The Polish Foreign Ministry was headed by “Soviet werewolves” Antoni Macierewicz, recently appointed as Poland's deputy defense minister to reform the military information services that coordinate military intelligence and counterintelligence, has made sensational revelations.

Chronicle of sporting events The final tournament of the World League starts today at the Small Sports Arena of Luzhniki. The Russian team will play against Serbia and Montenegro on the first day of the competition, the next day it will play a match with France, and on the final day of the preliminary stage it will meet with a team from the other three - Brazil. One game against a representative of a neighboring group is a fundamental innovation in the regulations.

Today, the UN Secretary General's special representative for negotiations on Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, begins a three-day visit to the internationally administered Serbian region. He will try to persuade the Kosovo Albanian leaders to reach a compromise with Belgrade. In early September, the ex-president of Finland intends to visit the capital of Serbia and put pressure on the Serbian leadership there.

City Hall does not want to see Madonna on Sparrow Hills American singer Madonna's show Confessions, which is scheduled to take place in Moscow on September 11, is under threat. As it turned out, the capital’s authorities do not yet have a final opinion on where exactly to allow Madonna to perform in front of the Russian public.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office will help museums in any way they can Yesterday, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation held a board meeting dedicated to measures to improve the conditions for recording, storing and protecting museum, archival, library collections, television, radio and film collections in Russia. The results do not evoke much enthusiasm.

The office of Israeli President Moshe Katsav was searched yesterday. The police seized computers on which, in particular, the president's personal correspondence was stored. The search was carried out as part of an investigation into a sexual harassment case against Moshe Katsav. The police press service refuses to comment, citing the confidentiality of the investigation. At least five women who worked alongside Katsav in the past accuse the president of sexual harassment.

Cyclones are intensifying in the center of Russia. That's why the weather changes. In the next 24 hours, Moscow and its suburbs will be in the zone of bad weather, where the rain will be heavy in places, thunderstorms and gusty winds are possible, and with the wind from the east, the temperature will drop during the day to +16...+21oC. On Thursday, as the cyclone recedes, the rains will weaken and temperatures will rise slightly.

Russian mathematician solved an unsolvable problem and refused awards At the World Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, the main award - the Fields Medal - was not presented to the laureate, Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, yesterday.

All that remains is to name a street in Riga after him Yesterday, Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga awarded ex-Russian President Boris Yeltsin the Order of Three Stars, First Class. He received Latvia's highest state award as a sign of gratitude for Moscow's recognition of Riga's independence in 1991 and his contribution to the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Baltic states. “I am eternally grateful for such a high award.

Akhmat Kadyrov replaced Lenin in Chechnya In the Moscow district of Yuzhnoye Butovo, near the light metro station with the idyllic name “Buninskaya Alley,” streets named after two heroes of the Caucasian War adjoin.

The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art with a planned budget of 52 million rubles. will open on February 22, 2007 and will be dedicated to the theme “Geopolitics, markets, amnesia. NOTES." Fulia Erdemci, an art historian and critic from Istanbul, is the new curator to join the company that is preparing the second Moscow Biennale. She was director of the International Biennale in Istanbul for many years and taught at universities in Ankara and Istanbul.

The European Court will consider ALROSA's complaint against the European Commission The European Court included ALROSA's claim against the European Commission in the list of pending cases. A Russian diamond mining company is demanding that the decision to stop selling precious stones to De Beers Corporation since 2009 be reversed. As a source familiar with the work of the court explained to Vremya Novostey, a preliminary procedure for considering the claim has been carried out.

The wild card holder won three victories and made it to the playoffs The US team, made up of players from the National Basketball Association, played its third match at the World Championships in Japan. Mike Krzyzewski's team easily and naturally, in show-time style, defeated the Slovenian team - 114:95. The Americans surpassed the 100-point mark in all games. The Slovenians chose the wrong tactics for the match with the Americans.

Students brought a “nationalist” bomb to the Cherkizovsky market The Moscow prosecutor's office yesterday named three young people suspected of organizing an explosion at the capital's Cherkizovsky market on the morning of August 21, which killed ten people and injured about 50. They turned out to be 20-year-old Moscow university students Ilya Tikhomirov, Oleg Kostyrev and 18-year-old Valery Zhukovtsov.

A Pulkovo Airlines plane crashed in Ukraine Augustus made his presence felt again. This is not the first year that tragedies have struck Russia this month. Following the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market on Monday, which claimed ten lives, a Russian passenger plane crashed in the skies over neighboring Ukraine. 169 people died. A Russian Tu-154 passenger plane operated by Pulkovo Airlines, flying from Anapa to St. Petersburg, crashed yesterday afternoon near Donetsk.