Last Thursday, Vremya Novostey correspondent Boris PASTERNAK spoke with the director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center Roman VILFAND, who gave a weather forecast for the next five to six days. Unfortunately for Muscovites exhausted by the heat, the forecast came true. The new interview talks about the next five days. -- Today's rain, thunderstorm, squall wind - is this a long-awaited break in the weather?

The finalist of the high jump tournament at the Sydney Olympics, German athlete Amyu Mensah, is one of the active members of the anti-doping campaign. This circumstance, it seems, did not in any way prevent her from using illegal drugs herself. In any case, the German Athletics Federation reported that the banned drug oxandrolone was found in the athlete’s blood. The German jumper, featured on numerous posters made as part of the anti-doping campaign, faces the threat of a two-year ban.

RAO UES of Russia plans to adopt a corporate governance code at the meeting of the company's board of directors on July 27. As Alexander Kolesnikov, a member of the board of RAO, said, the developers of the code are focusing on the board of directors and its functions.

The Bavarian Film Days opened with the film “Experiment” The victory of the animal over the human, the tendency to senseless and sophisticated violence, the willingness to humiliate the weak, the intoxication of power - all these ideas have long been known in both literature and cinema. The more difficult it is to make a high-quality and interesting film on such a topic. Director Oliver Hirschbiegel succeeded.

She decided to get serious about organizing travel. The shareholders of VAO Intourist decided to sharply increase the authorized capital of this oldest travel agency in Russia. As a result of the additional issue of shares, the share of Joint Stock Financial Corporation (JSFC) Sistema in the capital of Intourist will increase. According to the decision of the extraordinary meeting of shareholders held on July 21, the authorized capital will increase from 180 million to 800 million rubles.

The ex-prime minister of Ukraine will soon appear in court American justice once again remembered Ukrainian ex-Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko, who has been awaiting trial in a San Francisco prison for two and a half years. Yesterday, the District Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that "wire fraud" had been added to the 53 charges already filed - we are talking about the transfer of $100 million to the United States from Ukrainian government accounts.

The concept of a unified system of state financial control, the need for which officials have been discussing for at least six months, seems to have finally matured. The head of the tax police, Mikhail Fradkov, said yesterday at a meeting of the heads of territorial tax police bodies of the Northwestern Federal District that the document will be presented by the government to the president in the near future. According to Mr.

The quarterfinals have been played at the ongoing Copa America - the unofficial championship of South America - in Colombia. The co-author of the loudest sensation, against its own will, was the Brazilian national team, which was almost unanimously predicted to be the winner of this competition.

God knows what red-haired Lola (Franka Potente) saw in him, who performed miracles of devotion and self-sacrifice for him. She ran halfway through Berlin three times - and still she had enough breath to scream of despair and hope, from which glasses of champagne burst in the hands of casino visitors. She was saving the life of her lover - a stupid, arrogant errand boy for the mafia, who, due to an unimaginable roteness, forgot a package with 100 thousand German marks in the subway.

Impexbank began issuing MasterCard Platinum Wealthy clients of Russian banks who use plastic have the opportunity to choose. Yesterday Impexbank and the international payment system Europay Int. announced the start of issuing the first MasterCard Platinum debit card in Russia. In a few months, Impexbank intends to increase the issuance volume to 100-200 cards, and by the end of this year make MasterCard Platinum credit cards.

There are four days left before the second round of elections for the governor of Nizhny Novgorod, and passions that had subsided after the end of the first round are heating up again. Yesterday, representatives of Unity, led by State Duma Deputy Speaker Lyubov Sliskaya, came to Nizhny to campaign for the current governor Ivan Sklyarov.

Sverdlovsk politicians accuse each other of organizing the murder The murder of 28-year-old deputy of the Sverdlovsk Regional Duma Artem Satovsky provoked a squabble among the political and business elite of the Middle Urals. Well-known politicians and entrepreneurs not only accuse each other of involvement in this crime, but also launched a disgusting war for the seat of the deceased deputy.

The head of ARCO liked it The Kremlin, having figured out how to integrate the Central Bank into a single vertical of power, seems to have no problems recruiting allies. Yesterday, the idea of ​​entrusting the functions of the highest body of the Central Bank to the National Banking Council (NBC) was supported by the head of ARCO, former deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Alexander Turbanov.

The fate of Yuri Luzhkov will be decided in the elections to the City Duma Elections to the Moscow City Duma will take place on December 16 - the capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov issued a corresponding order yesterday. Muscovites will have to elect 35 deputies. Elections to the city legislative assembly are being held for the third time, but for the first time their result will have serious political significance.

Minority creditors of Zapsib do not want to become owners The additional issue of shares of the West Siberian Metallurgical Plant, the placement of which among the company's creditors began the other day, apparently will fail. Subscription participants will not take all of the planned 111 million shares for a total of RUB 5.5 billion. In April of this year, Zapsib's creditors voted to exchange debts for shares of the plant.