The head of the regional Public Chamber calls for the adoption of a special law for the Kaliningrad region In the westernmost region of the Russian Federation - the Kaliningrad region - there are increasingly frequent calls for the federal center to more clearly build mutual relations. Recently, a similar idea was voiced by the chairman of the regional Public Chamber, Gariy Chmykhov, during a meeting with the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. Mr.

Russian cities are preparing to evict utility defaulters Russian municipalities seem to be starting a new round of struggle against persistent defaulters for utility services. In particular, the city halls of Yakutsk and Chita decided to evict debtors for housing and communal services, and now premises for their temporary accommodation are being urgently prepared, and they are already designed for a significant number of residents.

After an open disagreement with Moscow, the West may become an important source of external borrowing for Minsk. The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will soon consider increasing the loan allocated to Belarus in January of this year from $2.46 billion to $3.46 billion.

Demand for aircraft will increase in a few years A forecast for the development of the global aviation market for the next 20 years, compiled by experts from the American company Boeing, was presented yesterday at the Le Bourget 2009 international air show by the executive vice president of the aircraft manufacturing giant, head of Boeing's civil aircraft division, Scott Carson (pictured) . In his opinion, the commercial aviation market will grow steadily in the long term. Mr.

Belarus tightens customs controls on the border with Russia The Belarusian authorities seem to have decided to give a symmetrical response to the actions of Russia, which has banned the import of dairy products from its neighbor into its territory since June 13. Yesterday, President Alexander Lukashenko convened the Security Council of the republic, at which he urgently demanded that all measures be taken to protect the country from “unfriendly actions” of Russia.

Experts cannot determine the exact cause of the Airbus A330 crash The search operation to find the bodies of dead passengers and the wreckage of the French A330 airliner that crashed over the Atlantic on June 1 has ceased to bring significant results. In recent days, nothing has been found that could shed light on the reasons for the crash of the airliner. In this regard, the Brazilian military decided to wind down the operation.

Parliament is being elected again in Moldova Today, the Moldovan Central Election Commission begins accepting documents necessary for the registration of parliamentary candidates for the early parliamentary elections on July 29. At yesterday's meeting, the Central Election Commission announced the creation of a commission that will determine by drawing lots the order in which documents are received. Another decision approved a list of 28 parties entitled to participate in the elections.

Russia wants to adjust military cooperation with Abkhazia and South Ossetia President Dmitry Medvedev, as if emphasizing the position of Russia, which blocked the decision in the UN Security Council to extend the mandate of the mission of this international organization in Georgia, yesterday instructed the government and relevant relevant departments to prepare and sign agreements on military cooperation with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

London investigates its war In three weeks, on July 9, the last British soldier will leave Iraq. In just six years, 120 thousand British troops passed through the crucible of the Iraq campaign. 179 of them died, 222 remained disabled. The war cost the United Kingdom billions of pounds and led to a serious deterioration in the country's international standing. Was it necessary for London to get involved in this war together with Washington?

CONCERTS Big band of Oleg Lundstrem, Yuri Shikhin, Daria Antonova. TKZ “Palace on the Yauza” , 19.00. CLASSIC Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Conservatory , department of opera and symphony conducting. S. Rachmaninov. Students of the vocal department of the Moscow State Conservatory. Conductor V. Ashkenazi. Conservatory , 19.00. Musical dialogues . I.-S. Bach, G.F. Handel, L. Krebs, D. Buxtehude, R. Schumann, Z. Karg-Ehlert, F. Bräutigam. Soloists V. Lopantseva (organ), F. Nodel (oboe).

Russian investors are losing German shipyards The Wadan Yards shipyards in the German cities of Wismar and Warnemünde are once again, as the Germans say, hanging on a silk thread these days. Another chapter has opened in the dramatic history of this privatized GDR enterprise VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar. The administrative court of Schwerin in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has received an official application to initiate bankruptcy proceedings for Wadan Yards.

Ukraine asked Europe for money to pay for Russian gas Tomorrow in Brussels, before the opening of the summit of the heads of state of the European Union, a meeting of the EU gas coordination group will take place. During it, the results of the work of the European expert mission, which last week in Moscow and Kyiv tried to understand the situation with the injection of Russian gas into Ukrainian underground storage facilities, will be officially summed up.

"Eugene Onegin" at the Vienna Staatsoper The first news of the destruction of the old patriarchal image of Vienna was the appearance of a Starbucks cafe on the corner of Kärtnerstrasse, right next to the Staatsoper, opposite the Viennese cafe Sacher, where the most Viennese cakes in the world are sold in great demand. Then they liquidated the cafe of the Ambassador Hotel and built some fashionable shops on its lower floor with Luzhkov’s, I would say, layered marble cladding.

Residents of Italian Pisa are punished for not lighting candles on holiday Since yesterday evening, refusal to merge with fellow countrymen in a single festival enthusiasm is considered in Italian Pisa as an administrative offense. According to the decision of the magistrate of this city, best known for its famous leaning tower, every resident who does not display a lighted candle or oil lamp in the window of his apartment on the evening of June 16 will be fined 500 euros.

UN observers in Abkhazia and Georgia stopped working Yesterday at eight in the morning Moscow time, the UN observer mission in Abkhazia and Georgia ceased its work. A few hours earlier, Russia vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution extending the mission's mandate for two weeks, until June 30. The project was supported by ten countries, including seven of its co-authors - Austria, Great Britain, Germany, USA, Turkey, France and Croatia. Vietnam, China, Libya and Uganda abstained.