The number of victims of forest fires in Central Russia has reached 30 people Representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations yesterday reported some stabilization of the situation with the spread of forest and peat fires in the central regions of the country, as a result of which more than a dozen villages and towns were completely or partially burned out at the end of last week.

Twenty years ago, Moscow came to the defense of Kuwait The Minister of Oil Industry of Kuwait, a member of the ruling family of this monarchy, Ahmad Abdullah al-Sabah, will hold talks in Moscow today. As Vremya Novostey was told at the embassy of this state in Russia, he will take part in a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation between our countries. On the Russian side, it is headed by Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko.

Last Friday will go down in the history of our athletics Athletes joke: if you want rain, organize an athletics competition. A sure sign. On the fourth day of the championship, a thunderous downpour struck in sultry Barcelona. And just in time for the final high jump competition. The stadium scoreboard showed Sergei Klyugin, the personal trainer of Ivan Ukhov, one of the current Russian participants in the championship, and Sergei’s Olympic victory in Sydney 2000 immediately came to mind.

Oleg Deripaska wants to change management at Norilsk Nickel and increase his stake in shares The RUSAL company intends to strengthen its position in Norilsk Nickel, lost after the meeting of shareholders held on June 28, at which the board of directors of MMC was re-elected not in favor of RUSAL.

The opposition rally on Triumfalnaya was drowned out by the roar of engines The oppositionists were made to understand that without resorting to compromises in dialogue with the authorities, they would not be able to even engage in street politics. Last Saturday, a rally took place on Triumfalnaya Square in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution, which guarantees citizens freedom of assembly.

The head of BP leaves the company to save its business The head of BP, Tony Hayward ( to be replaced in October by Robert Dudley ), who has repeatedly been subjected to severe criticism from the American authorities, and in particular Barack Obama, who stated that he would fire the top manager if he were his subordinate, spoke publicly for the first time about the reasons for leaving the company. “I suffered for a just cause.

Pie became WBO world champion Russian boxer Dmitry Pirog won the WBO middleweight championship belt. In the title fight with another contender, American Daniel Jacobs, Pirog won by knockout in the fifth round. “After the second round, I realized that I would win,” Dmitry said after the fight. “Then I hit it well and knew that sooner or later I would have another opportunity for a good hit.

The first international film festival took place in Odessa Odessa residents are sure: cinema originated in Odessa. They like to tell how on January 9, 1894, a year before the famous Lumière show on the Boulevard des Capucines, a certain self-taught mechanic Joseph Timchenko demonstrated his invention to the future Emperor Nicholas II - a moving picture, a living reality.

Russian hurdler Natalya Antyukh won a landmark victory at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. In the final race of the 400 m hurdles, the 29-year-old athlete from St. Petersburg set a personal record, running in 53 seconds. Natalya ANTYUKH shared her impressions after the competition with Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA. — Natalya, how would you comment on your result?

More than a thousand people died in floods in Pakistan Residents of Pakistan have not yet had time to recover from the plane crash near Islamabad (last Wednesday, presumably due to bad weather conditions, a plane of the Pakistani airline Air Blue crashed during landing, killing 152 people), when the country was overtaken by new natural troubles.

In the final race at a distance of 400 m, three Russian athletes took the entire podium. Olympic medalist in Athens and Beijing in the 4x400 m relay Tatiana FIROVA achieved a major personal victory for the first time in her career. After the competition, Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA talked with the newly crowned European champion. -- Tatiana, you won this final with the best result of the season in the world! - I don’t really understand what happened yet.

Ella Pamfilova resigned as head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Last Friday, Dmitry Medvedev accepted the resignation of the head of the Presidential Council for Promoting the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights, Ella Pamfilova. Her resignation came as a surprise. Although Ms. Pamfilova herself claims that she made this decision for personal reasons that she does not want to disclose, several versions of what happened have already appeared.

The new school year, which begins on September 15 in Georgia, promises many surprises for schoolchildren. The country's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, 28-year-old Vera Kobalia, invited every twelfth-grade student to take her position for one day. As part of the campaign, they can send Ms. Kobalia a letter telling them what he would do in her place. The author of the most interesting idea will receive a prize.

Police collect video recordings of the attack on the administration in the city of Khimki While law enforcement agencies are busy searching for the young people who participated in the attack on the Khimki administration, environmentalists, although without success, are trying to get attention from the authorities to themselves and their problem. The Public Chamber, where at the end of last week a hearing was held on the construction of a new Moscow-St.

In the north-west of the European territory of Russia on Monday and Tuesday the weather will be slightly brightened up by atmospheric fronts with thunderstorms, the temperature will be +25...+31оС. In the center of Russia in some places there will also be light short-term rains with thunderstorms, and intense heat: +31...+36°C, in the eastern regions up to 39°C, on Monday the temperature will be a couple of degrees higher in the central regions.