The reasoning part of the decision to refuse to satisfy the claim of representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , who demanded the cancellation of the results of the parliamentary elections on December 2, was prepared yesterday by the Supreme Court. By the time the issue was signed for publication, the relevant documents had been provided to Communist Party lawyer Vadim Solovyov.

Greenpeace is trying to organize an unofficial referendum against the construction of waste incineration plants in Moscow Inspired by their ability to convince the country's top leadership of the harmfulness of the haphazard development of Olympic venues in Sochi , Russian representatives of the international environmental movement Greenpeace set about “re-educating” Moscow officials.

Changes on the coaching bridge of a particular club are a much more important event than the transfer of players, even very cool ones. Still, no athlete can change the character of the team. Apparently, now is the time to change for Magnitogorsk Metallurg, whose management has signed a contract with Valery Belousov. Valery Belousov is one of the most powerful specialists in the country, it’s hard to argue with that. In Russia, he worked with only three clubs, but achieved results with each.

Two European champions will not go to the Olympics Following the results of the one-and-a-half-month preparation for the Olympics, which ended yesterday on the floor of the Sports Palace in the town of Vidnoye near Moscow, the international tournament for the VTB Cup, head coach of the Russian women's basketball team Igor Grudin, named the squad for participation in the upcoming summer Games.

"Hamlet" by Thomas Ostermeier at the Avignon Festival The production of Hamlet by the German Thomas Ostermeier, one of the main icons of the new generation of directors, who several years ago already served as artistic director of the Avignon Festival, is the peak of the show.

Bin Laden's driver could be saved by procedural violations Former FBI agent Ali Soufan has reduced the chances of acquittal for the former driver of number one terrorist Osama Bin Laden . Salim Ahmad Hamdan, 37, is being tried by a six-officer military tribunal at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. The Yemeni man is charged with “conspiracy to support terrorism,” which carries a life sentence.

The administration of St. Petersburg was recommended to remove the Bolsheviks from the metro map If in Moscow officials are just planning to discuss the possibility of renaming the VDNH metro station to Kosmicheskaya this coming fall, then in St. Petersburg the dispute about clearing the metro map of “red” names is in full swing. The city toponymic commission has already approved a project according to which two metro stations will have to change their signs.

There is a war of exercises going on in the Caucasus Large-scale exercises of Russian security forces "Caucasus-2008" have entered an active phase. Participating in the maneuvers are units and units of the North Caucasus Military District (NCMD), Airborne Forces, 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army, Novorossiysk Naval Base, Caspian Flotilla, border guards and internal troops - a total of 8 thousand people, about 700 units ground equipment, more than 30 aircraft and helicopters.

Wagner's opera on the stage of the Freiburg Theater In Germany, every self-respecting opera house wants to have Wagner’s tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung” in its repertoire. The times when the best Wagner in the world was staged in Bayreuth are, alas, gone; interesting readings of “The Ring” are not necessarily born on the biggest stages.

The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov is ready to personally head the commission for training personnel in the country. “I understand the concern of the president of the country about the alarming state of affairs with the personnel reserve , but I want to say - appoint me as head of the personnel commission, and I will restore this reserve in two years,” the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation told INTERFAX.

A special correspondent for Vremya Novostei spent the weekend in Abkhazia “Russian armored personnel carriers brought into Abkhazia disrupted the tourist season there,” Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said yesterday.

The ban on access of foreign airlines to EU countries has been updated The European Union yesterday published the eighth version of its blacklist of foreign airlines that are banned from European airspace for failing to comply with flight safety standards. There are no Russian companies on the list. The CIS is represented (as, indeed, in previous versions of the list ) by the entire civil aviation of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and three large Ukrainian air carriers.

Russian shareholders of TNK-BP received operational management of the oil company The head of TNK-BP, Robert Dudley, left Russia yesterday to manage the company from abroad. The press service of TNK-BP reported this evening. She also released a statement from Mr Dudley, which said: “ Despite having a valid employment contract, I was unable to obtain a work visa .

The Belarusian president is fighting for what is more important than oil and gas Alexander Lukashenko considers poor-quality harvesting a crime. The Belarusian president announced this during his trip to the Brest region yesterday. “Against the backdrop of the global food crisis, when they talk about grain more than oil and gas, it is criminal to lose bread... Anyone who doesn’t understand this will face criminal charges!..

Russian citizenship will be constitutionally prohibited in Turkmenistan A nationwide discussion of the draft new constitution begins in Turkmenistan. According to the plan of its creators, and few doubt that its main creator will be called the country's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, it should become the legal framework for the “era of new revival” of Turkmenistan.