In the Gaza Strip, radicals clashed with ultra-radicals The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) reported yesterday that the situation in the Gaza Strip was returning to normal: “Hamas will not allow Gaza to slip back into anarchy.” On August 14 and 15, fighting took place in this enclave of the Palestinian Authority. Moreover, the Islamists fought not with the Israelis or with moderate Palestinians, but with more radical Islamists.

Women's boxing becomes Olympic The Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee included several more events in the Olympic program. Already in London in 2012, women's boxing will debut at the Olympics. Women's medals will be competed in three weight categories. The next Olympics should also feature a mixed doubles tournament in tennis - the federation for this sport only needs to finalize the competition program, and then a positive decision will be made in December.

CONCERTS Ilya Pokrovsky's show & Dance Party . Instrumentalist musician, composer and showman Ilya Pokrovsky plays percussion and keyboard instruments, performing music of his own composition in the styles of jazzy, chillout, acid jazz, club funk, electronic dance, house music. With the Dance Party project, he successfully tours the world, performing in Ibiza, Mallorca, Russia, both with already sensational and famous DJs, and with new names from the world dance floors.

Tomorrow, Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 86-year-old Shimon Peres will arrive in Sochi for two days. He will hold talks with his 43-year-old colleague Dmitry Medvedev. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen bilateral ties. According to our newspaper, it may be announced in Sochi that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will visit Israel in October.

Vladimir Putin told officials how much economy-class housing should cost The country's summer capital, Sochi, was crowded with federal officials last Friday. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin worked actively, receiving German Chancellor Angela Merkel, revising national projects, adjusting the country's financial and credit policy towards strengthening the ruble, and so on.

Our runners won two gold medals at the World Championships Russian track and field athletes won two gold medals in the first two days of the 12th World Championships, which started last Saturday in Berlin. This was achieved by masters of race walking, Beijing Olympic champions at a distance of 20 km, representatives of the Saransk Olympic Training Center, students of the Honored Trainer of Russia Viktor Chegin, 22-year-old Valery Borchin and 24-year-old Olga Kaniskina.

Hugo Chavez laid out the basis for cooperation with Moscow and Beijing Venezuela's response to the expansion of the US military presence in Latin America will be to "strengthen ties with allied powers" - Russia and China. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated this on Saturday in Caracas, commenting on the latest agreements between the United States and Colombia.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to deprive pharmacies of their monopoly on the sale of medicines It is likely that soon in Russia, as in many Western countries, it will be possible to buy the simplest and most commonly used medications not only in pharmacies, but also in grocery stores, gas stations and hypermarkets.

The 21st contemporary dance festival Tanz im August opened in Berlin The two-week performance schedule is similar to the arrivals board at a giant international airport. Africans, Canadians, Europeans, Americans - Berlin and Germany's largest dance festival (ten venues, about 40 projects, not counting street and club performances, discussions and lectures) have a similar habitat: multicultural. On stage is the same as on the street - a mixture of faces, languages ​​and traditions.

There is again no certainty surrounding the acquisition by the Magna-Sberbank consortium of Opel, a German asset of the American automaker General Motors. GM himself is delaying the matter.

Angela Merkel attracted Dmitry Medvedev to her election campaign Dmitry Medvedev and Angela Merkel decided the fate of the bankrupt North German shipyards and are waiting for the American concern General Motors to decide the fate of Opel. But the German Chancellor came to Sochi on Friday not only to discuss bilateral investments. In a month, the leaders of Russia and Germany will travel to Pittsburgh, America, to participate in the next G20 summit.

Georgia officially leaves the CIS In the history of Georgia’s relations with Russia and other countries of the post-Soviet space, a new stage begins tomorrow, August 18. From now on, Georgia can be considered a distant foreign country for them: tomorrow its participation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will automatically cease. This will happen on the basis of an appeal submitted exactly one year ago. It is also clear who Tbilisi is reorienting towards.

Zenit won the first match without the fired coach St. Petersburg Zenit returned to the reckless times of its formation. Together with the fired Dutch coach Dick Advocaat, the practicality that had long been instilled in them in defense disappeared from the St. Petersburg team's game, but the excitement in attack increased. Losing two goals to Amkar during the match, Zenit snatched a victory - 4:2.

In Locarno, Alexey Mizgirev’s film received two prizes “Tambourine, Drum” is the second film by Alexei Mizgirev, who previously directed a very tough drama about an aspiring policeman, “Flint.” The new film, strange, beautifully bloody, slow-motion and poetic, tells about a middle-aged librarian from a very small town.

The Russian economy has fallen more than in 1998 The depth of the current economic crisis has already exceeded the 1998 crisis. Then, at the point of maximum production reduction (in the fourth quarter of 1998), the fall in GDP was 9.1%, and in the second quarter of this year, according to Rosstat, it was 10.9%. This statement is contained in the bulletin “Crisis. State. Business", published under the auspices of the Development Center and the Higher School of Economics.