The disaster struck all of Eurasia Natural disasters in early August became a disaster not only for domestic Black Sea resorts. On Thursday, August 8, heavy rains hit the Czech Republic, Austria and Italy. In Prague, water began to rise in the Vltava River. The southern regions of the country were particularly affected by floods caused by unprecedented rainfall - here the authorities had to evacuate two thousand people. Several people went missing and five died.

Today marks two years since the death of the nuclear submarine Kursk, in which 118 members of its crew found their final refuge. Shortly before this, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov named the officially recognized cause of the death of the boat - the explosion of a practical, that is, not combat, training torpedo inside the fourth torpedo tube, which resulted in a fire and the death of the boat.

Excess grain faces shortage of ships Russia is again ready, like a year ago, to break the decade's record for the volume of threshed grain. However, as it turns out, there is nowhere to put the surplus harvested crop. Already low grain prices continue to fall. Exports could save prices, and with them the incomes of farmers.

Nuclear power plants returned their property Rosenergoatom Concern returned to ownership the property of the Smolensk, Kalinin and Balakovo nuclear power plants, which it had leased from the Russian Energy Company (ERKO) since 1992. This story lasted several years and received wide publicity after the intervention of the Prosecutor General's Office at the end of last year.

The Russian team went to Munich without one of its leaders - shot putter Larisa Peleshenko. However, her absence did not prevent our team from winning a gold medal in this type of program: Irina KORZHANENKO performed brilliantly. — Ira, a couple of months ago you spoke very cautiously about your prospects at the European Championships in Munich. Were there any doubts? - I was afraid to think ahead. I decided as God willing. Rivals, look what they are!

“Torpedo” and Kormiltsev seem to have passed the losing streak The last round of the Russian Championship did not make significant adjustments to the balance of power in the standings. Except that Torpedo and Alania managed to move away from the relegation zone, and Rostselmash, having lost heavily to CSKA, moved one step closer to the abyss.

A massive clash between Vietnamese traders and the police occurred on Saturday night. Employees of the capital's UBEP and the GUBEP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation carried out a special operation at the Vietnamese market located in Ogorodny Proezd. Operatives burst into the territory where shopping arcades and warehouses were located and began checking the goods.

A member of the presidential security service is assigned to the main US groundhog Every year on February 2, six thousand residents of the mountain town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and tens of thousands of tourists gather on Gobbler Hill. They celebrate Groundhog Day, celebrated since 1886.

Neighbors do not buy Belarusian goods The latest data from official Belarusian statistics force the authorities to sound the alarm - over the past six months, exports to the CIS countries have noticeably decreased compared to 2001 figures. Deliveries to Russia fell by 4.7%. Government experts claim that goods from Belarusian producers are being squeezed out of the Russian market by local producers and Asian enterprises.

Male participants - resting The participants of the women's super stage race "Grand Boucle" (analogous to the famous "Tour de France") left half the way behind. After a difficult mountain stage, there was a change of leader in the overall standings. The yellow jersey was worn by the Belarusian racer Zinaida Stagurskaya, who competes for the Italian team “Cirio”. At the current “Big Loop”, Stagurskaya has not won a single stage.

Natural disasters destroy the recreation industry The Crimean authorities reported the completion of repair work at the main facilities - houses and roads, destroyed last week by heavy rains and tornadoes. According to the main department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Crimea, the section of the Dnieper railway Kerch-Simferopol-Moscow has been completely restored. On the Ostanino - Seven Wells section, 150 meters of the roadbed was destroyed on Thursday and Friday.

Under mysterious circumstances, Viktor Ostrovityanchikov, a prominent businessman and one of the leaders of Stern-Cement CJSC, died on Sunday night. According to information from the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, the businessman’s body was discovered yesterday by his wife. According to preliminary data, Mr. Ostrovityanchikov hanged himself in the bathroom with his own tie, but the police were unable to find any suicide notes.

X Film Forum “Window to Europe” takes place in Vyborg Watching films at the Russian Film Festival in Vyborg is an exciting and educational experience. When you see a Russian film not at a press screening - between "Resident Evil" and "Asterix and Obelix" - and not at an international film festival - between "The Son" and "The Man Without a Past", the impression is significantly corrected. And it's not that films seem better in the absence of Western models (although that too).

Last Saturday, Russian Transport Minister Sergei Frank inspected the newly built berths for road and rail ferries in the Makhachkala port, and also laid a symbolic message for descendants in the breakwater of the new port harbor that is being built. The head of the port, Abusupyan Kharkharov, compared the historical significance of this event with the decree of Peter I on the founding of the Makhachkala port.

Organizationally, the Russian Air Force was created on August 12, 1912 by order of the military department No. 397, approved by Emperor Nicholas II. During the First World War, the Air Fleet was separated into an independent branch of the military, and during the Great Patriotic War - into a separate branch of the armed forces. In the post-war period, largely thanks to the Air Force and Air Defense, military-strategic parity was ensured between the USSR and the USA.