Lufthansa tickets are becoming more expensive The most active foreign airline on the Russian market intends to sharply raise prices for its services. Yesterday, the Russian-language website of the broadcasting holding Deutsche Welle (Deutsche Welle), with reference to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, reported: from September 1, Lufthansa will cancel commissions for ticket agencies working with it and at the same time introduce new fees.

The film "Shiza" appeared in Russian box office The premiere of “Shiza” took place in Cannes, in the “Un Certain Regard” program, and it was the only Russian film at the festival. Formally, “Shiza” represented Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany and France, but its authors - director and screenwriter Gulshad Omarova, producers Sergei Bodrov Sr. and Sergei Selyanov - are certainly most closely associated with Russian cinema.

TABLE OF MEDALS. Position of leaders (35 sets of awards awarded) Country W M B Total China 8 3 1 12 Australia 6 2 4 12 Japan 4 1 1 6 USA 3 4 5 12 France 2 2 3 7 Italy 2 2 1 5 Türkiye 2 0 1 3 Ukraine 2 0 1 3 RUSSIA 1 4 2 7 South Korea 1 1 2 4 Hungary 1 1 1 3 Germany 1 1 1 3 Thailand 1 0 2 3 South Africa 1 0 0 1 Note: excluding competitions in artistic gymnastics (men), weightlifting (m), diving (m, women), which ended late yesterday evening. August 16, Monday JUDO. Women. Up to 57 kg. 1.

Cheburashka is torn into pieces The brown, eared friend of all Russian children and Olympians found himself at the center of a financial scandal. Cheburashka, appointed as the mascot of the Russian team at the Olympics, appeared not only in Athens, but also on the shelves of Moscow stores. The price of an illegal immigrant, who, according to legend, illegally arrived in the USSR from Africa in an orange box, is about 50 euros.

Scissor Sisters performed in the Hermitage Garden This extravagant American quintet is one of the strangest and most attractive new releases of the season. Fans of all sorts of tasteless crap of the 80s see in them a continuation of either the Berlin group or the Frankie Goes To Hollywood group.

CLUBS Chill out (guitar). Cool Train , 21.00. Sergei Khutas Trio . Le Club , 20.00. Ilya Trukhanov Trio (acoustics). "Oracle of the Divine Bottle" , 22.00. Anna Koroleva (vocals, saxophone). Jazz. "Blue Bird" , 21.00. Shubshri Janardan (vocals, sitar). Traditional Indian music. Bilingua , 21.00. MOVIE "Spring, summer, autumn, winter... and spring again" (South Korea - Germany, 2003). Directed by Kim Kiduk. Starring O Young-soo, Kim Jong-ho, Seo Che-kun, Kim Young-min.

Video surveillance systems will appear in Ural electric trains Sverdlovsk railway workers have decided to strengthen security measures on electric trains - by the end of the year they plan to install video surveillance systems in every suburban carriage. True, they will monitor not what is happening inside the cars, but what is happening outside. The head of the Sverdlovsk Railway, Shevket Shaidullin, explains his decision simply.

The main character of the Khasavyurt crisis, the mayor of the city, Saygidpasha Umakhanov, headed the local administration in 1997. He was twice elected to the city assembly, as they say in Makhachkala, with the support or at least the consent of his current opponent, the head of the State Council of the Republic of Dagestan Magomedali Magomedov. Before starting his mayoral career, Mr. Umakhanov was the head of the Khasavyurt branch of Sberbank, and before that, a wrestling coach.

The Minister of Defense became the sole head of the industry department Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin went on vacation to Sochi, but before leaving he managed to sign a decree “Issues of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.” This document sums up the bureaucratic part of the army reform - the Ministry of Defense becomes a full-fledged sectoral department, which is what Minister Sergei Ivanov sought.

The Russians' winning streak was interrupted by Elena Dementieva The opening round matches took place at the Olympic tennis tournament. If on the first day the Russians celebrated victory in all the matches they took part in, then yesterday Elena Dementieva said goodbye to her hope for a medal. The defeat of the Mikhail Youzhny - Marat Safin duet was predictable. The last time the guys played together was in February at the Davis Cup match against Belarus.

Pakistani Pashtuns may elect Afghan president Afghanistan has passed another important stage in its preparations for the presidential elections scheduled for October 9. Following the official approval of a list of 18 candidates on August 10, voter registration ended last Sunday. Conducting it was the most difficult problem for the Afghan authorities - both from a security point of view and because of the chronic delay in the release of money by sponsoring countries.

Forecast for the coming days A rainy cyclone, the culprit of autumn coolness and rain, moves to the northeast. And now the path to the middle zone is blocked for cold air; the Azores anticyclone will direct warm air masses here, which promise a noticeable increase in air temperature. So, already on Tuesday, sunny weather will prevail in the central regions, and the air will warm up to +20...+25оС, then even warmer. And there will be almost no rain.

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk television gives Korean language lessons Koreans living in South Sakhalin received a significant gift from the Russian authorities yesterday. On Monday, the Sakhalin State Television and Radio Company began broadcasting a number of programs in Korean. Koreans are the second largest nationality inhabiting the region. But only a few of the approximately 40 thousand people still remember the language of their fathers and grandfathers.

After the failure of the signing last November of the memorandum proposed by Russia on the Transnistrian settlement, Chisinau and Tiraspol found themselves at an impasse. The situation continues to worsen, warns the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (PMR) Valery LITSKAY in an interview with VN. - You do not exclude the possibility of provocations, and by the fall, military action on the part of Chisinau.

German racer fined 200 Swiss francs The only logical result of the women's group race was the bronze medal of Olga Slyusareva. The victory of Australian Sarah Carrigan, as well as the second place of German Judith Arndt, should be considered a surprise. The tactical layout of the Russian team at the 118-kilometer distance through the streets of Athens was as follows - Svetlana Bubnenkova attacks at every opportunity and tries to escape from the peloton on the climb.