Indonesia and East Timor agree to forget the recent past Indonesia and East Timor jointly deplore the crimes against humanity that followed the Timorese independence referendum in 1999. "The governments of Indonesia and East Timor express their deepest sympathy to all parties and all victims - all who were directly or indirectly injured physically or mentally," the two governments said in a statement.

Transport tax will increase in the Moscow region Following Moscow, the authorities of the Moscow region also increased the transport tax. Moreover, in the Moscow region for some categories of car owners it will even exceed Moscow. The government of the Moscow region yesterday decided to index the transport tax for 2009.

Terrorists who plotted an assassination attempt on the prime minister were convicted in Germany In the southern German city of Stuttgart, yesterday the trial of the assassination attempt on Ayad Allawi , then the Prime Minister of Iraq, who came to power thanks to the support of the United States and Great Britain, during his visit to the country, was completed in December 2004 in Berlin.

Member of the Central Election Commission Evgeny KOLYUSHIN told Vremya Novostei correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA about the reasons that prompted him to speak at the trial of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's claim against the Central Election Commission to cancel the results of the State Duma elections as a witness and about the peculiarities of the work of the Central Election Commission in the latest political realities.

A show was held in Houston with the participation of 12 thousand Microsoft partners Last week, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2008, the fifth conference of Microsoft partner companies, took place in Texas. The event, which was attended by 12 thousand people, was a well-organized show. However, it is quite informative, and not just colorful. Profitable business Microsoft's business is impossible without the many large and small companies that operate around the world.

The mayor's office is ready to challenge the law on benefits for the privatization of premises in the Constitutional Court The pessimistic predictions of entrepreneurs, who feared that federal initiatives aimed at supporting small and medium-sized businesses would meet resistance from regional authorities, seem to be beginning to come true.

The north-west of the European territory of Russia will be covered by the clouds of the cyclone, the center of which will approach the coast of Norway. Tomorrow there will be mostly no precipitation, +22...+27оС in the daytime, torrential rains are expected, thunderstorms are possible, wind up to 20 m/s, +20...+25оС in the daytime. There is still an anticyclone in the center of Russia.

KHL clubs returned from vacation at the same time On Tuesday, July 15, the clubs of the Continental Hockey League came out of vacation and began preparing for the new championship. The leadership of the new organization changed the off-season. Firstly, no club has the right to begin official training before “day X”, secondly, no one can play more than 15 friendly games, thirdly, a waiver draft awaits Russia in August.

The Russian Foreign Ministry invited the United States to conclude a special agreement on the adoption of children Russia proposes that the United States conclude a special interstate agreement that would regulate the procedure for adoption . This proposal was announced yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, which took control of cases of abuse of Russian children who ended up in American foster families.

The service opened cases against the largest oil companies in Russia The Federal Antimonopoly Service, which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened with layoffs last week if jet fuel prices do not fall , yesterday pointed out who is to blame for this problem. The service's official statement states that it has opened cases against five major oil companies - LUKOIL, Gazprom Neft, TNK-BP, Rosneft and Surgutneftegaz.

Chronicle of sporting events The management of the NBA club Washington Wizards managed to extend the contract with guard Gilbert Arenas. The new agreement is for six years, during which the basketball player will receive $111 million. A month ago, Arenas terminated his contract with Washington, transferring all the necessary papers to the NBA office. The Wizards would have had to pay the guard $12.8 million next year, but Arenas decided to become an unrestricted free agent.

Pushkin studies by Boris Katz published Fet’s lines about a “small book” that “many volumes are heavier” refer to those “damned” quotes that are awkward to repeat (as much as possible!), and in other cases impossible to avoid. Boris Katz’s book “Eleven Questions for Pushkin: Small Hypotheses with an Epigraph in the Place of the Afterword” (European University Press in St. Petersburg) is the same case.

Why Russian municipalities are extremely slow to implement information technology Recently, the question of the need for more intensive implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in state and municipal administration has been raised more and more often at various levels of government.

Watch from July 17 on Moscow screens "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army" (USA, 2008, Guillermo del Toro) . The continuation of the excellent comic book film about a monster from hell raised by the American military (Ron Perlman - “Cronos”, “Alien: Resurrection”, “Blade 2”), who, as part of a paranormal special team, opposes his fellows on the side of a very specifically understood good.

For the post of Commissioner of the Russian Federation at the European Court, instead of a former classmate, the Minister of Justice proposed a former subordinate Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov withdrew the candidacy of Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Viktor Evtukhov for the post of Commissioner of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights. Instead of his former classmate, Mr.