D.Goldman / AP The Dukes St. James bar now serves a Five Rings Martini, while the Park Plaza Hotel offers a False Start. But what has been causing the most buzz among London foodies is the proliferation of pop-up restaurants, or temporary restaurants that open in any available space, be it a private home, a hotel or a former factory. London is currently experiencing a boom in temporary restaurants and nightclubs, all dedicated to the ongoing Olympics.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is calling for the exclusion from the ruling party of functionaries who discredit United Russia. "There must be responsibility to the party, and therefore to the people who trust the party," Medvedev said on Friday at a meeting with candidates for the post of head of the Central Executive Committee of United Russia in Gorki. "Our party members and party leaders are by no means without sin. Decisions must be made if any problems arise.

Locarno Film Festival All good films about the end of a dictatorship are best seen in a public square, and Pablo Larrain's No was shown in the Piazza Grande. No doesn't fit the synopsis of "a film about how an advertising man brought down the Pinochet regime." At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Directors' Fortnight prize, and in Locarno it was shown after the award ceremony for actor Gael García Bernal.

Demand for organic products in St. Petersburg has grown several times in 2011, and the volume of deliveries has grown proportionally, says Maria Girshberg, CEO of Green Farm. The number of clients has tripled, says Elena Lukyanenko, managing partner of the organic food delivery company Ferma. Demand in St. Petersburg far exceeds supply, says Vasily Konashenok, head of the St. Petersburg branch of the LavkaLavka farming cooperative.

UN expert on chemical safety issues, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and honored professor of the Moscow State University's chemistry department Valery Petrosyan advises every Muscovite to drink unboiled tap water every day. According to him, Moscow tap water is clean and allows various harmful substances to be washed out of the body. "I teach ecology at a university. My students stop drinking cola and various sodas after two years and drink only water," he said.

The organizer of a network of underground banks in Moscow, which brought in billions of rubles in income, has been put on the federal wanted list, the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Friday. “ The organizer of the illegal business, Jeyhun Akhmedov, has been put on the federal wanted list,” the message says.

The Syktyvkar City Court ordered the mayor's office to register all trees. Officials were also required to develop forestry regulations for forest parks. As explained by the senior assistant to the Komi prosecutor Natalia Spiridonova, this is necessary to eliminate regular illegal logging in the city.

The Bank of Russia will not restrict the activities of Russian subsidiaries of foreign banks of those countries - members of international organizations that do not apply the “principle of reciprocity” (reciprocal restrictions on restrictions on the activities of their companies in other states). The corresponding draft federal law on amendments to the law “On Banks and Banking Activities” was published on the website of the Ministry of Finance.

D.Novikov / PhotoXpress NLMK metallurgical holding. The main owner is Vladimir Lisin (85.54%). Capitalization is $11.4 billion. Revenue (US GAAP, 1st half of 2012) is $6.4 billion. Net profit is $451 million. NLMK was the first among Russian metallurgists to report its Q2 results under US GAAP.

Smoking will become twice as expensive The average price of a pack of cigarettes in Russia by 2015 could increase to 65 rubles against the current 35 rubles, predicts BAT Russia. Due to the increase in excise taxes, the minimum price will increase more than twofold to 50 rubles per pack against the current 22 rubles.

Russia's GDP in the second quarter of 2012 grew by 4% compared to the same period last year, which corresponds to the Ministry of Economic Development's estimate of 3.9-4%, Rosstat reports. Based on the results of the first quarter, Rosstat estimated the economic growth in annual terms at 4.9%.

Timur Nagumanov, head of the republic's Drozhzhanovsky District (approximately 200 km southwest of Kazan), where a farming village is being built, told Vedomosti about the problems of Novaya Derevnya. "While the investor has run out of funds, we are waiting for them and simultaneously looking for others [investors]. The project is very expensive, and it is not possible to find funds quickly," he responded on Twitter.

Evgeny Zhadkevich about the city monster In the Michelin guides they write about such cities: “ worth a detour.” Once the last stronghold of the Catholic Church on the edge of the war-stricken steppes, stratified like Jerusalem , fortified like Carcassonne, this city lies on the main nomadic route of Muscovites, St. Petersburg and Belarusians making their way by car to their Bulgarian summer apartments. After receiving a free cobblestone massage, transit motorists slow down in amazement.

In the first half of this year, radio stations collected advertising for 6.2-6.4 billion rubles – 21% more than in the same period of 2011, according to data published yesterday by the Association of Communications Agencies of Russia (ACAR). Only Internet companies had higher growth rates during this time (plus 45%), advertisers' spending on TV – the main Russian media – increased by only 8%, the entire advertising market – by 13%.

Russian medals 56 photos The Russian Olympic team has 56 medals, of which 12 are gold and 21 are silver. Test drive BMW 750 26 photos For the first time in Russia, the international premiere of BMW took place: a brand new “Seven” was brought to St. Petersburg.