The giveaway with Ukraine is over, says Fyodor Lukyanov. Yanukovych started his own game. The trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, the failure of negotiations with President Medvedev - all this shows: Viktor Yanukovych will no longer be “our guy”, the giveaway with Ukraine is over. What are the new rules of the game?

The editor-in-chief of Ogonyok is waiting for Medvedev and Putin to agree Last weekend, Medvedev and Putin met without witnesses. Agreed? There were no journalists with either the prime minister or the president during the fishing trip near Astrakhan. We know about this meeting between two fishermen from protocol footage. Here they are standing on the bridge shoulder to shoulder with spinning rods, here is a boat, here is a floating...

Fighting continues near the residence of Muammar Gaddafi. Most of Tripoli is under rebel control. Allies of the rebel interim government predict the imminent collapse of the Gaddafi regime and the imminent end of the war. International columnist for Kommersant FM Konstantin Eggert discussed the topic with Andrey Norkin. — How do you like the development of events?

Russian smokers will have to seriously think about quitting. In the near future, the cheapest cigarettes will cost more than 60 rubles, and if the plans of the Ministry of Health come true, Russian anti-tobacco legislation will become one of the strictest in the world. And the Ministry of Finance and retail chains will benefit from the hardships of smokers. EVGENY SIGAL Total ban According to a June survey by VTsIOM, 56% of the adult male and 16% of the female population in Russia smoke.

Events in Libya provoked serious changes in the oil and gold markets. At auction in London, the precious metal set another record - $1,895 dollars per troy ounce. Moreover, according to the latest data from the World Gold Council, the Central Bank of Libya stores almost 144 tons of gold. Konstantin Maksimov discusses the topic.

In the meantime, the chain has opened its eighth store 452 2 minutes. ... The Finnish corporation SOK Retail International Oy, which is developing the Prisma chain of stores in Russia, opened its eighth store in St. Petersburg at the end of last week and plans to launch another outlet by the end of 2011. A new supermarket opened on Ligovsky Prospekt, in the Ligov shopping and entertainment complex, owned by the Adamant holding. The total investment amounted to about €5 million.

The State Commission will consider the issue of dividing all existing communication frequencies into military and civilian ones. This will open the way for the construction of new generation LTE networks. Sharing frequencies will not be cheap, and the costs will be passed on to operators, analysts say. The issue of frequency division for the construction of new generation LTE networks will be discussed by the State Commission.

14-year-old British resident Matthew James, who was born without a left arm and has been passionate about Formula 1 since childhood, asked the management of the Mercedes GP Petronas racing team for £35 thousand to pay for a prosthesis.

Most of the contracts were not for military equipment 2K 2 minutes. ... The anniversary International Aerospace Salon (MAKS) concluded yesterday. Regular visitors to MAKS 2011 were slightly upset: the weather and the traditional multi-kilometer traffic jams at the entrance to Zhukovsky prevented them from enjoying the air show over the weekend. But the MAKS business program met the expectations of the organizers. The tenth International Aerospace Salon ended on Sunday.

On August 21, Benedict XVI held a Sunday service in Spain. World Youth Day, held under the patronage of the Pope, ended with a mass at the Cuatro Vientos airfield near Madrid. As expected, it was visited by 1.5 million people. The Mass had to be interrupted due to the sudden onset of heavy rain with a tropical thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds. As soon as the rain had subsided a little, the mass continued.

At the turn of the 1920s-1930s, a kind of cult of Lenin reigned in the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. Ilyich’s associates who worked in the government maintained the order established under his first head. The former manager of the USSR Council of Ministers, Mikhail Smirtyukov, told Vlast columnist Evgeny Zhirnov about the beginning of his work in the Kremlin and the Leninist style of work of the state apparatus.

Voice 139 1 min. ... "Sorry to disappoint you. I will try my best to make the next film better." Actor and director Tom Hanks has returned $25 to a couple who were disappointed with his new film "Larry Crowne." This happened at one of the California gas stations where the actor stopped

A point on the map The Arkhangelskoye Museum-Estate today exists simultaneously in three zones. The smallest, the territory of the museum-estate, occupies 62 hectares, it is surrounded by the territory of the estate ensemble (657 hectares). The outer zone is the territory of the estate’s protected zone, which occupies another 800 hectares.

President Lukashenko has found a new means of fighting the opposition Last weekend, the Belarusian authorities began preparing for the All-Belarusian Congress of Patriotic Forces, which is loyal to the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko. This should be a response to the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, which is being prepared by the opposition. According to Belarusian media, the congress is being prepared under the patronage of the head of the presidential administration, Vladimir Makei.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow recognized as legal the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice to refuse registration of the People's Freedom Party (PARNAS). Thus, the court dismissed the complaint of the representatives of the political association. According to representatives of the Russian Ministry of Justice, a random check of party members revealed many violations, including among them minors and citizens in prison.