The Russian search engine "Yandex" can postpone the initial placement of shares on NASDAQ if the situation in the financial markets does not stabilize until October, writes Kommersant. “Yandex” has owners who wanted to get out of the company's capital this year through an IPO. But obviously, they will not do this if they cannot secure acceptable profitability, ”the source explained. Recall, Yandex plans to conduct an IPO on the American NASDAQ in the third quarter of 2008.

Russian clubs started in the UEFA Cup, however, one of them risks in it immediately finish. FC "Moscow" accepted the football players of the Danish "Copenhagen" on its field and was defeated with a score of 1: 2. Before the break, the guests earned the right to a penalty. The Morten Nordstrand did not miss the point and opened the score. “Moscow” seemed to be able to save the match - in the first half added to the second half a minute, Alexander Samedov spent a return goal.

According to the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM, for more details of the research results, see here ), self -medication is a fairly common practice in modern Russian society: half of our fellow citizens (52%) prefer to be treated independently, seeking medical help only in the very last resort.

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Yakovenko, said that the headquarters of the UN mission located in Abkhazia would be logical to transfer to the territory of Georgia, since it is from this country that the threat of stability emanates, Interfax reports. “The question arises of placing the headquarters of the UN mission in Georgia.

North Korea officially confirmed its plans to restore the nuclear reactor in Yonben, AFP reports. The corresponding statement was made by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Han Khak Bon. According to the deputy head of the US ministerial department, the work to restore the nuclear reactor has already begun.

For the match “Zenit” - CSKA, which will be held in St. Petersburg on September 21 as part of the next round of the Russian championship, more than 2500 army fans are planned. They will get to St. Petersburg by trains of long and suburban following from Moscow, Pskov, Novgorod. In order to ensure public order and security during the period of transport facilities of CSKA fans from services and units of the North-West UVDT, special police outfits are allocated.

Today, Standard & Poor's revised the forecast for sovereign credit ratings of the Russian Federation- with a "positive" to "stable". At the same time, long-term credit ratings on obligations in foreign currency (VB+) and for obligations in the national currency (A-), as well as short-term sovereign credit ratings (A-2) were confirmed. In addition, a credit rating on the national scale (Ruaaa) was confirmed, the rating agency said in a statement.

According to the Public Opinion of the Foundation (see the results of the study on Polit.ru), Russians are completely uninteresting in the dollar. Choosing between the ruble, dollar and the euro, 61% of the respondents said that their trust is exclusively Russian ruble. The American currency is still not popular-over the past six years, its prestige has decreased significantly (from 35% of "trusting" the dollar in 2002 to today 4%).

Vlad Tupikin This village at first glance looks like a small town: plastered knocked houses under neat tiled roofs, sidewalks along the roads, house numbers, street names ... But still it is a village: a little more than a thousand inhabitants, the Church set up a little more than a thousand years ago, the basis of the economy - fields, gardens and vineyards. Here are seven kilometers - there is a city, there are thousands or five people, this is a district center.

The topic of expanding Russia's presence in Latin America is raising a number of publications of America and Great Britain today. Thus, the American newspaper The Washington Times (See intoPressa.ru , see Russia "Rossiya Levils of the Left Pable" tells about the recent ties of Russia with countries such as Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which turned to the left of the democratic elections and where leaders with strong leaders came to power anti -American sentiments.

Latvia of the first of the candidate countries completed negotiations on joining a visa-free program of the United States, Vesti reports, citing the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Baltic Republic.

The Minister of Agriculture of Japan Seiichi Ota resigned from his post as a result of a scandal with spoiled rice, BBC reports. “I met with the Prime Minister and informed him of his intention to leave his post in connection with the serious consequences of the scandal in society,” said Ota. The Ministry of Agriculture admitted that in 2007 one of the agricultural companies announced the production of rice infected with pesticides and fungus.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow began consideration by the claim of the former founder and general director of the Russian-American joint venture Sibneft, Nikolai Lugovsky, who demands to return $ 800 thousand from the Prosecutor General, which were seized from him as material evidence, Kommersant writes today. In 1994, the Prosecutor General’s Office suspected Lugovsky that he tried to illegally send two railway compositions with oil products to Lithuania. The compositions were detained.

GDP in Russia per capita by 2020. It is predicted at the level of more than $ 30 thousand dollars, by 2030 - $ 50 thousand, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. According to him, this is possible with an increase in GDP 6.5% per year. GDP growth in Russia in 2008. It will be 8%, he said today.

The United States initiated the creation of NATO in the NATO states, bordering Russia, tactical forces of quick deployment for possible "defensive actions". This was announced at the informal meeting of the Ministers of Defense of NATO countries on Friday in London. London indicates that the idea to form such forces arose after a Pentagon analysis of the development of events in the Georgian-South-Soset conflict.