Governor of the Oryol region Alexander Kozlov held negotiations with representatives of McDonald's Europe and Farm Frites (Poland, supplier of potatoes to the catering chain). Local farmers also took part in the meeting: the general director and co-owner of OJSC AIC Orlovskaya Niva, Sergei Budagov, and the head of Potato Niva Orlovshchiny LLC, Boris Voronichev.

The first retrospective of Sergei Alferov, who died in 2004, has opened at the MMSI on Petrovka - now a slightly forgotten artist who played a fairly prominent role in the life of the Moscow underground of the 1970s-1980s. Twenty-two-year-old Alferov came to Moscow from Tashkent in the early 1970s, when conceptualism was already becoming the main direction, but stylistically and in his worldview, hippy-esoteric, he is much closer to the older generation - Zverev, Yakovlev, Nemukhin, Plavlinsky.

Those responsible for payments to personnel are suspected of fraud The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that the military investigative department for the Krasnodar garrison opened a criminal case against the deputy head of the department for settlements with personnel of the Federal Institution "Financial Support Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory" Evgeniy Kutuzov and leading economist Kamil Abdurakhmanov.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has officially accepted the Republican Party's proposal to nominate him as a candidate for US President, RIA Novosti reports. He stated this while delivering a speech that became the culmination of the party convention, which ends today in Tampa (Florida). Congressman Paul Ryan has been elected as the vice presidential candidate. He had officially accepted his nomination the night before.

Refusing to meet Apple's demands The judiciary continues to rule on patent litigation between Apple and Samsung. A Tokyo court sided with the South Korean manufacturer, saying that it did not violate Apple's patents. This is Samsung's first victory after a stunning defeat in a Californian court. The Tokyo District Court ruled that Samsung Electronics Co. did not infringe patents owned by Apple.

Gala Naberezhnaya urgently needs spinal surgery 84 2 minutes. ... The girl is 15 years old. She has stage IV scoliosis, her condition has worsened greatly recently. Doctors insist on urgent surgery and installation of a Stryker structure, otherwise the disease will progress and could lead to paralysis. Galya and her mother have no money for treatment. And there is nowhere to get them either.

On the first day of the Paralympic Games in London, Ukraine added two judo medals to its medal box. The gold medal among men in the up to 66 kg weight category was won by David Khorava, who defeated Chinese Zhao Xu 1:0 in the final bout. Bronze awards were won by our athletes Yulia Galinskaya (weight category up to 48 kg) and Natalya Nikolaychuk (weight category up to 52 kg). Based on materials from UNIAN

Director of the Employment Department of the Ministry of Labor Tatyana Blinova was appointed deputy head of the ministry. The corresponding order was posted on August 31 on the government website . “To appoint Tatyana Viktorovna Blinova as Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation,” the document says. Mrs. Blinova was born on February 24, 1966 in Moscow.

Books with Igor Gulin English prose writer Edward Morgan Forster is an esthete and traveler, a friend of Virginia Woolf and Benjamin Britten, one of the first people to write openly homosexual prose in English, and also the author who discovered Alexandria for European modernism.

Kemerovo retailer acquires real estate in Novosibirsk Aquagroup, which is developing the Akvatoriya and Ekonomka chains in Kuzbass, has apparently decided to try its hand at the Novosibirsk market. The group has already acquired 2.37 thousand square meters here. m of real estate, spending 105.6 million rubles. This is not the first attempt by Kemerovo retailers to occupy a niche in the capital of the Siberian Federal District, but the previous ones cannot be called successful.

From September 1, TV channels will be forced to refuse programs or films containing information dangerous to children. But retouching paintings may violate copyright, lawyers warn. The law will provoke the departure of part of the audience to the Internet, but will not significantly affect the ratings of TV channels, experts say. TV channels will have to pay to protect children from harmful information.

Daria Tsivina about the seasonal menu at Zolotoy Although summer is almost over, the seasonal menu at Zolotoy will still be available throughout September. And if you haven’t had time to get acquainted with the new creations of chef Dmitry Zotov and sous-chef Dmitry Pogorelov, then you need to do so immediately. In my opinion, the latest menu of “Golden” was the biggest gastronomic achievement of the season.

A forest fire raged in southern Spain in the province of Malaga. Due to the danger of further spread of the fire, more than 5 thousand people were evacuated, two people were hospitalized with burns. According to the Spanish agency EFE, one of the victims had 50% of his body burned; doctors assess his condition as serious.

Panoramic restaurant Matisse appreciated by Marina Gladkaya On Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street, on the fifteenth floor of the CityHotel, the Matisse restaurant has opened. The establishment, like the hotel itself, belongs to the chef and businessman Vladimir Yadlovsky (read the interview with him on page 19).

The largest merger in the pension market is completed The largest deal on the Russian pension market is nearing completion - the non-state pension fund “Social Protection of Old Age” (the volume of its own property is 5.3 billion rubles), established at one time by the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, is being included in the First National Non-State Pension Fund.