Pensioners have no equal in the TV game of survival with a minimum of funds The television show of Ural journalists, “The Living Wage,” became further proof of the long-known postulate that only well-prepared people can survive in Russia on a meager pension. Moreover, pensioners also manage to save part of their income for a rainy day.

The new microdistrict will be built only with investors’ money It is possible that the “Southern Butovo” microdistrict will soon appear on the outskirts of the capital. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Moscow government, a resolution was adopted on the development of “low-rise development areas” to the south of densely populated residential neighborhoods and a special working group was created.

BP head Lord Browne refused to buy Yukos assets There is one less potential contender for the purchase of YUKOS assets. As the head of BP, Lord John Brown, said yesterday, his company does not intend to acquire the property of the disgraced company. At the same time, Mr. Brown is not afraid that TNK-BP will find itself in a situation similar to the one that developed around YUKOS.

Watch from July 29 on Moscow screens "Mindhunters" (USA, 2003, Renny Harlin). A new variation on the eternal theme of “Ten Little Indians,” only in the role of successively exterminated victims here are not sinners collected from the pine forest, but the FBI elite: newcomers to the special unit for combating serial killers. On the training island they had to solve a mock crime, but instead they had to figure out the maniac in their circle.

Forecast for the coming days In the coming days, a low-moving anticyclone remains over the north of European Russia. It is prevented from moving south by cyclones, one after another coming from the territory of foreign Europe. The center of one of them will be over the Baltic states and will shift to the northwestern region in the afternoon. But the anticyclone also firmly holds its position.

US and UK insist they will not send troops to Sudan The UN Security Council this week will discuss the American draft resolution on the introduction of international sanctions against Sudan. Let us remember that the situation with Iraq developed in a similar way: first sanctions were imposed against it, and then the war began. The Europeans also threaten Khartoum, which is accused of genocide in Darfur province in the west of the country, with sanctions.

The court suspended the creation of the world's largest banking group In the world's largest banking merger, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. and UFJ Holdings Inc. - there was a loud scandal. The Tokyo District Court yesterday suspended the implementation of the agreement to combine their assets after Japan's third-largest bank, Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., intervened in the matter. Ltd.

CLUBS Almas del fuego. Concert of one of the best Russian flamenco groups. The dancers studied flamenco choreography in Spain, including at the famous Seville school Manolo Marin. In addition, Larisa Petrova , the only flamenco flute performer in Russia, plays in the group. Summer veranda of the Chinese pilot Zhao Da club (entrance through the Cooker House) , 21.00. Patsy Grant (USA).

Moldova wants other negotiations Chisinau is deciding what to do next with the Transnistrian settlement. The Minister of Reintegration of Moldova, Vasily Sova, said that the President of the Republic of Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, convened a meeting on this matter yesterday. But no decisions have been announced yet.

On Monday, the leader of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity arrived in Moscow. According to the plenipotentiary envoy of the president of the unrecognized republic in Russia, Dmitry Medoev, “among the issues that Mr. Kokoity is discussing in Moscow is attracting investment to South Ossetia.” During the visit, “various consultations may take place,” the plenipotentiary noted. Official Russian representatives do not say anything about the purpose of the South Ossetian leader's visit.

Destination -- Gotland The Swedes are stubborn people. If they were preparing for a summer vacation, then they will spend it like a summer vacation. Therefore, on the streets of Visby, the medieval Hanseatic city, the capital of the island of Gotland, in this cold summer of 2004 it is very easy to distinguish locals from visitors. Blondes and blondes in quilted jackets and sometimes sheepskin coats are local. Blondes and blondes in cleavage and shorts - vacationers from mainland Sweden.

Yesterday in Moscow, nine representatives of the Yabloko party were detained during an unauthorized rally. As the capital's Main Internal Affairs Directorate reported yesterday, protesters, mostly young people, gathered at house No. 2 on Lubyanka at about 12 noon, unfurled anti-government posters and scattered leaflets. In addition, several people threw bags of paint at the Yuri Andropov memorial plaque.

Good for Russians, bad for Poles Warsaw unexpectedly received two blows from its main strategic partner in the East: political and economic. This is how Poland reacted to the sensational results of the Yalta meeting of the Ukrainian and Russian presidents the day before yesterday. In honor of this meeting, Leonid Kuchma presented a gift to Vladimir Putin, excluding from the military doctrine of Ukraine the thesis about preparing the country for membership in NATO and the European Union.

President Signed the federal law on Russia's accession to the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. Russia received an official invitation to join the treaty last fall. The State Duma adopted the corresponding law on July 2, the Federation Council approved it on July 15.

Igor Sechin headed the board of directors of Rosneft Deputy head of the presidential administration Igor Sechin was yesterday elected chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned Rosneft (previously it was headed by the head of the Ministry of Energy Igor Yusufov, who was dismissed due to government reform).