Yesterday, Vladimir Putin met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived in St. Petersburg for the G8 summit at the invitation of the Russian side. Putin noted that bilateral relations with this country of a billion people are developing rapidly. Manmohan SINGH spoke about India's interaction with the G8 and the development of relations with Russia to INTERFAX correspondents Alexander Korzun and Timur Khursandov - especially for Vremya Novostey.

On Sunday, the main artist of Lenkom, Oleg Sheintsis, suddenly died of a heart attack in his hometown of Odessa. He was called a stage director. Almost immediately after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, as a very young man - barely thirty - he received an offer from Mark Zakharov to become the chief artist of Lenkom, a theater that was then being born anew. Having agreed, Sheintsis became a real co-author of this unique project.

Airbus makes a $10 billion decision Airbus chief executive Christian Streif announced yesterday at the Farnborough International Airshow that his company has decided to restart design of the A350 aircraft. This will delay the project by two years and increase its cost to $10 billion - double the original estimate. Mr.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China aims to become world leader in initial public offerings Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is poised to break the all-time record for initial public offering (IPO) value. One of the largest state-owned banks in the Celestial Empire plans to put up for sale shares totaling $21 billion. Until now, the IPO record belonged to the Japanese corporation NTT Mobile Communications - in 1998 it placed shares worth $18.41 billion.

There is no one to blame for the death of the Brazilian Yesterday, the British Crown Prosecution Service issued a preliminary ruling in the case of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was killed a year ago by mistake by London police officers. No charges have been brought against specific individuals. The police as a whole will bear responsibility.

Saakashvili wants to come to Putin with a resolution in hand Today, Georgian-Russian relations are entering a new round of confrontation. The Parliament of Georgia, as announced by its chairman Nino Burjanadze, will decide to terminate the mission of Russian peacekeepers in the zones of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts.

Ukrainians begin to fight the crisis Today in Ukraine, an anti-crisis coalition consisting of the Party of Regions, the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) and the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) will begin work on a legal basis. The coalition was formed on July 7, but it is still not recognized by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the presidential bloc “Our Ukraine”. According to the Rada regulations, ten days should have passed since the collapse of the previous coalition.

More and more people want to find their place on the Antarctic ice Belarus has decided to join the Antarctic powers. Last month, Minsk officially joined the Antarctic Treaty, which gives the right to work on this continent, and in early July the National Academy of Sciences announced that a Belarusian research station would open on the coast of the Cosmonaut Sea in November of this year.

CLUBS Timur Kvitelashvili (Georgia). One of the best and certainly the most famous fusion guitarist in Georgia. Kvitelashvili is the only guitarist from the former USSR included in the list of musicians featured on the “Best Guitarists in the World” compilation, which is being released by Liquid Records this summer. Several years ago, the legendary Scott Henderson invited him to teach a master class at the Musician's Institute in Los Angeles.

Oil prices rose again during the G8 meeting Against the backdrop of the military conflict between Israel and Lebanon, oil prices are approaching a new psychological level - $80 per barrel. “The greater the instability in the regions where energy resources are produced, the higher the price,” Vladimir Putin said yesterday at a press conference after the G8 summit. - It has always been so and so it will be. We are seeing this now in the Middle East.

Indonesia hit by tsunami again The southern coast of the Indonesian island of Java was again hit by a tsunami. Despite the fact that the height of the wave was small - reliably no more than two meters, although some media reported a five-meter wave - it carried 60 people into the sea, and the death toll from the initially named five rose to twenty by the end of the day.

The theatrical and circus show “Krakatuk” was finally shown in Moscow The date of the capital's premiere of the famous St. Petersburg project of producer Oleg Chesnokov and director Andrei Moguchy was changed twice - they still could not gather the audience. The press release blamed the relevant plant, which was unable to produce them on time.

The Constitutional Court refused to resolve ethno-territorial conflicts The Constitutional Court of Russia refused to act as the final authority in one of the ethno-territorial conflicts that arose in the North Caucasus in connection with the reform of local self-government.

Russian special services exposed an unknown relative of Shamil Basayev In the wake of general euphoria in connection with the murder last week of Shamil Basayev, who was considered the number one terrorist by the Russian authorities for more than ten years, the intelligence services seem to have decided to “continue the topic” by exposing his relatives.

100 people died in Iraq in one day The next anniversary of the Arab Socialist Renaissance Party (PASV or Baath) coming to power in Iraq on July 17, 1968 was marked by terrorist attacks against the Shiite population of Iraq. The party overthrown by the Americans was dominated by Sunnis. And on the eve of the anniversary, late on Sunday, a suicide bomber blew up a Shiite cafe in the market of the city of Tukh Khurmat, 210 km north of Baghdad. 26 people were killed, 22 were wounded.