The workers have already finished decorating a wooden platform for the festive path, on which participants and guests of the anniversary of the 60th film festival in Venice will take place on Wednesday, while the hotels made the latest orders for champagne.

American actress Angelina Jolie, who came to Russia on a visit as an ambassador of the UN UN UNCHI, expressed gratitude to the Russian government for efforts to arrange temporarily displaced persons. "I would like to express gratitude to the Government of the Russian Federation for all the good that is being done," Angelina Jolie said the day before at a press conference in Moscow.

The Irish show "Lord of the Dance" of the dance team led by the famous choreographer and dancer Michael Flatley will again be held at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow from October 21 to 23, Interfax reports. "Lord of the Dance" toured with great success in Moscow in 2001.

On the last day of the World Sports Gymnastics Championship, the Russian national team was able to brighten up a little in general a failure in American Anaheim. On Sunday, our athletes won three medals, two of which - "silver" and "bronze" - will remain in the collection of Alexei Nemov. Lyudmila Yezhova won bronze in exercises on a log.

A group of Israeli tourists disappeared in the area of ​​the Volbachik volcano in Kamchatka, RIA Novosti reports. According to a representative of the tourist company "Eli-Revol", which organized a tour in Kamchatka, 15 tourists from Israel who climbed the volcanoes of the Tolbachchik and the Nameless, at noon on Sunday at noon, did not appear at the meeting for the meeting. The test time has expired on Monday. In the area of ​​volcanoes there is currently heavy snow.

Employees of law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria at the entrance to Nalchik detained Temirikan Shogenov, who is suspected of aiding in Moscow for trying to commit the terrorist attack Zarem Muzhikhoeva. This was reported to "Interfax" a source in law enforcement agencies of the republic. During a search in the house of Shogenov’s parents, ammunition for automatic weapons, shops from a TT and machine gun were seized.

The first school was opened in Moscow, where political strategists are trained. The only program of retraining in the field of political consulting and election technologies "The School of Political Psychology and Technology" was developed by specialists of the Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University with the participation of the Institute of Education of the Moscow Government and support of Moscow.

One of the largest European filmmakers - Betafilm concluded a contract for sale in the international market that caused fierce disputes of the Russian series "Brigade". According to experts, the sale of rights to show the film in only one of the countries of Europe will bring at least $ 1 million to the Russia channel.

Despite the fact that the record heat in Europe subsides, and the inhabitants of the Old World can finally breathe relief, scientists believe that it is too early to relax. The fact is that temperature changes caused by global warming can significantly affect agriculture on both shores of the Atlantic Ocean, today New Scientist writes (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

In August and September, events will be held in Russia dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy, which will be celebrated on September 9. The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Mikhail Shvydka at a press conference on Monday in Moscow noted: “The 175th anniversary of Tolstoy is one of the most important dates of not only this year, but also the years adjacent to 2003.

Russian athlete Svetlana Feofanova won the title of world champion on Monday in jumping with the sixth. At the world athletics world championship, which takes place at the Stad de France stadium in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Deni, Feofanov surpassed rivals, managing to take a height of 4.75 meters. The same height was unsuccessfully stormed by the German Anita Becker, who eventually remained the second with a result of 4.70 meters.

America of thick kids takes urgent measures. With the start of the school year, the law enters the Arkansas, which provides for an assessment in the tagel for the lines of the student’s body, Panorama writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

In Austria, the “Hitter Chance” action began, aimed at identifying and leaving the court of former Nazi criminals living in the Alpine Republic. According to the Center for Jewish documentation of Simon Wizenthal, for signals about the whereabouts of former members of the SS and the SS, as well as the Wehrmacht’s military personnel obeyed in crimes against humanity, this center will pay a reward of 10 thousand US dollars.

President Eduard Shevardnadze positively appreciated the statement adopted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) on the recognition of the territory of Abkhazia an integral part of Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church . "Such a statement will serve only the peaceful and fair solution to the Abkhaz problem, the reconciliation of Abkhazov and Georgians," E. Shevardnadze at a press conference said today, Interfax reports.

On Monday, the Moscow District District Military Court resumed the consideration of the case of the murder of the correspondent of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper Dmitry Kholodov. The exit meeting is not held in the MOVS building located on the Old Arbat, but on the territory of one of the military units in the Sokolniki area, Interfax reports.