On Friday in Moscow, the semifinal match of the Davis Cup is launched, in which the Russian male team in the tennis on the "slow" soil court is taking the US team. For three days in the Moscow Olympic sports complex, they will dispute the right to play in the decisive meeting of the unofficial team of the world. The match was opened by Marat Safin, who so far has lost the status of the leader of the Russian team, and Andy Roddick.

The main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar is shocked by attacks on the synagogues in Astrakhan and Khabarovsk and calls for praying for the admonition of the attackers. "The Jewish community is shocked by attacks on the synagogues of Khabarovsk and Astrakhan. It is very unfortunate that people still live who think that, throwing stones at the windows of the holy buildings, they will be able to solve their problems," the rabbin’s statement, widespread today by his press service.

A participant in the “Woman - President of Russia”, Doctor of Philosophy, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor AKOP Nazarevyan, said that the election of a woman for the highest state post will benefit Russia. According to Nazarethan, a woman by nature is a conservative. However, now there are very few women in Russian politics.

In the port, Anadyr on Friday overturned the self -propelled barge "aluma" with a displacement of 40 tons. As a result of the incident, which, four people died, three more people went missing. The accident occurred at about 15:00 Moscow time. In total, there were 19 people aboard the barge, of which 12 are in the hospital, the Interfax reported on Friday evening in the press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.

The leader of the Blok of the same name in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was elected chairman of the deputy association of the parliamentary opposition. This was reported to reporters by a member of BYUT Andrei Shevchenko. According to him, on Friday, a constituent meeting of the parliamentary opposition was held, at which Tymoshenko was elected leader.

In Poland, a complex political situation remains. The ruling coalition has split, the country is threatened with early parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Yaroslav Kacinsky decided to resign his deputy, leader of the Andgei Lepper and form a new coalition, the Self-Defense Party, Interfax reports. According to Kachinsky, Lepper returned to his traditional type of political discussion - "squabbles". Lepper has criticized the ruling party several times regarding the country's budget planning.

While negotiations on the creation of the Union State of Russia and Belarus were again entered into an active stage, the president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, Igor Smirnov, states that the PMR wants to join the Union of Russia and Belarus. "We want, but wanting it is not harmful. The main thing is that Belarus and Belarus with Russia want it," the Transnistrian leader said.

Representatives of the Orthodox community proposed returning to the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin the two -headed eagle. “We ask for the restoration of the historical justice and respect for the religious feelings of the believing Orthodox majority - returning to the top of the Spasskaya Tower of the State Russian Symbol - the two -headed eagle (...), which was there earlier for centuries,” the Narodnaya Council’s circulation, the text of which was entered today to the Interfax agency.

On Friday, Rosprirodnadzor received information about the mass ejection of dead crabs and fish in the area of ​​construction of objects of Sakhalin Energy. This company is the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, according to which the Ministry of Natural Resources, at the insistence of Rosprirodnadzor, canceled a positive environmental conclusion.

The global defense costs, according to forecasts, reached this year a record amount of 1.059 trillion (1059000000,000) dollars, the study conducted by the Oxfam International Foundation says. The previous record, according to Oxfam, was $ 1.03 trillion and was recorded during the Cold War in 1988. "Sales of weapons do not lead to the beginning of conflicts, but they feed and lengthen them," said one of the directors of the Foundation Bernis Romero.

On the western outskirts of the Mongol capital, local archaeologists discovered the ruins of the Third Palace of Genghis Khan. It is reported on Friday by the UNEN newspaper. "This place is noted in the" secret legend of the Mongols "as the Headquarters of Keritsky Vanhan Tooril. Before going to Tanguts, Genghis Khan stayed here," said Dr. Navaan, Dr. Navaan, in an interview with the newspaper. Since the 1940s, Mongolian archaeologists have been studying this area.

Without serious incidents, anti -government speeches in the center of Budapest on Thursday evening and on Friday night were held. About 7 thousand people took part in the manifestations, after midnight there were no more than 500. The speakers continued to insist on the resignation of Hungarian Prime Minister Fernets Durchan, accusing his government of lies about the real state of affairs in the country's economy, Interfax reports. Only a few minor incidents are noted.

France President Jacques Shirak produced Russian President Vladimir Putin to the cavaliers of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Honorary Legion. The head of the French state handed the order to the Russian colleague after the completion of negotiations in the Champs Elysees.

The Public Non -Profit Research Organization of the Discovery Institute (Discovery Institute) sent 50 thousand American media, as well as executive and legislative authorities, refuting 10 main stereotypes about Russia. The author of the report, as the organization’s website says, is a specialist in the Institute for Foreign Policy Yuri Mamchur.

The head of the coordination center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus, the Mufti Karachay-Cherkessia and the Stavropol Territory Ismail Berdiev expressed indignation with an advertisement for a sex shop located in the Circassian, Interfax reports. “Now people are preparing for the sacred post a month of Ramadan , and on television they offer fun from a sex shop with might and main.