Mahmoud Abbas was pleased with his visit to Moscow Palestinians can count on Russia to continue to protect their legitimate interests until the creation of an independent Palestinian state. President Vladimir Putin assured the head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas of this yesterday, promising to support him as the “legitimate leader of the Palestinian people.” Their conversation was the culmination of the Palestinian leader's three-day visit to Moscow .

The former first secretary of the city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will join the ranks of A Just Russia The first secretary of the Tambov city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputy of the regional Duma, 30-year-old candidate of economic sciences Pavel Plotnikov, recently left the ranks of the Communist Party. At the same time, he applied to join the A Just Russia party and called on all communists to follow his example.

Worsening relations with the West are improving the economic performance of Russian defense companies Not only domestic “defense-industrial complex generals,” but also Western experts are now talking about progress in the Russian defense-industrial complex in recent years.

Henry Paulson scares lawmakers with default The problem of growing US government debt has reached critical proportions and is threatening default. US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned American congressmen about this in a special message. He himself is now on a visit to China, where he is trying to solve the problem of the trade imbalance between the two countries - the American deficit has already exceeded $230 billion. However, experts believe that Mr.

RAO UES will soon officially announce the terms of sale of Power Machines Anatoly Chubais yesterday voiced his demands for the buyer of Power Machines. “I would like to sell this stake at a tender,” he said yesterday, commenting on the fate of the 25% plus one share stake in the machine-building holding owned by RAO. “The market logic of the sale is important to me.” Mr.

The Party of Regions is preparing for elections The extraordinary session of the Ukrainian parliament, scheduled by Speaker Alexander Moroz for August 7-10, is unlikely to change the balance of power on the eve of the early parliamentary elections. The core of the ruling parliamentary coalition - the Party of Regions - still intends to participate in the election campaign. And she is unlikely to agree to the cancellation of the elections scheduled for September 30.

Over the European territory of Russia in the middle of the week the weather will be formed by several atmospheric eddies. Cyclones will become firmly established in the west. One will approach the western borders of Karelia and the Murmansk region. The second, Mediterranean, will approach the black earth regions. On Wednesday in the northwestern regions there will be short-term rains in the Leningrad, Pskov and Novgorod regions, daytime temperatures will be +18...+23оС.

The managerial potential of the capital's officials, limited on earth by the Moscow Ring Road, has decisively rushed upward. Yesterday at a meeting of the city government, grandiose plans to expand the capital's airspace to the entire territory of central Russia were discussed.

Strasbourg is forced to monitor rallies in Russia Rustam Makhmudov, deputy of the municipal assembly of the Moscow Krylatskoye district, is pleased with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, which ordered the Russian authorities to pay attention to the Russian Constitution. The subject of the claim, which the district deputy filed in Strasbourg, was an incident four years ago.

Watch from August 2 on Moscow screens “Zodiac” (USA, 2007, David Fincher). A film by the important director Fincher (“Seven,” “The Game,” “Fight Club”), dedicated to the history of one of the most mysterious and still unsolved crimes in American history: in the late 60s, a serial killer appeared there and became famous like the Zodiac, calmly dealing with couples secluded in cars.

Anatoly Chubais hurries gas workers Gazprom and RAO UES of Russia are in the final stages of negotiations on concluding long-term contracts for the supply of gas to electric power enterprises. The head of the energy holding, Anatoly Chubais, announced this yesterday at the ceremonial opening of a combined cycle plant in Shatura near Moscow. “I hope that one of these days we will put an end to it,” he said.

The current Georgian opposition also counts on American support The United States is taking early control of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Georgia, which are to be held simultaneously in the fall of 2008. Washington, which played a key role in removing Eduard Shevardnadze's regime from power in November 2003 through the Rose Revolution, is now keenly interested in how its project to democratize Georgia is working.

There is no contraband left in the case of illegal sale of confiscated goods The scandalous investigation into scams involving the sale of goods illegally seized from capital firms , in which some officials from the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) were involved, received a new continuation. As Vremya Novostei learned, the other day the accused - Roman Chubatov, Boris Lisagor and Alexei Fedin - in addition to the previously imputed Art.

Who picked grapes at the New Wave festival in Jurmala Another festival of young pop performers in the post-Soviet space - "New Wave", which flooded a piece of the Baltic coast six years ago, when the Soviet analogue of "San Remo" ceased to exist in Jurmala - ended with a feeling of complete satisfaction and no one has yet received an award. famous winners with quite weighty elephants.

Michelangelo Antonioni dies Without confirmation that the great Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, who died on the evening of July 30 in Rome, could have known about the death of another patriarch and titan of cinema and theater - Ingmar Bergman (on the same morning on the island of Fore in Sweden), it is still difficult to get rid of the feeling , that not only an entire era in cinema has ended. It’s as if the entire cinema, having gone to its grave, has blessed nothing and no one.