Clinton and McCain came forward Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain won important victories on their way to the presidency . Former first lady and New York senator, Mrs. Clinton, 60, won Saturday's Nevada primary with 51 percent of the vote. Second place with 45% of the vote was taken by her main rival in the Democratic camp, 46-year-old black senator from Illinois Barack Obama.

The government is ready to finance some NGO programs to combat AIDS Non-profit organizations, which since the early 90s have been involved in preventing the spread of HIV infection in Russia and providing assistance to those who are sick, are doing an important job and will be funded by the state. At least there is already political will to make such a decision.

The opposition responded to the inauguration with a rally Yesterday confirmed the trend of dangerous division of Georgian society into supporters of re-elected President Mikheil Saakashvili and those who do not recognize him as the legitimate leader of the state. Saakashvili's inauguration took place on Rustaveli Avenue in the presence of distinguished guests, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and ended with a military parade.

Ahmadinejad began selling oil for euros and yen Iran, during the political confrontation with the United States, last week realized its intention to trade oil for any currency other than the US dollar . Now all companies are required to set prices in either euros or Japanese yen. The representative of the Ministry of Oil, Hojatollah Ghanimifard, announced this on national television.

Oleg Deripaska's holding deviated the least from the terms of the failed competition The Transstroy group of companies, half of whose capital is controlled by Oleg Deripaska's structures, received an order for the reconstruction of runway No. 1 at Pulkovo Airport. Yesterday, the construction committee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office told Interfax that the city had signed a corresponding contract worth 3.4 billion rubles.

The rate cut may be stopped The dollar exchange rate jumped yesterday by almost 14 kopecks, approaching 23.8 rubles. This was facilitated by the US Federal Reserve, which reduced the base rate by only 0.25 percentage points and made it clear that in the future the rate may remain unchanged. In addition, expectations have increased that the financial crisis will leave America alone to move on to other countries.

Belarusians will receive US visas in Moscow Washington denies rumors of its intention to close its embassy in Minsk, but such a development cannot be ruled out as the diplomatic conflict between the two countries continues . On May 3, 11 American diplomats left Belarus at once, ten of whom were declared persona non grata by Minsk. “Four diplomats remain at the embassy, ​​including the chargé ad interim,” the US diplomatic mission told Vremya Novostei.

Price growth in Russia returns to the level of the beginning of the century One of the primary tasks that Vladimir Putin will have to solve as Prime Minister will be the fight against rising consumer prices . Moreover, the scale of the problem is approximately the same as it was at the dawn of Putin’s presidency. If the new government does not take any extraordinary measures, inflation at the end of the year may approach the levels of 2000-2001.

The capital's landing stages are preparing for new inspections The Federal Antimonopoly Service stood up for the landing stages, protecting them from capital officials.

On the eve of the inauguration of the third president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, the speaker of the Federation Council, leader of the A Just Russia party, Sergei MIRONOV, in an interview with Vremya Novostei correspondent Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA, shared his forecasts for the future of the country under the new president and the government led by Vladimir Putin. — Sergei Mikhailovich, a new political cycle is beginning , and Russian citizens want more clarity.

Condoleezza Rice will have a new deputy with the same last name The other day it became known about the resignation of the US Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 51-year-old Nicholas Burns. He will be replaced by another Burns - namesake and contemporary William, the current US Ambassador to Russia . William Burns will replace Nicholas Burns in March. By that time, the White House must decide on the candidacy of the American representative in Moscow.

The nationalists who carried out the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market were recognized as terrorists Guilty of committing several terrorist attacks, killing 15 people and attempting to kill several dozen more people - this was the verdict unanimously rendered by the jury in the Moscow City Court on April 30 in the case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market .

CC employees will go to Senate Square A week later, on May 12, the final point will be put in the history of the “migration” of the Constitutional Court from Moscow to St. Petersburg . As the press service of the Constitutional Court reported, on this day all 19 judges and 30 staff members out of 250 will move to the northern capital.

Zenit postponed all its May matches of the Russian Championship Without exception, all matches of the eighth round of the Russian Championship ended with unexpected results: the leader was defeated at home, his main pursuers lost points in matches with outsiders. Only Zenit and CSKA did not take part in the production of sensations that was put on stream: the finalist of the 2008 UEFA Cup postponed the meeting with the winner of the 2005 UEFA Cup for two months.

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Moscow Those who like to complain about the poverty and dullness of the capital's musical life have fewer and fewer reasons for dissatisfaction - in recent years, the largest representatives of the world musical establishment have been visiting Moscow with enviable regularity, and the fact that it was Moscow that the orchestra chose to celebrate the next date since its founding Berlin Philharmonic says a lot.