Africans are looking for a way out of the crisis in Zimbabwe The Zimbabwean government confirmed yesterday that the second round of the country's presidential election will go ahead as scheduled on Friday. At the same time, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s refusal to participate in the election process , according to the authorities, “means nothing.” However, in reality, this predetermines the uncontested victory of 84-year-old President Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980.

Appointment of acting rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory caused protests from professors An emergency meeting of the staff of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, dedicated to the equally emergency appointment by the Ministry of Culture to the position of acting. rector violinist Sergei Stadler, turned into a scandal yesterday.

The first matches of the tournament took place at Wimbledon, as a result of which several Russian players have already dropped out of the tournament bracket. The main loss for Russian fans was the defeat of the fourth racket of the world Nikolai Davydenko in the opening match, and the main sensation of yesterday was the victory of Marat Safin over one of the Wimbledon favorites, Serbian Novak Djokovic.

Human rights activists presented a report on the situation in Ingushetia Human rights activists from the Europe and Central Asia branch of Human Rights Watch yesterday presented a detailed report on the human rights situation in Ingushetia. The report is called “It’s like they fell from the sky!” These are the quoted words of a resident of the Ingush village of Ali-Yurt, where a large-scale special operation took place in July last year.

The District Court of Tampa, Florida, received an application from Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. With a request to assign two sites to her at the bottom of the English Channel. This news aroused great interest among historians, archaeologists... and the French authorities. The fact is that Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. specializes in finding treasures from sunken ships. Searching for underwater treasures and recovering them is a very profitable and serious business.

Dmitry Medvedev will make his debut at the Russia-EU summit Today the next, twenty-first, Russia-European Union summit opens in Khanty-Mansiysk. And the first for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The main result expected from this large-scale event is the start of negotiations on a new cooperation agreement . “I think this should be a successful summit.

The waters and seas that are more accessible to our compatriots hold many mysteries. For example, Black. Expeditions of treasure hunters have been unsuccessfully trying for almost 150 years to find at the bottom of the Black Sea the British frigate "Black Prince", which sank on November 14, 1854 during a severe storm off Balaklava.

Maternity payments can lead to court Demographic policy in Russia seems to be implemented according to the principle “the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.” Against the background of the growth of child benefits and maternity payments, cases where the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) denies the recipient this money, citing an unreasonably inflated amount of payments, have become more frequent. The courts also side with the FSS.

The situation around the Military Leaders' Club was commented on by the former head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, Colonel General Fyodor LADIGIN, now an adviser to the general director of the Sukhoi aviation holding company, to Vremya Novostey columnist Nikolai POROSKOV. The Military Leaders Club is a huge cohort of people with significant knowledge acquired at several military universities and extensive service experience.

Chronicle of sporting events The multiple national champion and current holder of the title of the strongest team on the continent, the professional basketball club CSKA, signed a two-year contract with attacking guard Zoran Planinic (born 1982, height 199 cm), who played for the Spanish Tau last season. A vacancy in this position in CSKA appeared after the transfer of the Greek Theodoras Papaloukas to Olympiacos.

Retired generals offer their services to the state If the President Hotel in Moscow saw such a number of general stars, it was only once - in April 2005, during the formation of a new public organization “The Military Leaders Club of the Russian Federation” .

After the meeting between the presidents of Russia and Georgia, Dmitry Medvedev and Mikheil Saakashvili in St. Petersburg in early June, at the CIS Economic Forum in Tbilisi, there was talk of “restrained optimism” regarding the settlement of relations between the two countries. Now Georgia is preparing for new contacts between the two leaders.

The election of the board of directors of TNK-BP Holding will be immediately appealed The conflict between the shareholders of TNK-BP (which is half owned by BP, and another 50% of the shares are distributed among members of the Russian consortium Alfa/Access/Renova) went inside the company. Today there will be a meeting of shareholders of TNK-BP Holding, a subsidiary of TNK-BP, on whose balance sheet the main assets are located.

Last fall, Gazprom increased its stake in the German company Wingas from 35 to 50% minus one share, becoming virtually an equal partner of BASF in the gas transportation and distribution market in Germany and other Western European countries. In 1993, Wingas began its approach to the German market from scratch and became the first example of the development of competition in the field of gas supplies to consumers with the direct participation of the Russian monopolist.

An evening in memory of Alexander Prokofiev was held at the Musical Theater One of Russia's best ballet teachers died a year ago, the day before his 65th birthday. Recently he lived and worked in Germany - he left in the nineties, when the money for hellish work here began to pay too ridiculously. Before that, he trained a galaxy of excellent gentleman dancers.