The situation around Iran, which Washington, along with Iraq and North Korea, lists as the notorious “axis of evil” and accused of working on the creation of nuclear weapons, is getting worse. Recently, traces of highly enriched uranium were detected in Iranian environmental samples, the source of which will be searched by IAEA inspectors.

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NASA is ready to put fragments of Columbia on public display Following the publication at the end of August of the official findings of the commission investigating the circumstances of the Columbia shuttle disaster, the leadership of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency will need to solve a serious problem: how best to deal with the wreckage of the shuttle?

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The winner of the representative ATP tournament on clay courts in Stuttgart was Argentinean Guillermo Coria, who defeated Spaniard Tommy Robredo in the final - 6:2, 6:2, 6:1. On the way to the decisive match, Coria inflicted on our Mikhail Youzhny the most painful defeat in his entire career - 6:0, 6:0. For winning the title, the Argentine received, in addition to 118 thousand euros, a new Mercedes car.

On July 22, sunny, warm weather will continue in central European Russia. The oxygen content in the air is close to optimal. For most people, this weather is comfortable. However, increased atmospheric pressure still remains the main cause of illness for weather-dependent people prone to spastic reactions. These are hypertensive patients, patients with vegetative-vascular and neurocirculatory dystonia, people with cerebrovascular accidents and those who have suffered a myocardial infarction.

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The master of Moscow conceptualism Eduard Gorokhovsky presented his version of posthistory The State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) opened the exhibition of Eduard Gorokhovsky “Black Rectangle”. These are 48 works (acrylic on black paper) written by him in recent years in Germany. The idea of ​​the project is simple, visually rich and reminiscent of the slow movement of a film frame within a black screen, on which the events of the “author’s” newsreel by Eduard Gorokhovsky are highlighted.

CLUBS "Station Mir" Blues duet. One of the participants, Vladimir Kozhekin, is one of the best harmonica performers in Moscow. Cool Train, 21.00. Anna Buturlina (vocals) and Vladimir Nesterenko Trio (keys). Jazz. "Seasons", 20.00. Sergey Manukyan (vocals, keyboards). Jazz. "M-bar", 20.00. "Rage" (USA, 1978). Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Andrew Stevens.

The northwestern regions and the middle zone will be under the tutelage of an extensive anticyclone, slowly moving from the Vologda region to the Volga. It has partly cloudy weather with gradual warming of the air. Already on Wednesday the temperature may reach +30°C. In the capital and region there will be some cloudiness and no precipitation. During the day the maximum temperature is +25...+27оС. Wind southeast, 2--5 m/s. In St.

Moscow is preparing a large-scale cleaning of storm drains The consequences of the rain that hit Moscow on July 13 and caused disruptions in traffic on the roads and even in the metro forced the capital’s authorities to urgently develop a plan for “flood control” measures.

Steel producers are not ready to give up subsidies The US, EU, Japan and other participants in the negotiations in Paris did not come to a decision to stop subsidizing the steel industry with a production volume of $350 billion, INTERFAX-AFI reports. Steel producing countries are reporting that a final decision will likely not be reached this year.

Official sales of foreign cars in Russia are growing The Russian representative office of the transnational automobile manufacturing corporation General Motors announced yesterday that it is not able to promptly satisfy all orders coming from our country. This situation contrasts sharply with the decline observed in the planet's major automotive markets: European and North American.

Russian artists turned out to be west of Eastern European ones Two weeks after the opening of the Venice Biennale, the 1st Prague Biennale opened in the heart of Europe, organized mainly by the team of Flash Art magazine publisher Giancarlo Politi, who is increasingly vocal about his curatorial ambitions. In 2001, he created the Tirana Biennale, next year it will be Milan.