Capital airports are operating intermittently due to smoke Due to the smoke that covered Moscow, the main airports of the capital (except Sheremetyevo) operated “according to the actual weather” last weekend. The decision on each takeoff or landing is made individually by the captain of the aircraft based not only on the atmospheric conditions at a given time, but also on the characteristics of a particular aircraft and the degree of qualification of its crew.

The Ministry of Energy has again submitted to the government a document on gas trade It took the Ministry of Energy more than four months to, together with interested departments and Gazprom, prepare a new version of the draft resolution “On the sale of gas using exchange technologies.” At the end of March, the head of the Ministry of Energy Sergei Shmatko said that the government returned it for revision (once again over the past year and a half) “with technical comments.” On Friday, the

July 6 -- August 6, 2010 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

Swiss scientists have released a set of rules for preserving youth You can extend your active life if you adhere to a few basic rules of behavior. Gerontologists from the University Hospital of Geneva recently published a list of several dozen recommendations, each of which has been proven to delay old age. A shortlist of the 15 most effective ones was reprinted by almost all European publications covering issues of health and longevity.

Accusations of corruption by Astana authorities have not been refuted The other day, the penultimate point was made in the scandalous judicial investigation that the federal court of the Southern District of New York has been conducting for more than seven years against the American businessman James Giffen. This case is known as Kazakhgate.

The Russian-American reset of relations faces difficulties. The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized US actions in the disarmament sphere.

The Center for Contemporary Art ended the season with an excellent exhibition program At the end of the exhibition season, the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) showed a diptych of exhibitions from the collections of the Regional Foundation for Contemporary Art - FRAC, Brittany. One part of it - “After Painting” - occupied the main hall of the center itself on Zoological Street (house 13, building 2). The other - “Test of Reality” - was located in the “White Workshop” at Winzavod.

"Ghost" by Roman Polanski on Moscow screens Almost certainly this young and quite successful writer (Ewan McGregor) was somehow named at birth and his name is included in all the necessary documents and metrics. But it seems that he himself has long forgotten his name: in any case, completely different surnames appear on the covers of his most successful books.

One of the country's authoritative representatives in pan-European structures, the Chairman of the European Parliament, 70-year-old Jerzy BUZEK, shared his impressions of the speech of the new President of Poland and his vision of the prospects for the development of Russian-Polish relations with readers of Vremya Novostey. — The special attention that President Bronislaw Komorowski paid to relations with Russia in his inaugural speech is of great importance.

Mortality has increased in Moscow over the past month Temperature records and exceeding the maximum permissible concentrations of harmful substances in the atmosphere due to forest fires last weekend forced the capital's doctors to work in a virtual state of emergency.

Police reform began with a name On Saturday, at the initiative of President Dmitry Medvedev, a draft of a new law “On the Police” appeared on the Internet, the preparation of which began this winter as part of a campaign for large-scale reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. Its text was posted on a specially created website zakonoproekt2010.ru , a link to which was posted on the website of the president himself. A day earlier, on Friday, Mr.

BP will drill new wells in the Gulf of Mexico At the end of last week, BP completed cementing a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico. It took three and a half months and more than $4 billion to combat the oil spill resulting from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, not counting what the victims still have to pay. However, on Friday, BP's director of production and technology, Doug Suttles, said that the corporation intends to continue developing this section of the American shelf.

At the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Russian open water swimmers won three awards - one gold and two bronze. The results of the performance of the Russian team in a conversation with Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA were summed up by the head coach of marathon swimmers Dmitry BELOV. -- Dmitry Fedorovich, comment on the performance of your players. “I don’t want to do this right now.” In order to draw any conclusions, a serious and detailed analysis will be required.

On Monday, fresh air will come to the northwest behind the cold front, and the heat will drop to +27...+32°C, the weather will include intermittent rain, thunderstorms, occasional downpours, and hail. In the middle zone, no changes: hot, mostly dry and new temperature records, during the day in the northern half of the district +32...+38oC, in the south up to +40oC. In the south of European Russia there is no precipitation, +40...+42оС.

Our synchronized swimmers are once again out of competition at the European Championships During the first week of the European Aquatics Championships, which takes place in Hungary, sets of awards were played in two disciplines - open water swimming and synchronized swimming. Russian prima synchronized swimming, as promised, fulfilled their medal obligations. By the time the number was signed, the girls had won three out of four golds.