Olympic champion in the 400m hurdles Natalya Antyukh about her rivalry with American Lashinda Demus 13K 3 min. ... Olympic champion in the 400 m hurdles NATALIA ANTYUKH told Kommersant correspondent VALERIYA MIRONOVA in London about how the competition turned out for her, which brought not only gold in the final, but also an Olympic record of 52.70 seconds. -Are you limping or did it seem like it? — I pulled my calf muscle. Whines. She also sipped during the warm-up.

The Department of Capital Construction of the Altai Republic (RA) refused to request quotations for the production, delivery and installation of ornaments and three-dimensional letters for the reconstructed National Museum named after. Anokhin in Gorno-Altaisk. The government procurement website states that the reason for the cancellation was the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) for the Republic of Armenia dated August 6.

The Ministry of Economic Development has published draft amendments to the Tax Code, allowing businesses to expense donations to charitable organizations. Innovations remove a significant fiscal barrier to increasing the charitable activity of legal entities - now companies can make such payments only from their net profit. The Ministry of Finance does not yet support the work of its colleagues, so their final adoption is not at all guaranteed.

On August 8, mass protests by students and schoolchildren demanding education reform took place in the capital of Chile, Santiago. To disperse the protesters, the police had to use tear gas and water cannons. Chilean students continued to speak out demanding the abolition of paid education in universities and improving the quality of education. In addition, they opposed the law providing for three years in prison for participation in unsanctioned protests.

The exhumation of the body of a patient of the City Without Drugs Foundation took place under conditions of increased security measures In Nizhny Tagil, investigators exhumed the body of Tatyana Kazantseva, a patient of the City Without Drugs Foundation, as part of a criminal investigation into causing death by negligence. Due to the fact that an alarm was installed at her grave, which the security forces mistook for a bomb, the cemetery was cordoned off and sappers were called to the scene.

Top manager leaves MegaFon The new CEO of MegaFon, Ivan Tavrin, continues to change his team. Konstantin Solodukhin, who was responsible for the development of federal corporate sales and operator business of MegaFon, is leaving the company. His place will be taken by Evgeny Chermashentsev - like Ivan Tavrin, a native of YuTV. Several sources in the market told Kommersant that Mr. Solodukhin was leaving MegaFon and was confirmed by the company.

Exam Gubaidullin intends to work in the Central Election Commission of Tatarstan “on a permanent basis” Yesterday, the most likely candidate for the post of chairman of the new Central Election Commission of Tatarstan became known. The Central Election Commission of Russia proposed introducing a member of the Federation Council from Tatarstan, Ekzam Gubaidullin, into the Central Election Commission of the republic.

Five-time world champions could win the Olympics for the first time Football In the final of the men's football tournament, the favorite of the competition - the Brazilian team, which defeated the South Koreans with a score of 3:0, and the Mexican team, which defeated the Japanese - 3:1, will clash.

Newcomers cannot break into the city highway repair market Road construction and highway repairs are traditionally considered “gold mines” in the construction environment: billion-dollar contracts, the difficulty of quickly assessing the quality of work, and regularly held tenders. The leaders of the St. Petersburg road construction and repair market have not changed over the years.

The tender announced by Aeroexpress for the production of 150 double-decker cars will be won by one of the foreign companies, Kommersant FM interlocutors believe. More spacious trains will make life easier for passengers and increase the carrier's profits, experts say. Double-decker Aeroexpress trains will be created abroad and assembled in Russia, Kommersant FM experts are sure.

This time the great opera by Georges Bizet was staged in a wild setting – in Israel, near Mount Masada, where the fortress of Herod the Great is located, says Dmitry Butkevich. According to the organizers of the performance, director Giancarlo Del Monaco chose for “Carmen” actually the form of a Western film with full participation of the surrounding hills and mountains. As soon as you leave Jerusalem, here is the Judean Desert.

The road department was headed by the governor's ally The Department of Highways of the Perm Territory was headed by Sergei Belokon, a former colleague of the Governor of the Perm Territory Viktor Basargin from his work at the Ural Industrial - Ural Polar corporation. In this post, he replaced Evgeniy Negodin, who left the position of his own free will. Experts note that the road industry in the Kama region has long lacked a professional road engineer.

A working group has been created in Perm that will improve the efficiency of the warning system for residents in emergency situations, the press service of the mayor’s office reports. The decision to create a working group was made at a meeting of the commission for the prevention and response of emergency situations and ensuring fire safety.

The united opposition is filing a lawsuit against the Central Election Commission with a demand to register ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko and ex-Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lutsenko as candidates for deputy.

Russia's second largest grocery retailer Magnit has suspended the sale of alcohol in 255 of its stores. In half of the cases, the company did not have time to draw up long-term lease agreements for premises, as required by the amendments to the law on state regulation of the production and circulation of alcoholic beverages that came into force on July 1.