Personnel changes in the leadership of the armed forces Personnel reform of the Russian Armed Forces, which actually began back in February last year with the appointment of the then head of the Federal Tax Service Anatoly Serdyukov to the post of Minister of Defense, continues.

Condoleezza Rice to sign missile defense agreement with Czech Republic Today Prague welcomes US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The guest must sign a bilateral agreement on the deployment of an American radar in the Czech Republic as part of the missile defense system (ABM). In the fall, the document will go to the Czech parliament for ratification. Negotiations on the construction of an American radar station (radar) in the Czech Republic have been ongoing since March 2007.

The trend of entertaining while entertaining, which emerged a couple of seasons ago, was continued this year. For the remakes of “Star Factory 7”, “Ice Age”, “Minute of Fame 2”, “Circus 2”, “Big Race”, “Two Stars 2”, “King of the Ring 2”, “Dancing on Ice. Velvet Season”, “Dancing with the Stars 2”, several more entertainment attractions were added - “You are a superstar”, “STS lights up a star”, “50 blondes”.

The season turned out to be so-so, secondary, neither fish nor fowl. The first lived by inertia due to last year's merits and, as always, won. “Russia” defended its position: by putting on a children’s “line”, it compensated for the partial lack of ratings with semi-soap series. “TV-Center” saved face, defended itself and identified its main problem - how, while defending itself, also preserve the viewer. NTV is at ease: a mixture of trash with stylish and often intelligent programs.

Dmitry Medvedev held negotiations with key Western partners The Windsor Hotel on the shores of Lake Toya, where the G8 leaders gathered yesterday, was covered in fog in the morning. The night before, it enveloped the airport in the nearby town of Chitose, where heads of state were flying. But hopes remained that bad weather would not reach Windsor and that the G8 leaders would be able to see the unique beauty of the local nature.

Russian drawing and watercolor in the Perm State Art Gallery In terms of the composition of names and the breadth of genres represented - portrait, landscape, historical, animalistic compositions, illustrations, sketches of paintings - the exhibition of drawings and watercolors now deployed in the Perm Art Gallery is a real museum within a museum. In total, about seven hundred works are presented here.

Of course, the most spectacular event of the television season was the matches of the Russian national team at the European Football Championship. In the quarter-finals with Holland, where we won 3:1, the broadcast rating was 21.3%, and the maximum audience share reached in extra time of this match was 79.4%. The broadcast rating of the semi-final, where our team lost to Spain with a score of 0:3, was 28.5% in Moscow, and the share was 70.5%.

Kaliningrad Governor Georgy Boos rode with bikers and sang songs to them Ordinary people are even more interested in how the political elite relaxes than in how they work. Georgy Boos, the head of the westernmost Russian region - the Kaliningrad region, has two weaknesses: he loves motorcycles and singing with a guitar. And if these passions are combined, you get the “Night Wolves” bike show, which in recent years has literally “registered” in Kaliningrad.

Four people died in another explosion in Abkhazia Mutual accusations between Georgia and Abkhazia regarding their involvement in Sunday’s explosions of four charges in a row at the side of the road near the bridge over the border river Inguri had not yet been heard when a new explosion in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict claimed the lives of four people.

"A Just Russia" does not give up hopes of becoming the second party in power The Social Revolutionaries took heart.

Peter Leko fully realized his potential in Dortmund The traditional super tournament in Dortmund ended with the victory of Peter Leko. In the final three rounds, he managed to score two points, which turned out to be enough to win the first prize, since it was difficult to expect the same finish from the far from ambitious “German” Jans standing next to him - Nepomniachtchi and Gustafsson.

The Serbian government yesterday approved an energy cooperation agreement with Russia , which provides for the sale of a controlling stake in the state oil concern NIS to Gazprom Neft, the laying of the South Stream gas pipeline through Serbian territory and the construction of a gas storage facility near Banatski Dvor.

PricewaterhouseCoopers experts predict further growth in car sales in the country PricewaterhouseCoopers yesterday released a review of the state of the automotive market in Russia in 2007 and its prospects in the coming years. Company experts believe that 2007, a record year for car sales, will not be the last and the main peaks in car sales in our country are still ahead.

CLUBS Alexander Pisklakov. Blues, piano. "Blue Bird" , 19.30. "Latino". Author's music. Duet of Georgy Osmolovsky (violin) and Alexander Vinitsky (guitar). "Union of Composers" , 20.00. Mikhail "Petrovich" Sokolov (vocals, guitar) and Hot Rod Band . Blues. BB King , 8 p.m. Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K.

The collected works of Zhukovsky have grown into a ballad volume The publication of the next (by numbering - third) volume of the Complete Works and Letters of Zhukovsky (M., “Languages ​​of Slavic Cultures”) is an undoubtedly joyful and significant event.