The Moscow Society for the Protection of Architectural Heritage has published a new book Including many of the most famous Russian architectural experts and foreign journalists who are not indifferent to the fate of Moscow, the MAPS society (translated from English: Moscow Society for the Protection of Architectural Heritage) has existed since 2004. Today it is the most active, competent and well-organized defender of the architectural history of the capital.

The opposition clones a notorious resource On August 1, a new Internet resource of the Ingush opposition will be released from test mode.

Russians drink like in the “dashing 90s” Only a quarter of the adult population in Russia are abstainers. Such data was published yesterday by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion. The all-Russian survey was conducted on July 18-19. 1,600 people were surveyed in 140 localities in 42 regions, territories and republics of Russia. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%.

Reputable businessman Vyacheslav Ivankov was seriously wounded in Moscow Last night, the legendary authoritative businessman Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as Yaponchik, on whom an attempt was made on Tuesday evening in Moscow, underwent emergency surgery and is now in the hospital in extremely serious condition. The Investigative Committee under the General Prosecutor's Office has no doubt that the attempt on Mr.

KHL clubs have accumulated many unresolved problems The first club of the Kontinental Hockey League to hold an official exhibition game in the new season was the team from Nizhny Novgorod. “Torpedo, under the leadership of head coach Evgeniy Popikhin, met in Finland with the Belarusian Gomel and won with a score of 6:2. Now we can say that the season is officially open, but some problems are preventing all KHL teams from properly preparing for the championship.

Rosneft was helped by devaluation The country's largest oil company, Rosneft, showed a record profit compared to its competitors in the second quarter - 87.094 billion rubles. However, in the first quarter it suffered serious losses - 5.769 billion rubles. Thus, for the first half of the year, the net profit of the oil giant amounted to only 81.325 billion in national currency, which is also half the result compared to the same period last year.

Currency fluctuations eat into EADS profits European aerospace and defense company EADS announced yesterday that it ended the first half of 2009 with a profit despite unfavorable market conditions. At the same time, the French authorities cleared two major shareholders of the company, as well as the head of Airbus, Thomas Enders (pictured), from suspicion of abuse of insider information. However, seven more former and current EADS executives remain under investigation.

The new parliament of Moldova can be dissolved only next year Yesterday afternoon it became known that the early parliamentary elections in Moldova were recognized as valid - more than a third of registered voters came to the polling stations. According to the Republican Central Election Commission, by 16:00 Moscow time, 33.6% of voters took part in the voting.

The Dalai Lama became an honorary Warsaw citizen Yesterday, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Tyatso, received a diploma as an honorary citizen of the city at the Warsaw Royal Castle. “This is a great honor for me, but I wonder what responsibilities now bind me to this,” the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said with a smile.

Vladimir Putin took Alexey Miller at his word The personal administrative resources of the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, once again did not allow him to defend the fiscal interests of the concern. As a source in one of the federal departments told news agencies yesterday, following a meeting of the government's budget commission, it was decided to abandon plans to increase the gas mineral extraction tax and gas export duties from 2010.

The Russians are preparing for the World Championship in the Super Grand Prix series Russian track and field athletes won four awards at the fifth stage of the second most important commercial series, the Super Grand Prix, held in Monaco. Athens Olympic champion Yuri Borzakovsky and Maria Savinova received silver in the 800 m race; Anna Chicherova (high jump) and winner of five Summer Games medals Tatyana Lebedeva (triple jump) climbed to the third step of the podium.

Russia is against the UN Secretary General’s attempts to legitimize “humanitarian interventions” The international community is trying to establish at the UN level the right to armed intervention from outside in those countries where human rights are grossly violated. This would allow leading world powers to carry out “humanitarian interventions” against unwanted regimes, without burdening themselves with the principle of respect for state sovereignty.

Americans are concerned about Iraqi borders and hydrocarbons US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates personally familiarized himself with the situation in Iraq that developed after June 30 - on this day, the US military left Iraqi cities, now their main task is training and supporting government forces. The Pentagon chief arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday.

The President urged not to abuse criminal liability in the fight against monopolism President Dmitry Medvedev signed amendments to the Criminal Code and the law on the protection of competition, regarding tougher penalties for violating competition. In particular, for the first time in Russian history, price collusion will be punished as a criminal offense. The head of state is concerned that these norms may become a tool for settling scores with unwanted companies.

The government is making ends meet The hour of reckoning has arrived for the cabinet. Namely, the day when the government must approve the main parameters of the budget for 2010 and macroeconomic policy until 2012. That is, give earrings to the sisters, but not to all, and even take the earrings back from some of them. This will happen today at the cabinet meeting.