Trade unions made concessions to employers The number of potential applicants, if not for dismissal, then for leaving work of their own free will, may increase in the near future. Yesterday, the Russian tripartite commission for regulating social and labor relations approved recommendations for employers and trade unions, de jure allowing enterprise managers to change work schedules.

Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko held difficult negotiations in a “brotherly atmosphere” Good neighborliness in relations between Russia and Ukraine has recently manifested itself exclusively during visits to Moscow by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Russian national team on the eve of the second stage The Russian national team passed the first stage of the World Hockey Championship in Switzerland without losses. A rather successful draw led to the fact that our team had only one opponent on its way, who could hardly be called serious. But even two and a half “friendly matches” highlighted the team’s problems. The first problem is recruitment.

GAZ is negotiating the sale of a car plant that is facing bankruptcy The first victim of the crisis among British automakers may be the LDV Group plant, which produces mini-trucks and minibuses and is part of Oleg Deripaska’s Russian GAZ group. Yesterday the company announced that it had filed for bankruptcy due to difficulties with financing.

The Russians sent Europeans in a humanitarian direction Russia has failed to convince European public opinion that South Ossetia and Abkhazia have the right to independence. An indicator of this is the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe currently taking place in the French city of Strasbourg.

Russia has always been the target of any Western expansion to the East. Western armies have always been aimed at Russia. Thus, at the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon conquered several European countries before reaching Russia, rich in coal, iron, oil and gold. Hitler did the same during the Second World War, aiming his huge army at Russia for the same purpose. Today NATO is following in the footsteps of Napoleon and Hitler to reach Russia.

Great Britain changes tactics in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda A new “cauldron of terror” has emerged in the world - future large-scale terrorist acts are being “cooked” in it and the militants who will carry them out are being trained. This “cauldron” is located in the mountain range through which the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan passes. We are talking about a huge territory that is not controlled by the security forces of any of these countries.

The new mayor of Sochi called for preparations for both the Olympics and the holiday season Yesterday, the date of the official inauguration of the new mayor of Sochi, Anatoly Pakhomov, who won the elections last Sunday, April 26, became known. The inauguration will take place on May 12. Mr. Pakhomov will become not just the mayor of a seaside city, but one of those directly responsible for Russian prestige in the world.

“The Beautiful Fig Tree,” a new film by one of the most interesting young masters of French cinema, Christophe Honoré, is being released in Russia.

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Rainer Seele may become chairman of the board of management of Wintershall The Wintershall holding, one of Gazprom's main partners in Europe, is changing its leader. Instead of the Dutchman Reinier Switserloot, who is due to retire on September 30, Rainer Seele has been proposed as chairman of the board. Supervising the natural gas department, he was also responsible for interaction with Gazprom. Mr.

Metropolitan police appointed temporary head The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Rashid Nurgaliev, yesterday appointed Police Major General Alexander Ivanov as acting head of the capital's Main Internal Affairs Directorate. The former head of the Moscow police, Vladimir Pronin, was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev a day earlier. The reason for this decision was the tragedy that occurred on Monday night in the south of Moscow, where one of Mr.

The ninth international exhibition of the defense industry "Idef-2009" is coming to an end in Istanbul. The head of the Russian delegation, chief adviser to the general director of FSUE Rosoboronexport, Anatoly AKSENOV, talks about its progress and some preliminary results in a conversation with Vremya Novostei military observer Nikolai POROSKOV. -- Is Aydef, first organized not in Ankara, but in Istanbul, progressing or the opposite?

On the pre-holiday day it will start to get colder. From the shores of the White Sea all the way to the Black Earth Region, the temperature drops. In the north-west of European Russia in the morning +3...+8оС, in the afternoon +9...+14оС. In the center of Russia on Thursday there will be short-term rains in places, the temperature in the morning is about +10°C, in the middle of the day +13...+18°C, and in the evening it will drop to +5...+10°C. No significant precipitation on May 1 and 2.

TNK-BP reported record revenue Last year was the most successful for TNK-BP. Despite the fact that net profit in 2008 remained at the level of 2007 - $5.3 billion, the company received record revenue - $51.9 billion according to US GAAP. As stated by the acting Chief Executive Officer Tim Summers, grew by 5% and reached a maximum level and EBITDA of $10.1 billion. TNK-BP divides the past year into two periods.