Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls on Iranians to unite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, re-elected for a second term, took the oath of office yesterday within the walls of the Majlis (parliament). On Monday, his confirmation ceremony took place in the main Tehran mosque, named after the leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini. Now Ahmadinejad has two weeks to present a new government for parliamentary approval.

Our biathletes will be trained by a Finn The Russian Nordic combined team, which performed poorly at the World Cup and other official international competitions, was led by Finnish specialist Joko Karjalainen. The contract with 53-year-old Karjalainen, whose official title is "chief consultant", has already entered into force. According to the President of the Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Federation Vladimir Slavsky, the contract will be valid until the end of the Games in Vancouver.

The north-west of European Russia was occupied by a cold Arctic anticyclone. A cyclone swept through the Central Federal District with rain and thunderstorms. In the coming days, the influence of the anticyclone will intensify in the north-west and center of Russia. In the northwestern region there will be mostly no precipitation, the temperature at night will drop to +8...+13оС, during the day it will still be +19...+24оС.

Burmese generals want to bring atoms to hospitals Rumors of Myanmar's (formerly Burma) nuclear ambitions have been greatly exaggerated, and Southeast Asia's nuclear-free status is not in danger. Thai intelligence services came to this conclusion after checking information about the development of a nuclear program for military purposes in neighboring Myanmar. “These data have not yet been confirmed,” said the head of the Thai Security Council, Tawil Pliensri.

Foreign companies are entering the Chinese stock market The idea of ​​creating an international financial center in Moscow, expressed by the Russian authorities last year, has not yet received practical expression. We only know that, by government decision, the main changes to regulations for the formation of the center must be carried out by the end of next year. Meanwhile, the Chinese financial authorities have already taken the first practical step to organize such a center.

Fans of the Royal Races were not bored in August The break in Formula 1 racing, which lasted for a month, did not leave fans without news. The most discussed event, of course, was the return to the wheel of a racing car by seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher. The German driver, who retired from Grand Prix in 2006, is still the most popular figure in world motorsport. He always had many fanatical fans and ardent opponents.

Is Israeli security possible with a free Palestine? The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) did not release many activists from another Palestinian organization, the Palestine Liberation Movement (Fatah), from the Gaza Strip, thus preventing them from taking part in a party congress of extreme importance. The congress has been meeting for the third day in the city of Bethlehem on the West Bank of the Jordan River.

For now, the equality of the presence of parties on state broadcasts will be monitored only in seven regions The methodology for recording airtime spent on covering the activities of parliamentary parties was approved yesterday by the Central Election Commission. All instructions have been agreed upon with the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications.

Turkmenistan is preparing to share the Caspian Sea with Azerbaijan at the International Court of Arbitration “The Caspian smells of blood again.” These words, first spoken more than seven years ago in Ashgabat by the late ex-President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Turkmenbashi the Great during the first Caspian summit, are timely to be recalled again today, observing the surge of emotions and belligerent comments that have stirred up after two statements made in recent days by official Ashgabat.

Moscow nationalists will meet on the football field with migrants from Kyrgyzstan The Kyrgyz Embassy in Russia and the National Socialist movement “Slavic Union” are preparing for a friendly football match. The Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the Russian Federation, Raimkul Attakurov, said yesterday that the agreements reached with nationalists on this kind of “cultural exchange”, reached back in the winter of this year, should be implemented in the near future.

BRIC countries reject IMF reform The reform of the International Monetary Fund will not follow the script dictated in London and Paris. This is evidenced by the report published on Tuesday about the meeting of the IMF board of directors on reform of the management of this international financial organization. The meeting itself took place on July 21, and the fund’s specialists apparently had to work hard to diplomatically present the content of the discussion to the public.

Once every two years, when the Chekhov Theater Festival ends, Moscow theatergoers are left alone with their magical memories and bleak prospects. Almost ten years ago, after the Theater Olympics, it seemed that the old, callous ideas about theatrical art were completely destroyed and now a new life would begin. But the next season begins and nothing changes. Watching “current theater” in a city that considers itself the theatrical capital of a huge country is becoming increasingly unbearable.

A representative of the Russian General Staff shows maps and quotes documents On the eve of the anniversary of the start of the war in South Ossetia, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn (pictured) , summed up some of its results, spoke about the consequences of the conflict, and the current situation in the region.

Judith Herman. Summer house, later. Translation from German by A. Milstein. - M.: OGI, 2009. To appreciate and love the prose of Judith Hermann, you need to understand that this girl with a delicate face and serious eyes is a resident of Prenzlauer Berg. Prenzlauer Berg is not just a Berlin district, it is a special social entity that arose within the most unusual European metropolis. The people living here consider themselves a special caste.

The Bayreuth Opera Festival restarts This year the famous Wagner Festival takes place for the 98th time. The opera forum will last, as always, until the end of August. The anniversary of the festival will occur in 2011. And in another two years, not only Bayreuth, but the entire musical world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner and at the same time mark the 130th anniversary of his death, for which the festival is already beginning to prepare.