The giants devastated the transfer market even before it opened Long before the official opening of the transfer window, leading European clubs signed contracts with those newcomers whom they had been hunting for a long time. Now the giants are only selectively closing problematic positions or trading for those they were unable to acquire on the spot. And as always, the focus is on the clubs of the three leading European championships. England.

Patriotic youth are raised in a conflict zone Unexpected disagreements arose between the UN and Georgia on the issues of patriotic education of the younger generation. In the report of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released yesterday to the UN Security Council on the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, it is proposed to abolish the youth patriotic camp set up in close proximity to the border of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia in the village of Ganmukhuri, Zugdidi region.

Dmitry Rogozin's new party was denied registration Yesterday, the Federal Registration Service (Rosregistration) refused to register the Great Russia party , created in the spring of this year and headed by State Duma deputy Andrei Savelyev. “Ten minutes before the end of the working day, we were given a document refusing to register the Great Russia party,” Sergei Pykhtin, secretary of the party’s Central Council, told reporters.

The head of the Latvian Foreign Ministry is afraid of Russian capital Latvian Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks alarmed the country's business community with a call to limit the influx of Russian investment.

Watch from July 26 on Moscow screens “Hostel 2” (USA, 2007, Eli Roth).

A business plan for the Kaliningrad special tourist zone has been drawn up In the Kaliningrad region, they calculated how much it would cost to develop a special tourist zone in the local Curonian Spit national park. It is planned to spend at least 7.6 billion rubles for these purposes. from the regional and federal budgets, as well as from extra-budgetary sources.

Yuri Luzhkov continues to dream of an electronic passport for a Muscovite The capital's authorities are not giving up hope of coming up with an electronic passport for a Moscow citizen. At yesterday's meeting of the city government, where the program for the further development of the so-called Muscovite social card was discussed, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov called on his subordinates to turn it into a full-fledged document containing a lot of information about the person.

The Baltic states and Poles are asking the European Commission for money for gas research The economic ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland are asking the European Commission to support the idea of ​​changing the route of the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany so that it does not go along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but on land. The heads of the Lithuanian and Estonian economic departments, Vitas Navickas and Juhan Parts, announced this in Vilnius and Tallinn.

Sprinters and time trialists have one stage left to endure The peloton of the Tour de France, the most prestigious stage race on the world calendar, yesterday had the opportunity to rest before tackling the final third of the route. Today the participants of the Great Loop say goodbye to the Pyrenees Mountains on the most difficult stage, 50 km of which will pass through the territory of the Spanish province of Navarre.

Germany privatizes railways The German government, headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, yesterday made a decision that in all respects can be considered historic. We are talking about the largest (and disputed since the early 1990s) project - the privatization of the German railway monopoly Deutsche Bahn. In a bill approved yesterday in Berlin, the Cabinet of Ministers confirmed its firm intention to leave a controlling stake in state ownership by selling 49% of the shares.

The RTS index did not reach 2100 points The RTS index has not yet managed to overcome the psychologically important barrier of 2100 points. After record growth on Monday, yesterday the value of Russian blue chips fell by an average of 2-5%. The main reason is the fall in oil prices. The mood of domestic investors was also affected by the unfavorable dynamics of world markets.

JKX Oil & Gas buys gas reserves in Adygea The British company JKX Oil & Gas, which has ties to Ukrainian entrepreneur Dmitry Firtash, officially announced yesterday its intention to buy the tiny Koshekhablskoye gas field in southern Russia for $50 million. Miller and Lents Ltd estimates that proven gas reserves in the Koshekhablskoye field in Adagey amount to 114 billion cubic feet, and proven and probable reserves - 216 billion cubic feet.

The Montreux Jazz Festival has ended The respectable and magical lake resort of Montreux - with a Nabokov hotel, a cafe, carousels, a beach, a conference center softly integrated into the ancient landscape (two halls - the slightly smaller Igor Stravinsky Hall and the larger Miles Davis Hall - with luxurious acoustics) and gentle ghosts ladies in hats and with parasols - the jazz festival was held for the 41st time.

The leader of A Just Russia acknowledged the blockade of the party on the country's main television channels The leader of the A Just Russia party, Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov - in fact the third party of the state - for the first time publicly admitted that his party was taboo in the federal media. If it were not for the hushing up of the party’s activities, it would have even won the “United Russia” elections, the leader of the “Socialist Revolutionaries” believes.

The Other Russia called on its supporters to choose a single presidential candidate The Other Russia coalition published an open letter to political organizations and citizens inviting them to participate in the selection of a single presidential candidate from the opposition . “Before September 20-25, we intend to hold a series of regional conferences that will discuss who should be entrusted with leadership in the confrontation with the “successor,” reads the appeal from the other Russians.