The winners of the Golden League jackpot have been determined Olympic champion 400m runner Toni Williams-Darling from the Bahamas and triple jump specialist Swede Christian Olsson won the “jackpot” - the main prize of the prestigious Golden League athletics series. At the sixth stage of these competitions in Berlin, they once again won, and now two athletes just need to take part in the “World Finals” in Monaco on September 18 to equally divide a million dollars between themselves.

From Vladimir Putin’s speech at an extended meeting of the Russian government “I believe that in the current conditions, the system of executive power in the country should not only be adapted to work in crisis situations, but radically restructured. Rebuilt in order to strengthen the unity of the country and prevent crises.

Marriage of the ideologist of the guaranteed destruction of the USSR Former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is getting married in Italy tomorrow. He is 88 years old, his chosen one Diana Masieri Byfield is 70. The ceremony will take place in the Basilica of St. Francis in the city of Assisi, and relatives and friends are invited to it. The newlyweds will spend their honeymoon in Sardinia.

Today CSKA players will start in the group stage of the Champions League. The army team's rivals in Group H will be the best club team in the Old World, the Portuguese Porto, the English Chelsea, which needs no introduction, and the French PSG. On the eve of the first match between CSKA and the current winner of the Champions Cup, Vremya Novostey correspondent Denis VDOVIN talked with the captain of the “red-blues” Sergei SEMAK.

110 people have died in Iraq over the past 24 hours It has not yet been possible to break the tragic cycle of hostages in Iraq. Yesterday, a Turkish citizen was executed in this country, and two Australians were added to the list of those captured by militants. The country's interim government and the US military seem unable to control even Baghdad.

There was a scandal in Azerbaijan. The NATO Cooperative Best Effort 2004 exercises planned in Baku from September 14 to 26 within the framework of the Partnership for Peace program have been cancelled. This was reported yesterday afternoon by the press service of the NATO exercise headquarters.

There were many differences at Art-Klyazma The next “Art-Klyazma”, which the artistic community dreamed of, has ended. For the third time, on the territory of the Klyazma Reservoir boarding house, with a fair crowd of people (more than a thousand visitors a day), artists frolicked freely.

Russian banks set a record for foreign currency imports into the country The dollarization of the economy, the end of which the Central Bank declared more than a year ago, has again become a reality. According to the Central Bank, in July banks imported into the country the maximum amount of dollars since 1997 - 2.9 billion. This is almost twice as much as a month earlier and four times more than a year ago.

The Expert RA-AK&M consortium assigned a credit rating to another region The AK&M rating center and the Expert RA rating agency, united within the Expert RA-AK&M consortium, recently assigned the Rostov region a credit rating on the national scale “A+” with stable prospects. This means that the region belongs to the category of borrowers with a high level of reliability.

The President is restructuring the system of power Vladimir Putin yesterday announced the beginning of a radical restructuring of the political system. The ideas he presented at an extended meeting of the government with the participation of governors, without violating the Constitution, are, nevertheless, a very radical step towards reform of the country's federal structure.

The results of the elections to the Hong Kong Legislative Assembly, announced yesterday, disappointed the opposition. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in protest demonstrations in July, giving Democrats hope of victory. However, out of 60 seats, they won 25 - only three more seats than in 2000. The Beijing-oriented “forces of stability” retained their 34 seats. The number of independent deputies decreased from four to one. Voters showed a record turnout of 55.6%.

General Motors will assemble Saab and Opel at the same plant General Motors intends to combine the production of mid-size models of the Saab and Opel brands. Such a decision is part of the restructuring program of the European division of General Motors; it will significantly reduce costs and increase production efficiency, the concern says. As experts note, the decision to produce mid-size Saab and Opel models at the same enterprise is quite logical.

The militants killed in Beslan were trained in sabotage camps Members of the investigative team investigating the events in Beslan have established new details of the biography of the militants who participated in the attack on the school. As it turned out, one of them, Iznaur Kodzoev, had been under the supervision of the special services since 1998 as an alleged organizer of kidnappings and a member of gangs. The operatives found out what another terrorist, Vladimir Khodov, was doing.

The Swiss won his third Grand Slam title World number one Roger Federer confidently won the final match of the US Open in New York. The Swiss tennis player kept two of the three games of the decisive match to zero, allowing Australian Lleyton Hewitt to start the fight only in the second set - 6:0, 7:6 (7:3), 6:0. Federer alone managed this season what the Russian girls did together - to win titles at three Grand Slam tournaments.

Stanley Fischer is confident that reforming Russia will never end Yesterday at the Academy of National Economy, a conference dedicated to reforms in the CIS opened with a minute of silence for the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov was supposed to speak first, but due to an extraordinary government meeting appointed by Vladimir Putin, he was forced to limit himself to a written greeting and sent Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. Mr.