Changes in lifestyle and consumers standards of Samara citizens reflect such trends, as continuous active growth of consuming services of public catering (for 20 %), physical training and sports (for 60%), repair and dwelling housing construction (for 30 %), purchasing consumer durables, growth of number of cars, decreasing the share of purchases made on grocery and clothes markets.
On Sunday, March 5, on the date of Stalin`s death, traditional meeting of Stalin`s repressions victims will be held. The event will take place on the new location of right protection organization "Memorial", where it has moved just few days ago.
Agreement between Russia and European Union about deportation of illegal emigrants, and which in the opinion of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be the first step to mutual abolition of visas, may come into force in December 2006.
Mass media "must contribute to creation in the society of the atmosphere of intolerance to all manifestations of xenophobia, nationalism and extremism and not to give the platform to persons, confessing the ideology of fascism and national superiority ". The deputy chief of Northwest interregional coordination council of the party "United Russia" Yevgeny Samoilov stated this on Thursday. He participated in the session of "round table" on the theme - "If mass media capable of playing positive role in the increase of tolerances in the society?"
The airports of the capital aviation junction "Vnukovo", "Domodedovo" and "Sheremetyevo Airport" on Thursday in the evening renewed work in the normal mode, reported in the central traffic control service (CTCS) of Moscow.
Mikhail Gorbachev will celebrate his 75th birthday Thursday by throwing a party for his old Politburo colleagues, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, relatives and schoolmates.
For the first time the leader of country- chairman of G8 proposes to solve specific objectives, affecting interests of all states of the world. This is said in the commentary of the Mexican radio station "Educasion", dedicated to the article of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the questions of Russian chairmanship in the G8.
The monument to the poet Anna Akhmatova will be revealed on March 5, on the day of 40-th anniversary of the poet`s death, in the garden near Fontanny house, where her museum is located.
Aces of pilots group "Russkiye Vityazi"(Russian Heroes) will participate in the national celebration of China "Eagle of Victory", which will be held in Chinese province, Alexander Drobyshevsky, the head of Russian Air-Forces press-service, has informed on Thursday.
X congress of Russian pilot union ended in Moscow. Delegates expressed anxiety in the view of law "About opposition to terrorism", which allows anti-aircraft defense to bring down aircrafts captured by terrorists, in message to president Vladimir Putin.
Habarovsk citizens bid farewell to NTV journalist Ilya Zimin, who died under puzzling circumstances in Moscow.
13 cinema theatres will be reconstructed, the city administration has reported. According to the administration official, 13 cinema theatres of the Russian capital will be placed for the reconstruction investment tender.
The head of Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications Mikhail Seslavinsky, performing speech at the inter-industrial conference "Media of mass information, books publishing, polygraphy. Results of 2005 and development perspectives", suggested announcing the year of 2007 to be the Year of Reading.
TV journalist Vlad Listyev was killed 11 years ago. On Wednesday the colleagues of the journalist will commemorate this grievous date.
The poll, regarding the problem of young people`s health has been conducted in Miass.
In the Moscow area since 1 March it will become more expensive to trip in public and rail transport. The decision about an increase in the fare was accepted two weeks ago at the session of the provincial government.
The chiefs of the space agencies of Russia, the USA and Europe 1-3 March will discuss the prospects for further building International Space Station, reported the official representative of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Melissa Mathews.
The Ministry of Justice of Russia is intended to control the application in practice of the law RF about the non-government organizations.
The solemn ceremony of the presentation of the first National public reward "Good angel", founded by the International charitable fund "Maecenases of the century" passed in Moscow.
Vladimir Putin laid flowers to the monument to the victims of the events of 1956 the "Flame of revolution", locating on Kossuth square in front of the House of Parliament in Budapest.
As cheering crowds greeted Russia`s returning Olympians at Sheremetyevo Airport on Monday evening, elsewhere in Moscow another unofficial champion of the Turin Winter Olympics - the country`s much-loved furry, big-eared creature, Cheburashka - appeared to have been driven to extinction by his own popularity.
Double deck passenger buses will come into service of overland Moscow transport in 2006. This was reported by first vice-mayor in Moscow government, head of Municipal service complex Petr Aksenov.
European Commission will transfer 1.285 million euros for protection of Russian draftee`s and servicemen`s rights.
Vasilevsky spusk will become the center of Pancake week celebration in Moscow.
By "Gazprom" will allocate into the gasification of Russian regions not less than 17,6 billion rubles in the flowing and 12,2 billion rubles in 2007, reported the press-service of the concern on Sunday on the sums of the study of this problem by the council of the directors of gas monopolist.