end of the Russian championship among men's teams is still very far away, this battle will probably be recognized as the best match of the season. There really was something to see here. The hosts won - 88:86.

A year ago, Boris Yeltsin passed away Today a monument to the first president of Russia is to be unveiled at the Novodevichy cemetery. Exactly a year has passed since his death . It's been a year already. Only a year. Almost a whole decade has passed since his departure from politics altogether. But the main monument to the president of a country, especially the first, can only be the country itself.