Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Medvedev in Shanghai took part in the Russian Day at the World Exhibition. This visit has its own intrigue: a couple of months ago, the presidential anger was caused by the concept of the Russian exposition in Shanghai, the symbol of which the officials who were responsible for the participation of Russia in EXPO-2010 made a book hero-neumer Dunno. This caused numerous ironic comments of observers. Medvedev ordered the exposition to reinstall and remove the nonsense.

The Independent Irina Lagunina: The Indianman spilled in the British newspaper in the last week. The article that for the wealthy Russians who want to relax on the azure bank of France, a special Lux train will ride. An editorial article about an Arctic forum with a loud heading: “The chance to prevent a new“ Cold War ”. The note itself was written with no less enthusiasm.

WTA tournament in Tokyo. The second circle Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) - Katerina Bondarenko (Ukraine) - 6: 2, 6: 1 Elena Dementyeva (Russia) - Yaroslav Swedova (Kazakhstan) Vera Zvonareva (Russia) - Sarah Errani (Italy) - 6: 3, 6: 3 Andrea Petkovich (Germany) - Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) - 6: 3, 7: 5 Flavia Penetta (Italy) - Maria Kirilenko (Russia) - 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 3

Basketball. Women. World Cup. Czech Republic Group f Russia - Brazil 76:53 Spain - Japan 86:59 Czech Republic - South Korea 96:65 Group F. Russia, Spain of 8 points Czech Republic 7 South Korea 6 Brazil, Japan 5 Group E Australia - Greece 93:54 France - Belarusian 58:48 USA - Canada 87:46 Group E USA, Australia of 8 points France 7 Belarus 6 Greece, Canada 5

The performance "Hour is eighteen" The 20th Baltic House festival opened in St. Petersburg. Freedom correspondent spent days preceding the ceremony on the Theater Ark - on a ferry and on buses, having visited four Baltic countries. In former times, the organizers of the festival, before it opened in St. Petersburg, carried theatrical critics and practitioners to one country, so that they could see performances that, for various reasons, could not be shown in St. Petersburg.

The Constitutional Court of Russia. The Constitutional Court of Russia examined in an open meeting the case of checking the constitutionality of Article 18 of the Federal Law "On the Status of Military Management" and Article 1084 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. It was about compensation for harm to the families of military personnel.

In Nazran, during the shelling by unknown, no one was injured. Prior to this, it was reported that the attack was committed on Monday late in the evening. The shelling was carried out with the use of firearms of automatic weapons and grenade launchers. There is no destruction, ”the press service of the Border Administration of the FSB in Ingushetia noted. With the onset of morning, the operational-investigation group will begin to inspect the scene.

World Chess Olympiad.

The final summing up of the day of the past, the prospects of the day of the coming, discussing hot topics with guests of the morning broadcast.

Russian political vocabulary was enriched with a new vivid expression - "Resignation in connection with The loss of confidence in the president. "Yu.M. Luzhkov lost his work of the Moscow Mayor, He lost the trust of the senior boss and younger comrade. You can imagine how The cabinets of Moscow officials are buzzing today. What else has changed?

The Government of Afghanistan today presented the composition of the Supreme Council of the world - the body designed to conduct peace negotiations with the rebels. The new council included about 70 people, including ex-president of Afghanistan Burkhanuddin Rabbani, a number of former Taliban, some figures of the Afghan regimes of the 80-90s, and representatives of ethnic minorities.

In Kamchatka, the search for a walking boat, which disappeared on Sunday evening, with a towing to the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, continues. The boat, on board which were two people, was tucked up after the steering was refused in the area of the fat bay. During the towing, the cable broke, and the ship disappeared. The area of the incident today was supposed to examine the helicopter of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies from the air.

Jewish activists, who intend to break through the Israeli sea blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to the gas sector, say that they are already less than 25 miles from the coast of the sector. The catamaran with seven activists of the London organization Jews for Justice in Palestine - citizens of Israel, the USA and European countries - left the port on Cyprus on Sunday.