Israelis are preparing for a deal with Hezbollah Israel has begun exhuming 199 corpses of Lebanese militants killed two years ago during fighting in the Second Lebanon War. All of them will be transferred to Lebanon as part of a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the radical Islamic Shiite group Hezbollah. The deal is being mediated by Germany, and, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, its first stage could take place on July 16 or 17.

Iran has threatened to hit Tel Aviv and American ships in the Persian Gulf and "burn" them if it itself comes under attack . This was stated yesterday by Ali Shirazi, assistant to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “The Zionist regime is putting pressure on the White House for the US to attack Iran.

In London they are trying to compare the “Litvinenko case” with an act of aggression Almost at the same time that President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Gordon Brown were meeting in Hokkaido , trying to normalize relations between our countries and return them to a good neighborly level, the British public broadcasting corporation BBC suddenly decided to “shake out the old dirty underwear." BBC Two's most respected political program aired a report in which a senior British security

The Russian IT market has not matured to high-quality analytics Of the so-called “big three” global IT analysts - IDC, Forrester Research, Gartner - only IDC has a representative office in Russia. The other two are in no hurry to give priority to the Russian IT market in their plans. The main reason is his immaturity. Once upon a time, a small analytical company prepared an interesting article. She talked about what is happening with staff turnover in Russian IT companies.

Alexander Lukashenko yesterday dismissed two officials from his inner circle. 50-year-old Secretary of State of the Security Council Viktor Sheiman and 54-year-old head of the presidential administration Gennady Nevyglas lost their positions in connection with the explosion of a homemade device on July 4 at a concert on the occasion of Independence Day of Belarus. Both were dismissed with the wording “due to transfer to another job,” but nothing has yet been announced about new appointments.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development agreed to take into account the opinion of human rights activists The Ministry of Health and Social Development, which initiates one reform after another, agreed to the participation of human rights activists in the development of new bills being prepared within the department. An agreement on this was reached at a meeting between Minister Tatyana Golikova and Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin and his regional colleagues. As Ms.

The Central Election Commission is fighting for the integrity of the past elections The last desperate attempts to disperse the State Duma elected in December 2007 are being made by representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Union of Right Forces, who have reached the Supreme Court in their search for justice . The outcome of these processes was predictable. The court has already refused to satisfy the SPS claim.

Study of the relative creditworthiness of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation Despite the general positive trend, the economy of Russian regions is developing extremely unevenly , according to the results of a study of the creditworthiness of Russian regions conducted by the AK&M rating agency with the support of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. Agency experts note that the unevenness is due to both objective and subjective factors.

American financial authorities say they may again raise interest rates amid rising inflation risks. In addition, the head of the Federal Reserve System (FRS) Ben Bernanke said that the central bank intends to continue lending to large companies in 2009. Against the backdrop of these statements, the dollar rose yesterday against major world currencies, but stock market participants were pessimistic, and the main indices fell at the opening of the trading session.

The first verdict was handed down to the partners of Neftyanoy Bank The other day, as Vremya Novostei learned, the Ostankino District Court’s conviction against Alexey Ryzhikov, the general director and chief accountant of the autonomous non-profit organization “Construction Organization “Perspective””, came into legal force. The court found him guilty of tax evasion in the amount of more than 2.7 million rubles.

The federal law on technical regulation will appear no earlier than 2010 The scheduled meeting of the government commission on technical regulation did not take place yesterday. This will delay the implementation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s instructions. Today, technical regulations, as the prime minister once noted, “are no longer technology; they are backed by huge public money.” Moreover, the amounts are astronomical - trillions of rubles. And therefore, this is already politics.

Sukhumi is categorically against Washington's proposals US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is arriving in Tbilisi today. According to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryse, the agenda of her negotiations with the Georgian leadership is to resolve the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “We believe that now the international community must convince Russia to change its actions in Abkhazia.

Tomorrow a new round of six-party talks on the DPRK nuclear issue will begin in Beijing with the participation of the heads of delegations of the two Korean states, China, Russia, the United States and Japan. The last time they met was in October 2007 . “The six-party talks have made significant progress. In order to further advance them, all parties agreed to meet in Beijing on July 10,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said yesterday.

Rosneft is going to sell Repsol a 24 percent stake in Sakhalin-3 A new participant may appear in the Sakhalin-3 project. As Antonio Brufau, president of Spanish oil and gas company Repsol YPF, told The Financial Times yesterday, negotiations to buy a “significant stake” in it are at an “advanced stage.” However, Mr. Brafau did not disclose the details of the negotiations.

Porcelain exhibition at the Russian Museum In the halls of the Mikhailovsky Castle of the Russian Museum there is an exhibition “Porcelain from private factories of St. Petersburg”, which presents about four hundred works created at the famous enterprises of Batenin and the Kornilov brothers. In 1818 F.S. Batenin acquired his own store in the city center - on Nevsky Prospekt near the Kazan Cathedral (No. 25). He had something to present on the main street of the Russian capital.