Mikhail Gorbachev starred in an advertisement for the French company Louis Vuitton, which produces luxury goods, especially the bag, reports the Air Force . On Louis Vuitton advertising posters, the last leader of the Soviet Union is depicted in the rear seat of a car near the Berlin Wall. Next to it is Louis Vuitton bag. The author of the photograph was the famous American photographer Annie Leibovitz.

The outbreak of foot and mouth disease was registered on Friday on a farm of cattle in the county of Surray in the south of England. According to the official representative of the British government, a viral disease that is dangerous for people is confirmed by laboratory research. In accordance with the law, all animals located on the farm will be clogged, he added. A quarantine zone is installed in a radius of 3 km around the farm.

The leader of the Just Russia party, the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, believes that the process of transition to his party members of the Communist Party is irreversible. In an interview with Interfax on Saturday, Mironov confirmed that in many regions not only ordinary communists, but also the leaders of the district link are transferred to Fair Russia.

The state secretary, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and the British ambassador to Moscow, Anthony Branton, discussed bilateral relations that worsened due to the Litvinenko case. "On the third of August, the State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Karasin, adopted British Ambassador in Moscow at his request.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova continues to demonstrate a high-level game on the courts of San Diego. The next victim of Sharapova at a quarterfinal stage was the 31st racket of the world Sanya Mirza. Before this meeting, the tennis players crossed only once, on US Open - 2005, when Sharapova achieved a confident victory of 6: 2, 6: 1. This time, Maria also did not have any problems, and the ticket to the semifinals was very easily given to her.

The commotion caused a craft on Friday an unusual type, which unexpectedly appeared in the security zone of Brooklyn, a fashionable cruise Liner, Queen Mary-2, moored to the pier in the New York district. The disorder was discovered by the detective from the New York police, who noticed an inflatable boat with two men in the water near the security zone, dragging a strange egg-shaped object deeply sitting in the water, ITAR-TASS reports. The police and the coast guard were quickly detained.

The leader of the Party of Regions, Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych at the Congress, which was held on Saturday in Kyiv, presented the party’s election program. It notes that for the first time in Ukrainian politics, the party offers a fundamentally new state strategy for providing social guarantees throughout life.

On August 4, Russian Newspaper publishes information on the income and property of members of the Cabinet of the Government of the Russian Federation for 2006. Compared to last year, positions in the ranking of officials' income have changed little. In any case, income leaders in the office of ministers are all the same. According to declarations, the first place by a large margin from colleagues has been held by the Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev for the second year.

The Chairman of the State Duma, the leader of the United Russia party, Boris Gryzlov, positively evaluates Sergei Mitin as a candidate for the post of governor of the Novgorod region. “I know Sergey Mitin well - this is a highly professional person, a person of a case responsible for his work. Sergey Mitin Member of United Russia, and our party supports his candidacy,” said Gryzlov, whose words are quoted by the United Russia faction in the State Duma.

The Tskhinval authorities refused to participate in a meeting of the Mixed Control Commission for the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict planned on August 9-10 in Tbilisi. As Interfax was informed in the apparatus of the State Minister of Georgia on conflict settlement, on Saturday from Tskhinvali a letter was received from the co -chair of the SCC from the South Ossetian side of Boris Chocheyev, which contains a refusal to participate in the SKK meeting in the OSCE mission office.

The defeat of the Moscow Lokomotiv from Madrid Real Madrid with a score of 2: 5 (2: 0) ended the second semifinal match of the Russian Railways Football Cup, whose draw started on Friday in the Russian capital. Already in the 4th minute of the meeting, the team of Anatoly Byshovts came forward after the exact blow of Serb Branislav Ivanovich.

The Moscow-New York Delta airline on Saturday was canceled due to the technical malfunction of the Boeing-767 aircraft. As the correspondent of Interfax reports, which is located among the passengers of this flight, at the moment when the plane ended the taxiing and was preparing to take off, it turned out that it was technically not working. The crew commander immediately reported this to the passengers. Subsequently, the aircraft using the towing was driven off from the runway.

The American Delta-2 launch vehicle, which will bring the Far Closure with Mars, the Phoenix Mars Lander, the British television channel Sky News, launched from the Cosmodrome in Cape Kanveral in Florida. The launch of the mission, the goals of which are the study of the polar regions of Mars and the search for prerequisites for the emergence of life on the Red Planet, broadcasts in real time the official website of NASA.

Extremely hot weather was established in Spain - up to 45 degrees, which forced the full readiness of the civil defense, ambulance and fire protection service, RIA Novosti said on the Saturday of the National Institute of Meteorology (NIM) and the main civil defense department (Hugo).

The WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev was forced to refuse the Jobo's WBO champion in this weight of Sultan Ibragimov due to illness due to illness due to illness. The current state of health of the Uzbek boxer will not allow him to train for several weeks, and this means that he could not properly prepare for the October match. Chagaev himself, who is now in Uzbekistan, commented on the situation as follows. “I am very upset that I could not enter the ring.