A woman could become Israel's prime minister The attention of all of Israel today is focused on the internal party elections in the ruling Kadima (Forward) party . Their winner will have to form a ruling coalition in 24 days - so in fact, 74 thousand members of the Kadima party will choose a new Israeli prime minister today.

Yuri Luzhkov demands to revise the Water Code The capital's mayor's office considers the management of city rivers not a federal matter, but a purely municipal one. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is confident in the need to transfer water resources to the city , which will be able to ensure the maintenance of small reservoirs and save them from constant pollution.

Issuance of plastic IDs suspended in Moscow The capital's traffic inspectorate has excited drivers, wittingly or unwittingly sowing excitement among those who are going to get new licenses or exchange old ones due to their expiration.

Saakashvili suggested “hunting” Russia NATO is open to Georgia, and Russia "is a reality that cannot be ignored." This was the main thing that NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ( pictured ) wanted to say during a two-day stay in Tbilisi in connection with a visiting meeting of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, which concluded its work yesterday.

General Petraeus traded Iraq for Florida At least until the new US president takes office in January, American troops in Iraq will fight under the leadership of a new commander. Yesterday, General David Petraeus, who held this post for a year and a half, transferred the powers of commander-in-chief of the forces of the multinational coalition led by the United States to his deputy and colleague in rank, Ray Odierno.

Netbooks are crowding out full-fledged computers on the market Technologies are bearish. The long-term development trend, the essence of which was the formula “the power of the computer is growing, but not its price,” has been broken by a literally trifling small product: netbooks. Thanks to netbooks, it turned out that the user no longer wants powerful computers. He wants cheap ones. According to IDC agency, this year 3.5 million netbooks will be sold in the world, in 2012 - 9.2 million.

The world is experiencing its biggest financial crisis This is an event that happens “once in a hundred years,” as former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan described the current financial crisis. Indeed, such a large-scale collapse has not happened in world practice for a long time. The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy would be the largest in US corporate history. It is not surprising that the market is still in shock, unable to fully comprehend the full consequences of this event.

"Omsk Hawks" were left without a mentor and are waiting for a foreigner Sergei Gersonsky nevertheless left the post of head coach of Avangard, but certain problems arose with the new specialist. Despite the fact that a letter of intent was signed with Bob Hartley, not all people with influence on the team president want to see this specialist. It is believed that a coach has no prospects in the KHL championship if he does not speak Russian.

Watch from September 18 on Moscow screens "Hitler is kaput!" (Russia, 2008, Marius Weisberg). A wild parody comedy that promises to leave The Best Movie far behind, on all possible fronts.

The Russian IT market is opaque, and this suits many people A year ago, the analytical agency IDC, together with LINEX (League of Independent Experts in IT), published a “trust index” for Russian IT companies, implying the degree of trust in the data provided by companies about the volume of work they performed. Then it turned out that nine of the 25 largest players overestimate their figures by 25%, and especially gambling players - by 125% or more.

Sergei Lavrov guaranteed the fullness of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Moscow is outraged by Tbilisi's attempts to abdicate responsibility for starting the war in South Ossetia by citing self-defense in the face of a Russian invasion and demands evidence.

Relations with South Ossetia will be built “at a high international level” Today in the Kremlin the signing of documents on the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Ossetia and Abkhazia will take place. And yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a large conference call in Moscow, open to the press, with members of the federal operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the armed conflict in South Ossetia .

The weather resists the onset of autumn, but the signs of autumn appear more and more brightly and persistently. In most of European Russia, the weather is controlled by a cold anticyclone. On Wednesday in the north-west of the European territory in the anticyclone there is mostly no precipitation, at night with clearing in places with frosts down to -1°C, in the daytime +9...+14°C. In the middle zone there is mostly no precipitation, during the day +7...+13оС.

The war in Georgia may change attitudes towards Russia in the post-Soviet space The first data on how our former neighbors in the Soviet Union perceive the armed conflict in Georgia and Russia itself as a result of this conflict were published on Monday by sociological services of Kazakhstan and Lithuania.

Labor are tired of Gordon Brown Yesterday, the Labor Party executive committee rejected a request for a leadership election, which would have risked the removal of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A dozen MPs from the Labor Party demanded the resignation of the prime minister and the election of a new leader.