Most of the European territory of Russia will get colder, with light and short rains in places. On July 3, in the north-western region there will be short-term rains in places, it will get colder, in the daytime it will reach +15...+20оС.

Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama want to end the Cold War On the eve of Barack Obama's visit to Moscow, Dmitry Medvedev remembers another popular American president - John Kennedy. Yesterday, Mr.

Tokyo is heating up passions ahead of Taro Aso's meeting with Dmitry Medvedev At the G8 summit in Italy on July 8-10, a separate meeting is planned between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. They already met in mid-February, when together they opened a liquefied gas production plant on Sakhalin (pictured) .

Elections will not change the Russian vector of Bulgarian politics The next parliamentary elections, which will take place in Bulgaria the day after tomorrow, will determine what changes await the political life of this country. But even now it is clear that the triple coalition that ruled for four years (socialists, the movement of Tsar Simeon II and the ethnic Turkish party) no longer reigns unchallenged. This was shown by the European Parliament elections held on June 7.

Russia is a great world power of intellectual export Looking at the contradictions and conflicts tearing apart the countries of the former USSR, it seems that the fragments of the empire will scatter without feeling any trace of the fact that they were once parts of one organism. That a hundred or two hundred years will pass and there will be no “tail of the comet”, no influence of Russian culture in Central Asia or Eastern Europe. History shows that this is not at all the case.

The festival begins in Karlovy Vary Today the 44th International Film Festival opens in Karlovy Vary, which belongs to the coveted “A” category and is now, perhaps, the main competitor of the Moscow festival.

Gennady Onishchenko accused Belarus of disrupting dairy agreements The chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, accused Belarus of trying to disrupt the agreements concluded by the two countries following the milk war. “The Russian side, strictly fulfilling its obligations, allowed more than 400 items on three lists to enter the Russian market, subject to the condition that all requirements of Russian legislation are met by the end of July,” Mr. Onishchenko noted yesterday.

Kaliningrad authorities expect that an empty field for a gambling zone will bring them billions in revenue July came, when in Russia the entire gambling business became legal only in specially designated zones. However, there is nowhere to move. In the Kaliningrad region, casinos and numerous outlets with “one-armed bandits” have closed, and there is nothing in return - the regional authorities are just starting to sell land plots.

The European Central Bank (ECB) yesterday decided to leave the key policy rate unchanged at 1%. The bank last changed the rate on May 7, lowering it by 0.25 percentage points to a historical low. ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said yesterday that the current level of interest rates is adequate. According to his forecasts, the recession in the eurozone will continue, the economy will remain weak, but the rate of decline will slow down. Recovery in Europe will begin in mid-2010, says Mr.

The President ordered the completion of an aircraft carrier for India and increased energy efficiency in Russia The Russian North greeted President Dmitry Medvedev with a piercing wind and ten degrees of heat, despite the beginning of July. Apparently, it was not for nothing that Arkhangelsk was chosen as the venue for the Presidium of the State Council on issues of increasing the energy efficiency of the Russian economy.

The traditional Moscow Open took place in the capital Luzhniki hosted the Moscow Open international track and field tournament for the third time. The two-hour competition program included 12 events - seven women's and five men's, including the prestigious 100-meter race. But with the exception of the big name and the presence of several foreign celebrities, the rest of the competition was more like an open training session.

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz for new mechanisms for managing the global economy Yesterday, RIA Novosti hosted a Moscow-Manchester teleconference with the participation of Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize laureate in economics, chairman of the UN anti-crisis bureau. The topic of the teleconference might seem banal and hackneyed - “The global financial and economic crisis and ways out of it.” But it is impossible to ignore the main conclusions of Mr.

How the American political system equated Soviet Jews with chickens The Jackson-Vanik Amendment has long become a symbol of problems in Russian-American relations, at least from the point of view from which Moscow perceives them. And this symbol has three specific features that emphasize the almost mythological status of the legal act adopted in 1974. Firstly, few people know what the real essence of the amendment is and whether it is really important for Russia and the United States.

The new mayor of Riga can save the museum of the famous sculptor A round table was held in Riga dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the famous sculptor Vera Mukhina. The meeting was attended by public figures, activists of the Russian community and museum workers. The anniversary became an occasion to once again draw attention to the fate of the Mukhins' house in Riga, which is in danger of destruction.

FAS is preparing to punish oil workers for hundreds of millions of dollars “Everything will be decided in the Supreme Arbitration Court. We will definitely win and make them pay fines. Everything will be decided by autumn.