The ex-Prime Minister of Russia, the leader of the Russian People's Democratic Union (RDS) Mikhail Kasyanov believes that at this stage the democrats should not create a single organization, but to combine their efforts in the fight against the current authorities. "The most important area of ​​work in the coming years is the eternal problem of uniting democratic forces.

Human rights activists are asking the Russian Emergencies Ministry to abandon the plans for holding competitions on a sequirium mountain on Solovki, which is considered one of the symbols of the Gulag.

The dollar was updated by a long -term minimum against the ruble. The reason for this was the deterioration of the position of the American currency in relation to the euro. Investors do not exclude that negative news from the US mortgage market indicate the approach of the second round of crisis, and get rid of dollars. According to the results of trading on the MICEX exchange, the dollar exchange rate yesterday decreased by 10 kopecks, to 23.305 rubles. for $ 1.

Former Manchester United and Madrid Madrid David Beckham believes that Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo will have to make the most difficult decision of his whole life. Bekham was facing the same choice in 2003, and then he preferred Real Madrid, forever leaving Old Trafford. According to David, Ronaldo must decide whether he really wants to leave the Manchester United to the Royal Club Stan, and if so, then the Portuguese needs to fight for his choice.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev set the task of fundamental renewal of the legislation of Russia in the field of counteracting corruption by the beginning of the next year. "In the New Year, we must enter with modern, high -quality legislation to counteract corruption," D. Medvedev said during a meeting on Saturday in Zavidovo with the heads of parties presented in the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In the match of the country's football championship, CSKA confidently outplayed Spartak with a score of 5: 1. Three goals in the army were scored by the Brazilian Wagner Love. Spartak cannot win 19 in a row, since 2001. The team of Valery Gazzaeva actively began the meeting and, having ruined a couple of excellent moments, led in the score in the 15th minute after the strike of Wagner, which turned out to be the most quick in the Spartak penalty after a canopy from the flank.

The Nashville Predihitors club (NHL) club hopes to see Alexander Radulov, who signed a three -year contract with Salavat Yulaev, having an existing agreement with Nashville, in the team’s training camp before the 2008/09 season, the Preverters' official website reports. According to a number of Russian media, Radulov, according to the most modest data, will earn $ 12 million in Ufa in the next three years.

The parliamentary commission, created by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzay to investigate the recent NATO bombing in the east of the Islamic Republic, accused the foreign military of destroying civilians, RIA Novosti reports. As a member of the Afghan Parliament told reporters, the chairman of the Bosullal -Shinvari bombing commission, on July 6, NATO aviation mistakenly bombed the Afghan wedding in the province of Nangarhar.

A new and unexpected turn occurred in the personal life of a permanent guitarist of the legendary English rock band Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood when he met in London this spring, Muscovite Katya Ivanova. According to the informed London newspaper Daily Mail , Ronnie Wood “left his family” and now lives with his “Russian lover” in the estate belonging to him in Ireland.

Dmitry Medvedev holds the first president’s first meeting with the leaders of the four parliamentary parties - United Russia, the LDPR, the Communist Party and the Just Russia, RIA Novosti reports. In June, the president met one on one in the Kremlin with the leaders of the Communist Party and LDPR Gennady Zyuganov and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, as well as the head of the Duma faction "Fair Russia" by Nikolai Levich.

Egyptian security officers shot a 30-year-old Egyptian who was transporting illegal migrants from Africa to Israel, Mena reports. The Egyptian, who accompanied the group of African illegal immigrants, entered into a shootout with the police in the immediate vicinity of the border with Israel south of the Rafach checkpoint. All Africans managed to flee and hide from persecution in the mountains in the Egyptian territory. The searches are now underway.

The delegates of the Congress of the Russian People's Democratic Union (RNDS), which were held in the suburbs, unanimously re-elected Mikhail Kasyanov ex-Prime Minister, spokesman Elena Dikun. The elections took place on a non -alternative basis, Kasyanov’s surname was the only vote in the ballot. The delegates of the congress approved the new composition of the Presidium and the Control and Revision Commission of the RDS.

Fannie MAE and Freddie Mac’s debt obligations of the American mortgage agencies are actually not inferior in credit quality to the US sovereign debt obligations, and the fall of shares of these agencies does not have a negative impact on their bonds, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation said.

Dr. Michael Debakes, the famous cardiac surgeon, the inventor of numerous medical technologies, died on Friday in one of the Houston hospitals, the website of The New York Times reports. The message widespread by the hospital notes that the doctor died on a hundredth year of life due to "natural causes." Colleagues of Debakes unanimously claim that he may have made more for modern cardiac surgery and, of course, was one of the most authoritative specialists in this area around the world.

A member of the war in Iraq Katherine Hodge won the title "Miss Tangbridge-Uels" and reached the final of the Miss England beauty contest, which will be held on July 18. It is reported by the Air Force . Katherine is 21 years old and she has the military rank of junior corporal. The girl acquired among the British military the widespread fame and nickname "Battle Barbie" after she disarmed the militant in Iraq in 2005. The car, in which she was traveling with several comrades, had an accident.