Brussels offers Russians Warsaw-style tenderloin Today in Berlin, during the Green Week fair, representatives of the European Commission, Russia and Poland will discuss the ban on the import of Polish livestock and crop products, introduced by Moscow more than a year ago. The Russian side imposed sanctions due to violations of sanitary requirements and supplies of meat that did not meet standards from third countries. In November 2006, this led to an international scandal.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia invite Kosovo to their company The presidents of the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia , de jure part of Georgia, are following in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s increasingly harsh foreign policy rhetoric.

The IOC has released a report on candidates for the 2014 Winter Olympics The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday, exactly a month before the announcement of the results of the pre-Olympic race, presented the report of the Evaluation Commission on three candidate cities - Russian Sochi , Austrian Salzburg and South Korean Pyeongchang, challenging the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

The Giro stage race was won for the 11th time in a row by the owner of the track The second most important stage race, the Giro d'Italia, finished in Milan, second in popularity only to the Tour de France. For the 11th season in a row, the Giro remains the undivided domain of the track owners. The victory in the general classification was again won by the Italian - Danilo Di Luca from the Liquigas team.

The ex-president of a neighboring state is being tried for the tragedy in Sierra Leone The Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone began yesterday in The Hague the hearing of the case of ex-President of Liberia, 59-year-old Charles Taylor . He is charged with 11 counts, including violating the laws or customs of war and crimes against humanity in neighboring Sierra Leone.

The President signed amendments to the law on retail markets Regional officials will have to adjust market policy again - this time from August 1. They are required to reconsider their approach to organizing trade by the amendments to the law “On Retail Markets and Amendments to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation” signed yesterday by the President.

Russia may have “new goals” in Europe The new arms race , while verbal, is rapidly gaining momentum. Extremely concerned about the development of events, the Russian leadership is moving from the language of politicians to the language of the military. This was once again demonstrated by Vladimir Putin, answering questions from Western journalists before the G8 summit.

Walter Morse. 13 1/2 lives of a captain named Blue Bear. Translation from German by Lyudmila Esakova. - St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 2007. “Every life begins at birth. Any - just not mine. In any case, I don’t remember how I was born. Perhaps - purely theoretically - I came into the world from the foam of the sea or grew up in a shell like a pearl. Or maybe it fell out of the sky during a strong starfall.

Aeroflot has an unexpected competitor in Serbia Indian state-owned airline Air India is considering acquiring Serbian national carrier JAT, which the Serbian government intends to privatize by the end of this year. Yesterday, London's Financial Times reported, citing representatives of JAT and Air India, that the two companies were in talks about a "possible merger or other kind of partnership." Until now, the only contender for the purchase of JAT was the Russian Aeroflot .

Israeli lawyer Yoram Mushkat, representing the interests of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, said yesterday that he intends to prove the illegality of obtaining Israeli citizenship by the former co-owner of YUKOS Leonid Nevzlin, whose extradition Moscow is seeking.

CONCERTS The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra , conductor Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, performs the "Dance of the Apprentices" from Die Meistersinger of Nuremberg, the introduction and "Death of Isolde" from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. As part of the festival "Festival of World Symphony Orchestras" . Column Hall of the House of Unions , 19.00. "Benefit performance alta" . Chamber ensemble "Moscow Soloists" , conductor and soloist Yuri Bashmet (viola).

Russian doctors pledge to save babies from 500 grams Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov seems to have found a fundamentally new approach to improve unpleasant demographic statistics . In just a few years, the lists of living Russians will be replenished with citizens born with very low birth weight. Now in our country, nursing children born weighing less than 1000 g is considered a unique event, the destiny of advanced medical centers.

In the early morning of June 5, 1967, Israel began the Six Day War, in which Egypt, Syria and Jordan participated on the other side. On this day, all Israeli aircraft were scrambled. Military airfields in Cairo (Cairo West) and Al-Arish in North Sinai were bombed. Egyptian planes were destroyed right at the airfields. The Israeli command chose the time for the attack when there was a change of night and day duty officers sitting in the cockpits of the aircraft. Then the ground attack began.

Annual inflation in Russia may again reach double digits Inflation is beginning to behave differently than the government would like. In the first three months, it was lower than last year's figures for the same period, which raised hopes of achieving the forecast level for the year - 8%. However, in April and May the picture was fundamentally different. The growth in consumer prices in these months exceeded the figures for April and May last year.

Bo Yibo's son may become China's leader Bo Yibo, a 98-year-old veteran of the Chinese Communist Party leadership, died in Beijing on Monday evening.