03 September 2008, 14:36 ​​Sports "Amur" beat "Dynamo" Riga On Wednesday, in the next match of the KHL regular season, Khabarovsk Amur beat Riga Dynamo at home with a score of 7:6 B (1:1, 3:3, 2:2, 0:0, 1:0 shootout). Pucks scored: 0-1. Berzins (Blinov), 03:23 1-1. S. Sevostyanov (Sarmatin), 04:50-ball 2-1. Belkin (Bashkatov), ​​23:59 2-2. Allison (Westcott), 31:35 3-2. Sarmatin (Aksenenko), 33:27 3-3. Gossa (Lavins), 34:06 3-4. Petrovicki (Novak), 37:21-bol 4-4.

03 September 2008, 17:45 From the editor Average European education In four years, the Russian school from the Soviet one should finally become a model Western one "Gazeta.Ru" The Minister of Education of the Russian Federation wants to improve the poor Russian school with "average European standards." But by borrowing other people's educational templates, Russia risks not catching up and overtaking the West, but completely ruining domestic universal education.

03 September 2008, 06:13 News The US Secretary of State will visit Libya for the first time in 55 years US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a “historic” visit to Libya on Friday. The State Department reports this. to Libya since 1953 It is emphasized that this will be the first visit of the head of the US foreign policy department . For more than 20 years, the United States has not had diplomatic relations with Libya.

03 September 2008, 21:17 Sports CSKA beat Torpedo from Nizhny Novgorod On Wednesday, in the next match of the KHL regular season, Torpedo from Nizhny Novgorod lost to CSKA Moscow with a score of 2:3 (0:0, 2:0, 0:3) Pucks scored: 1-0. Heels (Novopashin, Kosourov), 24.39 2-0. Tylyapkin (Kharitonov, Brendle), 29.25-ball 2-1. Hannula (Skugarev), 52.00 2-2. Shirokov, 53.07 2-3.

03 September 2008, 10:43 Sports Kareeva and Romenskaya ended their careers Beijing Olympic silver medalists Oksana Romenskaya and Anna Kareeva announced the end of their professional sports careers, the official website of the Russian Handball Union reports.

03 September 2008, 11:55 News National Bolsheviks held a protest against Putin Members of the banned National Bolshevik Party (an organization banned in Russia) held a rally in Moscow in connection with the anniversary of the Beslan tragedy. “Today, exactly four years after the storming of Beslan school No. 1, the National Bolsheviks held a protest against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ,” says a message from the NBP press service received by Gazeta.Ru .

03 September 2008, 17:35 Sports The 2008 Olympics song broke the download record Residents of China downloaded the main song of the Beijing Olympic Games “You and Me” to their mobile phones a record 10 million times, RIA Novosti reports. “To date, the main song of the Beijing Olympics, “You and I,” has been downloaded to mobile phones on our network more than 10 million times.

03 September 2008, 12:02 News WSJ: Chinese banks are cutting investments in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Major Chinese banks are cutting their investments in struggling American mortgage companies, The Wall Street Journal reports. At the end of June, the four major banks had a combined $23.28 billion invested in Fannie and Freddie debt.

03 September 2008, 11:10 News The European Parliament may freeze financial aid to Russia In connection with the crisis in Georgia, the European Parliament Budget Committee proposes to freeze financial assistance to Russia for 2009 in the amount of €60.5 million, allocated as part of the EU's neighborhood policy and intended, among other things, to support human rights groups and non-governmental organizations, the head of the committee said.

03 September 2008, 13:44 Cars Honda is about to introduce a new global hybrid Honda Motor Company plans to introduce an all-new hybrid car this week that will directly compete with the Toyota Prius, Motor Authority reports. The first public display of the new Honda hybrid will take place at the Paris Motor Show.

14:06 (September 3) More than three hundred Georgians are asking for refugee status in Russia More than three hundred people from Georgia have turned to the Russian authorities with a request to grant them refugee status, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko. He noted that in Russia there is an increase in the number of applications for refugee status from immigrants from Georgia.

03 September 2008, 12:44 Cars Parking along roadsides in Moscow will become free Parking along roadsides in Moscow will be free from September 10. Director General of the State Unitary Enterprise “City Paid Parking Service” Igor Khokhalev told reporters about this today . “Over the 10 years that we have had paid parking, people have suffered a lot: these include inflated tariffs, threats to drivers and much more,” he said.

03 September 2008, 14:57 Society Fursenko: universities that do not meet the established requirements will be closed “If universities do not meet the requirements, then they must be closed, but there will be no campaign to close universities,” Andrei Fursenko said in the State Duma on Wednesday as part of “government hour.” He explained that procedures related to evaluating the activities of universities will be carried out in accordance with the already approved time schedule.

03 September 2008, 19:33 News The French President arrived on a visit to Syria French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Syria on Wednesday on an official visit. The presidents of Syria and France have agreed to resume bilateral relations that were suspended following the 2005 assassination of Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , which France believes was orchestrated by Syria.

03 September 2008, 12:48 News US troops kill six Iraqi police US forces in Iraq killed six Iraqi police officers by mistake on Wednesday. Police fired warning shots into the air without immediately identifying a boat carrying American troops as it moved along the Tigris River past a checkpoint north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. “We shot in the air, not knowing that it was an American boat. The soldiers returned fire, killing six Iraqis and wounding ten more,” the anonymous source said. U.S.