03.08.2009 14:36:09 At the capital's Donskoye Cemetery on the afternoon of August 3, 2009, a memorial service was held for Alexander Solzhenitsyn: it was exactly one year since his death. According to ITAR-TASS , the writer’s relatives, laureates of the award named after him, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, and Chairman of Rospechat Mikhail Seslavinsky were present at the cemetery.

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03.08.2009 14:06:27 The Russian national football team should not be left without the support of its fans at the match in Cardiff, said the head of the press service of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Andrei Malosolov, commenting on the call of the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko to refrain from traveling to the UK. NEWSru reports about this.

03.08.2009 14:34:51 Famous Hollywood actor Mel Gibson is again involved in a scandal. This time, he may pay for his temper with a large fine or even imprisonment - the actor got into a fight with a paparazzi and he sued him, NEWSru reports with reference to WorstPreviews. At the end of last week, an American paparazzi filed a police report accusing the star of assault and causing bodily harm.

03.08.2009 14:28:01 The leaders of “New Wave 2009”, who had already decided from the first days of rehearsals, left no doubt who would be among the winners. And yet, the music forum did not pass without intrigue, reports NEWSmusic.ru . Indonesian Sandi Sondoro and Ukrainian Jamala scored the same number of points, thereby asking the audience and journalists a problem - how to interpret the results.

08/03/2009 09:47:39 American swimmer Michael Phelps won the world championship in the 100-meter butterfly and set a new world record, NEWSru reports. Phelps' result in the final was 49.82 seconds. The previous record (50.01) belonged to the Serbian Milorad Čavić, who also took part in the final swim and had every chance of winning. After the first half of the distance, it was Čavic who was in the lead, while Phelps was not even in the top three.