The US Republican Party Convention approved 74-year-old Senator John McCain as the GOP presidential candidate. In conjunction with him as a candidate for vice president is the governor of Alaska, 44-year-old Sarah Palin. As a senator from southern Arizona, a veteran of the Vietnam War and long-lived politician (he was first elected to Congress in 1982), McCain is often said to be neither a Republican nor a Democrat (although the senator once considered joining the US Democratic Party) .

Capital is fleeing the country The RTS index, the main indicator of the Russian stock market, fell below 1,500 points on September 5. Back in June, the index exceeded 2480 points. It is possible that the decline will continue, although the European Union has not yet decided on the imposition of direct sanctions against Russia. However, the West can use a number of economic levers of pressure on Moscow.

Will the line of Crimea come after South Ossetia and Abkhazia? Will the line of Crimea come after South Ossetia and Abkhazia? The question is not idle: in Russia there are many people convinced that it is time to solve the issue, at least with Sevastopol, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based.

Predicting the dynamics of oil prices is a thankless task. The chances of guessing are small, any reasonable explanation works for a very short time period, after which all those dependencies and connections that seemed to be stable and reliable turn out to be either insufficient or simply wrong.

Fedor Lukyanov - The New Times “The European Council in the most serious way is concerned in Georgia in Georgia ...” - this begins a resolution adopted at an emergency meeting of 27 countries that are part of the EU. The assessments of the incident and possible future steps in Europe diverge. Russian officials talk about a diplomatic victory. Western - that the door to their world is not yet closed for us, but may slam. On September 15, the EU will gather again. What to wait?

What is the authorities afraid of? Gosstrakh as a system. One by one, they are all decisive and stupid people. But the team produces a feeling of horror and helplessness. Their fear, obviously, has a systemic nature - nothing personal What is the authorities afraid of? The first explanation: they themselves came up with a game in which the loser goes to drive to Krasnokamensk.

The Congress of Fools started in Moscow The festival under the leadership of the glory of Polunin gathered the world famous clowns. The great clown Django Edward will open Congress - the one who in 1985 in Moscow undressed at his speech Donag and was expelled from the country. Django Edward, who was awarded the honorary title “King of Fools”, gave an interview to The New Times When did you understand that you are a fool? Immediately after conception!

Google Intend-Company announced the entering the market of the new Google Chrome Internet Brauzer Silicone Valley, or Googles on the conveyor. Google has announced the entering the market of the new Google Chrome Internet Brauzer. Already on September 2, the browser became available to users who immediately discovered that the new browser works faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

** Rossport. It was worth the end of the Beijing Games - the Russian ones began. National. Between officials, responsible for this business. One of the defendants in this exciting game for a sports resource told The New Times - Who, how, for what and why/ And yet the third place-is it ours for today? ** Objectively, probably yes. Olympics - the competition is generally fair.

September 9 marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of Leo Tolstoy, the great and world-renowned classic. For a long time I did not understand what a very didactic, clear, direct, without subtext, on a gigantic scale of wars, prisons, mountains, all of Europe, Tolstoy, sweepingly and carelessly writing his canvases, could do for us. And recently I realized with horror that I was beginning to love Leo Tolstoy and that he was more relevant than ever.

A picture of the German director Fatikha Akin was released on Russian screens " I'm going to live longer than Fassbinder." The picture of the German director Fatikha Akin “On the edge of Paradise” was released on Russian screens. The son of Turkish immigrants Akin became famous for the film “The Head against the Wall”, for which he received the main prize of Berlinale-2004.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Vano Merabishvili - The New Times What happens to the institutes of the Georgian state? Is chaos in the country or, despite the lost war, the government continues to function?

Caucasian conflict interferes with the implementation of the concept-2020 The adoption of the concept of long-term socio-economic development of the country until 2020 is again postponed for an indefinite time. Tomorrow the economic problems of today interfere with the bright tomorrow.

Cultural figures, experts, businessmen, politicians - about their fear Russian society is painful in expectations. The war in the Caucasus raised old fears and showed new ones. Who and what are the cultural masters, business representatives, experts and politicians afraid? Mikhail Kozakov, actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation: "I am gloomy and sad to live" I am not afraid to live now. I am gloomy to live. And sad.

A group of figures of Russian culture signed a letter expressing deep concern "in connection with the tragic events in South Ossetia and acts of mass destruction of the peaceful population of the republic by Georgian military formations." The figures appealed "to all people of good will with a call to speak out against the blatant lies that are being spread by the world media in connection with the events in South Ossetia." The very phrase “people of good will” unmistakably indicates the whole