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 parole trial for Mikhail Khodorkovsky began in Chita “I believe in a fair trial. I have every right to be released. I look forward to realizing this right. We will soon know the result,” said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the disgraced oligarch and ex-head of the now bankrupt oil company YUKOS, sentenced to eight years in prison, yesterday. He said this at a meeting of the Ingodinsky District Court of Chita, which began consideration of the possibility of his parole.

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 festival “Jazz in the Hermitage Garden” will bring together stars of American, Polish and Russian jazz There are islands of stability in Moscow cultural life. I would even say stability on the basis of prosperity, excuse the “Pravdin” style. So, this is “Jazz in the Hermitage Garden”. It takes place this year on the penultimate weekend of August for—it’s scary to say—the eleventh time.

Day thirteen August 21, Thursday (21 sets of awards awarded) FREEWRESTLING. Weight category up to 84 kg. 1. Revaz Mindorashvili (Georgia). 2. Yusup Abdusalomov (Tajikistan). 3. Georgy KETOEV (RUSSIA), Taras Danko (Ukraine). Up to 96 kg. 1. Shirvani MURADOV (RUSSIA). 2. Taimuraz Tigiev (Kazakhstan). 3. Khetag Gaisumov (Azerbaijan), Georgy Gogshelidze (Georgia). Up to 120 kg. 1. Artur Taymazov (Uzbekistan). 2. Bakhtiyar AKHMEDOV (RUSSIA) . 3.

Olympic champion pentathlete Andrei Moiseev won a second gold medal four years after Athens, becoming the second athlete in the history of this sport to achieve such success. Since 1912, only one pentathlete, the Swede Lars Hall, has won two Olympics in a row. This happened in Helsinki in 1952 and in Melbourne in 1956. After the competition, now two-time Olympic champion Andrei MOISEEV answered questions from Olga ERMOLINA, a special correspondent for Vremya Novostey in Beijing.

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.