The builder of a financial pyramid in China offered investors to feed insects While in Russia bailiffs enthusiastically continue to search for and describe the more or less valuable property of the founder of the scandalous MMM company Sergei Mavrodi, the Chinese authorities are trying to intimidate potential builders of their financial pyramids.

The NHL is still a dream for young people The traditional annual National Hockey League draft will take place in Ottawa next Saturday. They say that recently the crisis in Russian hockey has reached its limit and high-quality hockey players have stopped appearing here. But the ratings of the scouting bureau, as well as the tests for newcomers, refute this opinion. Of course, there are no people of the level of Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin or Ilya Kovalchuk in the country now.

200 films will be shown at the Moscow Film Festival So, today, June 19, the Moscow International Film Festival will open for the thirtieth time. The opening will be held solemnly, as it should be in a country where they play hockey and football so well and win Eurovision. On the star trail, in addition to Nikita Mikhalkov and other familiar Russian stars, local stars will also appear.

American missile defense system is being sent to Lithuania Yesterday, the Russian-American dispute over the deployment of US missile defense elements in Europe took a new dangerous direction. For the first time, information was actively discussed at the official level that an American missile defense base could appear not in Poland , but much closer to Russia, on the territory of the former USSR - in Lithuania.

President Medvedev was heard by German business For me, Chairman of the Eastern Committee of the German Economy, it was a special honor that President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to give a keynote speech on June 6, during his first visit to Germany. This was generally the first speech of the new president in Western countries. With this speech to an audience of over 1,000 listeners, Mr. Medvedev clearly demonstrated his principles in Germany.

WCI Steel shareholders do not want to give the company to Severstal Severstal continues to experience difficulties in the United States . Last week, the board of directors of the American Esmark rejected the purchase offer of Alexei Mordashov's company in favor of the Indian Essar, despite the consent of the trade union and one of the main shareholders of Franklin Mutual Advisers LLC (controls 60% of the shares).

Gazprom continues to convince Europe of interdependence Gazprom's export revenue this year compared to the results of 2007 will increase by more than one and a half times, by 25 billion dollars. As Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of the board of the concern for foreign economic activity, said yesterday at a briefing, total foreign exchange earnings from sales are projected at 71 6 billion dollars, of which 64 billion dollars will be raised by Gazprom in non-CIS countries.

Belarusian authorities want to regulate online publications The Belarusian parliament is considering a new bill on media. The document adopted on Tuesday in the first reading introduces new restrictions on the work of mass media. The draft law introduces a direct ban on funding media from anonymous sources, as well as from funds from foreign organizations and citizens who are not their founders.

Fidel appears to the people “Fidel sat alive and in good health, thinking, writing and setting out an important strategy for Cuba and our Latin America,” is how Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez commented yesterday on his meeting with the 81-year-old Cuban comandante. Chavez said that on Monday he met with Fidel for almost three hours, and on Tuesday they talked for about two hours. Cuban television broadcast an hour and a half video footage of the meeting between Castro and Chavez.

“Fight for the Banner” in the New Manege Did Soviet Russia of the late 20s of the last century have an alternative path to totalitarianism? Curator Ekaterina Degot is sure that there was. She connects it with the ideas of Trotsky, with the triumph of proletarian ethics, the principle of democracy, the ideology of world revolution and internationalism. Calls it a “left zigzag” of power.

Anyone who votes for United Russia must understand two things: firstly, this party has no policies, so by definition it will not defend your personal interests; secondly, this party by its nature is not capable of dialogue either with society or with its political opponents.

The case of the death of Anna Politkovskaya has been investigated, but not solved The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) of the Russian Federation yesterday announced the completion of the investigation into the murder of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya in the fall of 2006 . From today, those involved in the case should begin to familiarize themselves with the investigation materials.

Do hydrocarbons need competitors? Russia produces vast quantities of oil, gas and coal and has enormous reserves of these minerals, but it can also succeed in producing renewable energy. There are technologies for using solar and wind energy that will solve the problems of remote regions not connected to a single power grid.

Now Latvia knows how to respond to Russia President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to cancel visas to enter Russia for non-citizens of Latvia and Estonia has placed these categories of residents of the Baltic states in a more advantageous position compared to holders of passports from citizens of these Baltic republics. Now non-citizens have a free path to both the West and the East.

World champions remain at Euro The Italian national team nevertheless escaped from a seemingly inevitable death in Group of Death “C”. Not without the help of referees, luck and the Dutch, but the world champions continue to fight for the European Cup, eliminating their longtime rivals - the French team - on the way to the top and leaving the Romanians to struggle with their experiences. In group “C”, before the final round, a paradoxical situation arose.