Leaders of China and Japan will divide gas fields Whether the final document will be signed following the first visit of a Chinese leader to Japan in the last decade will become clear only at the end of the five-day trip of Chinese President Hu Jintao, which began yesterday. Today the guest will take part in a gala reception at the imperial palace, where he will have a conversation with Emperor Akihito on Friday.

Enterprises may have a mechanism for judicial compensation for moral damages from the state budget In legal practice, the concept of “moral damage” caused by an official to a legal entity may soon become entrenched, for which the treasury will also be held responsible.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “is studying the issue of Russia’s participation in the restoration of Orthodox shrines in Kosovo within the framework of a UNESCO project and the allocation of appropriate funds for these purposes.” This was announced yesterday on Smolenskaya Square, emphasizing that we are talking about the implementation of the instructions of the President of Russia.

Prime Minister Zubkov made history in 237 days Yesterday was the last official day of work of the government chaired by Viktor Zubkov . On May 7, upon taking office, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will accept the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers. The government of Viktor Zubkov worked for 237 days.

"United Russia" will determine who is worthy of its party card By mid-May, United Russia promises to develop criteria for admitting new members to the party. The requirements for party members will be formalized in the form of an official document and adopted at a meeting of the presidium of the general council of the party in power. For United Russia, which does not have a clear ideological or class basis, developing criteria for admission to and exclusion from the party is not an easy task.

Political scientists on the contours of a new political era in Russia On the eve of the inauguration of the third president of Russia, Vremya Novostey correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA found out what representatives of the Russian expert community think about the upcoming distribution of power between the new president Dmitry Medvedev and head of government Vladimir Putin , as well as the likelihood of increasing the term of office of the head of state and the hypothetical return of Mr.

St. Petersburg Marxists are waiting for better times Even in the midst of the construction of capitalism, adherents of the communist idea do not abandon the habit of digging up their native soil in order to plant various messages for distant descendants. On the eve of the 190th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the world proletariat, Karl Marx, his followers from St.

Romanian boy reached the Reichstag with the Soviet army Having made a semicircle over Bucharest's Henri Coanda International Airport, the Aeroflot plane headed for Moscow. In the cabin, a gray-haired couple stood out among the passengers. Former Interior Colonel Costache Sandu and his wife Otilia arrived in Bucharest by train the day before from their home town of Orastie, in southwestern Romania, obtained visas at the Russian consulate and spent the night at the Interior Ministry hotel.

German intelligence officers are preparing for a housewarming party and putting out a scandal Today in Berlin, a high-ranking party is expected in the largest vacant lot in the Central City District. The capital's political beau monde will gather for a ceremony to lay the first stone of a complex of buildings for the new center of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

The Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater hosted a tour in Moscow The theater that performed at the Meyerhold Center is most often called Olga Pona's theater, although the troupe is officially directed by her husband, Vladimir Pona.

The Presidential Council for Human Rights ceased its work On the last day of Vladimir Putin's tenure as head of state, the Presidential Council for Human Rights and Promoting the Development of Civil Society Institutions ceased its work. “The council no longer exists,” one of its members, head of the human rights committee “Civic Assistance” Svetlana Gannushkina, told reporters.

The persistence of ethnic nationalism By projecting their experience onto the rest of the world, Americans downplay the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. In the United States, people of different nationalities live relatively peacefully side by side. Within two or three generations after immigration, ethnic characteristics are smoothed out through cultural assimilation and intermarriage. In other parts of the world the situation is the opposite.

Poland may be left without American interceptor missiles The next round of Polish-American negotiations is scheduled for today in Warsaw on the deployment on Polish territory of ten missiles that are part of the missile defense (ABM) system being developed by the United States in Eastern Europe.

The opposition decided not to protest against the new president “The Other Russia” was never able to get the capital authorities to allow at least a rally against the election of Dmitry Medvedev as president in exchange for refusing to hold a march from Chistoprudny Boulevard to Slavyanskaya Square.

The Historical Museum is preparing for its anniversary What can arouse more passions than national history? It is this, spread out into four and a half million storage units, that is protected by the giant building at the address: Red Square, 1. The State Historical Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary in May - not from the moment of its foundation, as is now fashionable to celebrate, but from the day openings. It happened with pomp during the coronation of Alexander III.