On May 27, the weather in most of the European territory of Russia will remain under the influence of a cyclone, which is slowly moving towards the Volga-Vyatka region. In the south of European Russia, unstable weather will continue, with thunderstorms and gusty winds. In the North-West region there will be light and moderate rains, during the day +11...+16оС. In the Central region there is occasional rain, +10...+16оС, in some places up to +18оС.

VEB was left with all profits for 2009 Yesterday in Novo-Ogarevo, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held meetings of the supervisory board of the Development Bank - Vnesheconombank to approve a report on VEB's activities for 2009 and consider upcoming projects. As a result of the meeting, it was decided to leave all the profits for the previous year in the bank for further use, and the projects submitted for financing were approved.

Kindle vs iPad: which is more convenient? Amazon and Apple have implemented two diametrically opposed, but equally successful concepts for an electronic reading device with Internet access. Most books have long been available for review by the author of this note (who is also an editor, book reviewer and literary translator) in electronic form - in a “manuscript”, i.e. in .doc format (“Word document”) or directly in the “layout”, i.e.

Yuzhny reached the third round of Roland Garros The second round matches continued at the Roland Garros clay Grand Slam tournament. On Wednesday, five Russian tennis players took to the courts in the Bois de Boulogne. The first of our players to make it to the third round of the French Open was Nadezhda Petrova, who beat the 47th racket of the world, Hungarian Agnes Savaj - 6:1, 6:2.

To the editor-in-chief newspapers "Vremya Novostei" V.S. Gurevich Dear Vladimir Semenovich! Your newspaper dated May 26, 2010 published a note that the city authorities, contrary to the promises made by the mayor of Moscow at a recent meeting with the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, will not be able to cope with queues in kindergartens by the end of 2011.

The Belarusian opposition continues preparations for the presidential elections scheduled for February 2011. On May 31, the United Civil Party will announce its candidate for the post of head of state, while his name is kept secret.

Currently, a coalition government led by the right-wing Likud party is in power in Israel. Russian orientalist Tatyana Karasova in her new book “Political History of Israel. The Likud bloc: past and present recalls that this party emerged in the mid-1970s, when the idea of ​​uniting right-wing parties into a single bloc emerged. Its name translated from Hebrew means “unity”, “cohesion”. Likud first became the ruling party in 1977 after winning the next parliamentary elections.

The Ministry of Transport proposes switching to personalized tickets for intercity buses The Ministry of Transport proposes to make tickets for intercity buses in Russia personalized, like airline or railway tickets. Technically, this problem can be solved next year, department experts believe. The collection of information on the movement of citizens on buses is expected to be entrusted to the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor).

The fence has been declared the main architectural symbol of Russia The relationship between architecture and sculpture on the one hand and politics on the other was discussed by members of the Open Forum club at their last meeting. During the discussion, it became clear that the main architectural symbol of modern Russia has become an ordinary fence. Along the way, experts criticized the government for not trying to express any high patriotic idea through artistic means.

Regions survived the crisis year with the help of the federal budget The AK&M rating agency presents another, now traditional, study of the relative creditworthiness of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation based on the results of 2009. The results of the study showed that the crisis year of 2009 had a significant impact on both the macroeconomic and budgetary indicators of Russian regions.

Liberalization provided energy companies with super profits According to data presented yesterday by the non-profit partnership Market Council, despite the decline in consumption by industrial consumers, the domestic power industry showed impressive results. At the end of 2009, in the generation segment alone, sales profit increased by 94%, and revenue increased by an average of 13% compared to 2008.

Stock markets are recovering, but the euro continues to fall Stock markets rose sharply yesterday after a long decline. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose by more than 2%, the British FTSE 100 by 1.7%, the French CAC 40 by 2.5%, and the German DAX by 1.5%. Major US indices also opened with gains of around 1%.

Israel offers Russians a different topic International mediators intend to make new efforts to get the Middle East peace process off the ground. Next week, American President Barack Obama will hold talks in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is going to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Polish expert admits pilots' guilt in crash of President Kaczynski's plane The crash of the Polish President's Tu-154 plane near Smolensk , which claimed the lives of 96 people on April 10, was due to pilot error.

Disagreements in the Customs Union unfrozen Russian WTO negotiations Due to disagreements that have arisen on a number of specific issues, the Customs Union may return to the “dormant” state in which it remained for more than ten years until June last year.