The atmospheric front passing through the center of Russia will provide short-term to heavy rains for the central region for all three days, with thunderstorms and hail in places. During thunderstorms, squally winds of up to 15-20 m/s are possible. The temperature next night will be +17...+22оС. During the day +25...+30°C, with a drop of a couple of degrees on Sunday. Moreover, the halo of distribution of these phenomena stretched from the northern borders of Russia to the Black Sea.

Tomorrow in Chekhov near Moscow there will be a rating fight in the heavyweight division of professional boxing between Russian Alexander POVETKIN and American Taurus Sykes. For our boxer, this fight will be the last before the IBF championship fight with the owner of two belts, Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko. But, of course, only if the Russian wins on Saturday.

The Baltic gas pipeline has found an influential defender in Poland Former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski (pictured) unexpectedly supported the Russian-German Nord Stream project on the construction of a gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, bypassing Poland. According to the politician, the gas pipeline can give Poland a chance for a safe and reliable energy supply, and therefore Warsaw should join the project and thus avert the threat of cutting off gas supplies from Russia.

The team from the Moscow region carried out the selection almost perfectly Atlant near Moscow (and until the end of last season, Khimik) has been trying to become a hockey oligarch for a long time. But despite the fact that the team has excellent living conditions and unlimited budgetary opportunities, it still has not entered the elite. It's all about poor results. Still, a serious club should fight for medals, and not fly out at an early stage of the playoffs.

Russia and Germany argue about ways to resolve Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who has just visited Tbilisi and Sukhumi, ways to resolve the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict. Yesterday, Lavrov already explained the shortcomings of the three-stage peace plan proposed by Germany.

The Department of Economics and Finance of the Government was headed by a person from the Ministry of Economic Development There has been an unscheduled change in the White House. The head of the department of economics and finance, Anton Drozdov, left the government apparatus and was appointed head of the Russian Pension Fund. Instead, this position was taken by Andrei Belousov, who until yesterday worked as Deputy Minister of Economic Development.

Russian shareholders of TNK-BP consider the contract with Dudley to be expired TNK-BP President Robert Dudley appears to be at risk of finding himself without a Russian visa in the midst of a conflict between the company's Russian and British shareholders . As is known, BP owns 50% of TNK-BP, another 50% belongs to the Russian consortium Alfa/Access/Renova (AAR), and each party intends to control the company. At the same time, AAR first of all insists on the resignation of Mr. Dudley .

A monument to sprats appeared in the Kaliningrad region Among the attractions in the small Kaliningrad town of Mamonovo - literally a hundred meters from the Polish border, and that’s all. In general, there is little of everything in the Mamonovsky urban district - for example, less than 7.5 thousand people live in five settlements. Among the large enterprises is a fish canning plant, operating since 1949. Life flowed smoothly here.

The lawsuit between Andre Gelfi and Elf for non-existent millions continues A high-profile court case brought by the Panamanian company Blue Rapid, whose beneficiary is the famous 89-year-old businessman of French origin Andre Guelfi, and the French oil company Elf, which was absorbed by the TotalFina concern eight years ago, is mired in a battle of lawyers. The parties are trying to agree on the composition of the commercial tribunal in Paris, which will consider the case on its merits.

On behalf of the disgraced hierarch, anathema was proclaimed to Alexius II The confrontation between the Moscow Patriarchate and the former Bishop of Chukotka Diomede, defrocked by the decision of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church , has already gone beyond the scope of the intra-church conflict and turned into a scandalous squabble.

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The exhibition “UFO Souvenirs. Oslokino UFO" Curator Andrey Bartenev and artists from Norway, Great Britain, the USA and Russia present the exhibition project “UFO Souvenirs. Oslokino UFO" within the framework of the I Moscow International Biennale of Young Art "Stop! Who's coming?" The project is dedicated to starships and astronauts, planets and galaxies, rockets, spacesuits and telescopes, aliens and UFOs. “UFO souvenirs.

The FMS brought down the wave of discontent, but did not eliminate the queues Even at the height of the holiday season, the capital's passport and visa offices, which switched to issuing biometric foreign passports in the new year, are unable to cope with the rush .

Sergei Lavrov will give the islands to China for the Olympics This summer, Tarabarov Island and half of the Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island, located at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers near Khabarovsk, will disappear from the map of Russia. Moscow is ready to transfer these lands to its neighbor next month, as agreed in October 2004 by then Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Hu Jintao .

A Moscow metro driver found a secret tunnel to an account at the Bank of Moscow The Directorate of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) in Moscow, as Vremya Novostei learned, has completed the investigation of an unusual criminal case. The accused is a simple 27-year-old metro driver Alexei Lepekhin. He is charged with theft from the Bank of Moscow of no less than 85.5 million rubles.