After the completion of yesterday's competition, double Olympic bronze medalist Anton GOLOTSKOV spoke with Vremya Novostei special correspondent Olga ERMOLINA. —Which of the two medals (on floor exercise or on vault) did you win the most? - On floor exercises. I had less chances there than in the jump. But I managed to get a hold. I don’t think it’s worth commenting on this result. I'm happy. Losing in team competitions forced me to fight not only for myself, but for the guys, for the country.

Unlearned lessons from 1998 Ten years after the 1998 default, participants in those events, observers, and ordinary citizens continue to argue about the causes and consequences of the crisis.

In Russia, the police report from time to time: over the five months of this year, the number of detected offenses in the field of copyright and related rights has increased by 20%. Just the other day, the “largest warehouse” in Kazan was raided, from which more than half a million “pirated” CDs and DVDs were confiscated. And in Penza, more than 10 thousand discs of pirated audiovisual products have just been seized.

Different readings of Caucasian toponymy are reminiscent of the times of the collapse of the USSR Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently resolutely called the capital of unrecognized South Ossetia Tskhinvali - as most Ossetians call it, cutting off the soft Georgian ending “-i”. Before this, youth organizations loyal to the Kremlin vied with each other in demanding that the media abandon Georgian transcription, because such writing allegedly offends Russian citizens living there.

The President of South Ossetia dismissed the government President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity dismissed the government, created an emergency commission to eliminate the consequences of Georgian aggression and introduced a state of emergency throughout the entire republic from 21.00 Moscow time on August 17 to 21.00 Moscow time on September 17, 2008. The head of South Ossetia signed the corresponding decrees last Sunday evening.

Russian experts on military lessons from the operation in Georgia The purely military success of the Russian armed forces in the “four-day war” against the Georgian army is beyond doubt. However, any war, even a successful one, teaches lessons, forces you to give up something and take on something new. What changes do the Russian army and navy need based on the war with Georgia?

The memory of the legendary virus still remains in the blood of the children of 1918 When a few years ago microbiologists managed to find the virus of the legendary Spanish flu, which killed millions of people in 1918, it became a little scary. The search for scientific truth and the curiosity of natural scientists are worthy of respect, but still, perhaps it was not worth bringing this natural “biological weapon” back to life.

A protégé of the Nizhny Novgorod governor is forced to resign from his post as leader of the regional branch of United Russia The main Nizhny Novgorod United Russia member, Sergei Nekrasov, wrote a statement about his resignation as secretary of the political council of the regional organization "United Russia" of his own free will. Mr.

Michel Houellebecq at the Locarno Festival In Locarno, in the Italian canton of Switzerland, the 61st International Film Festival ended, the competition for which, as a rule, selects the most uncompromising and difficult to perceive examples of auteur cinema. From Russia this year “St. George’s Day” by Kirill Serebrennikov based on the script by Yuri Arabov.

In most of the European territory of Russia, the weather in the coming days will be formed under the increasing influence of a cyclone, whose center is located over Scandinavia. And with the westerly flows that are established at high altitudes, cooler air begins to flow. In the central regions, the weakening of the heat will be accompanied in places by showers and thunderstorms; in the east, showers can be heavy, and during thunderstorms, wind gusts can reach 15-20 m/sec.

The West, the army and parliament have turned their backs on Pakistani President Musharraf Pakistan, which has a nuclear weapons population of 164 million people since 1998, is left without a strong leader. Yesterday, President Pervez Musharraf, who has held the reins of power tightly for nearly a decade and is considered a key US ally in South Asia and the Middle East, said in a televised address: “I don’t want our people to sink deeper into uncertainty.

Day ten August 18, Monday (18 sets of awards awarded) CYCLE TRACK. Men. Team pursuit race. 1. Great Britain. 2. Denmark. 3. New Zealand. Women . Points race. 1. Marianne Vos (Holland) - 30 points. 2. Yuanka Gonzalez (Cuba) - 18. 3. Leira Olaberria (Spain) - 13... 8. Olga Slyusareva (Russia) - 8. SPORTS GYMNASTICS. Men. Rings. 1. Chen Yibing (China) - 16,600. 2. Yang Wei (China) - 16,425. 3. Alexander Vorobyov (Ukraine) - 16,325. Vault. 1. Leszek Blanik (Poland) - 16,537. 2.

The court upheld the claim of Rosprirodnadzor against the company's subsidiary Rosprirodnadzor won its first victory in the fight against metallurgists for the environment. The Arbitration Court of the Kemerovo Region partially satisfied the department's claim against the Euro-Asian Energy Company (EvrazEK, part of the Evraz Group) for recovery of damage caused to water bodies. The amount of recovery is small and not fully satisfied - 38 million rubles.

Socialist countries approved the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia faster than the Soviet Union Tomorrow marks 40 years since the troops of the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria entered the territory of Czechoslovakia on the night of August 21, 1968. The main force of the invasion were Soviet troops - about half a million soldiers and officers and five thousand tanks.

Russians Dmitry Klokov and Dmitry Lapikov took places on the podium Russian weightlifters won two medals at the competitions held yesterday in the weight category up to 105 kg. Dmitry Klokov became a silver medalist, and Dmitry Lapikov became a bronze medalist. Andrey Aryamnov from Belarus won.