On Wednesday, August 19, the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko held telephone conversations at which they agreed on the estimated agenda of the fifth meeting of the Ukrainian-Russian Economic Committee, which will be held in October in Ukraine and discussed the issue of a bilateral meeting in Poland on September 1 of this year, where Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin were invited by Polish Prime Minister.

At the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, where, as a result of the accident, 17 people were killed last Monday, and another 58 are missing, a prayer was committed the day before, the Bishop of Abakansky and Kyzyl Jonathan told RIA Novosti today. "A prayer service was held in the machine room, in all churches of Khakassia, the Panichids for the dead were committed," said the head of the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church .

The details of the diplomatic scandal between Russia and the Czech Republic became known. The ex-head of the Czech Foreign Ministry Karel Schwarzenberg told the Pravo newspaper that the decision to send Russian diplomats was made in the spring, but they decided to postpone its implementation from tactical reasons, until the end of the chairmanship in the European Union.

In cultural and religious communities, there was a sensation. In any case, the Komsomolskaya Pravda described so that belonging to the family of Emperor Nicholas II Gorgovi, lost in the early thirties, returned to Russia.

Prices for cars in Russia for the first half of the year fell by almost 20%. The reasons are ruble devaluation and mass discounts provided by dealers. A decrease in the cost of machines was shifted by buying demand from foreign cars of the average price segment, which was observed in 2008, to budget models worth up to $ 10,000, Kommersant writes. According to the Avtostat agency, in the first 6 months of 2009, the average price of a car decreased by 19.2%, to $ 18,000.

The British Parliamentary Committee for Monitoring the Export of Weapons published a report that states that the British intermediaries may have resold the weapons acquired in Ukraine to the countries that the embargo extends. In the report, the Committee expressed concern about the fact that the British Foreign Ministry did not know anything about the sale of weapons to British intermediary firms, although this information was easily accessible.

Director Fedor Bondarchuk plans to open in Yekaterinburg, in addition to two restaurants that will begin to work this in the fall of this year, confectionery, the managing company of the shopping center, where restaurants will be located on Thursday. Earlier, the director announced his intention to open the Italian restaurant "Paparazzi" and the Japanese "Origami" in the shopping center of the business center "Europe", the construction of which is ending in the center of Yekaterinburg.

Sunrise hypermarket employees who sell household and computer technology threaten to block the Mira Avenue and the Soseevsky Val Street in Moscow in protest against the closure of the network stores. This, as reports gzt.ru , said in an open letter of the initiative group of dismissed employees of the company.

The mayor of the city of Massat in the south of France put up for sale at the EBAY online asociation one of three Catholic temples, RIA Novosti reports. The communist mayor argued his decision by the fact that there are no priests in the temples, and their annual content costs the fifth of the communal budget.

The 36-year-old Canadian fashion model Liscula Cohen won the court against Google. Cohen demanded that the Internet giant reveal the name of the blogger that offended her, and now the company will have to do this, reports RuFormator.ru with reference to the British newspaper The Times. The dissatisfaction of the model caused a record in one of the blogs on the Blogger.com platform, belonging to Google, in which the author calls it "old Karga" and other unpleasant words.

On August 19, the order of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev was published, which determines that the Sunrise FSUE will be engaged in the SUNDIDARE FSUE system. Earlier, this company disconnected the computer system in protest against the results of the tender, which it has completely paralyzed the issuance of biopassports.

In Afghanistan, the presidential elections and representatives of provincial councils began. In seven thousand districts, 29 thousand polling stations were to open in the morning, but due to the extremely stressful situation, plots in more than 150 districts in the south of the country did not begin work, ITAR-TASS reports. All citizens over 18 years old can participate in the vote. At the same time, women and men vote separately: in female sites, all staff should be formed only from women.

A loud scandal flared up in Runet. The well-known political strategist, organizer of the Web Provision "The Machine of Happiness" Mikhail Kovalev sent a statement to the prosecutor's office with a demand to prohibit the use of non-normative vocabulary in the "Live Journal". The reason for this appeal was the insulting obscure statements of the famous designer Artemy Lebedev in LJ to readers, on Thursday the New Region reports. In his blog about this decision, Kovalev writes: "...

In Makhachkala on Wednesday evening, three militants were destroyed during a special operation, as well as a random passerby wounded. The personalities of the militants have already been established, they are involved in the attempt on the major general of the internal troops of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Valery Lipinsky. Recall that the attempt occurred in the Dagestan capital at the end of December 2008.

The fees of the Federal Tax Service to the federal budget for seven months of 2009, compared with the same period of 2008, fell by almost 40% - from 2.7 trillion to 1.65 trillion rubles. This is the maximum gathering of fees from last year's indicators this year. In the previous months, the tax authorities improved the features of accounting for VAT revenues and income tax.