KHL matches will again be shown by RTR-Sport On Tuesday it was announced that the upcoming Kontinental Hockey League championship will once again be shown on the Sports channel. As it became known, the dispute between 7TV, which promised to show 300 matches of the season, and the state company, which announced the broadcast of 170 games, took place at the highest level.

CIA to be held accountable for brutal interrogations of terrorists Former US Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday defended CIA officers who used dubious methods to interrogate terrorism suspects. He said the interrogators "saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks." Therefore, they “deserve our gratitude” and should not become “a target for political investigation or persecution.” Since 2002, Mr.

The Air Defense Concern held a presentation of the latest missile system at the test site The Almaz-Antey air defense concern, together with the state intermediary Rosoboronexport, held a presentation of the new Tor-M2E short-range air defense system for potential foreign customers. It is produced by the Izhevsk electromechanical plant “Kupol”, the developer of the complex is the Scientific Research Electromechanical Institute. Both enterprises are part of the air defense concern.

Another suicide bombing took place in Chechnya Four police officers died yesterday in Chechnya as a result of yet another suicide bombing. It was accomplished, apparently, spontaneously, without any special preliminary preparation for choosing a target. The victims of the terrorist attack were policemen who had stopped at a car wash in the village of Mesker-Yurt and were standing on the street waiting for their car.

— Albert Alexandrovich, is the pipeline ready? -- The pipe is under pressure, it is almost brought to 30 atmospheres. This is already enough to provide South Ossetia with Russian gas. We carried out a test run of the torch. We have everything prepared, the technological process is completely completed. South Ossetia can already consume gas. I hope that tomorrow (August 26. - - Ed. ) after the launch of the torch, all the valves will be solemnly opened.

Yuri Luzhkov called on officials and Muscovites to “restart” the economy The discussion on Tverskaya, 13, of the Moscow budget for the next year prompted the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, to make an unprecedented statement. Usually generous with financial promises, the mayor called on wealthy Muscovites and his even wealthier subordinates not to parasitize on the city treasury, which in times of crisis was faced with a shortfall in revenue items.

The additional issue of VTB will most likely be bought by the state and state banks The supervisory board of the second largest bank in Russia in terms of assets, VTB, determined the price of an additional issue of shares of the credit institution. As expected, the placement price will be 4.82 kopecks. for paper. The bank plans to sell 9 trillion shares, but it will not be able to do this, since securities can be bought cheaper on the open market, market participants believe.

The first official data on the causes of death of Michael Jackson have been released On Monday, police for the first time released official documents filed in a court in Houston, Texas, in the case surrounding the death of the King of Pop Michael Jackson. So far, Jackson, who died two months ago, has not been buried.

The corporate flags of IDGC Holding JSC and IDGC of the North Caucasus JSC were delivered to the western peak of the double-headed Mount Elbrus. It happened around half past eight in the morning on August 24th. The mark of 5642 m above sea level was reached by electricians of the Elbrus regional electrical networks of the Kabardino-Balkarian branch of IDGC of the North Caucasus OJSC Arsen Uzdenov, Muhammad Shavaev, Albert Yusupov and Mussa Apsuvaev.

Watch from August 27 on Moscow screens “High Security Vacation” (Russia, 2009, Igor Zaitsev). A comedy about two men - Sumarokov (Sergei Bezrukov - “Brigade”, “Yesenin”, “The Master and Margarita”) and Koltsov (Dmitry Dyuzhev - “Brigada”, “Zhmurki”, “Island”), who escaped from their places conclusions and by the will of fate (and the script by Fyodor Krestovoy and the creator of “Streets of Broken Lanterns” Andrei Kivinov) end up in a children's holiday camp under the guise of counselors.

Alexander TASEV is the director for Russia and the CIS at Autodesk, one of the world leaders in the field of solutions for engineering, design and innovation. Our correspondent talked with him about what the Russian market for computer-aided design (CAD) systems could look like and what it actually looks like. -- Once upon a time, we had many industry institutes and specialists involved in enterprise economics. They passed on their own experience to new generations of engineers.

The President received anti-fascist veterans President Valdis Zatlers became the first head of the Latvian state to invite representatives of the society of anti-fascist veterans from the 130th Latvian Rifle Corps and the Latvian partisan brigades who fought against Nazi Germany to his castle for an official reception. The head of the veterans' association, Albert Paget, and society activist Biruta Chasha came to the president yesterday.

On Monday, the Russian women's volleyball team flew in from Tokyo, Japan, where, unexpectedly for many, they took second place in the final world Grand Prix tournament. Already from September 1, the team at the Volei Grad training base in Anapa, noticeably updated compared to last season, will continue preparing for the European Championship starting at the end of September.

The Belarusian economy is on the rise, Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky said yesterday at a meeting with the Director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Marek Belka. “The spring-summer of this year has become a month of growth for the Belarusian economy,” the prime minister said. He optimistically pointed to a reduction in inflation rates and a decrease in finished product inventories.

Vremya Novostei military observer Nikolai POROSKOV asked those who create these weapons about what the new Tor-M2E short-range air defense system is, what are the prospects for equipping the Russian army with it and selling it abroad. "Human participation is kept to a minimum" Mikhail NOVIKOV, Deputy General Director for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern: -- I hope our presentation will expand the circle of potential consumers of our products.