Two years ago, in an interview with Newsweek, you said that you would play for a couple more years and leave. Do you already have an idea of ​​what you will be doing? So far I don't really know. To do something else, you need to quit tennis, you need to stop, understand yourself, live a different life. And I'm not ready for that yet. Last year it seemed that you were not very comfortable in tennis. If I didn't enjoy tennis, I wouldn't do it. I will play until I get bored.

Scientists from France and Germany have won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute of Medicine announced in Stockholm. Among the laureates is Harald zur Hausen from Germany, who received half of the prize for discovering a virus that causes cervical cancer.

The forecast of the authors of the concept of Russia's development, Plan 2020, is successfully tested by a calculator: we enter Rosstat data on the average annual growth in the salaries of Russians - and by 2020 we get even a little more than the promised $2,700 per month. The task is not from the category of impracticable: it is enough that the real incomes of citizens grow somewhere by 10-15% per year. This positive trend, as official statistics show, has been observed for 8 years.

Last Wednesday, when Prime Minister Putin held a government meeting at which he wanted to put an end to the debate about the so-called Concept 2020, some White House employees spent time in one of the neighboring cafes. When the news finally began to arrive, the officials were confused. At first, ripping out each other's mobile phones with open news sites, they tried to understand whether the Concept was approved or not.

For the first time in the last 15,000 years, under the huge arches of the Kapova Cave, in the mountains of the Southern Urals, the roar of bison was heard. The resonance amplified the sounds, and they were repeatedly reflected from the walls - tourists ran out of the dark halls. "There's a herd of bulls!" they shouted. But there have never been bulls in the cave, only their images left on the walls by primitive people.

The drama "Admiral" - more precisely, "Admiral" - about the last years and the main love of the Supreme Ruler of the Russian state Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak - will appear on October 9th.

After Solzhenitsyn's death, it was decided to name streets in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don, where he lived, to rename Rostov University, where he studied, to erect a monument to him in Kislovodsk, where he was born, and, on the personal order of Vladimir Putin, "properly to present his work” in the school curriculum in literature, history and social studies.

Russia is in favor of creating a currency pool with Belarus and expanding the use of the Russian ruble in mutual settlements, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at Russian-Belarusian talks. “I would like to note the interest in further deepening monetary integration, including by creating a currency pool and expanding the use of the Russian ruble in mutual settlements,” Putin said.

To release all the latest albums of the Belarusian group "Lyapis Trubetskoy" cost its leader Sergei Mikhalok time and nerves. Record companies, firstly, find fault, and secondly, they take almost all the proceeds. “Managers rub that you are not a top artist, you have not been on TV for a long time, you have fallen out of the media space,” the musician is indignant.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the Alai district of the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan has risen to 74 people, Prime Minister Igor Chudinov told RIA Novosti. “After all the search work, the death toll from the earthquake was 74 people. In addition, 36 people were taken to hospitals in the city of Osh and the village of Sary-Tash,” he said. On Monday night, an earthquake of magnitude 8 on the Richter scale struck the Kyrgyz-Chinese border.