German actor Ulrich Mühe, whom the Russian public met only last week, has died: he played the main role in the film “The Lives of Others,” released on Russian screens on July 19. This film about the GDR, where Mühe brilliantly played the main role, received an Oscar last year as a foreign film and was recognized as the best film in Europe, and Ulrich Mühe received the award for best actor. It turns out that while filming this film, the 50-year-old actor was already seriously ill.

The sister and subordinates of Vladimir Bryntsalov were brought into the case The Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced yesterday that charges had been brought against a number of former top managers of Bryntsalov-A CJSC. The heads of various divisions of the company, Oleg Zharov, Sergei Novikov and Marat Mikhailov, as well as Tatyana Bryntsalova, the sister of the company’s founder, Vladimir Bryntsalov, came under suspicion.

British MP proposed taking receipts from political emigrants Political dissidents from Russia living in Britain should be given an “acceptable behavior undertaking” and paid for by the police to ensure their personal safety. This unexpected statement was made on Wednesday in Westminster by Conservative MP Mark Pritchard, who is the chairman of the cross-party lobbying group on Russia in the British Parliament.

The governments of Italy, Greece and Turkey have pledged to support the construction of the pipeline The energy ministers of Italy, Greece and Turkey, Pierluigi Bersani, Dimitris Sioufas and Hilmi Guler, yesterday in Rome signed a package of agreements to support the gas pipeline project across the territories of these countries. The pipeline, consisting of three sections, will be launched in August of this year, and it will reach Italy by 2012.

Last week, after a break of more than fifteen years, the cruise route on the Black Sea resumed. The cruise liner of the Ukrainian passenger fleet "Southern Palmyra" reopened Russia's oldest sea route of the Crimean-Caucasian tourist line - departing from Odessa and calling at the ports of Sochi, Yalta and Istanbul. This is welcome news for connoisseurs of the Russian south.

The head of the Central Election Commission spoke about the laws under which federal elections will be held On Thursday, the Central Election Commission held a video conference with the newly formed regional election commissions. The heads of local election commissions were interested in purely technical aspects of election preparation and previous practice.

The Novosibirsk governor showed a sample of the region's report to the federal government Yesterday, the government, as part of traditional reports at a meeting of the cabinet of Russian regions, discussed issues of socio-economic development of the Novosibirsk region. Governor Viktor Tolokonsky should be pleased. His report received full approval from the ministers. They liked the situation in the region, which was already in good standing with the federal center.

The President signed the first three-year budget Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin completed a historic budget process with the stroke of a pen. He signed the law “On the federal budget for 2008 and for the planning period of 2009 and 2010,” Vladimir Putin’s last before leaving the post of head of state. For the first time in Russian history, a three-year budget has been formed. Its main feature was the convergence of the level of income and expenses.

Rostechnadzor accidentally suspended work on Sakhalin-2 Construction work on the mainland part of the oil and gas pipeline of the Sakhalin-2 project was suspended again yesterday. True, this time not for long and without any special consequences for its shareholders. The initiator was the regional branch of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor).

Fitch Ratings rated Russian banks better than others The risks to the global banking system are increasing. Analysts from the Fitch Ratings agency came to this conclusion, summing up the quarterly results of rating actions in relation to the world's banks. According to the agency, the share of banks with positive rating forecasts still remains high - 14%, although this is no longer the record 16% that was at the beginning of the year.

Oleg Maskaev reached an agreement with Samuel Peter The long-suffering fight for the WBC world heavyweight title between belt holder Russian Oleg Maskaev and Nigerian Samuel Peter will still take place. After long negotiations, the parties signed a contract to host it, and the fight, which was constantly under threat of failure, should take place on October 6 at the famous Madison Square Garden arena in New York.

The President announced the collapse of the coalition Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin announced the collapse of the ruling coalition that emerged after the 2005 parliamentary elections. At a press conference on Wednesday, he noted: “Unfortunately, we can again talk about Moldovan politics as the most primitive, where there are exclusively two forces - the Communist Party and the opposition in general.” This statement appears to have been prompted by the results of the June local elections.

The owner of the leading yellow jersey is expelled from the Tour de France A noticeably thinned Tour de France peloton headed into the 17th, flat stage without the cyclist wearing the yellow jersey of the leader of the general classification in its ranks.

CLUBS "Underwood." The group's music style is usually defined as intellectual rock. In fact, "Underwood" plays very strange, but extremely nice music - pathetic and funny at the same time. Ikra , July 27, 21.00. The Good, the Bad & the Queen (UK). TGTBTQ music is something like rock and roll for Dickensian England.

European aerospace concern EADS, which has been at the center of news surrounding its Airbus unit in recent months, yesterday announced a sharp fall in first-half profits. However, negative indicators are associated not only with problems in the aircraft manufacturing division, but also with the situation on the foreign exchange market. “Half-year results show need for restructuring,” reads the headline of the EADS report. The financial results are indeed more than modest.