Vladimir Putin named the conditions for the abolition of oil duties for Belarus The results of the work of the Customs Union, which has been operating since January 1 of this year, according to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, turned out to be “certainly positive.” He stated this on Friday at a meeting of the heads of government of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in St. Petersburg.

Russia and NATO reset relations The NATO summit that ended on Saturday was, according to its Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, one of the most successful in the history of the alliance.

Israeli lieutenant colonel should not travel abroad Late on the evening of Friday, November 19, the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv was unusually crowded and lively: elderly people in their sixties were hanging the flags of Israel and the Israeli Army Airborne Battalion. Those gathered called themselves military friends of the Israeli citizen, 67-year-old reserve lieutenant colonel Yair Klein. Numerous journalists observed what was happening.

The memory of the Nuremberg trials will help defeat terrorists The Nuremberg Tribunal became the largest political and legal achievement of its era, but not everyone learned lessons from it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday at the opening ceremony of the Nuremberg Trials Museum, dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the start of the work of the international tribunal against the main Nazi criminals.

The main accused in the Kazakhgate case has been declared a free man Late last week, perhaps the longest trial in US history ended in New York. On November 19, federal judge William Pauley Jr. handed down a verdict in the case of American businessman James Giffen. He was arrested in 2003 at New York's Kennedy Airport as he boarded a plane with a Kazakh diplomatic passport. After spending a night in jail, Mr.

The International Energy Agency presented a new global forecast until 2035 The long-term forecast for the development of the energy industry, World Energy Outlook 2010, presented by the International Energy Agency in London and Berlin in early November, contains a new view from experts on the prospects for energy consumption. The authors warn that unless there are fundamental changes in global energy use, humanity will inevitably face significantly increased global energy consumption by 2035.

An investigator and a lawyer accused of corruption were saved by a document confirming the provision of legal services The Moscow City Court recently issued an acquittal in yet another scandalous case of corruption in law enforcement agencies.

San Antonio has ten wins in a row Basketball. NBA. Regular season. Indiana - Orlando - 86:90, Charlotte - Phoenix - 123:105, Atlanta - Dallas - 93:98, Memphis - Miami -- 97:95, "Milwaukee" -- "Oklahoma" -- 81:82, "San Antonio" -- "Cleveland" -- 116:92, "Denver" -- "New Jersey" -- 107: 103, Portland - Utah - 94:103, Clippers - New York - 115:124. “San Antonio” won its tenth victory in a row.

Awards for popularization of science were presented for the third time The Enlightener Prize was founded by the Dynasty Foundation, established by the former owner of VimpelCom, Dmitry Zimin. The foundation supports science and education, and the prize was created to encourage the popularization of scientific knowledge. When asked why he needed this, Dmitry Zimin replied: “I do this for hedonistic reasons. I like to communicate with smart people. Intelligence is a very great value.

Competitors to Gazprom are growing in the Russian gas industry Changes are brewing in the Russian gas industry, where the situation was mothballed for years by decisions of the country's leadership. But they are connected, oddly enough, not with the government’s antimonopoly policy or the development strategy of the fuel and energy complex as a whole, but with the construction of a truly major player on the basis of NOVATEK.

Kaczynski's party disappointed the Poles Tomorrow in Poland the results of elections to self-government bodies will be known. On Sunday, Poles elected almost 50 thousand deputies to local administrations at various levels. The internal political struggle in the country has reached its climax. The matter was not limited to the traditional confrontation between the two main political forces - the ruling Civic Platform of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the opposition Law and Justice party.

The rally of supporters of the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway ended with the distribution of envelopes Supporters of the original Moscow-St. Petersburg highway project, which involves laying a highway through the Khimki forest, do not give up attempts to influence the final decision of President Dmitry Medvedev, while not hesitating in choosing the means to achieve this goal.

After the elections, a cold peace will come between Minsk and Moscow Today the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov arrives in Minsk. Amid the ongoing cooling between Belarus and Russia, high-ranking officials of the two countries have met infrequently lately.

Russians again died in a car accident in Egypt The fifth tourist bus crash in Egypt this year killed nine people, including four Russians and two Ukrainian citizens. Another 36 people, including 17 of our compatriots, were taken to Cairo hospitals with various injuries. The accident occurred on Saturday night on the 25th kilometer of the Zaafarana - Ras Ghareb highway, running from Cairo to Hurghada along the Red Sea coast and along a mountain serpentine.

One and a half hundred ancient views in the Museum of City History At first glance, the exhibition “Old Petersburg. The capital and surroundings" is unremarkable. An ordinary profile exhibition, devoid of even a clear accompanying text or catalogue. Still, it deserves attention because of the quantity and quality of the material presented. There are no circulation graphics, not a single engraving, not a single lithograph - only original drawings and paintings.