President I visited the testing center of railway transport in Shcherbinka, visited the exhibition center, where samples of the latest railway equipment and technologies used in the industry are presented. The center's exposition presents the latest scientific developments in the field of railway transport, ensuring high efficiency, quality and safety of transportation.

Yesterday, the Kyrgyz parliament, by a majority of 31 votes, decided to amend the Election Code. The new version of the law does not prohibit former Kyrgyz diplomats who have worked abroad for the past five years from participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections on February 27. Now the document must be signed by the country's President Askar Akayev.

Haitian refugee becomes governor general Yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin announced the name of the new 27th Governor General of Canada. It will be 48-year-old TV journalist Mikael Jean (pictured) . On October 1, she will replace 66-year-old Adrienne Clarkson. Mikael was born in one of the poorest countries - Haiti. Her grandfather was a famous Haitian poet, and her father was a philosopher.

Reconstruction of the square near the Belorussky railway station begins Another transport disaster awaits the center of Moscow. In the near future, the Moscow authorities intend to begin a large-scale reconstruction of one of the busiest transport hubs - Tverskaya Zastava Square at the Belorussky Station, where Gruzinsky and Butyrsky Val, as well as Yamskoye Polya, Brestskaya and Lesnaya streets, converge on Tverskaya Street.

Seven German citizens died due to the fault of Russian drivers Two major car accidents involving passenger buses, in both cases carrying foreigners, occurred yesterday in Russia. In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry yesterday issued a message expressing condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Ten people died as a result of a collision between a Volvo truck and a Mercedes bus on the Kurgan-Chelyabinsk highway. Another 25 people were injured.

Forecast for the coming days The atmospheric fronts of the Atlantic cyclone will bring bad weather to the north-west of the European territory of Russia. On August 5 there will be rains here, which will be heavy in places, and thunderstorms will occur. The cyclone will linger over Scandinavia, so rainy weather with thunderstorms and gusty winds will remain here until the end of this week. The prevailing temperature is +18...+23оС.

Participants in the trial of police officers were frightened by nationalists There is a new scandal surrounding the jury trial. The Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office resumed the investigation of the case, initiated under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - obstruction of justice and coercion to give or evade testimony. The investigation became aware of facts when the jury received threats of physical harm if an undesirable verdict was rendered.

"Land of the Dead" on Moscow screens Twenty years have passed since George Romero seemed to put the final point in his trilogy about corpses rising from the grave (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead).

In Egypt, registration of candidates to participate in the presidential elections on September 7 ended yesterday. For the first time they will be held on an alternative basis. 99 independent candidates are vying for the post of head of state, including the first woman, Ashgan al-Bukhari, a lawyer and mother of three children. Among the contenders are representatives of 14 parties, including the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

In Kosovo, on the eve of August 20 - and on this day the Kosovar Albanians hope to begin negotiations on the separation of this Serbian region from the Republic of Serbia - the situation has become tense again. On Wednesday night in Kosovska Mitrovica, 45 km north of the regional capital Pristina, an improvised explosive device went off near a hospital. A woman is wounded.

Yesterday, the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera broadcast a televised address by the second person after Osama Bin Laden in the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda - Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri. According to him, the bombings in London were a response to Britain's reluctance to withdraw troops from Iraq: "You didn't get out, and we blew up your house and turned it into hell." Four bombings in London on July 7 killed 56 people.

State investment funds have already been created in Russia Yesterday, the government generally approved the concept of creating an investment fund for government investment in specific projects. In Russia, attempts to create effective schemes for public investment support for large projects in priority areas on the basis of co-financing with private business (now it is fashionable to call this a public-private partnership) have been made before. However, they were considered unsuccessful.

FIRST MONDAY, AUGUST 8 6 . 00 Good morning 9 . 00 , 12 . 00 , 15 . 00 , 18 . 00 News 9 . 20 "STAYING ALIVE." Hood. film (S) 10 . 50 “LOBER OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATION DASHA VASILYEVA.” Series 12 . 20 "GREAT". Comedy 14 . 00 "SEGUN". Series 15 . 20 "HERO OF OUR TRIBE." Series 15 . 50 "WEALTH". Series 16 . 50 “MISTRESS OF DESTINY.” Series 18 . 10 Criminal Russia 18 . 40 "TWO FATES". Series 19 . 50 Wait for me 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "METRO". Hood. movie 23 . 40 "THE GODFATHER".

The crew of the Russian Navy bathyscaphe, who had been in underwater captivity for almost three days, was freed on Sunday with the help of the British deep-sea submersible Scorpion. The military submersible floated to the surface off the coast of Kamchatka at 7.25 Moscow time, Deputy Chief of the Main Staff of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Pepelyaev told RIA Novosti.

Today, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs says goodbye to Alexander Nikolaevich Sergeev, a man who during his lifetime became, without exaggeration, a legend of the police and the entire law enforcement system in general, and not only in Russia.