Russia (t night/day) 9.09 10.09 Moscow +9/+12 region/Negro. +6/+12 per S.-Petersburg +8/+19 per +6/+17 Sunny Arkhangelsk +5/+18 per +4/+14 per Vladivostok +16/+22 per +12/+22 per. Yekaterinburg +9/+16 rain +5/+11 per Irkutsk +8/+14 per./Rain +6/+13 region/Negro. Krasnoyarsk +7/+14 per +5/+13 rain Kursk +9/+13 per./Rain +7/+14 per N. Novgorod +7/+12 rain +6/+12 per Novosibirsk +9/+21 per +7/+15 per. Omsk +14/+24 per. O/d, thunderstorm +11/+16 region/Negro. Rostov-on-Don +7/+15 region/B.

The company was deprived of state support The results of the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of OJSC Rostovugol held at the end of August will be protested. Vadim Varshavsky, general director of Russian Coal, who currently manages the Don company, announced this to the Vremya Novostei newspaper yesterday.

On TVC in the new season they will joke about politics, theft and drunkenness The new television season starts on the TVC channel in the first half of September. According to the channel's president Oleg Poptsov, TVC will continue to perform the functions of “the most socially oriented channel on Russian television, touching on all aspects of human life and society.” Apparently, some of the new products in the channel grid are intended to confirm this very controversial statement.

Yesterday, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President in the Far Eastern Federal District, Konstantin PULIKOVSKY, arrived in Pyongyang to participate in the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK and meet with the country's leader Kim Jong Il. The day before, he spoke about the purposes of his trip to representatives of Russian and foreign media, including a correspondent for the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

The extradition process for Akhmed Zakaev has resumed On Monday, the legal series entitled “the case of extradition of the Chechen emissary Akhmed Zakayev to the Russian Federation” continued at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in London. Judge Timothy Workman, who is leading the trial, is confident that in just four or five sessions he will be able to reach a “definite conclusion.” After that, he intends to make a final verdict.

Relatives of those killed over Lake Constance will be paid compensation by the end of the year Switzerland intends to soon begin paying compensation to Russians who lost their loved ones in a plane crash over Lake Constance on the night of July 2, 2002.

Return from the abyss Early yesterday, on Mount Fisht, 50 kilometers from Sochi, search work resumed at the site of the crash of the Ka-32 helicopter of the Krasnodar scientific and production company PANH. This car carried construction workers and gas cylinders for welding work to the Lunnaya Polyana shelter, located near Fisht. There were a total of nine people on board, including four crew members. The cargo was located on an external sling.

You can expect anything from North Korea on your birthday Today, the northern Korean Peninsula will celebrate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK. A military parade will take place in Pyongyang, something that has not happened in this militarized country for five years due to economic difficulties. The organizers of the celebrations promise to bring at least half a million people to the streets of the capital.

Anatoly Bykov resigned as a deputy and is thinking about new elections The notorious businessman Anatoly Bykov yesterday wrote a statement that he voluntarily resigns as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The resignation, as the chairman of the local parliament, Alexander Uss, said the day before, will be accepted at the first session. Last year, Anatoly Bykov was sentenced to six and a half years of suspended imprisonment for organizing attempted murder.

If we roughly compare the main parties “as a whole,” then the picture looks like this. Over the past month, the indicators of United Russia have clearly increased (from 6.28 to 7.00 points). Estimates of the resources of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation remained practically at the same level (7.21 for July, 7.20 for August).

Investigators know the killers, but do not name the customer The investigation into one of the most notorious political murders of the 90s - the shooting of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoytova - was recently completed by employees of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg. So far, six people have begun to familiarize themselves with the materials of the criminal case, including the organizer and perpetrators of the attack.

Clubs Closing the festival "Ochakovo-Blue". All night on two scenes of the B2 club, more than 20 blues groups from eight cities of Russia will play. On the big stage: JAM (Nizhny Novgorod), Baryshev and Black Mailers (Vladimir), Big Blues Revival (St. Petersburg), Blues Doctors (Yekaterinburg), Dr. Agransky and Black Bread, Mishouris & His Swinging Orchestra, Petrovich and Petrovich and Bluesmakers, Boris Bulkin and his Bend, Nikolai Sadikov and Lonesome Blues Band .

SPS counted 20 million votes By including Anatoly Chubais in the top three of the federal list, the Union of Right Forces hopes to repeat the success of the 1999 elections in the upcoming elections and dispel the negative myth surrounding the head of RAO UES of Russia. The first and second places on the list approved at the SPS pre-election congress on Monday were traditionally taken by Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada.

Alexey Miller is trying to profitably sell gas from Shtokman overseas Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller spent most of the Oil and Gas Industry Worker's Day, which, as is known, falls on the first Sunday in September, traveling over the Atlantic.

President He congratulated the poet Rasul Gamzatov on his 80th birthday and presented him with the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. This is Russia's highest state award, restored by presidential decree in 1998. A festive dinner dedicated to the hero of the day was held at the Bocharov Ruchey residence of the head of state in Sochi.