The powers of the state company will be determined by July One of the most important issues that have not yet been resolved in the process of preparing the concept of a future state-owned company for managing highways remains the issue of ownership of the land under the highways, Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin told reporters yesterday. “The form of the company will depend on the resolution of the issue of land ownership, whether it will be transferred to the ownership of the company.

The Russian-Polish group discussed the last century The second meeting of the Russian-Polish group on difficult issues will take place in Moscow in October. This decision was made on Saturday in Warsaw, where the first meeting of the group, designed to promote the joint identification and study of problems of the past that block and complicate relations between Russia and Poland, ended with a renewed composition.

The President of Tatarstan opened a political discussion about Putin’s vertical power structure The speech of Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev last Saturday at the opening of the X World Congress of Russian Press in Kazan caused a strong reaction from the Russian expert and political community.

Muscovites, security officials and housewives fear rallies in Russia The larger the city, the greater the number of its residents supports the ban on street rallies , marches and other street actions - it does not matter whether they express protest against the actions of the authorities or, on the contrary, are intended to demonstrate unanimous support for these actions.

The opening games of the World League were characterized by extraordinary tenacity The strongest volleyball players in the world gave many memorable minutes in the opening matches of the next draw of the largest commercial tournament - the World League. Exactly half of the 16 matches played ended in the maximum five-set format.

The state returned all debts to participants of the DLO program The Russian state has finally settled with Western and domestic drug suppliers who supplied drugs to domestic beneficiaries in 2006 and 2007 on credit. The Federal Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (FFOMS), which is responsible for completing the calculations, recently notified about this. The scandal, which cost several officials their jobs, and some of them their freedom, can be considered generally settled.

The scandalous case of furniture smuggling has begun In the city court of Naro-Fominsk near Moscow yesterday, the consideration of one of the most high-profile criminal cases of recent years began - the smuggling of luxury furniture through the trading houses "Three Whales" and "Grand ".

The pipeline from Yamal will cost 80-90 billion dollars Gazprom's capital investment program in 2009-2020 will amount to 8-10 trillion rubles, deputy head of the strategic development department Sergei Pankratov said yesterday at a briefing. At the same time, according to him, the gas transportation system from Yamal alone will cost the company 80-90 billion dollars (1.8-2 trillion rubles).

Vladimir Putin criticized Viktor Zubkov's commission There was no doubt before that Vladimir Putin is for domestic producers and will never give them offense. After all, what else should a prime politician be doing if not promoting a domestic product, supporting it, etc. But, it seems, no one imagined that he would defend the Russian commodity producer so harshly, including even those industries where he had not yet defended , unfortunately, there is nothing special.

Today the weather in the north-west of European Russia will be affected by the approach of another Atlantic cyclone. There will be short-term rains in places, thunderstorms are possible with wind speeds up to 15--20 m/s, during the day +19...+24оС. On Wednesday, the Leningrad region will be in the grip of this cyclone; there will be rain here, heavy in places. In the central and black earth regions, the weather in the coming days will be determined by active atmospheric fronts.

Russian legislation is falling victim to the moral irresponsibility of its drafters When reading the federal law “On Technical Regulation,” I involuntarily drew attention to one routine phrase, which nevertheless caused deep surprise. Article 2 begins as follows: “For the purposes of this federal law, the following basic concepts are used.” Of course, I remembered that we live not by laws, but by concepts, but seriously speaking, I was surprised by the construction of the phrase.

Fatih Terim's team performed a miracle The group tournament in Group A has ended at the European Football Championship. The Portuguese team, which secured its passage to the quarterfinals ahead of schedule, was joined by the Turkish team, which managed to defeat the Czech team with a score of 3:2. In another match, the unmotivated Portuguese gave the tournament hosts a consolation victory - 2:0.

Chronicle of sporting events In Lausanne, a hearing was held by the disciplinary commission of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in the case of the head coach of the Russian national team, vice-president of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics Irina Viner. There is no clear information yet about what caused the initiation of this process. Irina Viner herself, after the first Sunday meeting, told the All Sport agency that the hearings were held in a standard format.

The secretary general of the alliance has outlined a “long and winding path” for Ukraine Yesterday, a high-ranking NATO delegation led by Alliance Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer arrived in Ukraine for a two-day visit at the invitation of President Viktor Yushchenko. Today guests will visit one of three large cities in different regions of Ukraine - Lviv, Kharkov or Dnepropetrovsk.

Among the concepts that usually characterize the reign of Vladimir Putin, “energy superpower” occupies a special place. The head of state himself, however, distanced himself from such a definition of the country he leads. “If you noticed, I never said that Russia is some kind of energy superpower,” Putin remarked in September 2006, meeting with participants in the Valdai discussion club. And he continued: “But we have more opportunities than almost all other countries in the world...