Ukraine becomes a Russian offshore The data on investments into and from Russia published recently by Rosstat did not bring any sensations. As before, the main flow of investment abroad is associated with the export of capital, and the main “foreign” investors are the Russians themselves. True, the directions of cash flows from Russia are slightly adjusted. Both flows decreased compared to the same period last year.

In Poland, on the eve of the parliamentary elections on September 25 and the presidential elections on October 9, the struggle for both voters and candidates is intensifying. Created only in May, the Democratic Party (DP) has skillfully lured away politicians from both the right and the left. Thus, the ruling Left Democratic Alliance (LDA) recently lost its prime minister, Marek Bielki, who agreed to run for the DP in Lodz.

The President opened a tunnel on the most dangerous section of the road from Sochi to Krasnaya Polyana Last Friday, the longest automobile tunnel in the country was opened in Sochi - the latest construction of the now completely reconstructed highway connecting the coast with the high-mountain village of Krasnaya Polyana. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the opening ceremony of the tunnel.

Attacks on money carriers have become a real scourge for Moscow Last Friday, another attack on collectors was carried out in Moscow. This happened near the Perekrestok store on Krasnoprudnaya Street. The criminal snatched a bag containing 150 thousand rubles. straight from the hands of the money carrier, then disappeared in a green Zhiguli. The “Interception” plan announced by the police did not bring any results.

Nursultan Nazarbayev personally inspected the first Russian-Kazakh truck Russia's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty equipment, KamAZ, whose main production is located in Naberezhnye Chelny, organized assembly in Kazakhstan. On Friday in Kokchetav, where the new plant is located, within the framework of the joint Russian-Kazakh enterprise KamAZ-Engineering (KamAZ owns 76% of the shares, the Kazakhstan-Engineering enterprise - 24%) began serial production of trucks and buses.

The Ministry of Education continues to experiment with the Unified State Exam One of the key elements of Russian educational reform will undergo changes again. Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko said the other day in Yaroslavl, at a meeting of the region’s pedagogical council, that the methods of conducting the unified state exam need to be revised. “We are in no way abandoning the idea of ​​a unified state exam.

The automobile concern DaimlerChrysler AG has found someone to entrust its Mercedes Car Group division to. At the end of last week it became known that the successor to Eckhard Cordes, who unexpectedly left the corporation, would be the current head of the Chrysler Group, Dieter Zitsche. And his place at Chrysler will be taken by the company's operating director, Thomas Lasord. This change in leadership came as a complete surprise to everyone. No one expected that Mr.

The Sverdlovsk governor unexpectedly made peace with the mayor of Yekaterinburg Residents of the Sverdlovsk region received an unexpected gift for the 282nd anniversary of Yekaterinburg - three days before the celebration, the regional and city authorities concluded a kind of amicable agreement. More precisely, their top officials are the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, and the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Arkady Chernetsky.

NASA delays shuttle flights until spring The long-suffering space shuttle Discovery was once again unable to return to the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida on time due to weather. The Boeing 747 transport, which was supposed to deliver the shuttle, which landed at an alternate base in California, to the Kennedy Space Center, was delayed on Saturday evening while refueling in Louisiana to wait out bad weather in the area of ​​​​the main launch site of American ships.

The Polish goalkeeper of Spartak Wojciech Kowalewski can be considered one of the old-timers of the club. Although the goalkeeper joined the team only two years ago, during this time he has played the most matches in the main team. In the match with Dynamo, the goalkeeper helped out the “red-whites” several times, and after the game Wojciech KOWALEWSKI answered questions from Vremya Novostei correspondent Andrei VDOVINA. - “Spartak” - “Dynamo” is an iconic confrontation in our football.

The airport has focused on the reconstruction of existing terminals The Sheremetyevo administration, which ceded control over the construction of a new (third) terminal at the country's main airport to Aeroflot, intends to carry out a large-scale reconstruction of the other two terminals, as well as the entire airfield infrastructure.

The results of the 13th festival “Window to Europe” have been summed up Any festival, ours or not, class “A” or completely classless, with a concept or not, is forced to give out prizes. Everyone has problems with this, even in Cannes. But the task of the jury of the Vyborg festival can be considered one of the most difficult. The film stream, almost completely chosen by Kinotavr and the distributor, splashes onto the festival screen the remnants that were not at all sweet this year.

The Classical Ballet Theater opened its 39th season Their building on Skakovaya has been under construction, under construction and under construction for twenty years in a row - a kind of record in today's Moscow, where houses are growing quickly. That’s why every new season is on the set that we managed to film. In the history of the theater there are dances on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, in the Kremlin Palace, in the Rossiya Concert Hall and in the Taganka Theater.

Let's start the review with the Moscow House of Photography, where until August 31 you can get acquainted with three interesting exhibitions. Our newspaper has already written about one of them, the program “Twelve from Holtzheim” by Nikita Alekseev and Ignat Daniltsev, made with the participation of Sony (see “Vremya Novostey” of August 4) . Now about two other projects. MasterCard presents a retrospective of the master of Soviet photography Alexander Abaza.

The Russians failed to excel at tournaments in America Another tennis week did not add positive emotions to Russian fans. The finals of major overseas tournaments, which took place last night Moscow time on hard court, took place without the Russians. For men, in the decisive match of the Masters tournament with a prize fund of $2.45 million in Cincinnati (USA), the first racket of the planet, Swiss Roger Federer, and the fifth number of the ATP auxiliary ranking, American Andy Roddick, played.