Why Medvedev and Lukashenko postponed negotiations The price of Russian gas for Belarus in 2009 may exceed $200 per thousand cubic meters, Russian Ambassador Alexander Surikov said at a press conference on Monday. His speech was, of course, devoted not only to the energy problem.

Nizhny Novgorod bailiffs have invented a new type of fight against alimony defaulters The State Duma, at a plenary session on Wednesday, June 11, will consider in the third and final reading a bill that will increase the penalty for late payment of alimony five times. Corresponding changes are being made to the Family Code of the Russian Federation.

Megafon was ordered to remove its repeaters from protected areas The Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office of Moscow, as a Vremya Novostey correspondent learned, has achieved the dismantling of two Megafon cellular base stations located in specially protected natural areas - in the Moskvoretsky natural-historical park and the Setun River Valley reserve.

The German national team forward is ashamed of his double against the Poles Based on the results of the matches, the second game day of the European Championship was an exact repetition of the first. The same 0:1 and 2:0 on the scoreboard. Only the teams in front of the numbers were different - from group “B”. The hosts, this time the Austrians, lost with a minimal score to the more skilled Croats, and the favorites of this quartet, the Germans, dealt with the Poles without any problems.

Four Deputy Energy Ministers Appointed Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko (pictured) now has four deputies. As it became known yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order appointing Vyacheslav Sinyugin, Anatoly Yanovsky, Vladimir Azbukin and Stanislav Svetlitsky to these posts. However, Mr. Shmatko has not yet issued the corresponding order for the ministry. Likewise, powers have not yet been distributed among the deputies.

On the second day, Kinotavr presented two debuts What the two films shown in the Kinotavr competition had in common was the age of their debuting directors. Alexander Melnik, who directed “New Land,” is fifty, Sergei Mokritsky (“Four Ages of Love”) is forty-seven. Although today it is true that people often come to directing in adulthood, interest in the two contestants was fueled by their biographies.

Nationalists organized a new political club Last Sunday, four nationalist organizations - the unregistered party "Great Russia" , the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), the Russian liberation movement "People" and the Russian Social Movement - gathered at the Cosmos Hotel for the conference "New Political Nationalism", where signed the “Pact of June 8th”. All four movements entered a new organization - the Russian National Movement.

The objectivity of the world's leading media can significantly reduce the potential for conflict in hot spots and crisis regions of the planet. Chairman of the Voice of Russia radio company Armen Oganesyan spoke about this in Bonn at the first global media forum “The role of the media in preventing conflicts and their activities to maintain peace.” The first global media forum was organized by the German broadcasting company Deutsche Welle.

The Kremlin is preparing to replace two Far Eastern governors Vice-Governor of the Primorsky Territory Nikolai Sidorov, who once played a significant role in the election victory of the current head of the region, Sergei Darkin, is leaving his team and going to work in the Kremlin. He will take the post of deputy chief for internal policy of the presidential administration. This department is headed by Oleg Govorun.

Recently, the government held a meeting on the project for the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline , during which the main attention was paid to the issues of the effective functioning of the main oil pipeline. By the time the first stage of ESPO is put into operation, oil production in Eastern Siberia will be 12 million tons per year, which will provide the required volume. “The current pace of construction corresponds to the newly approved project deadlines.

Retrospective of Viktor Alimpiev at the Ekaterina Foundation The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation on Lubyanka previously showed in a monographic format (group exhibitions do not count) classics of modern art - the sixties artist Vladimir Yankilevsky, director and part-time artist Robert (Bob) Wilson, photographer Andreas Gursky. These were Western celebrities. Yankilevsky has lived in Paris for a long time, Wilson is an American wandering around the world, Gursky is a German.

CLUBS Anatoly Gerasimov (flute, saxophone) and DJ ZigZag . The already established tandem moved from the cramped concert stage of “Pilot” to the dance stage of “Propaganda” , 21.00. Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as songs of his own composition in Portuguese. Forte , 21.00.

Relations between Russia and Poland are gradually beginning to improve . This week, from June 12 to 14, the first meeting of the renewed Russian-Polish commission on difficult issues will be held in Warsaw. Its co-chairman, the former head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, 70-year-old professor Adam Daniel ROTFELD, spoke about the work of the Vremya Novostei commission. —What goals do you set as head of the Polish part of the commission?

German Postbank is gradually being absorbed by its closest competitors The prospect of selling the German Postbank , part of the national postal group Deutsche Post, is becoming more and more real. The active stage of this process began back in March. Now the price for which the postal concern is ready to cede the financial institution to its future owner has been announced - 10 billion euros. Postbank is one of the oldest financial institutions in Germany.

The Prime Minister is pleased with GDP growth, but upset by rising prices There was no sign of news at the meeting of the government presidium, at which ministers were going to sum up the results of the previous year. However, Vladimir Putin surprised. He said that last year GDP exceeded 8%. This is quite noticeable, especially if we remember that, summing up the results of 2007 in December , while still in office as president, Mr. Putin named a different GDP figure - 7.6%.