What businessmen told Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama One of the important developments in Russian-American relations in the near future, it seems, will be the preparation and signing of a new agreement in the field of trade and economic cooperation. This was discussed at a meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama with entrepreneurs from the two countries on Thursday - the last day of the Russian president's visit to the United States.

A group of pilots received a five-second penalty The ninth stage of the Formula 1 World Auto Racing Championship ended with the victory of Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel from Germany, ahead of the Englishmen from McLaren, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, who finished in second and third place. Thus, the motorsport prologue to the football battle between two fundamental rivals at the world championship in South Africa was won by the Germans. Germany also won the World Cup playoff match.

During a joint operation by Italian and French police in Marseille, one of the leaders of the Sicilian mafia, 39-year-old Giuseppe Falsone, was arrested on Friday. He managed to hide from the authorities for 11 years. The police were on the trail of Falsone, who had changed his appearance, in April - suspicion was aroused by his fake certificate for the right to operate small boats.

Moldova is moving from “occupation” to confrontation The scandalous decree of the acting President of Moldova, Speaker of Parliament Mihai Ghimpu, declaring June 28 “the day of Soviet occupation” should be the subject of consideration at today’s special meeting of Parliament. Most likely, the document will not be approved.

The spouses of the presidents of the United States and Russia visited the art school US First Lady Michelle Obama, who hosted Svetlana Medvedeva last week, prepared a surprise for the wife of the Russian president. In Washington, the presidents' wives visited the Duke Ellington Children's School of the Arts, and Mrs. Obama invited another Russian guest, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater Diana Vishneva, to participate in this event.

Rosrybolovstvo official shared bribe with passers-by The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of two high-ranking employees of Rosrybolovstvo, who were detained on Thursday while receiving a large bribe. The operation to expose them, which took place near their place of work on the Warsaw Highway, ended in an unprecedented incident.

A shipwrecked young American woman is about to sail around the world again. 16-year-old California resident Abby Sunderland, who six months ago went on a solo circumnavigation of the world (and almost got into the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest traveler to circumnavigate the globe), was rescued during a storm by French fishermen three thousand kilometers off the coast of Australia .

Ramzan Kadyrov came face to face with the difficult nature of the Russian Internet Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has undergone modernization trends and at the end of last week joined the number of Russian politicians who have their own page on LiveJournal. The first blog entry with the name ya_kadyrov was made on June 25th.

Yuri Luzhkov confirmed the decision to demolish the “extra” floors of the “House on Mosfilmovskaya” The scandalous story of the elite skyscraper on Pyryeva Street, better known as the “House on Mosfilmovskaya”, is reaching a new level. The city authorities are demonstrating their firm intention to force a large developer to remove unplanned floors. Yesterday, the position of the mayor’s office was voiced by mayor Yuri Luzhkov himself.

A new anticyclone will begin to move northwest from Europe. The area of ​​high pressure will affect the weather in the Central region. In the south of European Russia and in the Black Earth Region, the weather will continue to be determined by a sedentary cyclone centered over the Don, or rather, its atmospheric front. On Monday there will be no precipitation in the North-Western region, the temperature will be +20...+25оС during the day.

Russian carrier-based aircraft will appear at the NITKA training ground Russia and Ukraine are restoring full-scale and mutually beneficial military and military-technical cooperation. Such an optimistic result was summed up at the third meeting of the subcommittee on security issues of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission, which took place at the end of the week in the seaside village of Partenit in Crimea.

Hundreds of Russians became victims of abnormal heat The abnormal heat that has been scorching the center of Russia for the last four days, as doctors warned, has not had the best effect on the health of not only citizens suffering from chronic diseases, but also completely healthy ones. According to preliminary estimates, the historical maximum temperature reached last weekend cost the lives of several hundred of our compatriots.

Basketball CSKA headed by Montenegrin Montenegrin specialist Dusko Vujosevic, who last year received the Alexander Gomelsky Prize as the best coach of the men's Euroleague, and last season led the Serbian Partizan (Belgrade) to the Final Four of the continental club championship, became the new coach of the multiple Russian champion CSKA. The contract was signed for three years. Former CSKA coach Evgeny Pashutin took over UNICS Kazan. Vujosevic is 51 years old and was born in Podgorica.

Moscow Film Festival has closed The festival closed in unimaginable heat. Despite this, MIFF President Nikita Mikhalkov decorated the poisonously green (sponsor's color) main staircase of the Pushkinsky cinema - perhaps not a feat, but there was something heroic in it.

The summit of leaders of the leading countries of the world was accompanied by broken windows If it's possible to waste $1 billion on security for a major international event, Stephen Harper's government has done it. The unprecedented amount gave rise to another reason for protests, which the Canadian authorities were unable to prevent anyway (and would not have been able to).