Russia wins medals in athletics Over six days of competition, Russian athletes won five gold medals. Yesterday Olga Kaniskina celebrated her victory, being the strongest in the 20 km walk with a result of 1 hour 26 minutes. 31 sec. The silver medalist was javelin thrower Maria Abakumova, who set a personal record of 70.78 meters in her best attempt. Just bite your elbows out of resentment.

A very strong line-up of participants gathered at the Tal Memorial The third, and therefore traditional, Mikhail Tal Memorial is taking place in Moscow, the program of which includes a round-robin tournament of the 20th category with ten candidates for the main award and the Tal Blitz Cup with 18 participants.

Short animation program at the 35 MM cinema From August 21, for two weeks in the small hall of the 35 MM cinema, the cartoon program “Short Circuit” is shown for two sessions a day. It was prepared by the organizers of the festival of experimental animation and media art Linoleum, who over the past year showed the combined programs “Heat in the City” and “Stopping Breathing” in the same cinema.

Troika Dialog expects the RTS index to be 2,200 points by the end of the year Internal political events in Russia at the end of summer shook the optimism of investors and analysts, forcing them to reconsider their views on the medium-term prospects of the stock market. Analysts at the Troika Dialog investment company set a fair level for the RTS index at the end of the year at 2,200 points. They explain this by political and legal risks, as well as falling oil prices.

The romantic comedy “Plus One” is being released The films of Oksana Bychkova appeal to those who want from cinema to be immersed in some other life, similar to the real one, but still organized somehow differently, more correctly. The kind that was described by sweet women's stories in the magazine "Youth" in those days when intelligent women did not yet know Dontsova's novels, but delighted their souls with the prose of young Dina Rubina.

Condoleezza Rice wants to extend the stay of US troops in Iraq Washington and Baghdad are close to signing an agreement to extend the presence of US forces in Iraq, but any troop withdrawal schedule included in this document “must reflect reality.” This was stated by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived in Baghdad yesterday for negotiations with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders.

Monday, August 25 First 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 Fashionable verdict 11 . 20 Test purchase 12 . 20 "NATIONAL SECURITY AGENT". Series 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 20 Understand. Forgive 15 . 20 "FIRE OF LOVE". Series 16 . 10 Let's get married! 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Wait for me 19 . 10 "NEXT". TV series (S) 20 . 00 "MONTECRISTO". TV series (S) 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "FINAL REPRODUCTION". Series 23 .

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development are planning to get off the “oil and gas needle” starting next year Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin admitted yesterday at a government meeting where the draft three-year budget of the country was discussed that “2008 is the peak of oil and gas revenues in our country for the entire previous period and, apparently, for the future period, that is Russia has historically reached the peak of oil and gas

“Mirage” by Tigran Keosayan on Moscow screens In the pouring rain at a night airfield, a man with no name, but with the nickname Trapper and the imprint of a stormy military past on a deceptively calm face (Dmitry Maryanov), receives from a gentleman with the appearance of the leader of the Day Watch, Zabulon (Viktor Verzhbitsky), a task: to find him in the Arabian sands and return him to Moscow his daughter Leroux (Alena Khmelnitskaya). The order has been accepted.

But cooperation with NATO froze Yesterday it became known that Moscow responded to Western criticism about the conflict over South Ossetia with counter steps to curtail contacts.

The sad conflict in the Caucasus has not only geopolitical significance, which Western observers are focused on, but also enormous human significance. Russian commentators point to this more. Our task is to assess the economic aspects of the situation in Georgia, the preconditions and consequences of this local conflict.

Relations between Russia and NATO were officially established in 1991 at the first ceremonial meeting of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (later renamed the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council). It was created after the end of the Cold War to consult on the development of new relations with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In 1994, Russia joined the Partnership for Peace (security and defense cooperation between NATO and each of its partner countries).

The Moscow City Court refused to reinstate the arrested Dmitry Dovgiy in his previous position The Moscow City Court yesterday refused to reinstate Dmitry Dovgiy, the former head of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office (GSU SKP), who was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of receiving a bribe in the amount of 750 thousand euros and exceeding official powers.

The Russian favorite of the 10-kilometer marathon was disqualified In the men's marathon swim (10 km distance in open water), the Russians were left without Olympic medals. Two-time bronze medalist of the world championships in this type of program, Evgeny Drattsev, finished fifth. The main contender for gold at the Beijing Games, three-time world champion in the top ten, Vladimir Dyatchin, was disqualified.

JS Bach. Dialogue Cantatas No. 49, 57, 152. Dorothea Roeschmann (soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone). Berlin Baroque Soloists. Deutsche Grammophon. Every self-respecting German baritone considers it his duty to sing Bach at some stage of his career: in the collection of lovers of the German genius there will certainly be recordings by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau or Hermann Prey, from the younger generation - Olaf Baer or Matthias Goerne.