Dmitry Medvedev did not say how Russia plans to compensate Azerbaijan for the agreement on a military base in Armenia Dmitry Medvedev's two-day visit to Baku ended last Friday. During the visit, an agreement on the state border between the two countries was signed and a contract was concluded increasing the volume of Azerbaijani gas purchased by Gazprom. With the help of this contract, Russia is trying to undermine the resource base of the Nabucco gas pipeline, an alternative to South Stream.

Izhavto resumes production The Izhevsk Automobile Plant (Izhavto), which stopped production last spring, may begin producing Korean Kia and Hyundai. The United Automobile Group (OAS, a subsidiary of Sberbank Capital), which is helping Sberbank, the main creditor of Izhavto, launch the plant’s assembly line, has agreed with Kia and Hyundai to assemble cars in Izhevsk. This was reported by Reuters, citing sources familiar with the negotiations.

Moscow region authorities are collecting votes in support of the current Moscow-St. Petersburg highway project The public campaign in support of the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway, initiated, apparently, not without the active participation of the Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov, is gaining momentum.

August 3 -- September 3, 2010 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

A suicide attack on a field camp of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade near the Dagestan city of Buynaksk on Sunday night showed how difficult the situation remains in the North Caucasus. Moreover, the situation in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria today is much more troubled than in Chechnya, which was considered the main hot spot of the North Caucasus back in the early 2000s. What are the reasons for such changes? What are the possible developments in the troubled region?

Central Telegraph completed the “Telegram against Terror” campaign, during which participants submitted telegrams in memory of those killed in the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro on March 29, 2010. With the money raised from the event, 500 specialized car first aid kits of the latest design for minibus taxis were purchased. Last Friday, the General Director of the Central Telegraph, Igor Zabolotny (left), handed them over to the head of the Autoline company, Alexander Tur.

The President of Transneft named the main troubles of the company The sale by the state of a 25 percent stake in Transneft, which minority shareholders insist on, would have the most negative impact on the company, its head Nikolai Tokarev said at the end of last week. However, Transneft has other reasons for concern.

Russia and Israel will sign an agreement on military cooperation Today begins the official visit of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Moscow. He arrived in Russia last night and is scheduled to meet with Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Monday. According to Vremya Novostey, during the two-day visit, the Israeli minister plans to meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Sergei Bogdanchikov was fired from Rosneft during a business trip Russian President Dmitry Medvedev celebrated the professional holiday of an oil and gas industry worker with a long-awaited, but no less intriguing change in the president of Rosneft. Having met on Saturday with the company's first vice-president Eduard Khudainatov, Mr. Medvedev immediately instructed the government to nominate him for the post of head of the country's largest oil corporation.

On the 40th anniversary of Salvador Allende coming to power Born into a family of aristocrats in 1908 in the city of Valparaiso, in the very center of Chile, who professed the ideals of classical European liberalism, Salvador Allende early became interested in the newfangled European teaching - socialism. Moreover, understood in the broadest sense: from Marx to Kropotkin.

On Monday and Tuesday, the north-west and center will be under the tutelage of a vast anticyclone, the center of which has moved from the south of Scandinavia to the shores of the Baltic, and from there will go to the northern capital. There will be almost no precipitation; night frosts and fogs are expected. In the north-west of European territory, near the center of the anticyclone, there is mostly no precipitation.

Dagestan militants attacked a field camp of the Ministry of Defense near Buinaksk Three people were killed and at least 32 were injured, according to official figures, as a result of a major terrorist attack that rocked Dagestan on Sunday night. All the victims are servicemen of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Ministry of Defense stationed near Buinaksk, whose field camp was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car filled with explosives.

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The separatists promised a ceasefire In the near future, one of the most dangerous centers of armed confrontation and terrorism may disappear from the map of Europe. Yesterday, the leadership of the Basque separatist organization ETA (in Basque - "Basque Homeland and Freedom") officially announced its refusal to conduct military operations.

The Russian team modestly won against Andorra The Russian team's trip to Andorra for three points turned out to be controversial. The opening victory in the qualifying round for Euro 2012 was achieved with little blood. But our competitors in group “C” have achieved more tangible success. While Dick Advocaat's team was impressively dealing with a hopeless outsider, Slovakia and Ireland were getting victories over more serious opponents.