Russia will help Syria develop peaceful nuclear energy For the first time in history, the Russian leader paid an official visit to Syria, an important state in the Arab world, on whose position the stability of the situation in the Middle East depends. Even in Soviet times, friendly relations were established between the two countries, but top-level leaders have not yet come from Moscow to Damascus. Dmitry Medvedev became a pioneer.

The rapprochement between Warsaw and Moscow is threatened by a new wave of Russophobia Yesterday in Warsaw, the state election commission finally confirmed that ten candidates will compete in the presidential elections on June 20.

He brought a letter from Bakiyev to Moscow with a request to send troops to Kyrgyzstan The President of Belarus continues the “battle for Bishkek”, in which no one but him is taking part.

Gazprom Neft significantly increased production volumes In the first quarter, Gazprom Neft managed to significantly increase oil production. The group's consolidated production amounted to 12.157 million tons, which is 9.2% higher than last year. The gas monopoly's subsidiary explains these results by purchasing foreign assets - Serbian NIS and British Sibir Energy. Experts believe that without new acquisitions, it will be difficult for the company to maintain the positive upstream trend.

Explosions at the Raspadskaya mine created a shortage of raw materials The restoration of the country's largest mine, Raspadskaya, will take several years. This opinion was expressed by the general director of Raspadskaya, Gennady Kozovoy, whose words are quoted on the website of the administration of the Kemerovo region. The stock market reacted to the accident with a sharp drop - by 15% at the beginning of yesterday's trading - in the price of Raspadskaya shares.

United Russia wrote a brochure about the achievements of Putin's ten-year plan The Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP) of United Russia has prepared a brochure on the country's achievements over the past decade. The customer of the document was the Speaker of the State Duma, Chairman of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the Party Boris Gryzlov. The target audience should be deputies, but the authors are already thinking about increasing the circulation.

Benedict XVI said that the internal sins of the church are more dangerous than its external enemies The Vatican chief's second foreign pastoral visit once again began with a discussion of the sex scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in recent years. On his way to Portugal, Benedict XVI had to answer very unpleasant questions from the journalists accompanying him, and this conversation ended with a kind of repentance.

CLASSIC GSO "New Russia". Z. Kodaly, E. Dohnanyi, B. Bartok. Soloists G. Murzha (violin), V. Kholodenko (piano). Conductor E. Bushkov. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , 19.00. THEATERS "Poor Lisa." Choreographic short story based on the story by Nikolai Karamzin to the music of the chamber opera by Leonid Desyatnikov. Directed and choreographed by Alla Sigalova. Starring Chulpan Khamatova and Andrey Merkuryev.

E.ON reports increased profitability The new chairman of the board of the German energy concern E.ON, Johannes Theissen, who officially took up his duties in early May, yesterday had the opportunity to announce that the company he heads has made a confident start to the 2010 financial year. Yesterday in Düsseldorf E.ON presented its first quarter performance report. Mr.

Prosecutors began interrogating Mikhail Khodorkovsky Yesterday in the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow, as part of the second criminal case against the ex-head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev and the former head of the Yukos oil company Mikhail Khodorkovsky, state prosecutors began interrogating the latter. The disgraced oligarch answered the prosecutor's questions calmly and thoroughly. However, from time to time the questions made him puzzled.

The President of Russia branded the “leader of all nations” On the eve of May 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tried to dot the i’s in the discussion about Stalin’s role in the Victory. Let us recall that this topic has been actively discussed in recent months in connection with the decision of the Moscow authorities to place posters with the image of the Generalissimo on the streets of the capital, allegedly at the request of veterans’ organizations.

Budgetary organizations will be forced to improve the quality of their services Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the federal law “On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation in connection with improving the legal status of state (municipal) institutions.” In accordance with it, additional opportunities for earning money on the free market are opened up for most existing budgetary institutions.

The Russian Championship waited for goals After unimpressive rounds in terms of scoring, the Russian championship broke through with goals scored. The players, sensing the approach of vacation, became more active at other people's gates and weakened their attention at their own. And the instigator of open football was Spartak: the Muscovites in Vladikavkaz both scored goals themselves and were even more willing to allow their opponents to do so. Sensation.

A photograph taken by Dmitry Medvedev was valued at 51 million rubles at an auction in St. Petersburg The proceeds from the ABC charity art auction, which took place over the weekend in St. Petersburg, were made by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. 28 lots - paintings with signatures of famous politicians, artists and writers dedicated to the history of Tsarskoye Selo (this year’s auction was dedicated to this topic) - went for a total of 31 million 530 thousand rubles.

Russia held the largest military parade in history The May 9 parade in Russia in honor of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War became unprecedented and the largest in the history of such events. In the capital alone, 11,335 military personnel took part in it. The parade took place simultaneously in 72 cities across the country. In total, about 102 thousand military personnel took part in the festive celebrations, and 1,327 units of weapons and military equipment were used.