At the end of the week and over the coming weekend, the weather in most of the European territory of Russia will be determined by an anticyclone from Western Europe. Thanks to intelligence, the atmospheric pressure will increase, no precipitation is expected, and during the daytime in the middle zone the air will warm up to +18...+23°C. In the northwestern, central and central black earth regions, the air becomes very cold at night, and the thermometer in the morning can drop to +6...+11°C.

Russia will help South Africa protect its marine treasures If the stand of the country organizing the exhibition of weapons and military equipment is located side by side with the exposition of one of the guests, it is not difficult to figure out that this guest is given preference, he is singled out among the rest. This is exactly what happened at the international exhibition AAD -- Africa Aerospace and Defense-2006 in Cape Town with the federal state unitary enterprise Rosoboronexport.

Water supply has been resumed in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region The ordeal of 250 thousand residents of the Moscow region, left without water as a result of the explosion at sewerage pumping station No. 1 (SPS) in the village of Pavshino, Krasnogorsk district, on September 16, is nearing completion.

I don’t know if it has always been this way, but it is very difficult for today’s reader of poetry (I emphasize - devoted, thoughtful, focused) to believe that a great poet lives next to him.

Alina Kabaeva will defend the title of absolute European champion for the sixth time Today, the 22nd European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships starts at the Druzhba universal sports hall in Moscow, in which 106 gymnasts from 18 national federations will take part. Despite the fact that the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships are held annually, their regulations vary.

The Tver governor decided to change the composition of the parliament of the regional center with the help of the prosecutor's office The governor of the Tver region, Dmitry Zelenin, proposes to hold immediate re-elections of the city Duma, 15 deputies of which - almost half of the entire "payroll" - are accused of receiving large bribes.

Leaders of Russia, France and Germany will discuss Iran, planes and oil Today Vladimir Putin arrives in France for a two-day visit. Immediately upon arrival, the Russian president will take part in the opening ceremony of the monument to the legendary Normandy-Niemen air regiment, in which French and Soviet pilots fought together during the Second World War. Then the main part of the program will begin: Putin will meet with French President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace.

The confrontation between the authorities and the opposition will be long On Thursday night, residents of the central districts of Budapest again had no time to sleep. Several hundred demonstrators clashed with police on Andrássy Avenue and in front of the West Station building. Protesters threw stones and bottles at the riot police. They responded with batons and tear gas grenades. As a result, demonstrators were forced out of the city center. About one and a half dozen people were injured.

Moscow will be able to sell land plots in its own way The government decided to change the rules for the purchase of land plots in state and municipal ownership. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Economic Development German Gref presented radical changes to the law that allow businesses to buy land for enterprises four times cheaper than is customary today.

The international scandal surrounding Sakhalin-2 erupted out of nowhere The order of the Ministry of Natural Resources canceling the positive conclusion of the environmental assessment on the Sakhalin-2 project, which caused an international scandal, was not actually signed. Representative of Rosprirodnadzor Dmitry Kolosov told the Presnensky Court of Moscow yesterday.

In Volgograd, an accident occurred on the Volga-Don shipping canal, due to which more than 30 ships cannot proceed to their destinations. After entering lock No. 10, located between the Varvarovsky and Bereslavsky reservoirs, the tanker "St. Petersburg", traveling from the port of Kavkaz to Saratov, began to wait for the chamber of the hydraulic structure to be filled.

CLUBS Missy Elliott (USA). A real queen of rap music, winner of five Grammys and a super successful discography, is coming to us. Elliott, like any R`n`B star, is a constant hero of gossip columns, a participant in parties, the owner of her own clothing brands, etc. - in general, that indispensable paraphernalia of a show business star, behind which ordinary promoted mediocrity often hides.

Those accused of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market decided to become simple looters Three capital students detained in connection with the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market, as Vremya Novostei learned, recently abruptly changed their testimony.

"He Hamlet": something stunningly boring and boringly amazing There was no doubt that Petrograd director Andrei Moguchiy (he is from Petrograd, not St. Petersburg, much less from St. Petersburg: think about the difference) will sooner or later take on the texts of Vladimir Sorokin. Sorokin elevated stylistic impeccability to the rank of the only artistic law.

Fragments of the hull of the famous polar steamship recovered from the bottom of the Chukchi Sea Russian underwater archaeologists seem to have finally managed to discover the site of the death of the legendary steamship Chelyuskin, which was covered in ice and sank in 1934 somewhere in the Chukchi Sea. This was reported yesterday by members of a Russian expedition led by the director of the Russian Underwater Museum Alexei Mikhailov, who set off in search of “Chelyuskin” a few days ago.