The State Department has always been sensitive to the rapprochement between Moscow and Tehran Cooperation between post-Soviet Russia and Iran since the mid-1990s has encountered resistance from Washington. In the United States, since 1992, a law was in force that provided for the possibility of sanctions against organizations and countries that supplied weapons to Tehran and Baghdad.

Yesterday morning, after five days of tense debate, Hong Kong's legislature approved the Communications Interception and Surveillance Bill, which regulates the surveillance of suspects, wiretapping and e-mail monitoring. It was passed unanimously with 32 votes in favor. However, before this, 25 opposition deputies demonstratively left the meeting room of the 60-seat parliament.

India and Iran may terminate the contract for the supply of liquefied natural gas The next two-day meeting of the working group of the energy departments of India, Pakistan and Iran on the construction of a large-scale gas pipeline between these countries gave rise to a scandal that could lead to the collapse of trilateral negotiations on the project.

The atmospheric front cut the territory of European Russia almost in half: hot in the south and cool in the north. In the Central Federal District, temperatures ranged from +19°C in Moscow to +35.5°C in the south of the district. The central regions found themselves on the border of dissimilar air masses. Here, large temperature contrasts led to heavy rain and thunderstorms.

US soldiers talk about "exploits" in Iraq Yesterday, closed hearings began in Baghdad into the murder and rape of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassem Hamza al-Janabi, as well as the murder of her parents and six-year-old sister by five American soldiers (previously, the US command stated that the victim was 20 or 25 years old) . The crime was committed on March 12 in the city of Mahmudiya. There are four rapists in the dock.

Overturned tanks interrupted traffic from Vladivostok to the west Railway Worker's Day, celebrated on the first Sunday in August, did not go well this year. Instead of quietly celebrating their professional holiday, the management of Russian Railways, the Far Eastern Railway and hundreds of repair workers were forced to urgently save the situation on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The government promises to support regional education reformers The Ministry of Education and Science intends to financially interest regional officials in promoting the national educational project. In the fall, Andrei Fursenko’s department will announce the start of the next competition, which this time will highlight not the best schools, universities or teachers, but the subjects of the federation that are most actively improving the education system.

Richard Bona closed the Island of Light festival “The Island” is an impressive performance. It is impressive mainly because of its scope and diversity. In July and August, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), the British rock singer Skin, and the rising jazz lady Nino Katamadze performed at the festival. At the closing, it turned out to be a real “world village”: Kazakhs “Ulytau”, Tuvans “Huun-Khur-Tu” and African Richard Bona.

Mikheil Saakashvili spends his vacation in a camp near Ossetia 38-year-old Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (pictured) joined the reservists. As the head of his administration, Georgiy Arveladze, stated, the commander-in-chief of the Georgian army “will not occupy a command post in voluntary service, but will do everything that is required of a reservist.” During Soviet times, Saakashvili served two years in the border troops.

Iranian Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani said that the resolution adopted a week ago by the UN Security Council and requiring Iran to stop all uranium enrichment work by the end of August will only force Tehran to “expand peaceful nuclear activities” in order to “achieve independence in the nuclear field.” And in the event of a military strike (Tehran considers this unlikely, since “the United States is unlikely to decide on a stupid act”) the Iranians will “develop a nuclear program

Russia may stop air traffic control services for Armavia The Russian air traffic control service threatens to stop servicing the Armenian company Armavia due to debts. If this happens, Armavia will lose not only its Russian routes, but also at least half of its international route network, partly over Russian territory. Officially, the only reason for the conflict is Armavia's financial difficulties.

CLUBS "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. Directed by Valius Tertelis (Lithuania). In the role of the Savage, Mikhail Krylov. A one-man show about how easy it was for men and women to live in the cave age and how difficult it has become now. As part of Elena Kovalskaya’s club and theater project “Golden Helmet”.

Yushchenko and Yanukovych created a conciliatory government A “civilized transfer of power” took place in Ukraine. This was stated by the new Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych after a meeting with his predecessor Yuri Yekhanurov. The new head of the cabinet promised to use the best of what was developed by the previous government. On Saturday, Yanukovych's candidacy was supported by 269 out of 450 Rada deputies. The voting took place in the presence of the country's President Viktor Yushchenko.

Americans will be allowed to evacuate from disaster zones along with their pets Pets in America are given new rights that bring them ever closer to the status of US citizens. US lawmakers have required state and municipal rescue services to take pets, politically incorrectly referred to as non-human companions, into account when compiling evacuation lists and conducting security operations.

Last weekend the country celebrated Railway Worker's Day. Of course, not as widely as Airborne Forces Day, but perhaps the honorary railway worker Yuri Pavlovich Semin also raised a glass, probably asking himself for the thousandth time why he left Lokomotiv a year and a half ago, with whom he won the “gold” of the Russian championship, won national cups, and in general was considered one of the few Russian top coaches.