International observers did not exclude mass falsifications during the election of the President of Afghanistan According to observers from the European Union (EU), up to 1.5 million votes filled during the presidential election in Afghanistan look suspicious, including one third of the votes cast for Hamid Karzay.

The bill prohibiting lawyers when communicating with prisoners in jail to use any technical means has successfully passed the first reading in the State Duma.

Russian Mikhail Prokhorov should be announced on the conclusion of a transaction for the acquisition of the New Jersey NTS NTS team in the coming days. The amount of the contract can be a symbolic 1 dollar. According to the newspaper Sport-Express , the parties have already agreed on most business issues, now the case for legal registration and information support of the purchase.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will visit Veliky Novgorod on Friday, where he will hold a joint meeting of the State Council and the Presidium of the Council for Culture and Art of the President. The meeting will be held on the territory of the Novgorod Kremlin in the building of the regional Philharmonic.

The advertising campaign of the “Forbidden Reality”, which will be released in November, is an example of an unprecedented operation of “Viral marketing” tools for Russian cinema. The first episode of the promotional campaign was the distribution of a message about the appointment of Tina Kandelaki by the leading program "Time". Among Russian film projects, there are not too many examples when the promotion of the film is seriously focused on hidden, so -called viral, methods.

Mahmud Ahmadinejad said that Iran does not need nuclear weapons: he can protect himself without him. However, Tehran is not going to abandon the nuclear program. The Akhmadinejad interview was published on the same day with the secret report of the Magate, claiming that Iran is already ready to create a nuclear weapon. The creation of nuclear weapons is not yet included in Iran’s plans, said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

At least 11 people suffered from a tornado, who swept on Friday in the Cyprus capital of Nicosia. The tornado, a rare phenomenon for Nicosia, was accompanied by pouring rain. He torn the roofs from the houses, broke shop windows and pulled trees with the root. From the hurricane several cars collided, and the roof of the plant collapsed, Reuters reports. All victims received only small bodily harm. Basically, they were wounded by fragments of glass. “It was incredible, huge damage was caused.

On September 1, schools in all regions of the country are obliged to provide students with hot food, but this norm is not always carried out everywhere, at Thursday the head of the education and additional education of the children and youth of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia Valentina Berezina reported on Thursday. Berezina recalled that since 2008, in a number of regions, an experiment has been conducted to provide schoolchildren with two -time hot meals.

In the absence of alternatives, Russians will spend "children" on housing Of the 102 billion rubles, which the federal budget will allocate for the payment of maternity capital next year, 70% of the family will be directed to pay off the mortgage loans and the purchase of housing, the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova hopes.

The first racket of the world Roger Federer and Russian tennis player Vera Zvonarev was fined $ 1,500 for rude statements during disputes with the judge on the tower during US Open. According to AP , for the same amount for such behavior another athlete - Austrian tennis player Daniel Keller. The total amount of fines for the participants of the US Open-2009 amounted to $ 31.5 thousand.

The Olympic swimming champion ENT Manada, representing France, announced the end of her career. At the moment, the age of Manada is only 22 years old. According to Reuters , she decided to leave the sport, as she no longer feels the desire to compete at the highest level and she has many other interests. Manada won the Golden Olympic medal at 2004 games in Athens in a swim of 400 meters free style.

A visit to Ukraine Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, who was scheduled for October, will not take place. The head of the Russian government refused to hold too frequent meetings with Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko because of the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine. However, as it became known to the publication "Kommersant-Ukraine" , a few days ago the apparatus of the Russian prime minister informed Yulia Tymoshenko’s apparatus about the abandonment of the agreements reached.

The head of Sberbank German Gref said that he intends to continue the policy of reducing rates on loans and deposits. The example of the largest Russian bank, which sets the trends in the market, will be followed by other players. Sberbank has recently reduced loan rates by 3-3.5 percentage points, and on deposits by 2-2.5 percentage points, said the head of the bank German Gref, who takes part in the forum in Sochi, in an interview with Vesti television channel.

The striker of the Moscow Spartak Welliton could not visit the goalkeeper "Dynamo" due to the rudeness of the guard of the clinic. Recall that in the last round of the Russian Championship, Vellon has caught a serious injury to Gabulov. According to Soviet sport , a guard who had a fan of Dynamo began to insult Velliton when the Brazilian arrived at the hospital. All the way to the hospital elevator, the guard continued to insult Welliton.

The film "Obstacked Hugs", with which Pedro Almodovar participated in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival, was not included in the list of possible nominees for Oscar from Spain. Director Pedro Almodovar will not go to Los Angeles to represent his native Spain at the Awards of the American Film Academy.