The leadership of the Odessa football club "Chernomorets" appointed Oleg Blokhin the head coach of the club. On September 1, a press conference will be held on the appointment of a new coach, the press service of the Odessa team reports. It is expected that Blokhin’s assistants will be Andrei Bal and Yuri Romensky. After dismissal from FC "Moscow" in November 2008, Blokhin has not yet had a job.

Ironically, the supercomputer used by the UK Met Office to make weather forecasts and detect climate change has turned out to be one of the world's biggest polluters. As Webplanet reports with reference to The Daily Mail , British weather forecasters acquired a supercomputer in May of this year. It occupies the same area as a couple of football fields and, when fully operational by 2011, will be able to perform 1,000 billion operations per second.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma, offering to maintain medical, spa and domestic support for all former parliamentarians and their families. The project was introduced by the representative of United Russia Anatoly Ivanov, but the position of the entire faction regarding this project has not yet been developed.

The daughter of former US President George Bush Jr. got a job on American television. 27-year-old Jenna Bush Hager will combine the work of a teacher at the Baltimore (Maryland) school with the preparation of materials for the transfer of the TODAY NBC television company. Jenna will write about education - a topic in which she is well versed. This was announced by the executive producer of the news program Today Jim Bell.

In July, the number of Russian households using broadband Internet access (APD) increased by 160,000, or 1.7%compared to the previous month. At the same time, only 4,000 users (+0.4%) were added in St. Petersburg, and the Moscow market even showed a clean outflow of 2000 subscribers (minus 0.1%). Such data are given by the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to the company AC & M-Consulting .

More than 30 flights have already been canceled on Monday in the Japanese capital, which a powerful “KNOVRA” is approaching from the south. According to ITAR-TASS, the movement of all passenger ships in the Tokyo Gulf region was completely stopped. The southern part of the Tiba prefecture, located east of Tokyo, has already entered into the wormwood zone today. In its northern part there is the largest Narita International Airport in Japan, whose work can also be violated.

For Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is preparing for a visit to Poland , almost all the rooms of one of the best 5-star hotels in Sopot reserved. About this, as reports Newsru.ua with reference to the Ukrainian media, said Adam Kuchi, spokeswoman for the Sofitel Grand Sopot hotel. According to him, the Russian side occupied almost the entire hotel with the exception of several rooms that were previously reserved by private individuals.

On the popular world of the video materials throughout the world, YouTube began work by the channel of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. At the moment, you can watch four videos with the head of state, and the latest of them is an appeal to schoolchildren in which Medvedev congratulates them on the first of September.

The Ford Automobile Plant in the Leningrad Region once again suspenses its work. Cars will not leave the assembly line from August 31 to September 11 due to a fall in sales in the Russian market, the director of public relations Ford Russia Yekaterina Kulinenko told RIA Novosti . This will already be the fourth suspension of the Vsevolozhsk auto enterprise this year.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin begins a visit to Poland: he will meet there not only with his Polish colleague, but also with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko. In Gdansk, they will discuss the "gas" topic and the issue of providing Kyiv of Russian loan. The visit is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the memory of the beginning of World War II, and the Poles from the prime minister expected new ones - possibly breakthrough - statements in Katyn.

From September 1, 2009, a new administrative regulation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs comes into force, which states how the traffic police should behave in various situations. In particular, the document in stages indicates the actions of traffic inspectors when communicating with motorists and pedestrians. It is also noted how the policeman should be presented on what grounds the detention of the car should be carried out, the verification of documents, and so on.

The vacation of US President Barack Obama will last until the end of the current week. On Monday, August 31, the press service of the White House reported. Earlier it was assumed that the vacation of the head of state will end on August 30. "The president will continue the vacation until the end of the week. In the event of any public events in his schedule, we will inform the media about them," the message reported by RIA Novosti said.

In September, at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Italian Auto Concert Fiat will present a new version of the Grande Punto hatchback called Evo. The car will go on sale to the European market in the spring of 2010, Autocar reports. The novelty will receive a series of updated engines under the hood, including 1.4-liter gasoline from the new Multiair line. The peculiarity of such engines is the ability to reduce fuel consumption by 10%, while increasing its power by 10%.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday at the Ice Palace on Khodynka observed the training of the Russian national hockey team, which has to defend the country's honor at the Winter Olympiad in Vancouver, and handed state awards to players and coaches. Recall that the Russian hockey team for two years in a row became the best on the planet.

Moscow's chief architect, Alexander Kuzmin, said that if he had the opportunity to give a tour of the historical center of the capital, he would not take people to the Kremlin. “I would not lead people to the Kremlin. The Kremlin is the brand that is hung on everything that is called Russia,” Kuzmin said at a press conference on Monday. His words are quoted by Interfax . In his opinion, the best monument of pre-revolutionary architecture is Prechistenka with its alleys.