Another St. Petersburg State University graduate has been awarded the Fields Medal At the International Congress of Mathematics in India yesterday, the names of four winners of the Fields Medal were announced - perhaps the most prestigious award in the field of sciences neglected by the Nobel Committee.

CONCERTS “Jazz in the Hermitage Garden.” The festival will feature 12 Russian and foreign ensembles, including jazz stars from the United States - trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and drummer Donald Edwards, who will perform as part of the quartet of pianist Yakov Okun. Famous New York saxophonist Greg Tardy will play with the Russian trio of drummer Evgeniy Ryaboi. American singer Sharon Clark will introduce her art to the Moscow public.

City deputies left Barnaul without a mayor and without a budget The tragicomedy unfolding in the Altai Territory with the removal of the mayor of Barnaul, Vladimir Kolganov, received an unexpected development yesterday. 13 deputies resigned simultaneously - more than a third of the payroll of the City Duma, which was to approve a new acting member on August 27. mayor to replace the dismissed one. This means that from now on there is no quorum in the Barnaul City Duma, which means the acting.

The Ministry of Health is trying to avoid fraud in new purchases of medical equipment The loud scandal with the purchase of complex medical equipment for the needs of the state at significantly inflated prices, which happened last week (see Vremya Novostey, August 11) , is gaining momentum.

The mayor of Samara barely managed to register as a candidate for the new elections With a margin of just one vote, the current mayor of Samara, Viktor Tarkhov, head of the local branch of A Just Russia, was registered as a candidate in the Samara mayoral elections. This is the only “Socialist Revolutionary” mayor in the country standing at the helm of a large regional center. Whether he will retain his post will be decided on a single voting day on October 10.

Regional authorities call on the state to carefully intervene in rising food prices Food prices are preparing for a rise that consumers will feel by the end of September. Officials do not know any other way to curb the rise in food prices other than administrative intervention.

Russia is looking for ways to integrate the North Caucasus In August 2008, Russia intervened in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict and thereby opened a new chapter in its Caucasian history. Although the war with Georgia and Russia's subsequent recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia were, at least formally, acts of foreign policy, they were followed by certain shifts in Moscow's policy in the Russian North Caucasus.

US Army regulars leave Iraq President Barack Obama kept his promise to voters, the U.S. military and the Iraqis. On the night of August 19, mechanized columns of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, the last of the US combat units in Iraq, crossed the Iraqi border with Kuwait. The soldiers did not hide their feelings: they unfurled the American flag, shouted joyfully, took photographs for memory and fired tracer bursts into the air.

Europe copes better with budget problems than the US Western countries are making some progress in the fight against budget deficits. The UK deficit in July turned out to be lower than expected, Greece is cutting costs at a faster pace. In the United States, debate continues on the pace of stabilization of government finances. US President Barack Obama believes it is necessary to reduce the deficit without compromising economic recovery.

Russians don’t have much faith in the authorities’ help during a fire. Russians gave a three rating to the organization of the fight against the main disaster of recent months - forest fires. This conclusion can be drawn from the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation.

The kidnappers of the son of the vice president of Rosneft were sentenced The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow yesterday announced the verdict in the case of two participants in the kidnapping of the son of the vice-president of the Rosneft company, Mikhail Stavsky, which was committed in the center of Moscow in April last year.

Why do ordinary Germans pick up a fire hose? In Germany, protection against fires and the procedure for extinguishing them if necessary is a national matter. This can be seen everywhere. For example, in the tiniest village, lost in the mountains of Bavaria, economically one of the most prosperous federal states.

OGK-3 decided not to return funds diverted from the investment program The company OGK-3, controlled by Norilsk Nickel, will not return 24 billion rubles, which it diverted from its investment program in 2008 to purchase a number of non-core assets. First Deputy General Director of OGK-3 Vladislav Nazin announced this to Interfax yesterday.

Innovative ideas are being implemented in the Youth Games program The first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore will reach their equator on Friday evening. Yesterday, at the moment when the champions were determined in 70 disciplines out of 201, China and Russia shared the lead in the overall standings - ten gold medals each. However, for various reasons, the medal race is not the main component of this world youth sports forum.

Russians are beginning to perceive the State Emergency Committee putsch as distant history The Yuri Levada Analytical Center (Levada Center) published data from a survey dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the coup on August 19-21, 1991, when representatives of the top Soviet leadership tried to overthrow the current USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. These events led to the rapid collapse of the Soviet Union.