So an impressive delegation from the Russian first persons and President Vladimir Putin, who campaigned by the IOC members in two unfamiliar languages, went to Guatemala not in vain. The Russian application for the 2014 Winter Olympics won, and Putin began to be called the “main lobbyist” and the “brand” of the Winter Olympiad in Sochi.

What is the "Olympics in Sochi"? Today there are three interpretations that are not quite banal. The Olympiad is a marketing product. The Olympiad is a way of elegant development of a megabyujet. The Olympiad is a way of hardware capitalization. They advanced something The victorious relations around the Olympics in Sochi do not subside.

Sergey Markedonov In today's Russian political journalism, it is fashionable to scold the West for any occasion and often for no reason. It is very convenient. Firstly, such attacks on “world imperialism” will most likely go unnoticed, which means they will not receive a serious answer. Whatever they say about the global significance of relations between the Russian Federation and the USA, Russia and the EU, their perception is “here” and “there” asymmetric character.

The cold atmospheric front from the west with rains and a squalled wind de-energized today and on the eve of 209 cities and sat in nine western and central regions of Ukraine, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. As a result of the operation of emergency protection systems of power lines without energy supply, the settlements of the Lviv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Volyn, Rivne, Sumy, Zhytomyr, Vinnitsa, Cherkasy regions were.

The Norwegian company A-Pressen plans to get out of the newspaper business and focus on printing houses. According to RBC -Daily, the company is negotiating to sell its share in two regional newspapers - the Vladimir "call" and "Nizhny Novgorod Workers", as well as in Komsomolskaya Pravda. The head of the Russian representative office of K. Haulund emphasized that A-Pressen intends to expand its presence in the printing market.

The police of Yekaterinburg are looking for three children missing on Tuesday evening. On the fact of the abduction, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Yekaterinburg has already opened a criminal case under the village “D”, “F” of part 2 of article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“The abduction of two or more knowingly minors”). The regional prosecutor's office took this business for special control.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov instructed the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports ("Rossport") to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympiad in Sochi "in full program." During a government meeting on Thursday, Fradkov interrupted the speech of the deputy head of "Rossport" Leila Pokrovskaya, who made a report on issues of physical education and sports in Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

More than 20 million people voted in a worldwide survey to draw up a new list of wonders of the world. The list of place-premits was reduced to 21. The winner will be announced on Sunday in Lisbon, AP reports. Of the existing seven wonders of the world, only the Egyptian pyramids in Giza entered the list of voting. The campaign for the election of new 7 miracles began in 1999 with the filing of Swiss Bernard Weber. About 200 applicants were originally selected.

The well -known TV presenter Valdis Poglsh fell into intensive care with an acute attack of gastric disease. The wife of Pelsh, fashion designer Svetlana Akimova called doctors in the middle of the night the day before, and Pelsh with acute pain was hospitalized.

Hundreds of school graduates may not go to universities due to failures in the system of a single state exam. Despite the fact that the last school exam was passed on June 22, hundreds of graduates throughout the country have not yet received certificates of passing the exam. They can do this only today. At least this was promised by the director of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education Viktor Bolotov. Meanwhile, many universities stopped accepting documents on June 30.

In Russia, a state corporation of nanotechnologies will be created. Yesterday, State Duma deputies adopted the relevant law, determining the amount of financing for the national program for the development of nanotechnology until 2010 in the amount of 130 billion rubles.

In Kiev, in the presence of President Viktor Yushchenko, a declaration was signed on the unification of the democratic forces of Ukraine, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The Declaration was signed by the leaders of the ten parties: “Our Ukraine”, “Forward, Ukraine”, the People’s Rukh, the Ukrainian People’s Party, the Council party, the Christian Democratic Union, the European Party, “The Time”, the Party of Defenders of the Fatherland, the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.

We publish a complete transcript of the lecture of one of the most famous Russian producers, filmmaker, screenwriter Sergei Selvanov , read on June 21, 2007 in the club - the literary cafe of Bilingua as part of the Public Lectures of Polit.ru ”. Sergey Selianov shot a debut full -length film “Angel Day” together with Nikolai Makarov in 1980 (the film was released in 1988).

In the south of Italy, an earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred, RIA Novosti reports with reference to specialists of the Geophysical Institute. The epicenter of the earthquake was registered between the Sicilian city of Messina and the city of Vibo-Walem in the southern region of Calabria. According to the National Civil Defense Service, there are no destruction and victims.

The United States and Russia announced their intention to expand cooperation in the nuclear sphere, make nuclear energy more accessible to other countries and reduce their reserves of nuclear strategic weapons to minimal levels.