Employees of the capital's prosecutor's office were caught using fake sick leave certificates The Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP), as Vremya Novostey learned, has completed an investigation into the criminal case against the former senior assistant of the Simonov interdistrict prosecutor of Moscow, junior justice adviser, 46-year-old Svetlana Sharygina.

The international documentary film festival "Flahertiana" has ended It’s good that in some places Moscow sometimes ceases to be the center that directs and controls everything. The international documentary film festival "Flahertiana", the largest forum of its kind in Russia, takes place in Perm. On the very first day of the festival, a suspicious journalist asked festival director Pavel Pechenkin: who is the viewer of documentary films?

Experts sum up the interim results of railway transport reform 2008 marks ten years since the start of the railway transport reform . During this time, an economic entity was separated from the old Ministry of Railways - JSC Russian Railways, which demonstrates quite good indicators of economic activity. At the start of the reform, the industry operated in conditions of an excess of technical equipment and a lack of financial resources necessary to maintain them.

NATO will cooperate with Georgia NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who arrived in Tbilisi yesterday to attend the opening of a visiting meeting of the Alliance Council , caused confusion in the minds of Georgian political scientists.

In Sochi, the participants of the Russian Championship will be replaced by the best couples of the continent The final competitions of the Russian beach volleyball championship were held on Sochi's Riviera beach. But the celebration of local flying ball fans and sports-interested vacationers is not over. A fundamentally new tournament under the auspices of the Continental Volleyball Federation (CVF) - Masters Final - starts here on Friday.

Session of the UN General Assembly opens Today the main international forum opens in New York - the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly. The work of the assembled delegations will continue from the third Tuesday of September to the third week of December, but the cycle will formally end only a year later with the opening of the next session. The forum will be chaired by the Chairman of the UN General Assembly, former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.

Vnesheconombank approved projects worth $2 billion Vladimir Putin yesterday held a regular meeting of the supervisory board of the state corporation Development Bank. Under the chairmanship of the prime minister, council members approved VEB's participation in several large-scale projects totaling about $2 billion.

This is the second club of the Italian elite headed by a woman The Italian Championship, after Juventus ended up in the same Champions League group with Zenit, became a little closer to Russia. This tournament, which has already been going on for a season, follows the formula: “Inter” and everyone else. It seems that nothing will change: the undisputed champion of recent years, strengthened primarily by coach Jose Mourinho, is not going to give up his position.

The first month of autumn is rich in top-rank tournaments At the Women's World Championship in Nalchik, the participants in the decisive match were determined. The semifinal matches between Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia) and Pia Cramling (Sweden) and Hou Yifan (China) and Humpi Koneru (India) followed approximately the same scenario. In the first games with classical time control, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Hou Yifan managed to realize White's advantage in a good positional style.

The Armenian opposition held its first sanctioned rally Yesterday in Yerevan, a rally of thousands of people took place, led by the first president of this country, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. The opposition is seeking the resignation of President Serzh Sargsyan, elected on February 19 of this year , who replaced Robert Kocharyan in this post. Both constitutional terms of Mr. Kocharyan's presidency expired this spring.

The increase in defense spending in 2009 remained a military secret The fate of the budget for the next three years can be considered completely predetermined. As Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told reporters yesterday after a meeting of the presidium of the United Russia faction, an actual zero reading, all the main issues of the draft budget for 2009-2011 have been resolved and the document is ready for the first reading.

The President promised business that the war would not affect economic policy “Even if there are different opinions on economic problems within the country, the position of business and government in foreign relations will be united. I have no doubt about it. The authorities, the state will protect business.

It will be cold throughout the European territory of Russia. In the northwestern region in the anticyclone there is no precipitation, at night the temperature is +1...+6оС, in some places frosts up to 0...-3оС, and during the day +9...+15оС. There will be no significant precipitation in the Central region; the background pressure here is also increased. Temperature at night +2...+7оС, during the day on Tuesday +7...+12оС, with an increase on Wednesday to +9...+14оС.

The European Union beckons Minsk towards democracy The European Union is ready to lift sanctions against officials from Minsk . This became known following the results of yesterday's meeting of the heads of EU foreign policy departments. This is the first serious step towards warming relations between Minsk and Brussels.

Israel this year celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding - Independence Day. The past six decades have included a lot of very different events, most of which were reflected in world historiography in one way or another. Including events related to Russian-Israeli relations. But one “reference point” of these relations remained in the shadows - the work of the Russian military attache in Tel Aviv.