Governor of the Sakhalin Region Ivan Malakhov has accelerated the pace in solving the pressing problems of residents of the city of Nevelsk affected by the August 2 earthquake.

Adolf Hitler, a passionate admirer of Richard Wagner and “pure” German music, forbade the playing of Russian and Jewish music in concert halls, but secretly enjoyed it. This is evidenced by an unusual find made in the house of the former Soviet soldier Lev Bezymensky. According to The Times newspaper , hundreds of gramophone records believed to belong to Hitler were found in the attic of the officer's house.

And Elena Dementieva beat another Russian tennis player Ekaterina Makarova in the first round of the WTA tournament in Los Angeles with a prize fund of $600 thousand with a score of 6:3, 6:1. On Tuesday, at a tournament in Montreal, one match took place with the participation of a Russian tennis player. Marat Safin met with Robin Soderling from Sweden. The history of meetings between athletes who are separated by six lines in the ATP rankings includes one fight.

Politics The prosecutor's office did not recognize the governor VIDEO Victor Sumskoy A man who looks like the governor of the Arkhangelsk region Nikolai Kiselev is actually Fedot, but not the same one. The regional prosecutor's office announced: an examination of the film in which the alleged governor takes a bribe showed that it was edited. In addition, Kiselev himself was on a business trip on the day of the recording, providing himself with an alibi.

August 7, 2007, 12:48 p.m Formula 1 Grand Prix track damaged in Shanghai One of the Formula 1 championship races this season is in jeopardy. According to Reuters, the track where the race for the Shanghai Grand Prix in China is scheduled was damaged by a storm. With wind speeds exceeding 130 km/h, barriers at the Shanghai International Racing Circuit were torn down and four spectator stands collapsed.

07 August 2007, 15:45 The US military is prohibited from using sonars off the California coast A federal court in Los Angeles (USA, California) has banned the US Navy from using high-power sonars during a series of exercises off the southern coast of California. According to the Los Angeles Times, a judge ruled that sonars “cause irreparable harm to the environment.” Previously, scientists found that acoustic signals sent by sonars disorient marine mammals.

07 August 2007, 15:23 Culture Stand on the hill Interview with Rimas Tuminas Svetlana Polyakova Rimas Tuminas, recently appointed artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater, told Park Culture about how he intends to win, and about the dead of Woe from Wit.

07 August 2007, 17:32 Business Abramovich emerges from the shadows "Gazeta.Ru" Abramovich withdraws his real estate from offshore companies Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich plans to become a law-abiding taxpayer. According to The Telegraph newspaper, the governor of Chukotka and the owner of 19.8 billion dollars transferred part of his foreign real estate from offshore companies to his name.

07 August 2007, 13:45 Business Fitzpatrick is tired of LJ New place of work for a famous American programmer – Google Valentin Menshov Brad Fitzpatrick, who created the famous Livejournal (LJ), announced in his blog that he was leaving the Six Apart company.

07 August 2007, 05:44 “Salavat Yulaev” signed Tverdovsky President of HC Salavat Yulaev Nikolai Kurapov announced that Los Angeles defender, two-time Stanley Cup winner Oleg Tverdovsky, signed a contract with the Bashkir club. “We began to be interested in Tverdovsky in the spring,” Kurapov told Soviet Sport. - I’m glad that everything was decided and Oleg is with us. I think such an authoritative player will help the team solve the serious task set for the season.”

Policy 700 kg of brotherly feelings Georgia and Russia are on the verge of a new cold snap Ksenia Solyanskaya , Vasily Sergeev Georgia accused Russia of an act of aggression. The Georgian Interior Ministry claims that Russian planes violated the country's airspace and dropped a 700-kilogram bomb near Tbilisi. The Russian military denies this. There is a new serious complication in relations between Moscow and Tbilisi ahead.

17:34 (August 7) Former Florida coach bought Tampa Absolute Hockey Enterprises, led by former Florida FC coach Doug MacLean, has agreed to purchase NHL Tampa Bay's NHL franchise from Palace Sports and Entertainment. According to the terms of the deal, the new owners also bought the rights to Tampa's St. Pete Times Forum and all adjacent properties. All news: Hockey All sports news...

07 August 2007, 11:10 NASA announced the readiness of the shuttle Endeavor and its crew for launch specialists NASA on Monday completed a check of the Endeavor shuttle and its crew and announced that the vehicle was ready for launch, which is scheduled for Wednesday evening local time (Thursday night Moscow time). The countdown to the start was launched last evening (morning Moscow time). The astronauts plan to spend seven to 10 days in space and perform up to four spacewalks.

The prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region demanded that businessman Andrei Klimentyev be sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony . Initially, Klimentyev was accused of fraud and robbery of grain by threshing. In addition, according to investigators, in 2001, Klimentyev planned, together with the general director of Luidor LLC Stanislav Serpukhov, to organize a Chinese restaurant on the basis of equal shares.

08 August 2007, 10:18 Politics Nigerian wiring in Uzbek A new type of fraud exploits the Uzbek dictator Firuza Muryasova For 2000 USD. e. Uzbek “journalists” are ready to sell information about the events of May 13–14, 2005 in Andijan, the secrets of the rule of Islam Karimov and much more. For the first time, a variant of the classic “Nigerian scam” appeared in a stream of spam for journalists fighting the oppressive Central Asian regime.