Russian President Dmitry Medvedev decided to postpone the arrival of the new Russian ambassador to Ukraine because of Kyiv's "anti-Russian course." According to RIA Novosti, Medvedev informed Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko about this in an open message .

Oscar Wilde, Laurent Nordgren and a fragment of the poster for the Jim Jarmusch film "Coffee and Cigarettes". Collage Facets.Ru Among the most famous aphorisms of the outstanding British decadent writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is the following: "I can resist everything except temptation" ("I can resist everything except temptation").

In Germany, a former Wehrmacht officer was found guilty of killing civilians during World War II and sentenced to life imprisonment, Radio Liberty reports. A court in Munich found that 90-year-old Josef Schöngraber led the soldiers in the summer of 1944, who massacred ten residents of the Italian village of Falzano di Cortona - after partisans killed two German soldiers. Schöngraber ordered the taking of hostages, who were gathered in one of the houses in the village.

Deputies of the Riga Duma have approved the liquidation of 16 schools in the capital in order to save money, including 11 with Russian as the language of instruction, a representative of the Duma told RIA Novosti. Latvia is going through a severe economic crisis and the government has obliged all state institutions to significantly reduce their costs. According to the decision of the Duma, 16 schools will be liquidated over the next three years.

Russian human rights defenders do not believe that the murder of the head of the Chechen non -governmental organization "Save the generation" of Zarema Sadulaeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov will be disclosed. “I am sure that they (killers) will not be found and everything will be lowered on the brakes,” the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva told RIA Novosti.

In 2010, the dollar may rise to 36.5 rubles, according to the Moscow government. According to Vedomosti on Tuesday, this is 2 rubles lower than the average annual forecast of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development. The city authorities independently drew up the budget, not based on macroeconomic indicators that will be used in the preparation of the federal budget for 2010-2012.

The decision of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to postpone the sending of the Russian ambassador to Kyiv is "an extreme and exceptional step," thus the Russian president invites the political elite of Ukraine to decide on the upcoming presidential elections. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots.

By 2030, the air forces of the United States and a number of other states will be able to deliver a global strike on Russia from space. This was stated at a press conference by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Alexander Zelin, according to the Voice of Russia. Zelin argues that by that time the United States and its allies will be able to strike all over Russia from aerospace vehicles with weapons based on new physical principles.

Moscow does not break or freeze diplomatic relations with Kiev. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko, commenting on the decision to postpone the sending of the ambassador to Kyiv. "There can be no talk of any break in diplomatic relations or a freeze," he said. "We are talking about the fact that in his message, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, addressing his colleague Mr.

A group of unidentified criminals on forged documents received compensation from the Military Insurance Company for three years, according to the official website of the UPC. The total amount of insurance payments amounted to more than 55.5 million (55,534,615 rubles). In fact, a criminal case was initiated under part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code (theft of another's property by deception).

The ban on the sale of strong alcoholic beverages at all railway stations in the country will come into force on September 1, 2009, Sergey Abramov, head of the directorate of Russian Railways railway stations, told RIA Novosti. "September 1 is the officially defined date for the end of the stall trade at the railway station areas in the country.

Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov said that he was shocked by the murder of the leaders of the “Save the Generation” organization Zarema Sadulaeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov. This was reported by RIA Novosti "I am shocked by what happened. This is a cynical, inhuman and demonstrative murder. The murder of people who devoted themselves to assistance to people with disabilities.

Expenses of the capital's budget for the maintenance of public authorities will increase in 2009 by 3 percent compared to 2008 and amount to 24.7 billion rubles, Yury Korostelev, head of the capital's finance department, told RIA Novosti. According to him, the three percent increase in spending on public administration in Moscow was caused not by an increase in the wages of civil servants, but by an increase in the cost of utilities for public buildings and institutions of the city government.

On the night of Tuesday, the premises of the operational-search bureau of the Internal Security Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia were robbed. According to Life.ru , the thieves got into the room on Sadovaya-Sukharevskaya through the first floor window: they removed the bars and squeezed out the glass. The criminals took the laptop of the deputy head of the department from the office.

Timur Dangadze, head of one of the regional organizations of the Batkivshchyna party, was found dead in Donetsk, Tamara Kirichenko, press secretary of the Batkivshchyna regional branch, told RIA Novosti. The party is the basis of the BYuT parliamentary faction. According to Kirichenko, Dangadze's death was the result of a gunshot wound. "We cannot say whether it was a murder, a suicide or an accident," Kirichenko said, citing the incompleteness of the investigation.