And seeks an inter-Korean summit A meeting between the leaders of South and North Korea, similar to the negotiations between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in 2000 and 2007, will not take place in the near future.

Senate Democratic Majority Leader disagrees with US President The scandal surrounding the construction of a mosque and Muslim cultural center in New York, Manhattan, not far from the site of the tragedy of September 11, 2001, led to a split in the ranks of Democrats. The party's chief representative in Congress, Harry Reid, the leader of the Senate majority, unequivocally opposed the implementation of plans for this construction.

Albanian police will guard Serbian shrines By the end of August, one of the largest Orthodox centers in Kosovo and the Balkans in general - the 14th-century Serbian monastery in Gracanica (pictured) near Pristina - will come under the control of the Kosovo police. This was stated by the commander of the international peacekeeping forces KFOR, German General Markus Bentler.

Global warming threatens Russia no less than other countries Millions of Russians suffered from unprecedented heat and smog, and thousands lost their homes in fires. However, no matter how cynical it may sound, if you look at it globally, the Russian “great drought” pales in consequences in comparison with the cataclysms that are now occurring in other countries. For example, in Pakistan. The already unstable country is suffering the worst flooding in its history.

The government recognized the victims of peat fires as fire victims Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin continued to manually control the construction of housing for fire victims.

This off-season, the CSKA hockey club thoroughly shook up its roster, but took the administrative headquarters even more seriously. The team president, Vyacheslav Fetisov, invited three people to the club at once, appointing them as his deputies. And if Alexei Kasatonov and Sergei Makarov lived and worked in Russia for a long time, then Vladimir Bure, the father of the famous hockey players Pavel and Valery, came from America.

Gardening and other music this week Against the background of almost complete silence in the concert life of the non-club format, the traditional August festival “Jazz in the Hermitage Garden” looks like the main musical event of the next few days. Stylistically, the program of the 13th festival (it will take place on Karetny Ryad from August 20 to 22, the concerts begin at 17.00) is indistinguishable from the previous ones.

The German Championship has established ties with Real Madrid The Bundesliga, which starts next weekend, plans to continue its confident offensive towards the top of European football. She has all the prerequisites for this.

Gazprom Neft has revealed the cost of the latest controversial stake in Sibir Energy Gazprom Neft paid $775 million to consolidate the second stake in Bennfield, which controlled the remaining 25.66% of Sibir Energy shares. The previously undisclosed amount was indicated in Gazprom Neft's US GAAP financial statements for the first half of 2010, published yesterday. The document also notes that the purchase of Sibir Energy provided the company with a one-time increase in profits of $470 million.

Direct air communication with Georgia has been restored Direct air traffic between Russia and Georgia will be officially restored from August 23. It was interrupted due to political problems between the two countries in 2008. Since then, Russian aviation authorities have only allowed charter flights between Tbilisi and Moscow as an exception a few times (usually on religious holidays).

“The Karate Kid” on Moscow screens Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) is a twelve-year-old African-American boy, quite happy with his life in the city of Detroit: basketball, video games, some friends. But soon the teenage idyll comes to an end - under the pressure of crisis circumstances, his mother (Taraji P.

The head of Ingushetia announced the destruction of all the organizers of last year’s terrorist attack in Nazran The special services managed to destroy all the organizers of the terrorist attack in Nazran , where on August 17, 2009, a suicide bomber in a truck filled with explosives blew up the building of the city police department. This statement was made by the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov on the anniversary of the tragedy.

I was hooked and for quite some time did not let go of the maxim, nestled in a very solid book. I will not name the essays, since the judgment that deeply affected me does not at all determine its tone and meaning. The book has its advantages and disadvantages, but these are not what we are talking about here. Here's what it's about. Strictly reviewing his youth, Tolstoy admitted that “he began to write out of vanity, greed and pride” (“Confession”).

The Germans supported the euro The euro exchange rate fell yesterday amid concerns about the public debts of the most problematic European countries. However, the high demand for securities that the German Ministry of Finance placed yesterday helped the single currency to fully win back its losses. "Fears about government debt refuse to die," currency strategist Nick Mellor told Reuters.

Italian performance by Alvis Hermanis at the Tampere Festival The festival in Tampere closed with a performance by Alvis Hermanis, who was invited here for the fifth time and is loved no less than in Moscow or St. Petersburg. But this time Hermanis brought the production not from Riga, but from Italian Modena, which was announced as a stage of a large international project named after the Shakespearean magician Prospero.