Lithuania teaches Europe to fight for principles These days, in the building of the Lithuanian Seimas in Vilnius, a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is taking place, at which about four hundred deputies are discussing “new security challenges.” These conversations are part of a pan-European debate that has followed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's call last year to change the European security architecture.

Andrey Shevchenko may return to Kyiv Dynamo Kiev made an offer to the best Ukrainian football player Andrey Shevchenko to continue his career in his native club, where he played from 1994 to 1999. “The offer has been made. We are waiting for an answer. Either he gives the go-ahead or he makes a different decision. My soul and heart are open to him. Valery Georgievich Gazzaev does not object to Shevchenko joining the team,” club president Igor Surkis told the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya.

Germany is preparing to become the continent's strongest football power in the near future. German teams collected all youth and junior championship titles in Europe. The national team of the country, which produced the current winners of the continent's youth championship (under 17 years old) and gold medal winners in the older category (under 19 years old), won the European Youth Championship for the first time in its history.

The trial in the case of the Nevsky Express bombing has begun The Novgorod Regional Court yesterday began a hearing on the merits of the scandalous case of the bombing of the Nevsky Express passenger train in August 2007. In the dock are two residents of Ingushetia - Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev (pictured) .

Watch from July 2 on Moscow screens Ice Age 3: Age of the Dinosaurs (USA, 2009, Carlos Saldana and Mike Tamier). Another episode of a somewhat overrated, but incredibly popular all over the world cartoon about a company of prehistoric animals: the mammoth Manny (he is expected to add to the family acquired in the last episode), the tiger Diego (again suffering from reflections similar to the problems of the Cowardly Lion from “The Wizard of Oz” ) and Sid the sloth, who found several T.

Mortgage lending volumes in Russia fell to 2006 levels Today, mortgage loans are issued in Russia six times less than last year. Both in terms of volumes of loans issued and rates, the market is at the 2006 level. This was stated yesterday by the General Director of the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML), Alexander Semenyaka (pictured) , speaking at the conference “Mortgage Lending in Russia”.

The Association of Gas Exporters is temporarily headed by Abdullah Al-Attiyah The Forum of Gas Exporting Countries, which was officially transformed into a permanent organization at the end of December in Moscow, demonstrates a Qatari orientation. Yesterday, the first ministerial meeting took place in the capital of Qatar, Doha, but the parties were unable to agree on the candidacy of the organization’s secretary general.

Today the representative international track and field tournament Moscow Open will be held at Luzhniki. Many celebrities of this sport will take part in these competitions.

The 17th festival of film actors “Constellation” ended in Tver This is the oldest of the Russian film festivals - it is 20 years old. The latest Russian festival history begins with the first “Constellation”, which in 1989 gathered in Kalinin all the acting talent of Soviet cinema and clogged the city streets with happy crowds of its fans for a week.

The President of Chechnya may be first among equals in the North Caucasus Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov admitted that there are legitimate authorities in Ingushetia and they can count on the help of the people of Chechnya and its president in solving any problems. “We are one people, in fact brothers,” the Chechen leader emphasized.

The city authorities will not soften the conditions for subsidizing start-up entrepreneurs Muscovites who find themselves without a permanent job are in no hurry to retrain as entrepreneurs. At least, as Mikhail Vyshegorodtsev, head of the capital’s department for support and development of small businesses, told reporters yesterday, newly minted representatives of small and medium-sized businesses are not lining up for city start-up subsidies.

After the dismantling of RAO UES, the main tasks of the energy reform were not fulfilled In the year that has passed since the restructuring of the domestic energy monopoly, according to the majority of energy market participants and representatives of relevant departments, no serious negative phenomena have been noted in the industry.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow is probably known not only throughout the country, but throughout the world. It was this court that in 2003 issued a warrant for the arrest of the disgraced oligarch, head of Yukos Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev. Since then, the expression “Basmannian justice” has appeared and become a household word. The authorship of this expression is not known for certain.

This morning, a new composition of deputies of the Riga City Council will gather for the first meeting, who will elect a mayor. The main candidate for the post of mayor is 33-year-old Nil Ushakov. He heads the political association “Center of Harmony,” which, based on the results of the elections on June 6, received 26 of the 60 deputy seats in the capital’s Duma. Voters dissatisfied with the economic crisis refused to support right-wing nationalist forces.

The Minister of Culture stood up for the Russian language In Khabarovsk, at a meeting of the presidium of the coordinating council for culture under the Ministry of Culture of Russia, Minister Alexander Avdeev, discussing issues of tolerance and the fight against xenophobia, said, among other things: “Largely because of these migration processes, people have become worse at speaking Russian.