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Best Novel Prize Candidates Announced The current booker season is marked by a procedural innovation: the announced long list of applicants cannot exceed 24 positions. The organizing committee can be understood - the number of nominees is growing by leaps and bounds (91 essays have now been nominated, of which 86 met the formal parameters), but the determination to abandon interim summing up is still lacking. (Of course!

Chronicle of sporting events The successful performance of the Russian national team at the European Championship was reflected in the monthly updated FIFA national team rankings. In it, the Russian team made a significant leap and rose from 24th place to 11th place. This is the highest position of our national team over the last decade: in 1997, the Russian team was once ninth, and a year earlier, in April 1996, it even reached third position.

CLUBS "Boombox" (Ukraine). A mixture of hip-hop, reggae, soul and jazz. CDK MAI , 20.00 “ The Act of Uncle Joe” with the participation of Yuri Kaverkin (guitar, vocals) , Doctor Agranovsky (guitar, vocals) , Natalia Lipnitskaya (saxophone) and `Dirty Dozen`. A vibrant show of improvisations performed by leading blues artists . Jazz Town , 21.00. Trio of Odyssey Bogusevich. Forte , 21.00. Alexey Kozlov and Arsenal .

Another reform of the Russian armed forces begins A new large-scale reform of the Russian armed forces has been launched. And although there is no single document on this matter, numerous plans in various spheres of life and activity of the state’s security component allow us to confidently speak about a new round of defense innovations. Moreover, their progress is accelerating at the initiative of the leadership of the military department.

Japan greets Russian President with talk of “illegal occupation” A few days before the start of the G8 summit in Hokkaido , among the participants of which will be Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Japanese authorities recommended that primary school teachers teach children about the “illegal occupation of the northern territories by the Russian Federation.” Let us recall that the “northern territories” in the Land of the Rising Sun are the Russian Southern Kuriles - the islands of Iturup,

The Ministry of Finance wants to legalize the mechanism of control over state corporations The Ministry of Finance has put forward a new legislative initiative - to write a single law for all existing state corporations. This proposal was made by Deputy Minister of Finance Tatyana Nesterenko. It is not yet entirely clear what aspects of the activities of state corporations will be regulated by the new law.

The Athens prosecutor's office has claims against the German concern The financial scandal around Siemens is becoming increasingly global. As the German media learned yesterday from the Athens prosecutor's office, a criminal case has been opened in Greece against a German concern in connection with suspicions of money laundering by company employees in this country, as well as bribery. Globally, claims against Siemens have already exceeded 1.3 billion euros.

The Tour de France will begin with the drawing of the mountain prize The most prestigious multi-day cycling race on the international calendar, the Tour de France, starts in the city of Brest on Saturday. The Big Loop dates back to 1903 and is being held for the 95th time. In the current race there are 20 teams of nine cyclists each, that is, the peloton has 180 participants.

The chaos in Ulaanbaatar had an orange tint Mass riots in the capital of Mongolia , provoked by the opposition’s demonstrative refusal to recognize the results of the parliamentary elections, have already received the name “yurt revolution” abroad. However, after the orgy of pogroms the day before yesterday, there was a lull in Ulaanbaatar yesterday. The authorities promptly used force, and President Nambaryn Enkhbayar declared a state of emergency in the capital.

The businessman does not intend to sell Polyus Gold and change the management of Norilsk Nickel The head of the Onexim group, a minority shareholder of the united company Russian Aluminum, Mikhail Prokhorov, yesterday told reporters about his policy regarding Polyus Gold and Norilsk Nickel, to whose board of directors he was elected last Monday . Polyus Gold remains the last asset that he still has not shared with his former partner Vladimir Potanin . However, as Mr.

The Council of Legislators discussed the legal support for the anti-corruption plan Yesterday, the Council of Legislators under the Federation Council of Russia joined the discussion of the national anti-corruption plan , or more precisely, its legislative support. Head of State Dmitry Medvedev attended the council meeting for the first time, calling the fight against corruption one of the main tasks of his presidency.

Kazakhstan confirms course towards European standards On July 6, the new capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, turns ten years old . This was the period of the formation of Kazakhstan as a new economic force in the Eurasian space and, according to President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the flagship of democratic development in Central Asia.

Russians in Turkmenistan may lose dual citizenship Today, Dmitry Medvedev, heading to the G8 summit in Japan , left Moscow for Baku. The capital of Azerbaijan will become the first point of the Russian president’s route on his way to the East.

Inter RAO UES ceased to be an operator for the supply of electricity abroad The legal status of the operator of export and import of electricity in connection with the liquidation of RAO UES of Russia remained in limbo. According to the legislation of the 90s, only RAO could conduct foreign trade activities in the sale of electricity. In 2002, the energy holding delegated this status to Inter RAO UES , which it created together with the state concern Rosenergoatom.