The presidents of Russia and Belarus agreed that there would be no problems Yesterday, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko arrived at the Sochi residence of the Russian President “Bocharov Ruchey”. Having greeted the Belarusian guest, Vladimir Putin immediately stated that there were essentially no problems left in the relations between Belarus and Russia.

The Minister of Education and Science has come to terms with the unified state exam The Ministry of Education and Science will neither curtail the experiment on the unified state exam nor diminish its importance for higher education. The head of this department, Andrei Fursenko, made this promise yesterday at the opening of the All-Russian August Internet Pedagogical Council.

Yuri Luzhkov finally has a real opportunity to perpetuate his own name in the city entrusted to him. It turns out that you can go down in history without erecting false buildings, without moving bridges, and without cutting traffic circles through the living fabric of the city. It is enough to demolish one hotel. I usually try to refrain from giving advice regarding attending mass spectacles.

Yukos is trying to save Yuganskneftegaz from sale Yukos still hopes to save its main production enterprise, Yuganskneftegaz, which accounts for about 60% of the company's total oil production. Yesterday the holding announced that it had already paid 1.5 billion of the $3.4 billion it owed to the state. By the end of August, the company intends to increase this amount to $1.7 billion.

“Don’t Go” in Moscow box office This week, the new European melodrama “Don’t Go” with Penelope Cruz in the title role is coming out at the Z5 mm cinema. This film was directed by Italian actor Sergio Castellito, who also played the main male role in it.

Russia failed doping control Russia once again turned out to be the supplier of the main doping scandal of the Olympic Games. At the last Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, America two years ago, Russian sports officials held hysterical press conferences accusing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of conspiring against our athletes. As a result, the two best Russian skiers Larisa Lazutina and Olga Danilova were caught doping, were stripped of all their medals and were disqualified.

Expensive oil forced Bush to call Putin The global oil market is still ruled by concerns about possible interruptions in the supply of raw materials and the shock of prices approaching the magic level of $50 per barrel, which no one seriously believed in recently. Consumers have already overpaid tens of billions of dollars for gasoline in recent months. But especially dangerous is the dissatisfaction of American consumers, who will vote in the presidential election in November.

TABLE OF MEDALS. Position of leaders (178 sets of awards awarded) Country W M B Total USA 23 25 17 65 China 23 15 11 49 Japan 15 7 8 30 Australia 13 9 13 35 France 9 7 9 25 Germany 8 10 11 29 United Kingdom 7 8 7 22 Italy 7 6 7 20 Romania 7 3 4 14 Ukraine 7 2 5 14 RUSSIA 6 15 18 39 South Korea 6 10 5 21 Note: excluding competitions in artistic gymnastics (3 sets of medals), athletics (2) and weightlifting (1), which ended late yesterday evening. CYCLE TRACK. Men. Team pursuit race. 1. Australia.

Finals August 22, Sunday ATHLETICS. Men. 100 m. 1. Gatlin (USA) -- 9.85 sec. 2. Obikwelu (Portugal) - 9.86. 3. Green (USA) - 9.87. Hammer throw. 1. Annush (Hungary) - 83 m 19 cm. 2. Murofushi (Japan) - 82.91. 3. Tikhon (Belarus) - 79.81. Triple jump . 1. Olsson (Sweden) - 17 m 69 cm. 2. Oprea (Romania) - 17.55. 3. Daniil Burkenya (Russia) - 17.48... 7. Viktor Gushchinsky (Russia) - 17.11. High jump . 1. Holm (Sweden) - 2 m 36 cm. 2. Hemingway (USA) - 2.34. 3. Baba (Czech Republic) - 2.34... 6.

Our people are rushing to the Olympic Village Under the guise of an athlete with someone else's accreditation, a 31-year-old Russian tried to enter the Olympic Village. The offender was detained by Greek law enforcement officers and, according to the central police department of the Attica region, taken to a pre-trial detention cell. The name of the detainee is not known, since the prosecutor was supposed to consider his case yesterday.

The painting of the great expressionist fell victim to the negligence of the Norwegian authorities The State of Norway can be recognized as one of the main culprits in the theft of Edvard Munch’s world-famous masterpiece “The Scream” from the artist’s museum in Oslo on Sunday. The details of the abduction have already been repeatedly covered by the media.

13 years ago, on August 24, 1991, the Rada adopted an act declaring the independence of Ukraine, marking the beginning of the collapse of the USSR. The decision to secede was confirmed in a referendum on December 1, 1991 with 90% of the votes. The initiator of the referendum was the famous physicist, former Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Igor YUKHNOVSKY. The Kyiv correspondent of Vremya Novostey, Svetlana STEPANENKO, talks with him. - Even the Romans considered every unpaired number lucky.

Head of the Altai Republic Mikhail Lapshin is on trial for the earthquake In Gorno-Altaisk (Altai Republic), a trial has begun on the claim of the republican prosecutor's office against the Altai government and its head Mikhail Lapshin. As the deputy prosecutor of the republic, Sergei Shukhin, told Vremya Novostey, investigators believe that the regional administration, headed by Mr.

A two-party system has developed in Russia. One party is supported by the government; society will have to pay for the other The great political reorganization that occurred during a series of elections practically led the country to a two-party system. On the one hand, there is the “fat” party in power, United Russia, financed by the Kremlin.

The Russian Ministry of Defense intends to create a field research institute for testing new weapons The Russian Ministry of Defense announced yesterday plans to create a division specifically to conduct research on new types of military equipment and weapons (WME) of the Ground Forces, use them in modern combat and practice combined arms tactics.