The newspaper "Vremya Novostei" tried to find out the political views of the youth movements of the two parties in power All major political parties have youth branches, which are designed to interest traditionally apolitical youth in politics.

Chronicle of sporting events The Brazilian national team suffered its first defeat under the leadership of Dunga. The Pentacampeons lost to Mexico in the group stage of the America's Cup - 0:2. CSKA forward Vagner Love played the full match for the Brazilian national team and failed to make a mark, while his team missed both goals in the first half. First, Castillo, throwing the ball over a defender, volleyed accurately.

New UK Prime Minister hands out briefcases The British have different explanations for the rains that have flooded the country these days, causing unprecedented floods across a large area of ​​Middle England. Some say that the Almighty regrets the resignation of Tony Blair. Others see it as a warning to new Prime Minister Gordon Brown not to get Albion into trouble.

To get the Olympics in Sochi, Russia will stage an ice show right at the IOC session Six days later - on the night of July 5 - the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be chosen at the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). According to the latest data from the independent American analytical agency Around the Five Rings, the chances of all three candidate cities to host the 2014 Winter Olympics look absolutely equal.

Sharapova crushes France's Bremont The fourth playing day of the British Open began on the peripheral courts not at noon, as usual, but at 11 am. The day before, most of the scheduled fights did not take place at all due to rain or were interrupted during the matches, so yesterday the organizers had to make up for lost time.

United Russia activists met with the moral leader of the party Yesterday, Vladimir Putin met with United Russia activists at the presidential residence in Novo-Ogarevo. 23 deputies took part in the meeting. Among them are State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, vice-speakers Oleg Morozov, Lyubov Sliska, Vyacheslav Volodin, Vladimir Katrenko, Vladimir Pekhtin, Artur Chilingarov, deputies Vladimir Vasiliev, Andrey Kokoshin, Vladislav Tretyak, Martin Shakkum, Valery Yazev.

Alexey Miller will vote at the meeting of Gazprom shareholders with a controlling stake Today, the next annual meeting of Gazprom shareholders will be held at the Gazprom central office on Nametkina Street in Moscow. For the first time since 2002, it will be held without the personal participation of the concern’s chairman of the board, Alexey Miller. Just like five years ago, the head of the company’s health failed.

Scientists managed to distinguish Neanderthals from microbes Swedish scientist Svante Peebo, head of the department of genetics at the Leipzig Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology. Max Planck, claims that his group has managed to develop a method with which in the near future it will be possible to completely decipher the genetic code of Neanderthals, mammoths and cave bears. Now such a reconstruction poses great difficulties, despite the large number of fossil remains.

Tomorrow at the annual meeting of Rosneft shareholders, company president Sergei Bogdanchikov will try to tell in his report what the structure of the oil company has become after the purchase of YUKOS assets and how it is now positioned. Obviously, Rosneft is preparing to demonstrate to investors that by mid-July - the anniversary of the company's initial public offering - an increase in stock prices. After all, this was the first “people’s” IPO of a state-owned company in Russia .

The Mariinsky Theater will still have a second stage Full-scale construction work on the second stage of the Mariinsky Theater can finally begin. The experts announced that all comments had been eliminated. And there were about three hundred of them, and mostly they were of a fundamental nature, since they concerned the stability, safety of the future building and the possibility of its operation in northern climatic conditions.

Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia were attacked by Georgian civilians Yesterday in South Ossetia, Russian peacekeepers were subjected to a massive attack by local residents - Georgians. They threatened the peacekeepers with shovels and hoes, and threw containers of paint at them. The peacekeepers made the wise decision to retreat so as not to make the situation hopeless. The incident occurred near the village of Avnevi.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation discovered neo-Trotskyists in its ranks The Communist Party of the Russian Federation had barely managed to recover from the period of splits and purges of party ranks from supporters of Gennady Semigin , when a new internal party conflict arose.

Hugo Chavez came to Vladimir Putin and encouraged him to study with Vladimir Lenin Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began his three-day visit to Russia yesterday with the opening of the Simon Bolivar Cultural Center for Latin American Integration in the building of the Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow. There, Mr. Chavez did not hide the fact that he came for weapons. But this is “not a priority,” which, according to the guest, is proven by his participation in a purely educational event.

The composition of the Board of Directors of the Development Bank was approved Yesterday, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov held the first meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Development Bank , of which he is legally chairman. There were eight participants in the meeting, including the prime minister: Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Naryshkin, ministers Alexei Kudrin, German Gref, Viktor Khristenko, Igor Levitin, Vladislav Putilin, VEB Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev.

Yesterday morning, Kiichi Miyazawa, who headed the Japanese cabinet from 1991-1993, died in his Tokyo apartment at the age of 88. This politician was at the origins of the formation of Japanese policy towards post-Soviet Russia. During his reign, on December 27, 1991, the Japanese government recognized Russia as a successor state to the USSR. In July 1993, Miyazawa received the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Tokyo, who arrived at the G7 meeting.