G8 foreign ministers meet in Moscow The main topic of yesterday's meeting in Moscow of the G8 foreign ministers was Tehran's nuclear program.

CLUBS Organism. The festival, to which the production group Bad Taste has been bringing various funny European musicians and artists for the third year now. At the head of the project, as always, is the Berlin artist and author of one and a half minute micro-songs about friendly dogs in an unfriendly world Neoangin (aka Jim Avignon). Also participating in the festival are the French Chazam , the Moscow group “Robots” and the ideologist of the Cheburashka society DJ Tim Svodnik.

Palestinian ministers arrested in response to Israeli kidnappings Yesterday, the Israelis responded to the kidnapping of 19-year-old Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit by counter-arresting a number of Palestinian leaders. The sudden attack by militants on an Israeli checkpoint, which led to the death of two soldiers and the capture of Corporal Shalit, was a great humiliation for the Israeli army. Now the Palestinians are humiliated.

Experts are alarmed by chaotic amendments to election legislation The political action club “November 4” discussed the rapidly changing electoral and party legislation at its regular meeting. Most experts agreed that the amendments adopted by the State Duma to abolish the “against all” column and return to early voting do not correspond to the entire previous logic of legislative development.

On the screens of Moscow - an ideal domestic film for the middle class The film “Communication” was composed by Avdotya Smirnova, widely known as the co-host of the TV show “School of Scandal.” First she wrote a script, which, following her other works - “Giselle’s Mania”, “The Diary of His Wife”, “The Walk” - was to be shot by director and producer Alexey Uchitel. And then I took up directing, and as it turned out, it was not in vain.

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United Russia wants to provide the president's successor with its party card State Duma Speaker and United Russia leader Boris Gryzlov told reporters yesterday that the party will nominate its candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. He emphasized that “a party president is a generally accepted practice” and similar experience is used in most countries, including the G8 countries.

Mufti demands to initiate a criminal case against the Rostov newspaper The Chairman of the Main Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Rostov Region, Mufti Flyur Arslanov, appealed to Governor Vladimir Chub, Prosecutor of the Rostov Region Anatoly Kharkovsky, as well as Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak with a request to give a legal assessment of one of the publications in the newspaper “Evening Rostov”.

The retired vice president of Transneft is working for the company again Yesterday there was a meeting of the company’s shareholders (100% of the voting shares belong to the state represented by Rosimushchestvo), Transneft vice-president Sergei Grigoriev told Vremya Novostey. Transneft promises to disseminate detailed information about the decisions made today.

The fun begins at the World Championships. But of all the quarterfinal pairings, it’s difficult to single out the most intriguing one. Each of them has its own zest. The confrontation between Brazil and France, who competed for the world title in 1998, is interesting from the perspective of unpaid debts to the Europeans by the South Americans.

Italian Andrea Bargnani selected first overall in the NBA draft For the first time in the history of the overseas league, a basketball player from the Old World was selected as the first pick of the draft - 20-year-old powerful forward Andrea Bargnani, whom experts call the second Dirk Nowitzki. The German, who plays in the same position, was the undisputed leader of Dallas last season in the NBA finals. The Italian went to the Toronto Raptors, who received the first choice in the draft lottery.

The trial of the murder in February of this year of a famous Kazakh politician, one of the opposition leaders Altynbek Sarsenbaev, his bodyguard Vasily Zhuravlev and driver Bauyrzhan Baibosyn continues for the third week in Kazakhstan. The most high-profile criminal case in the history of the country is being considered in open mode by the Alma-Ata Regional Court, sitting in the city of Taldy-Kurgan.

Russia calls on PACE for dialogue without ultimatums Yesterday in Strasbourg, at the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), it was Russian Day. Parliamentarians from 46 member countries of the organization heard a report from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.

Yuri Chaika modified the Prosecutor General's Office Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika continues reform initiatives in the department entrusted to him. On June 27, on his first working day in his new capacity, he undertook a personnel revolution, offering to resign almost all of the previous leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office. And yesterday the new prosecutor general made a number of decisions to change its structure. True, as Mr.

Shostakovich's "Golden Age" at the Mariinsky Theater It seems that the authors did not agree with each other what kind of performance they were staging. Stylish, cold, functional scenography by Zinovy ​​Margolin with mobile light planes, fluorescent lamps, film and photo projections, flavored with computer special effects - quite, let’s say, “Forsyte-esque”.