Yuri Luzhkov decided to respond to Mikheil Saakashvili with action Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov made his contribution to the aggravation of the already sharply complicated Russian-Georgian relations recently. The capital's mayor spent the entire day yesterday in sunny Abkhazia - as he claims, on an unofficial, non-political, purely business visit. The Moscow mayor arrived in Abkhazia in the morning and returned home in the evening.

The great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has died He died on Monday, just shy of 96, in the south of France, in the town of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), and was buried on Wednesday in the presence of his closest people. The family and the Magnum agency announced the death of the master only on Wednesday. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on August 22, 1908 in the city of Chantloup, near Paris.

The Plenipotentiary Representative of Chechnya admitted that not everyone in the republic is an angel The recently appointed representative of the Chechen Republic to the Russian President, Ziyad Sabsabi, explained to reporters yesterday that the time has come to create a positive image of his republic and its inhabitants.

Vladimir Putin will take charge of privatization Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On approval of the list of strategic enterprises and strategic joint-stock companies.” Enterprises included in this list are considered to be of “strategic importance for ensuring the defense capability and security of the state, protecting morality, health, rights and legitimate interests of citizens” and cannot be privatized by government decision.

NATO troops in Lithuania were afraid of bacteria Nature itself is helping Russia to erect a barrier on its western borders, to which the North Atlantic Alliance bases are already very close. The tiny bacterium Legionella pneumophila turned out to be more effective than the loud statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry about the inadmissibility of NATO troops staying in close proximity to the territory of our country.

The Mi-8 crash claimed 16 lives Sixteen people died yesterday as a result of a Mi-8 helicopter crash in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. According to preliminary data, the car caught fire in the air and crashed to the ground. The Yamal department of the State Emergency Service told a Vremya Novostey correspondent that at the time of the disaster there were 13 firefighters on board the Mi-8, rushing to fight the fire in the local forests, and three crew members.

Yesterday, Moscow again recalled the illegality of the “blasphemous” revision of the results of the Second World War, voiced from Poland and Estonia, just on the eve of the 65th anniversary of its beginning.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Rodina will protest together The Rodina factions and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will formalize their relations in the State Duma any day now. The alliance will take the form of a coordinating council for joint parliamentary work. The initiative to create the council was made by the leader of the Rodina faction, Dmitry Rogozin.

California resident Susan Bushvetz was awarded a million dollars for mistakenly implanting a foreign embryo into her uterus. The baby she gave birth to three years ago was intended for an infertile couple and was conceived in vitro using her husband's sperm and a donor egg. Doctors confused the test tubes with embryos and realized this immediately after the embryo was implanted. But the patient was already 47 years old, and this could be her last chance to get pregnant.

Colombians brought cocaine in barrels Yesterday, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow announced a verdict against four members of a criminal group that intended to flood Russia with cocaine. The Bogotina drug cartel from Colombia planned to be the main supplier of the drug. However, employees of the GUBNON Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (now they work in the GUBOP) managed to infiltrate the drug cartel and detain a number of its representatives .

CLUBS Сandie Hank (Germany), Till Stellmacher (Germany). Hank, who performs hip-hop with the help of an entire puppet theater, today, in addition to rag animals, will also involve his colleague and fellow countryman in the show. August 6 at the “Club on Brestskaya” , 21.00. DJ Green Lanthern (USA). R`n`B party performed by in-house DJ Eminem and a member of the rap group D12. August 6 in First , 0.00. "Summer Le-festival".

160 years since the birth of the painter Ilya Repin Repin's reputation as an artist who combined the best features of Russian realism in his work developed during his lifetime. None other than A.N.

Yaponchik's friend will not serve a life sentence The trial of Alexander Bohr, nicknamed Timokha, whom the intelligence services call the head of the “Russian mafia” abroad, ended quite unexpectedly yesterday in a Munich court. German authorities arrested Yaponchik's closest friend and associate back in 2000 on charges of racketeering and murder. As a result, Bohr was sentenced to life imprisonment, but lawyers appealed this verdict to the Supreme Federal Court of Germany.

FIRST AUGUST 9 , MONDAY 6.00 Good morning 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00 News 9.20 “ENEMY AT THE GATES.” Action 11.40 Disney Club 12.10 “ALERT DEPARTURE”. Hood. movie 14.00 “WOMEN IN LOVE”. Series 15.20 “THE INVESTIGATION IS CONDUCTED BY EXPERTS.” Series 16.20, 22.40 Criminal Russia 16.50 Personal life of Alexander Rosenbaum 18.20 Laughing panorama 19.00 “CLONE”.

Monetization of benefits deprived the Russian diaspora of financial support Yesterday, the State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a package of bills on the monetization of social benefits - under this name it became known to the general public. Meanwhile, the essence of the adopted laws is broader - first of all, we are talking about the delimitation of budgetary powers between the federal center and the regions.