Russian Nanais reunite with their Chinese tribesmen The small peoples of the Russian Amur region decided to establish relations with their fellow tribesmen from neighboring China. The first experience of such communication took place in the small Nanai village of Kondon in the Solnechny district of the Khabarovsk Territory. The Chinese Nanais were invited to the village of Kondon for a triple celebration.

Naftogaz of Ukraine will try to monopolize sales to end consumers The new head of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Alexander Bolkisev, said that he would initiate the reorganization of not only the company itself, but also the entire gas market of the country.

Although the first oil along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Main Export Pipeline (MEP) route, bypassing Russia, went for export at the end of May, celebrations on the occasion of the opening of the oil pipeline took place only on July 13 - on the eve of the G8 summit. Russian companies did not participate in the construction, and the project would not have taken place without US support.

CLUBS Olivier Ker Ourio (harmonica, France) and Igor Butman Big Band . One of the best harpers, whom Western critics unanimously call “the only true successor to Toots Tielemans,” who worked with Michel Legrand and performed with Michel Petrucciani. Music by Ker Ourio "Le Club" , 20.30. "The Savage, or In Defense of the Caveman." Stand up comedy based on the play by Rob Baker. The play is a joint project of the production company Theater MOGUL (Iceland) and Montvilaite & Meskhey.

Yukos lawyers filed a lawsuit against the bank manager Lawyers representing the interests of Yukos shareholders in the United States filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court of Colombia, accusing Gazprombank management of using insider information, the British newspaper The Independent reported over the weekend.

Britain welcomes the new Russian MiG and says goodbye to the Australian Canberra The famous Farnborough is still not the largest aviation exhibition in the world. In terms of the number of participating aircraft and the number of spectators, the famous British air show is inferior to the Royal International Air Parade, which is held annually in the western part of England, at the Fairford military base. The 2006 Parade, which took place this weekend, brought together more than 300 aircraft.

Anti-globalists were not allowed to remind the G8 about Genoa The main intrigue of the “counter-summit”, which is traditionally held by anti-globalists during the G8 meetings, was the question of whether opponents of the “world government” would be able to show themselves in all their glory to the residents of St. Petersburg. During the summit, city authorities gave the anti-globalists full ownership of the stadium. Kirov.

The Middle East was at the center of the St. Petersburg summit The situation in which the G8 meeting is taking place on the shores of the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg looks unprecedented. We are talking, of course, about the international situation. Last year's summit, held in Gleneagles, Scotland, began with the terrible terrorist attacks in London, which killed more than fifty people.

American meat and Georgian wine prevent Russia from joining the WTO No miracle happened. Russia still failed to agree with the United States on joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) during the G8 summit. The long-awaited entry has been postponed again - now for at least three months. “The negotiations have not stopped, they will continue, but we were not able to achieve the result that we expected,” Maxim Medvedkov, head of the Russian negotiating delegation, told Vremya Novostey.

The threat of flooding again looms over the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAO). As a result of heavy rains, which did not stop almost the entire last week, the Bira and Bidzhan rivers overflowed their banks over the weekend. Four suburban villages, the village of Razdolnoye and a children's recreation camp have already fallen into the flood zone. In total, about 500 people were in the disaster zone. 138 houses were damaged by water.

Israel thanks Russia for contacts with Hamas The current conflict in the Middle East was provoked by Iran and Syria, which stood behind the Lebanese group Hezbollah (Party of Allah) and pushed it to attack Israeli soldiers near the border with Lebanon, which was the reason for the escalation of the conflict. This is true not only in Israel.

Dagestan police officers are offended by Ramzan Kadyrov The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan began an investigation in connection with the incident on the administrative border of the republic with Chechnya, where on Thursday night 13 people were immediately killed by Chechen special forces, and five more were detained.

The Russian opposition - partly due to its own political impotence, partly due to too long and persistent attempts to negotiate with the authorities - has put itself in an extremely unpleasant position. Now we have to hold our noses and negotiate with each other, regardless of ideas, likes and dislikes. And in this regard, the document signed by Mikhail Kasyanov and Eduard Limonov for the “Other Russia” looks like a logical step.

FOOTBALL. July 18--19. Champions League. First qualifying round. Return matches. July 22. Intertoto Cup. Decisive round. Return matches . Premier League. 11th round. July 19. "Zenit" - CSKA, "Moscow" - "Torpedo", "Dynamo" - "Rubin". 12th round. July 21. "Spartak" (M) - "Saturn". July 22. "Lokomotiv" - "Tom". July 23. "Zenit" - "Torpedo", CSKA - "Wings of the Soviets", "Moscow" - "Dynamo", "Luch-Energia" - "Rostov", "Spartak" (Nch) - "Amkar".

Chronicle of sporting events At the reporting and re-election congress of the Russian Skating Union (SKR) held in Nizhny Novgorod, Vladimir Komarov was re-elected as the head of this public organization. It received the votes of 38 delegates, with three abstentions and one against. Komarov competed with Turin Olympic champion Svetlana Zhurova.