Dmitry Medvedev restored hope for stability to the foreign exchange market The statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about ending the military operation in South Ossetia was the main reason for the strengthening of the ruble against major world currencies. The dollar to ruble exchange rate fell yesterday by 0.9% - from 24.57 to 24.34 rubles, the euro exchange rate - by 1.6%, from 36.78 to 36.18 rubles.

Swimmer Arkady VYATCHANIN won a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke. After the competition, he answered questions from Vremya Novostei special correspondent Olga ERMOLINA. -Are you happy that you won a medal? - Dissatisfied. - Why, this is the first award for our swimmers in Beijing? — I’m happy with my result, but not with the fact that I shared third place with the Australian Stoekel. This has already happened in my career in 2003.

Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov had a presidential conversation Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked yesterday how things were going in Chechnya, which can be considered the main Caucasian conquest of the times of his first and second presidency. He received the head of this republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, in Moscow. “How are things in the republic?” asked the Prime Minister. “Thanks to you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, we have peace and stability today,” responded the President of Chechnya.

This year it is planned to allocate 20.9% more for financing culture, including cinema and media, than last year. And in total - 114 billion rubles. Mr. Kudrin's victorious intonations are intended to convince the population that life as before - despite the war in the Caucasus - will be better and more fun. Of course I would like to. But here's what's interesting.

The Atlantic cyclone is bringing bad weather to the north-west of European Russia - rain, sometimes strong thunderstorms and squally winds of up to 17-22 m/s. This weather will continue on Wednesday and Thursday. In central Russia, light rain is possible in places only in the afternoon on Thursday. But on Wednesday it is still very warm and dry here. In Moscow at night +14...+16оС, during the day partly cloudy, no precipitation, temperature +25...+27оС, south wind, 3--8 m/s. In St.

The Russian President decided to stop the war Yesterday afternoon, following a meeting with the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev decided to complete the operation to force Georgia to peace. “I have decided to complete the operation to force the Georgian authorities to peace,” he said. “The goal has been achieved. The safety of our peacekeeping forces and the civilian population has been restored.

The Russian army promises to stop active hostilities in Georgia Yesterday, for the fourth time since the beginning of the war in Georgia, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation informed about the progress of military operations. The briefing by the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, began just minutes after the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, to end the operation to force Georgia to peace.

American scientists calculate the length of the Alaska shelf Last year’s pretentious installation of the Russian tricolor at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean by an expedition led by State Duma Deputy Speaker Artur Chilingarov seems to have seriously provoked experts in the study of the Arctic. American scientists intend to, in some way, repeat the achievement of the Russian party-scientific group and “stake out” their own plots in this region, which is very promising in terms of fossil resources.

"The Dark Knight" (USA, 2008, Christopher Nolan). The most anticipated film of the summer. The new Batman film, in its first couple of weeks of showing in America, took first place in the list of best films as voted by users of IMDB, one of the main movie sites in the world. “The Dark Knight” is the second film about the man-bat, directed by Christopher Nolan (author of the excellent thriller “Memento” and the stupid film about magicians “The Prestige”). First, Batman.

Missed a medal in the men's team tournament The final of the team competition turned out to be a complete failure for our men's gymnastics team. As a result, the team consisting of Maxim Devyatovsky, Anton Golotsutskov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Nikolai Kryukov, Konstantin Pluzhnikov and Yuri Ryazanov became only sixth, scoring a total of 274,300 points. The gap from the Olympic champions, the Chinese, was about 12 points, and from the silver medalists, the Japanese, 4 points.

The dramatic part of the Edinburgh Festival began with a Polish play about Jews Warsaw's Rozmaitosci Theater (TR Warszawa) brought The Dybbuk to Scotland, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. A dybbuk is a restless soul that inhabits another person; One of the most famous interpretations of this plot from Jewish mythology is the play by Semyon An-sky. In it, parents negotiate the upcoming wedding of their young children, and the children grow up feeling that they are destined for each other.

Russian experts on the post-war future of South Ossetia Vremya Novostey correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA asked representatives of the Russian expert community about the future of South Ossetia after the end of the war, its territorial status and options for Russia’s presence in the region. Alexey ARBATOV, Director of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations: - First we need to make sure that the fire has stopped.

The saber dance will have to be postponed until the team tournament Failures continue to haunt our fencers. After four types of program, they do not have a single medal to their credit. It seemed that the saber fencers would be able to break this black streak. After all, such aces as four-time Olympic champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov and two-time World Cup winner Alexei Yakimenko took to the track, joining the company of the young Nikolai Kovalev, who has made serious progress this year.

The Russian and the Australian climbed to the podium with the same result The first medal for the Russian team at the 2008 Olympics in swimming was won by Arkady Vyatchanin. He completed the 100-meter backstroke in 53.18 seconds. Australian Hayden Stoekel finished with exactly the same result, who, together with Vyatchanin, rose to the third step of the podium. The winner of the swim, American Aaron Piersol, set a new world record - 52.54 seconds.

Mikheil Saakashvili announced Georgia's withdrawal from the CIS President Mikheil Saakashvili's announcement yesterday about Georgia's withdrawal from the CIS hardly looks like a sensation. This had to happen - after what happened in Georgia in recent days, this country could not remain in the CIS. Having joined the Commonwealth as the last of a dozen post-Soviet states in the fall of 1993, Georgia was the first to leave.