President Approved a number of instructions to the Chairman of the Government and members of the Cabinet in preparation for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The list of instructions, in particular, indicates the need to prepare international initiatives aimed at giving the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War an appropriate international character.

Our men's team was left without World Championship medals The first final of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which started in the American city of Anaheim, did not bring any medals to the Russian men's team. In the team tournament, we were only fourth, behind the teams of China, the USA and Japan. It is difficult to say what caused such an unsuccessful performance. Perhaps the mood of our gymnasts was influenced by unforeseen circumstances.

Germaine de Stael's book "Ten Years in Exile" can now be read in Russian Almost two hundred years ago, the name of the glorious Madame de Staël was known to any enlightened European.

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Krasnoyarsk Combine Harvester and Rostselmash did not divide the market Yesterday, Agromashholding announced that the Krasnoyarsk Combine Harvester Plant, which is part of it, signed a cooperation agreement with the administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. By 2005, the plant plans to supply the region with 620 Yenisei combine harvesters.

Composition of the Russian national team at the 2003 World Championships Men 4x400 m. Anton Galkin, Evgeny Lebedev, Oleg Mishukov, Andrey Rudnitsky, Alexander Usov, Dmitry Forshev. 800 m . Yuri Borzakovsky, Dmitry Bogdanov. 1500 m. Vyacheslav Shabunin. 400 m s/b. Boris Gorban. 3000 m s/n. Pavel Potapovich. Walking. 20 km. Roman Rasskazov, Vladimir Andreev, Ilya Markov, Victor Buraev. Walking. 50 km . German Skurygin, Alexey Voevodin, Denis Nizhegorodov. Height.

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WB Chief Economist doubts the reality of doubling GDP Presenting the next report on the Russian economy, the chief economist of the World Bank office, Christoph Ruhl, noted that “since the beginning of reforms, the Russian economy has never been in better shape than it is now.” High growth rates were accompanied by significant increases in real incomes of the population, industrial production and investment. The economic indicators, according to Mr.

Alexey Kudrin promises to increase funding for the aerospace industry, but only “to the extent possible” Yesterday at the Moscow Aviation and Space Salon turned out to be much calmer after the influx of VIPs on Tuesday.

CLUBS Vagif Sadikhov (piano) and his quartet. Le Club , 20.00. Trio of Alexander Shevtsov (guitar). Jazz. "Restoration" , 21.30. “A minor” (St. Petersburg). Yard folklore, chanson. "Chinese pilot Zhao Da" . 23.00. "Watermelon Festival" Exhibition of artistic illustrations by Nina Kotel on “watermelon” themes. At the end of the holiday, the paintings will turn into lots at an impromptu auction. “Club on Brestskaya” , 20.00. Birthday of the “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” club.

The company wants to go to Turkey The desire of the favorite brainchild of the President of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, to acquire his own oil refining capacities abroad is so great that the company’s management decided to once again remind the market of this. The Tatneft press service quoted its CEO Shafagat Takhautdinov, who again announced his intention to acquire 60% of the Turkish company Tupras in an alliance with one of the oil companies.

In the middle zone and in the north-west of the European territory of Russia, in terms of temperature, the weather is quite comfortable, even tonic. However, increased air humidity can cause shortness of breath and cough in patients suffering from bronchopulmonary diseases. The most weather-sensitive people with cardiovascular diseases and people with nervous and mental disorders may still feel unwell as a consequence of the geomagnetic background disturbed the day before.

District police officers were ordered to establish “information exchange” with Muscovites While the capital's legislators took a pause until the fall to decide who should be considered “informants at the place of residence” - voluntary police assistants or informers, the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate mobilized district police officers to recruit spies from among the public.

Perhaps, in the new television season, Svetlana Sorokina’s talk show “Basic Instinct” will no longer air on Channel One. According to the Vremya Novostei newspaper, this decision was discussed by the channel’s management during a regular meeting on Monday.

On the European territory of Russia, the temperature on these August days generally does not go beyond normal and is distributed according to geographic latitude. But thanks to the efforts of cyclones, there is already more than enough rain. In the capital region alone, the precipitation norm has already been exceeded in the first 15 days. In the coming days, the center of Russia will again be affected by the influence of another Atlantic cyclone moving from Karelia to the northeast.