Israeli Air Force fighter-bombers and helicopters carried out raids on two towns in southern Lebanon yesterday. The raids came after one Israeli was killed and four were wounded when the southern Lebanon-based Shiite group Hezbollah shelled the Israeli border village of Shlomi. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom called on Syria and Lebanon to “rein in Hezbollah.” He also said that the peace process with the Palestinians has been suspended.

Russian sociologists studied the expectations of Russians The Foundation “Public Opinion” (FOM) presented a sad picture of modern reality to the attention of our citizens. According to sociological research published yesterday, about half of Russians (44%) no longer make plans for the future, and more than 50% of citizens believe that they have no chance of becoming wealthy people.

The date of the new fight of the world champion in the heavyweight category according to the World Boxing Association (WBA) by American Roy Jones Jr. has been announced. He will defend his title on November 8 in Las Vegas in a duel with the holder of the championship belt in the not very prestigious version of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Corey Sanders, who inflicted a crushing defeat on Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko this spring.

Football. French Championship. 2nd round . "Marseille" - "Auxerre" - 1:0, "Bastia" - "Metz" - 0:2, "Bordeaux" - "Montpellier" - 0:1, "Le Mans" - "Ajaccio" " -- 0:1, "Lyon" -- "Monaco" -- 3:1, "Nantes" -- "Lens" -- 2:0, "Nice" -- "Sochaux" -- 1:0, " Rennes - Toulouse - 1:0, Strasbourg - Guingamp - 2:0, Lille - PSG - 1:0. The leaders are: Nice, Lille, Marseille, Ajaccio - 6 points each.

The longest round of the Russian Championship ended without sensations The 20th round of the Russian Championship lasted four days. It began on Wednesday with the match between Lokomotiv and Chernomorets and ended with five matches on Saturday. The clubs have covered two-thirds of the tournament distance, with another third left to go. Moscow Spartak is currently busy looking for a game.

One of the leading Russian historians and orientalists, professor of sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the expert council of the State Duma Security Committee, 83-year-old Grigory Bondarevsky, died on Thursday in Moscow under mysterious circumstances. In the evening he was found at home with a broken head. The unconscious scientist was urgently sent to the hospital, but died a few hours later in the intensive care unit of the 1st City Hospital.

The leader of the men's basketball super league, CSKA, suffered its first defeat in the Russian championship last Saturday. On the day of the 75th anniversary of their president Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky, the army team in Perm lost to Ural Great - 73:76. The match on the banks of the Kama River was highly anticipated.

If you, clutching a legally purchased ticket in your hand, show up at the airport for the departure of your flight, and there is not enough space on the plane for you, do not rush to make a scandal. You are not dealing at all with the blatant carelessness of the employees of “your” airline, but with the usual, respectable, internationally recognized mechanism called “overbooking” (Russian aviators also call this phenomenon rebooking).

Crop failure threatens Governor Tkachev The population of the Krasnodar Territory will soon pay more for bread in stores than they pay now. Bread, it seems, will rise in price in Kuban in the fall. The price increase will be the result of a poor harvest: only 4.4 million tons of grain were harvested in the region this year.

A competition has begun to select pension savings management companies The government program for investing Russians' pension savings was launched last Friday - the Ministry of Finance began accepting applications for competitions to select management companies (MCs) and a special depository that will invest the funded portion of citizens' pensions.

Safin out of action for two to three weeks At the Australian Open, our Marat Safin refused to continue the fight. The Russian was unable to compete in the third round match against German Rainer Schuttler due to a wrist injury. Thus, among the Russians, Mikhail Yuzhny, Elena Bovina and Anastasia Myskina continued to fight for the main prize. They all played last night.

I could never even imagine that the passing of the old professor, my tireless mentor and adviser, 83-year-old Grigory Lvovich Bondarevsky, would be associated with something terrible. But it happened. Murder. And this is not just a personal tragedy. This is the tragedy of the state in which we live. A state that is unable to provide security to its citizens. Even young, strong and healthy. Not to mention the elderly and infirm. We are afraid to open the door to an unexpected call.

Russian striker Dmitry Sychev scored in his second game for the French Marseille. Having entered the 1/8 French Cup match against the second division team Creteil in the starting lineup, Sychev managed to achieve success in the 83rd minute of the meeting. Throwing the ball in his direction, the attacker moved away from the defender at speed, and then, feinting the goalkeeper, hit the now empty goal.

The entire recent history of the Russian Caucasus testifies: where things are bad, religious extremists come. The qadi of the spiritual administration of Muslims of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Ismail-haji BOSTANOV, spoke to the Vremya Novostey newspaper about Wahhabism and Wahhabis in Karachay-Cherkessia. — Ismail-haji, can we say that hundreds of skiers and climbers who come to Dombay every year to relax end up directly in the lair of religious fanatics?

“Literary Newspaper” and “Russian Journal” are different publications in every way. Their authors are different, their readers are different, their structure, focus, tone... There is one similarity - both “LG” and “RZh” are now sizzling with discussions about literary criticism. Once again they find out how disgusting this activity is. And untenable. And doomed. If the carriers of a harmful profession, who have already ruined literature, do not quickly rebuild.