Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to suspend the implementation of the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution on the construction of a highway through the Khimki forest and to hold new public and expert discussions of this issue. The president announced this in his video blog.

The weather will be influenced by an extensive cyclone, the center of which is located near St. Petersburg. On August 26, in the North-West region there are occasional rains, in the Leningrad region there are strong thunderstorms in places, wind gusts during thunderstorms up to 15 m/s, during the day +15...+20оС.

The Moscow International Automobile Salon, which opened yesterday at Crocus Expo, despite the abundance of cars and premieres on display, differs from the past in its restraint. If two years ago each of the automakers tried to outdo their competitors with an abundance of colors and show, then this year the concerns placed the main emphasis on the functionality of their new and already well-known cars.

A criminal case has been opened in St. Petersburg over the beating of “dissenters” by a policeman. The investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg yesterday opened a criminal case on the fact of abuse of power by a police officer, which resulted in the beating of a participant in an opposition rally.

Passenger planes crash in China and Nepal Two plane crashes occurred the day before in China and Nepal. A passenger plane crashed while landing at Lindu Airport in the city of Yichun in northeastern China on Tuesday evening. The plane crash occurred in poor visibility conditions; 53 of the 96 people on board miraculously survived. Among the injured passengers, seven were seriously injured, but doctors say their lives are not in danger.

The Royal Races end their summer holidays "Back to school." This call from childhood, well known to everyone, sounds very appropriate today when it comes to Vitaly Petrov.

The city authorities fear a new wave of migrant workers Moscow officials are unable to guarantee jobs for able-bodied city residents in the context of liberalization of federal migration policy in connection with the Skolkovo project.

Two new museums of contemporary art fill the gaps in the art life of St. Petersburg The creative biographies of two newborn museums of contemporary art in the city on the Neva, the New Museum and Erarta, begin almost simultaneously, in June of this year. Both museums are located in a quiet and contemplative place - on Vasilyevsky Island. The island has long ago undergone a rite of artistic initiation thanks to the presence on it of an institution with a great biography - the St.

Kosovo Serbs challenge Pristina and Belgrade Today, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrives in Belgrade, and tomorrow he will leave for Pristina.

It will be possible to get rid of the cereal shortage and record prices only with the help of imports For the first time, the Russian government has published rough estimates of the impact of drought on the country's economy. Russia's GDP growth this year may slow down by 0.7--0.8 percentage points or even more due to the record hot summer, including direct losses of 0.4--0.5 percentage points, the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs said. development of the Russian Federation Andrey Klepach.

David Blatt is taking 13 players to the World Cup in Turkey It was expected that yesterday the head coach of the country's men's team, David Blatt, at a press conference specially organized by the Russian Basketball Federation, would name the final composition of the team going to the World Championships in Turkey, but unforeseen circumstances intervened.

A wave of terrorist attacks swept across Iraq yesterday. According to various sources, over 60 people were killed and about 280 were injured. The main targets of al-Qaeda, which actively used suicide bombers, were police and military personnel. In the morning in the north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with explosives rammed a fence near a police station in the northeast of the capital - 15 people were killed and 56 were injured.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations will monitor the readiness of schools for the new school year Less than a week before the start of the new school year, federal and metropolitan authorities paid attention to school problems.

CONCERT Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Lev Rubinstein, Andrey Vasiliev, Nazim Nadirov, Ksenia Kachalina, Valera Maryanov, Jan Foss, Yura Ryashentsev and other friends of the club "Chinese pilot Zhao Da" on its 11th anniversary. Start at 20.00. Eugene Margulies (bass guitar, vocals). Music Town Club , 22.00. CLASSIC The Kraft Quartet. V.-A. Mozart, J. Rossini. Quartet in B. Karasev (clarinet), M. Belokobylsky (clarinet), D. Romanov (clarinet), A. Bychkov (bass clarinet).

A strike by Israeli diplomats could disrupt the Defense Minister's visit to Moscow The visit of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Moscow, scheduled for September 5-7, may be disrupted due to strike sanctions by employees of the Jewish State Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is the third time this year that Israeli diplomats have carried out such an action, seeking a salary increase. During the strike, Foreign Ministry officials refuse to organize visits of officials abroad.