Mechel will pay a fine Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's public criticism of the pricing policy of the Mechel group cost one of the country's largest mining and metallurgical companies much less than the damage that the prime minister's speech caused to Mechel shareholders and the entire Russian stock market.

Russian seasons in the Japanese theater village of Toga were organized by the International Theater Festival named after. Chekhov. It so happened that these seasons coincided with the annual festival taking place here, which brings together not even theaters, but simply artists from all over the world to try out the famous training of Tadashi Suzuki, who organized the center in Toga in 1966.

NASA has plans for impact exploration of the Moon and Mars Bombing is one of the most effective ways to achieve the desired result not only in war, but also in scientific activity, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration. After the first targeted strike on a space target - comet Tempel-1, which was bombed in July 2005, NASA developed several similar operations designed to give scientists new information about Mars and the Moon.

Of the four Russian women's national teams, two continue to fight for medals. Russia delegated four women's teams to the Olympics in team sports - basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo. Only the masters of the orange and fast ball were able to reach the semi-finals. The water polo players, who arrived in Beijing as European champions, lost all three matches at the preliminary stage and ultimately settled for victory in the classification match of outsider quartets for seventh place.

In the European territory of Russia, the Atlantic cyclone will continue to rain in the coming days, in the central regions it will be sunny and warm, in the south and in the Volga region it will be hot. Rain is expected in the northwestern region these days; in the Leningrad region it will be heavy in some places, with thunderstorms and gusts of wind. In the central region, with partly cloudy weather, mostly no precipitation and warm.

Exactly a year ago, the so-called investigation reform was carried out, which received almost complete independence from the prosecutor's office . The latter, having lost the functions of initiating and terminating criminal cases, is now called upon to supervise compliance with laws, represent state prosecution in courts and control inquiries - police investigations of minor criminal cases.

The crisis in the US continues Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and professor of economics at Harvard University, Kenneth Rogoff, believes that during the crisis one of the largest US banks will go bankrupt, and mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may cease to exist in their current form. In addition, he criticized the Federal Reserve for excessive rate cuts, which could lead to a sharp rise in inflation.

2006 European high jump champion Andrei Silnov joined the Russian Olympic squad at the last moment, and then only after the intervention of the country's top sports officials. Yesterday he won a gold medal at the Games in Beijing, simultaneously proving the imperfection of the selection system adopted in our athletics for forums of this level. Newly crowned Olympic champion Andrei SILNOV spoke with Vremya Novostei special correspondent Olga ERMOLINA.

The General Staff explained the reasons for the slow withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia Yesterday, the withdrawal of military units assigned to Russian peacekeepers from the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone continued.

Polish politicians are jealous of each other towards the US The dates of this event have been postponed more than once, but today in Warsaw they will most likely sign a Polish-American agreement on the deployment of ten interceptor missiles on Polish territory. They will become part of the US missile defense system (ABM). The preliminary agreement was concluded on August 14 in Warsaw by the deputy heads of foreign affairs agencies.

Transcreditbank received more than Rostelecom Transcreditbank (TCB) became the owner of 5.59% of ordinary shares of the long-distance communication operator Rostelecom. The bank received this block of shares as collateral for the loan. The bank does not say who exactly TKB provided the loan to. Market participants, however, do not exclude the possibility that KIT Finance Bank, which is one of the largest holders of Rostelecom shares, could have received a loan.

NATO is not slamming the door on Russia An emergency meeting of the North Atlantic Alliance at the level of foreign ministers, held yesterday in Brussels in the wake of the Caucasus war, demonstrated that the rapidly deteriorating relations between Russia and the West have not yet reached their lowest point and may even have a chance for improvement. There is no unity among the 26 NATO member states regarding future cooperation with Russia.

City Hall will save electricity without Moscow City Duma deputies Formally, deputies of the Moscow City Duma, who are now on vacation, yesterday reminded voters of their existence during a meeting of the city government. In the absence of fellow vacationer Yuri Luzhkov, United Russia members from the capital's parliament stated that they did not intend to unconditionally accept all the bills being passed from the mayor's office.

Today marks 20 years since the end of the longest and bloodiest war of the last century - the Iran-Iraq war. It began due to political and territorial disputes between the two major Gulf states on September 22, 1980 and ended on August 20, 1988, after the warring parties accepted UN Security Council Resolution 598 of July 20, 1987, to cease hostilities.

Young Russian actors taking part in Suzuki's trainings - participants in Tagankov's "Electra" Nana Tatishvili and Oleg Tolkunov and director Ruzanna Movsesyan, who will stage "The House with a Mezzanine" in Japan for the 2010 Chekhov Festival, believe that Japanese trainings will be useful to them in Moscow life. Oleg TOLKUNOV: -- Russian actors are a little slack by nature, they would like to play and move around, but here, in training, we have clear static points.