Vladimir Putin visited old and new allies in Abkhazia A month after President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to South Ossetia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Abkhazia yesterday. He promised to help Abkhazia create a full-fledged national economy and to use military force against its enemies if they tried to start a war. Russia is still the only country that recognizes the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since August 26 last year.

70 years ago Moscow had to fight in Mongolia to secure its eastern borders The main historical date of this month is August 23. Next week, historians and political scientists will argue with particular urgency about the events of seventy years ago. However, the disputes began immediately and did not stop from the moment when, on August 23, 1939, the world was struck by the news of the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact in the Kremlin.

The prefect of the Northern District of Moscow did not approve of the menu of a Vietnamese restaurant Former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor, and now prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow Oleg Mitvol, who when he was a federal official gained fame thanks to various kinds of audits, while in his new post, again discovered violators of environmental legislation. This time, Mr.

The population census will take place no earlier than 2012 The All-Russian population census will be postponed for at least two years and will not take place before 2012. The fact that in the field of statistics the situation of 1999 is being repeated, when, due to default and economic difficulties, the long-planned census also did not take place on time, Deputy Head of the Federal State Statistics Service Alexander Surinov said yesterday at a press conference in Vladivostok.

In the material “Yawning Stability”, published in No. 144 of the newspaper “Vremya Novostey”, an error was made through the fault of the author. Advisor to the President of Ingushetia Musa Pliev did not meet with the Vremya Novostey correspondent and did not utter the words attributed to him. The editors apologize to Musa Pliev and dear readers, and also once again express hope for the speedy return to work of the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.

Airlines want to compete with trains Russia's second low-cost air carrier will begin operations at the end of August. Yesterday it was announced that the Avianova company, on the creation of which Alfa Group has been working since 2006, offers flights from Moscow to Sochi, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don and Samara at an unprecedentedly low fare - 250 rubles.

The republic's construction minister was shot dead in Ingushetia Yesterday morning in Ingushetia, another high-profile murder was committed - in Magas, the Minister of Construction of the Republic, Ruslan Amerkhanov, was shot dead right in his office. Armed men in masks and camouflage went unhindered to his office, wounding his assistant, and then shot the official himself. Local authorities are in no hurry to assess what happened, only suggesting that “business issues” may be involved.

To the 40th anniversary of the ECM audio company In the August issue of the oldest and most prestigious American jazz magazine Down Beat, in the traditionally published critics' questionnaire, the German audio company ECM was named audio company of the year. Of course, this is partly a tribute to the anniversary: ​​the first record under the ECM label (stands for Editions of Contemporary Music) was released exactly 40 years ago. But it’s not only and not even so much about the round date.

OPEC countries have significantly exceeded quotas for the production of “black gold” The largest hydrocarbon exporters, members of the OPEC cartel, exceeded the established quota for raw material production in July by 105 thousand barrels per day. According to analysts, such an excess has been observed for the fourth month in a row.

Jupiter and Saturn could cause a sharp cooling on Earth Scientists have established the main cause of glaciations and thaws on our planet, which regularly succeeded each other many thousands of years ago. Paleontologists, archaeologists, physicists and other scientists have been arguing for many years about the reasons why the Earth was bound by a thick icy shell with enviable regularity. And now, it seems, the controversy has come to an end. The Sun is to blame for both glaciations and thaws.

“I have said more than once that Russia strives to be a predictable, strong, comfortable partner for its neighbors,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev once again said in a video blog addressed to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and announcing the Kremlin’s intention to suspend sending the Russian Ambassador to this country. In reality, Russia today is a weak, complex, uncomfortable and unpredictable partner, whose ambitions are greater than its real capabilities.

The Vyborg Film Festival "Window to Europe" opened with a new film by Vladimir Khotinenko "Pop" was shown out of competition, however, the film does not renounce the general context: it is fully involved in the current meanings, moods and demands of national life - cinematic and broader. The current ideological attitude towards pride in the total greatness of the “rising from its knees” power needs to be strengthened from the rear.

Proponents of life on Mars have received a major blow. It turns out that methane, which is found on the Red Planet, is destroyed there much faster than on Earth. Consequently, the likelihood of even the simplest forms of life existing on Mars is very low. The atmosphere of Mars consists of 95% carbon dioxide and nitrogen with argon. In 2003, astronomers discovered methane on the Red Planet. In the atmosphere of the Red Planet, methane is distributed unevenly.

Angela Merkel and Dmitry Medvedev will decide the fate of German shipbuilders and automakers Tomorrow German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Sochi. Dmitry Medvedev made her an offer to visit the Black Sea residence in mid-July in Munich, during Russian-German interstate consultations . Mrs Merkel has just returned from her traditional holiday in Italy. The upcoming meeting with the Russian leader is the starting one on her post-vacation international calendar.

Scientists take a closer look at the diet of tyrannosaurs The famous scenes of fights between giant dinosaurs from Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” in which one of the participants was a Tyrannosaurus rex, and his opponent was some huge herbivorous lizard of the same size as him, or even larger, do not seem to correspond to reality. At least, that's what paleontologists David Hawn and Oliver Rauhut say. Tyrannosaurus is considered one of the largest predators in the history of our planet.