In mid-December, the next meeting of the Russian-American public dialogue “Russia-USA: A Look into the Future” will be held in Washington. President George W. Bush will meet with his two co-chairs - 84-year-old Henry Kissinger and 77-year-old Yevgeny Primakov (pictured) .

Tours of the Robert Lepage Theater continue in Moscow After the first of four works promised at the Chekhov Festival - the one-man show “The Far Side of the Moon”, in which the only role was played by the author and director himself - theater Moscow recognized Robert Lepage, although his theater is not at all similar to traditional Russian theater and is even the opposite of it. Lepage is a man of the future.

Chronicle of sporting events Muscovite Igor Andreev failed to win the right to play in the decisive match of the ATP tournament with a prize fund of 421,250 euros on the clay courts of Gstaad (Switzerland). On his 24th birthday, the Russian lost in the semifinals to Italian Andreas Seppi in the third set tiebreak - 4:6, 6:3, 6:7 (5:7). In the first and second sets, each of the opponents took one point on someone else's serve. There were no more breaks in this match.

Inter RAO UES began supplying electricity to Romania Member of the Board of RAO UES of Russia, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inter RAO UES Andrei Rappoport has finally implemented his long-standing project - exporting electricity from Moldova to Romania. Back in 2003, he said that RAO should supply supplies to the European market - primarily to Romania and Bulgaria, as well as Turkey.

CONCERTS "From Baroque to Romance." Tatiana Lanskaya (soprano) and Elena Borisova (organ) perform music by Frescobaldi, Bach, Fauré, Franck, Richard Strauss. Church of St. Louis , 19.30. Concert of works by Colombian composers. Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television under the direction of conductor Germán Cespedes (Colombia), as well as soloist Walter Gonzalez (violin, Colombia).

Less than a month and a half left before the start of the World Championships in Japan. The best Russian track and field athletes have entered the decisive phase of preparation for the World Cup. European champion 2006 among adults in discus throwing and number two in the world ranking Daria Pishchalnikova took part in the youth (under 23 years old) championship of the Old World, where she received silver, losing to Ukrainian Katerina Karsak.

Israel's ninth president must repeat the success of the first Yesterday, a solemn ceremony took place to swear in the ninth president in Israeli history. On June 13, veteran of Middle Eastern politics, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, one of the leaders of the ruling centrist Kadima party, 83-year-old Shimon Peres (pictured) , was elected as the new “symbol of the unity of the nation.” In the Jewish state, the post of president does not give real power, it is rather representative.

An 18-year-old boy brutally killed people because they collaborated with the police. The Chechen prosecutor's office, as Vremya Novostei learned, intends to seek life imprisonment for 25-year-old Ilyas Dashaev, who, as the court has already established, is involved in kidnappings and murders committed with extreme cruelty.

Another Russian-speaking party has appeared in Israel. Israeli businessman of Russian origin, 55-year-old Arkady Gaydamak, held the first congress of the Social Justice party, which relies on low-income voters. Polls predict the organization will have between 17 and 23 seats in the 120-seat parliament.

The prosecutor demanded a life sentence for Alexey Pichugin The state prosecution demanded life imprisonment in a special regime colony for former YUKOS security officer Alexei Pichugin at the debate between the parties in his case that began last Friday in the Moscow City Court. Mr.

June 13 -- July 13, 2007 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

The process of changing the political elite has ended in Tuva In the poorest Russian region, the Republic of Tuva, with the completion of the formation of the regional election commission, the scandalous process of changing elites ended .

14 people were killed yesterday in an extremist attack on an army convoy in northwestern Pakistan. As the column passed through the town of Matta, the soldiers came under machine gun and grenade launcher fire, and several bombs exploded simultaneously. Eleven more people were killed in an explosion at a police recruitment center in the town of Dera Ismail Khan in Swat province. A day earlier, 24 soldiers were killed nearby. Their convoy was rammed by a suicide bomber in a car with explosives.

The Tour de France peloton passed the capital of the 1992 Winter Games The first third of the Tour de France stage race ended with a difficult mountain stage with a finish at the top of the first category of difficulty in the ski resort of Tignes, which has more than once become the venue for the stages of the World Cup in winter sports. During the course of the race, the peloton passed through the capital of the 1992 White Olympics, Albertville.

The IMF is trying to find an alternative to the Frenchman Strauss-Kahn French President Nicolas Sarkozy began campaigning right on Bastille Day - July 14th. Having received the festive parade, he presented to the public his candidate for the post of Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund - one of the leaders of the Socialist Party, Dominique Strauss-Kahn . Sarkozy met with him at the Elysee Palace, after showing off in front of the television cameras.