The Olympic champion and multiple world champion in cycling Olga Slyusareva received a concussion at one of the training. Olga Slyusareva herself reported this to the Sports Information Agency "All Sport" . “I fell very unsuccessfully from the bicycle and hit my head very much in training,” said Oltga Slyusarev. “It seems that the speed was not large, just somehow I landed very unsuccessfully.

Companies from the USA and the UK producing spare parts for the A-310 Airbus engines S-7 (formerly Siberia), which suffered the catastrophe on July 9, 2006 in Irkutsk, will be claimed. According to the lawyers of the American company Speiser Krause, families who have lost relatives are confident that the cause of the accident was a faulty reversal system. The amount of compensation can be from $ 800 thousand to $ 1.5 million, Kommersant writes.

According to the books that people from different countries read on vacation, you can determine what they think. Some want to take the real world with them on vacation, others want to escape into the world of fantasies. The British newspaper The Times conducted a study of beach reading. Summer is a time for a long, lazy reading. Two opposite motifs can be distinguished, moving people when choosing reading on vacation.

On Wednesday, August 9, at 19:00, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, an action will be held in support of the Israeli State “We are against Terror”, the Department of Public Relations of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia (Kerora) and the Moscow Jewish Religious Community (MERI). Its organizers were Keror, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and the Federation of Jewish organizations and communities of Russia (VAAD).

In Moscow at 10:00, tickets for the only performance of the Madonna pop star in the Russian capital on September 11 were on sale. In free sale, tickets for this performance will be sold in only two places. Near one of the cash desks at the Children's World in the theater passage, according to the Echo of Moscow , only about 300 people accumulated in the first minutes of sales. The first customers of tickets took the line the day before, spending almost a day here.

The secular lioness and heiress of the hotel empire Paris Hilton said that her reputation as a fan of parties, which was obsessed with sex, was far -fetched and promised to abandon sex for a year to prove her point of view. “People think that I am sleeping with everyone, but I'm not like that,” she said in an interview with GQ magazine. “I just kiss,” Sydney Morning Held quotes an interview. “I will not have sex throughout the year. I decided,” said 25 -year -old Hilton.

The German court granted a shelter to the Iranian woman who claims that he cannot return to his homeland because of his sexual orientation. The 27-year-old Iranka, whose name is not announced, arrived in Germany in September 2003, and from those sought to receive asylum. She stated that she could no longer live in Iran, because there she risks losing herself as a person, and she was boycotted in society.

The name of Usama Ben Laden, who does not converge from the pages of the media, has turned into a popular brand, which are periodically trying to take advantage of the merchants, including in Russia. The other day, T -shirts with a portrait of "terrorist number one" appeared on sale in Krasnoyarsk. They sell t -shirts literally in the place. There are two types in Krasnoyarsk.

On the day of memory of Metropolitan of Sorozhsky Anthony (Bloom), in the Moscow church of St. John the Warrior on Yakimanka, a panachid was committed by Archpriest Nikolai Vedernikov, the press service of the Holy Filaret Institute (SPI) reported. Those who knew and loved him came to honor the memory of the metropolitan, those for whom he himself, his books, television and radio experts were evidence of living faith in Christ and his church.

In the Children's Medical Center of the American city of Salt Lake City (Utah), the operation to separate 4-year-old Siamese twin sisters Kendra and Malaya Herrin successfully ended. "The division of girls ended at 22:51 local time (8:51 Moscow time - ed.) . They are in excellent condition. Currently, they are dispersed to various operating rooms, where they will carry out restoration operations. Their joint existence is over, for them a new life begins.

United Russia announced on Monday about the allocation of grants to the population as part of the programs "Our Parents" and "Our City". 21 million rubles will be distributed on a competitive basis. The project starts in 15 regions. In the nine of them (Karelia, Tyu, Chuvashia, Primorsky Territory, Sverdlovsk, Astrakhan, Lipetsk and Novgorod regions, Jewish AO), on October 8, elections to regional parliaments are coming. "United Russia" claim that this is an accidental coincidence.

The Union of Christian Democrats of Estonia opposed the gay parade planned for Saturday in Tallinn and called on the city authorities to cancel its holding, Interfax reports. "Many public opinion polls show that the Estonian society does not support the open propaganda of homosexuality. Why should we be against our desire to be a public in the" representation "of a small group of interests?" - It is said in the statement of Christian democrats that is widespread today.

The new Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych will visit Russia in August, perhaps next week. "Our embassy in Russia began the preparation of this visit, which will take place this month," the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Boris Tarasyuk told reporters after his presentation by Yanukovych to the staff of the ministry. "This will be a meeting of the Committee on Economic Cooperation of the Putin -Yushchenko commission," the minister said.

In Dagestan on Tuesday, two terrorist attacks were committed at once against representatives of the authorities in the republic. First, the prosecutor of the city of Bitar Bitarov was blown up in Buinaksk, and an hour later they blew up and then fired at the motorcade of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Adilgerey Magomedtagirov. In the area of ​​the village of Talgi, where an attempt was committed on the minister, a large -scale operation to comb the forest began.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia adopted on Tuesday the amendments proposed by the Ministry of Justice, which provide for the introduction of more strict requirements for applicants for Latvian citizenship. According to amendments, applicants for Latvian citizenship have only three attempts to pass an exam for knowledge of the Latvian language and the history of Latvia.