The release of secret documents will hit Washington and Baghdad A serious information danger looms over the US-backed Baghdad government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the entire fragile internal political stability in Iraq.

The state prosecution wants Mikhail Khodorkovsky to serve until the centenary of the October Revolution Last Friday, in the Khamovnichesky District Court of the capital, representatives of the state prosecution finished speaking in the debate at the trial of the so-called “second YUKOS case.” Prosecutors once again stated that the former owner of the once largest oil company in the country, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the former head of the Menatep microfinance organization, Platon Lebedev, were

Exhibitions of architectural fantasies in Moscow There is no more greedy art in the world than the art of architecture. Architecture is always a huge budget, the participation of entire production corporations. This is often big politics and big business. Where these two components are present, there is a high probability of a third one - crime.

The role of the International Monetary Fund in resolving the sovereign debt crisis in Europe is not obvious. After all, the IMF works directly only with its members, and among them there are no regional associations or currency zones - only individual countries. In addition, supervision of monetary policy at the regional level has never been popular either within the IMF itself, much less among countries from the regions it supervises.

Cholera threatens refugee camps in Haiti Nine months after the devastating earthquake, a new scourge struck Haiti - a cholera epidemic. At least 253 people have already died, another 3 thousand have been diagnosed with the disease and are hospitalized. The first victims were recorded in the capital of the state, Port-au-Prince. We are talking about a particularly dangerous strain of cholera O1, which can kill a person in just three hours.

A film about the creator of Facebook is coming out Making a film about how a socially awkward Harvard sophomore became the youngest billionaire is tempting, but not easy. First of all, because in Ben Mezrich’s book “The Reluctant Billionaires,” which served as the basis for the script, very little is said about the character of Mark Zuckerberg (his real name, like the main part of the history of the creation of the Facebook network).

Kazan "Zenit" started the season by winning another trophy The Russian club volleyball season actually started with the Russian Super Cup among men's teams in the country. True, until last Saturday, representatives of the Super League and Major League “A” held the first stage of the Russian Cup, but most of the leading teams at this stage played without the strongest players called up to the ranks of their national teams for the World Cup in Italy.

Tbilisi is increasingly talking about readiness for negotiations with Russia. And the West is also interested in improving relations between the two neighboring countries, diplomatic relations between which were severed after the armed conflict in 2008. The Georgian issue will be discussed at the Lisbon NATO summit in November and at the OSCE forum in Astana in December.

Maria Kirilenko lost to her friend in the Kremlin Cup final The Kremlin Cup has not been given to Russian tennis players for the third year. Yesterday in the final of the women's tournament, Maria Kirilenko lost to Victoria Azarenka from Belarus - 6:3, 6:4. On the eve of the final, Maria said that she and Victoria were good friends, they played as a couple together, and on the eve of the Sunday duel they even agreed to have dinner together.

Russia may move to new types of contracts between the state and construction organizations Improving legislation in the field of infrastructure projects and overcoming administrative barriers in their implementation became the main topics of discussion at the second all-Russian forum “Russian Infrastructure Projects”, held at the end of last week in the capital’s President Hotel.

The government extended the embargo on grain exports until mid-2011 The ban on grain exports has been extended until July 1, 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting on agricultural issues in Rostov-on-Don.

Sergei Sobyanin visited problematic construction sites in Moscow The new capital's mayor began managing the city's economy by inspecting construction projects that began during the most prosperous years of Yuri Luzhkov's leadership of Moscow.

In the northwestern region, windy and cloudy weather will remain, there will be precipitation (rain, sleet), temperature at night -2...+3оС, during the day +2...+7оС. In central Russia at night 0...+5оС, during the day up to +10...+12оС. In the south of the European territory of Russia the weather is quite calm, on the Black Sea coast up to +24°C. In the capital, no precipitation at night, +1...+3оС at night, light rain during the day, +8...+10оС, southwest, south wind, 5--10 m/s.

Russia and Turkmenistan remained at their gas level “I’m returning from Turkmenistan. The visit was useful,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted on Friday on his way to Moscow. The Russian side conveyed to its Turkmen colleagues that the balance in relations between the two states that emerged after the gas crisis last year completely suits it. Mr. Medvedev specifically drew attention to the futility of outside interference in the process of resolving the status of the Caspian Sea.

September 22 -- October 22, 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. The ratings are also published on the publication’s website: www.vremya.ru. The ratings reflect both the total number of publications per month and the level of information favorability in relation to each political person.