On August 26, at about 23.00 Moscow time, at the Stade de France, 27-year-old triple jumper Tatiana LEBEDEVA from Volgograd literally took a leap into history. Landing in the fourth attempt at 15 meters 18 centimeters, she became the first two-time world champion in the individual event in the history of Russian athletics. After the award ceremony, an emotional and unusually smiling Tatyana answered questions from a correspondent for the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

In a year, the battles of the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games will be in full swing in the Greek capital Athens. A total of 301 sets of medals will be awarded at the Olympics. At the previous Games in Sydney, the Russian team participated in 243 sports disciplines out of 300 and ultimately became second in the team event, behind only the Americans.

Sakhalin said goodbye to the victims of the plane crash “I knew Governor Igor Farkhutdinov well as a person who lived with the problems of Sakhalin,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin during a funeral ceremony in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Wednesday, August 27. On this day, the victims of the Mi-8 helicopter crash that crashed a week ago in Kamchatka were buried here.

The Alexandrinsky Theater has a new artistic director On Tuesday, Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoy finally introduced a new artistic director to the Alexandrinsky Theater troupe - Valery Fokin. This appointment has a long history. Alexandrinka, still officially called the State Drama Theater named after Pushkin, has been toiling for years, looking for a person whom she could entrust with power over herself.

And they promise to become a third cheaper Kaliningrad-based JSC Avtotor, which assembles passenger cars and light-duty Korean KIA and BMW 3 and 5 series, has added an American brand to its car collection. Yesterday, the company signed a general agreement with General Motors CIS (representing GM in Russia) to assemble the American Hummer-2 SUV at its facilities.

The birthplace of the Games has been waiting in the wings for more than a century The Summer Olympics starting in a year in Athens will be a kind of debut for the new President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge. Of course, his team already has the experience of Salt Lake City, but there is no need to explain that the summer Olympics cannot be compared in scale to the winter ones. The closer the main starts are, the more criticism is heard towards the organizers. True, Mr.

Summer is coming to an end, which, having started late, gives way to autumn ahead of time. The reason for this is the change of Atlantic cyclones, tirelessly carrying dense clouds and autumn rains. The only thing that distinguishes it from autumn so far is warm nights. After all, at the end of August frosts are no longer uncommon. There will be almost no change in the coming days. As before, most of the European territory of Russia will remain at the mercy of Atlantic cyclones.

Flood of feelings and awe The day before the performance, believers protest! Messages on the Internet, faxes from some “Committee for Moral Revival” and even Archpriest Shargunov on television worried about the people. All this is because the French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj staged a twenty-minute ballet on a gospel plot and gave the role of the Archangel Gabriel to a dancer.

Sheremetyevo Airport wants to get rid of uninvited tenants The airlines on whose planes they flew to Russia will soon be tasked with feeding illegal migrants settling in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo International Airport. The Sheremetyevo administration intends to include precisely this condition in the near future in standard ground service agreements that the airport concludes with airlines.

“March of the Slav” and “Attraction” are shown in Moscow cinemas Yesterday the country celebrated Russian Cinema Day. It is clear that on a holiday you don’t want to remember the unpleasant, so they remembered the pleasant and even boasted about some achievements. Meanwhile, while all the media were announcing a new film by Stanislav Govorukhin, two new Russian films were quietly released.

Russian football players will play in the Champions League Lokomotiv, having won in Moscow over Shakhtar with a score of 3:1, made it into the Champions League. Loko won beautifully, fighting until the last minute, and the reward for Yuri Semin's team was participation in the main club tournament in Europe. The total budget of the Russian Premier League clubs for this year is more than $200 million.

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Yabloko and SPS met at a debate Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Sergei Mitrokhin and first deputy chairman of the Duma faction of the SPS Boris Nadezhdin held a debate yesterday at the site of the Rosbalt news agency. This is not the first meeting of rivals in the political ring. The deputies discussed the problem of poverty in Russia, housing and communal services reform, and also exchanged views on ways to double GDP by 2010.

The Central Bank punished the first bank that violated the requirement for financial consultants The Central Bank barely had time to write down the Federal Securities Commission's requirements for financial consultants in its documents when banks began having problems with the public offering of shares. At the beginning of the week, the Central Bank suspended the additional issue of shares of the small Agrokhimbank, for which Megawatt Bank became a consultant.

The former first racket of the world suffered from an unknown Russian On the second day of the US Open in New York, six more Russians reached the second round. The most sensational result was the victory of our compatriot Dmitry Tursunov, who permanently resides in the USA, over the former first racket of the world, Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten, in a tense five-set match that lasted 2 hours 47 minutes - 5:7, 6:2, 6:2, 4: 6, 7:6 (7:1). Tursunov is not very well known to Russian tennis fans.