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.

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.

FAS accused Mechel's subsidiaries of violating legislation on the coking coal market After a failed attempt to punish Russian steel mills that were accused of setting unreasonably high prices for steel, the Federal Antimonopoly Service has found new targets for criticism. Yesterday, the department accused Mechel Trading House, Southern Kuzbass and Yakutugol Holding Company, members of the Mechel group, of violating antimonopoly laws.

Dmitry Medvedev named the priorities of Russian foreign policy Russia's foreign policy will not undergo drastic changes, and the West should not expect generous unilateral concessions from the country's new leader. At the same time, Moscow is ready to reduce the intensity of criticism towards Western partners and come up with new proposals for dialogue and cooperation.

The Ministry of Defense has fulfilled the plan for conscription Yesterday, another conscription into the Russian Armed Forces, which started on April 1, ended. The Ministry of Defense, through conscription commissions and military commissariats, fulfilled the plan 100%, placing 133 thousand 200 young people into military service.

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.

The life of objects at the Avignon Festival The life of the official program of the Avignon Festival flows from the performance of one theatrical celebrity to another, amid conversations among theatergoers about current trends and tendencies: new documentary, political theater, theater of cruelty and new visuality. And in these conversations the marginal, but very important for Avignon, genres of circus and art exhibition are almost forgotten.

One of the Mitki ended up in the Russian Museum In the Marble Palace, that is, a branch of the Russian Museum, an exhibition of the artist Viktor Tikhomirov, who was once part of the cheerful legendary group “Mitki”, opened. The exhibition is called “Energetic Lyrics”. All the paintings presented on it were created in recent years.

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.

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.

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.