Chronicle of sporting events The composition of the Russian women's volleyball team for participation in the 2008 Summer Games has become known. Yesterday our girls tried on their Olympic uniforms at the ROC equipment center.

In the summer of 1942, the Red Army found itself in a difficult situation. The spring offensives near Leningrad, near Rzhev, and in the Crimea turned out to be heavy defeats for her. And the failure of the Kharkov operation turned into a disorderly retreat to Stalingrad. As a result, by September 1942, Germany occupied larger territories than in 1941.

Moscow and Beijing have resolved the territorial problem and taken on global issues Yesterday, Moscow and Beijing put an end to border negotiations that began in 1964. The head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi signed in Beijing an Additional Protocol describing the state border line on its eastern part. The document is accompanied by a map documenting the division of the islands at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers near Khabarovsk.

Yesterday in Harare, the leader of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front party, the country's president, 84-year-old Robert Mugabe, and the 56-year-old leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, signed a memorandum paving the way for two-week negotiations on the creation of coalition government and constitutional amendments.

Is it fair that compensation from a special fund established in agreement with the German government will be paid only to Jewish victims living in Western countries, but not to other victims of the Leningrad siege? The Vremya Novostei newspaper addressed this question to the representative of the Claims Commission organization in Germany, Georg HEUSBERGER, who is located in Frankfurt am Main. - This is a blatant injustice.

Few will receive money from the Germans for the siege of Leningrad Germany will provide one-time material support to the victims of the siege of Leningrad. Not everyone, however , but only those who fall under the criteria defined at the completed negotiations of the German government with the international Jewish organization “Claims Conference” based in New York. These negotiations lasted seven years.

Investigators from the prosecutor's office came to the St. Petersburg police with new searches The conflict between the Department for Combating Economic Crimes (UBEP) of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP), which began in connection with the investigation of scandalous criminal cases of raiding, is gaining momentum.

The composition of the national team for the Games in Beijing has been determined in Kazan Last Sunday, the Russian Athletics Championships ended in Kazan, based on the results of which the composition of the Olympic team was named. In the very word “selection” one can already hear a struggle. Fight for survival. The Russian qualifying championship has never, this is time-tested, been allowed to become a holiday. Because they work there.

CLUBS Tecora Rogers. The jazz vocalist from Chicago performs in Moscow for the first time. "Union of Composers" , 20.00. 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. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as songs of his own composition in Portuguese. Forte , 21.00. Peekaboo.

British Prime Minister promises to bring his sons to Jerusalem The first head of the British government to give a speech in the Israeli parliament was Gordon Brown yesterday. His half-hour speech in the Knesset was interrupted by applause six times and was very personal. The prime minister spoke about his father, who was a priest and headed the Israel Committee of the Church of Scotland.

American B-52 bomber landed in the ocean An American B-52 strategic bomber crashed. It crashed into the waves of the Pacific Ocean at 3.45 Moscow time on the night of July 21, 40 km northwest of the town of Epra Harbor on the island of Guam. This island is located in the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean, is part of the Mariana Islands group and has the status of a so-called “external territory” of the United States.

The stock market froze in anticipation of news The Russian stock market started the week with moderate growth, with the main indices rising by about 0.5%. Analysts note that this is only a correction after Friday's fall. In the near future, market dynamics will depend on the financial reports of Western companies. At the end of the day, the RTS index rose by 0.41%, to 2144.18 points, and the MICEX index by 0.69%, to 1634.36 points.

Poles found documents about Katyn from their president Yesterday, a missing item was found that allegedly could not be found during the day for two years. The press service of Polish President Lech Kaczynski reported that certified copies of documents on the Katyn crime, which were handed over by Russian President Boris Yeltsin during his visit to Warsaw in August 1993 to then Polish President Lech Walesa, are stored in full in the presidential archive and have never been disappeared.

To receive educational deductions, parents of students must prove their worth It is not easy to take advantage of income tax benefits in Russia. Once again, this fact was confirmed by a letter from the Ministry of Finance, which, at the beginning of the mass enrollment of students in universities, explained what documents can confirm to the tax inspector a parent’s right to a tax deduction for the child’s paid education.

The Kaliningrad region is preparing to increase its military force in response to the American missile defense system The fact that in the westernmost Russian region - the Kaliningrad region - the military group can be increased (and somewhat modified) has been stated more than once by various domestic civil and military officials.