Israel's new prime minister begins his political career with a scandal The new leader of the Israeli ruling Kadima party, “the beauty from Mossad,” as Tzipi Livni is loosely called by some Israeli and foreign media, unexpectedly aroused hostility among the Orthodox press in Israel, which refuses to publish photographs of the future prime minister. Religious modesty is cited as the main reason.

The Transnistrian leader refused to go to Moldova The meeting of the Moldovan and Transnistrian presidents Vladimir Voronin and Igor Smirnov scheduled for today will not take place. The head of the information support department for foreign policy activities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Transnistria, Svetlana Antonova, told Vremya Novostei the day before. Tiraspol blamed Chisinau for disrupting the meeting.

VTB reporting did not affect its stock prices VTB Group presented yesterday the results of its activities under IFRS for the first half of the year. And although the reporting turned out to be better than analysts predicted, it did not seriously affect the bank’s stock prices. Investors also reacted neutrally to the statement by VTB board member Nikolai Tsekhomsky about a possible buyout of the group’s shares.

Ruslan Yamadayev was shot dead in Moscow In Moscow last night, 46-year-old Ruslan Yamadayev was shot dead - Hero of Russia, retired colonel of the Russian army, former State Duma deputy, former “brigadier general of Ichkeria,” former deputy military commandant of Chechnya. The attempt on his life was made around 5:15 p.m. on Smolenskaya Embankment, in the area of ​​house No. 10, just a few hundred meters from the Government House. According to preliminary data, when Mr.

Rosprirodnadzor is looking into the activities of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Smelter Rosprirodnadzor, which, at the instigation of an ardent environmentalist, deputy head of the department Oleg Mitvol, has recently concentrated on inspections of metallurgical enterprises, does not seem to intend to stop after his expected resignation .

As a result of riots in a colony in the Samara region, several dozen people were injured One prisoner died and at least 25 more were injured as a result of the riots that occurred on Tuesday evening in the maximum security correctional colony (IK) No. 6, located in the village of Upravlencheskiy, Krasnoglinsky district, Samara region. They began with a mass fight between prisoners and ended with the arson of the colony buildings.

Iron Lance will resume his career on the Green Continent The events of the World Road Cycling Championships taking place in the Italian city of Varese yesterday went into the shadows ahead of the anticipation of a press conference held late in the evening Moscow time by seven-time Tour de France winner American Lance Armstrong, who was supposed to announce which team he would resume his career with. interrupted in 2005 after another triumph on the Great Loop.

Ex-ambassadors against the US-Russian crisis Former Russian ambassadors in Washington and American ambassadors in Moscow are concerned that " emotional rhetoric " has replaced "productive analysis of the common interests between the United States and the Russian Federation in the 21st century." In a joint statement, they called on the authorities of both countries to make immediate efforts to “relieve tensions around the unstable situation in the Caucasus” and “be careful in actions that could

CLUBS Nino Katamadze. Georgian ethnics in jazz adaptation. Moscow Art Theater named after. M. Gorky , 19.00. "Bakhyt Kompot" "Tunnel" , 21.00. Roots. The musician, who has performed with Mara, Nike Borzov, Zemfira, the Underwood group, etc., presents his solo program. “16 tons” , 20.00. CONCERTS Evening of popular classical music. F Mendelssohn, I. Strauss, S. Berio. Soloists N. Ageev, O. Zhmaeva, E. Khechikyan. Conductors L. Nikolaev, V. Ryzhaev. Pavel Slobodkin Center , 19.00.

Minsk has its eye on a site for a nuclear power plant The nuclear power plant will most likely be built in the western part of Belarus in the Grodno region, not far from the Lithuanian border at the so-called Ostrovets site.

"Chemical equator" discovered in Earth's atmosphere It has long been known that asthmatics suffering from dirty urban air should move to the Southern Hemisphere. The air here is cleaner - primarily because most of the industry that emits carbon oxides, sulfur compounds, heavy metals and other poisons into the atmosphere is concentrated in Europe, North America and East Asia.

Our volleyball players will fly to Cuba again Our volleyball players will fly to Cuba again The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has approved the composition of the World League participants for the 2009 season. The biggest commercial competition for men's national teams will once again feature 16 teams. There are two changes compared to last season. Instead of Spain and Egypt, Argentina and Holland will play in the tournament.

Igor Sechin summed up the results of the first day of trading at the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin yesterday summed up the first results of the work of the St. Petersburg Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange, which opened last Tuesday.

The State Duma wants to revive mobile pharmacies Mobile pharmacies, of which there were so many in the middle of the last decade, may soon appear on Russian streets and roads. Not only will they return, but they will have the same powers as brick-and-mortar pharmacies. Yesterday, Olga Borzova, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, said that a bill designed to give a second life to the sale of medicines on wheels is almost ready.

Scientists are investigating an atypical planetary catastrophe The star BD+20 307 in the constellation Aries showed scientists what an apocalypse might look like on Earth-like planets. More precisely, what the world will look like after such a catastrophe: a cloud of dust in circumstellar orbit and no traces of large planets. The most surprising thing was that the collision of two celestial bodies occurred after several billion years of stable existence of this system.