The traffic police of the Sverdlovsk region officially confirmed that on July 27 there was an accident involving a Mercedes G-55, in which the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Eduard Rossel was traveling, and two cars - a Skoda and a Mitsubishi.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that he intends to hold a meeting on combating drunkenness in the near future. The head of state held a meeting on August 5 in Zvenigorod on reducing administrative barriers for small and medium-sized businesses, after which he addressed the townspeople who were waiting for him at the city administration building. In response to the proposal to declare a battle against “drunkenness,” Mr.

The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has accurate data from captured documents that Georgia has been preparing the August aggression against South Ossetia since 2004. “The main task that confronted us during the year (2009 - Kommersant) ... was to prove to the world community that Russia was not preparing any aggression.

Today, Perm FC Amkar, in the 1/8 finals of the Russian Football Cup, won at home over Podolsk Avangard, playing in the second division, with a score of 2:1. Forward Nikolai Zhilyaev and Montenegrin midfielder Mitar Novakovich scored for Perm. Thus, Amkar reached the quarter finals of the Russian Football Cup. In the quarterfinals, Amkar’s opponent will be the winner of the pair “Spartak” (Moscow) – FC “Moscow”. Artem Voronenko

LastChangedOpen positionsVolume bidding Oil and energy Brent Blend, IPE ($/bar, 1000 bar) September 0.74 +0.004 106723 55192 October 0.74 +0.003 155544 31190 November 0.75 +0.002 52847 15881 December 0.76 +0.003 101285 15632 West Texas crude, NYMEX ($/bar., 1000 bar.) September 71.58 0.0 320204 130438 October 73.34 +0.16 127292 34547 November 74.50 +0.23 63132 15547 December 75.31 +0.25 157921 20074 Gasoil, IPE ($/t, 100 t) August 5.95 +0.033 43107 15334 September 6.02 +0.033 97388 30260 October

asks not to bypass Alexey Kommersant-Shapovalov, Economic Policy Columnist Economists often work in investment banks, and it is there that they easily refute theses that are dogma in macroeconomics textbooks. The second of August can be considered the start of the race among economists to declare the recession over.

The authorities of Yakutsk are finishing the preparation of a flexible housing stock into which city residents who have large debts for utilities will be resettled. “We have repeatedly warned debtors that strict measures will be taken against them if they do not pay for utilities,” a representative of the city administration told RIA Novosti on August 5.

The National Hockey League (NHL) club New York Rangers has refused the services of Russian forward Nikolai Zherdev, who became the team’s top scorer last season. According to TSN, the reason for the Russian’s dismissal is that the NHL club did not agree to increase his salary. Nikolai Zherdev’s rate was $3.25 million per year. The forward demanded to raise the salary to $4.75. A trial took place, and an independent judge found that the club should pay Zherdev $3.9 million.

Contracts Real Madrid, which acquired Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United for €94 million, insured the midfielder's legs for €106 million. Thus, the club decided to protect its record investment in the best player in the world in 2008 according to FIFA. Real Madrid management became nervous when 24-year-old Ronaldo recently suffered a knee injury. The bosses escaped with a slight fright: the bruise, according to experts, turned out to be insignificant.

Aviadvigatel OJSC (Perm) in the first half of 2009 increased its net profit calculated according to RAS by 3.7 times compared to the same period in 2008 - up to 9.058 million rubles, the company report says. The company's revenue in January-June of this year increased 2.3 times - to 1.269 billion rubles. The company's press service did not disclose the reasons for the change in financial indicators to the Interfax-Povolzhye agency.

Today, August 5, it became known that the 53rd London International Film Festival has chosen the film Nowhere Boy, which tells about the childhood years of John Lennon, for the closing ceremony. The title of the film "Nowhere Boy" echoes the title of the Beatles song "Nowhere Man" sung by John Lennon. The film follows Lennon's life as a teenager in post-war Liverpool.

On August 4, part of the wooden ceiling collapsed in an old four-story wooden hostel in the south of Moscow. There were no casualties. As a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti, part of the wooden ceiling collapsed on the second floor of an old building inhabited by visiting workers in a house on Dubininskaya Street, No. 57. “The plaster and rotted ceiling boards fell over an area of ​​about five square meters, resulting in a hole between the second and third floors.

FSIN will be headed by Alexander Reimer Yesterday, the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Yuri Kalinin, who has led the country's penitentiary system since 1992, was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice. The central office of the FSIN says that Mr. Kalinin has long deserved a promotion and is now going to devote more time to reforming the penal system and lawmaking.

The All-Ukrainian Association (VO) "Svoboda" yesterday appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPU) with a demand to initiate a criminal case against the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill (Russian citizen Vladimir Gundyaev) "on suspicion of inciting inter-religious enmity and hatred in Ukraine and insulting citizens in connection with their religious beliefs." “In his ‘sermons’, citizen of the Russian Federation Gundyaev insulted the religious feelings of tens of millions of Ukrainian

Today in Moscow a decision was made to create the ANO “Executive Directorate of the XXVII World Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan,” the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan reported. Vladimir Leonov was appointed general director of the new structure. The highest governing body of the Universiade executive directorate will be the Supervisory Board.