EU countries are tired of paying for the Trans-Siberian Railway Relations between the European Union (EU) and Russia in the field of civil aviation have “reached a dead end,” European Commission spokesman Johannes Baur said yesterday. He called Russia's abolition of the so-called Trans-Siberian royalties - fees for the flight of foreign aircraft from Europe to Asia along the shortest route over Russian territory - an indispensable condition for progress.

The methodology for monitoring the equality of the presence of parliamentary parties on state broadcasts so far suits only United Russia. The Central Election Commission recently held a meeting with representatives of political parties, at which they discussed the procedure and methods for recording airtime allocated to cover the activities of each parliamentary party in all-Russian and regional television and radio programs.

An agreement was signed on the creation of a Russian-Venezuelan bank Vice President of Venezuela Alonso Carrizales, meeting yesterday in Novo-Ogarevo with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, promised that during his visit to Russia he would “accelerate all previously reached agreements between the two countries.” Among the priority agreements, apparently, is the creation of a Russian-Venezuelan bank with an authorized capital of $4 billion.

Former State Duma deputy Glushchenko was charged The Directorate of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg yesterday brought formal charges against former State Duma deputy Mikhail Glushchenko, who was detained last week. He is accused of extorting $10 million in 2004 from the brothers Sergei and Vyacheslav Shevchenko, well-known in certain circles in St.

The terrorist underground in the Caucasus exists regardless of the “big names” of leaders Even before the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and the emergency meeting that followed this terrorist attack in Moscow with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov demanded that the commanders of the special forces of the Chechen police destroy the remaining militants within two weeks.

President Medvedev visited the wounded head of Ingushetia Dmitry Medvedev visited the Institute of Surgery named after. Vishnevsky in Moscow, where the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov had previously been taken, seriously wounded as a result of the assassination attempt on him in Nazran.

Relations between Russia and Egypt have reached a new level The signing of the Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and Egypt ended yesterday two-hour negotiations in Cairo between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak. “This agreement will set long-term guidelines for the development of our countries,” Mr. Medvedev said immediately afterward at a press conference.

The majority of Russians believe in the effectiveness of manual control of the country More than half of Russians know nothing about the mass protests in the village of Pikalevo, Leningrad Region, or about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit there. And a significant part of those who heard about this conflict did not understand what happened and why. But among those who know, the dominant opinion is that such conflicts are best resolved directly on the spot by the top officials of the state.

Poland will contract 1 million tons of liquefied gas from Qatar Within a week, the Polish oil and gas state company PGNiG and the Qatari Qatargas Operating Company Ltd will sign a 20-year contract for the supply of liquefied natural gas from Qatar. On Monday, the supervisory board of the Polish company agreed on the terms of supply, and the Polish State Treasury yesterday confirmed political support for the project.

“Saturn” and “Zenith” were unlucky with the draw The clubs of the Russian Premier League have learned where they will tentatively begin the fight for the Russian Cup. Yesterday at the Taganka Football House the draw for the 1/16 finals of the tournament took place, with which the elite clubs begin their journey in the bracket. The teams did not receive specific opponents - the matches of the 1/32 finals of the National Cup have not yet taken place.

How to bequeath your internet data The Legacy Locker website provides unusual services. For $300, a client of this online service receives a virtual cell in which he can store information about his Internet life: passwords for access to online resources and archives, mail services, bank account information. When registering on the site and paying for the service, the user receives two “club” cards, which are confirmation of registration on Legacy Locker and contain the user name.

Chileans performed a play based on Gogol at the Chekhov Festival The smallest performance of the Chekhov Festival was shown in Moscow.

Watch from June 25 on Moscow screens "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (USA, 2009, Michael Bay). Continuation of the super blockbuster about the confrontation between giant robots on the sinful earth. The Autobots (just don’t ask who they are and why they eat them) led by Optimus Prime continue to destroy the Decepticon army, but everything can change in a moment if an artifact that can restore their former power falls into the metal paws of these same Decepticons .

The Russian ambassador in Minsk insists on the need for economic cooperation Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko yesterday ordered to review the list of Russian oil suppliers by the end of the third quarter. According to him, some of them do not select agreed upon supply quotas on time, expecting a more attractive market situation: “If a company does not fulfill the quota, then it should not operate in our market.

Rosselkhoznadzor discovered pests in the auto business Citizens and companies wishing to import a used car into Russia will, among other things, have to place it under phytosanitary quarantine - each importer will soon have to prove that there are no harmful insects in the car. On July 15, a new list of products subject to mandatory quarantine control adopted by Rosselkhoznadzor and the Federal Customs Service comes into force.