France expels Eastern European gypsies By September 1, the French authorities will expel over 300 Roma from the country and liquidate the remaining 115 Roma camps. At the beginning of the month there were about 300 such sites, but in recent weeks 630 Roma have been deported, mainly to Romania and Bulgaria. President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday that, despite criticism from human rights activists, the expulsion of Roma who moved to France from these countries will continue.

Abkhazia celebrated two years since recognition by Russia Two years ago, Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, formally ending the process that began with Russia's military intervention in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict. Yesterday, the President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh summed up some results of the two years of officially recognized independence for his republic.

At an extraordinary session of the Belarusian parliament on September 7, a date for presidential elections may be set, which by law must take place no later than February 2011. Among the possible contenders for the post of head of state is the famous 64-year-old Belarusian poet and prose writer Vladimir Neklyaev.

What to exchange Russian tactical nuclear weapons for? Russian tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) have become an important political factor in the process of ratification of the new Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty currently underway in the United States and Russia.

Anatoly Bagmet lost his position in Moscow and received a position in the central office The head of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office, Alexander Bastrykin, yesterday dismissed the head of the capital's investigative department, Anatoly Bagmet, and appointed Vadim Yakovenko, who had previously worked in the Russian presidential administration, in his place. Mr.

Tomorrow the World Men's Championship starts in Turkey. Late on Wednesday evening, the head coach of the Russian national team, David Blatt, decided on the final composition of the team, although back in the day, during a special press conference organized by the leadership of the Russian Basketball Federation, the coach said that he would take 13 players to Turkey and would decide on the final application on the eve of the tournament.

The commander of the Vilnius mounted police, Laimonas Bankauskas, who was detained last week while entering Belarus, returned to Lithuania yesterday. He was detained on August 15 on suspicion of drug smuggling. The Belarusian KGB was involved in the Bankauskas case, and on Wednesday the policeman was released from custody and taken to the Lithuanian consulate in Grodno for paperwork.

To appease nationalists and send a warning to the West Next week, for the first time in all the post-war years, Beijing will adequately celebrate the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. A ceremonial meeting of parliament will be held in the majestic building of the National People's Congress in Tiananmen Square.

“The population still brings money to banks” In July, Russian banks increased the volume of deposits by 2.1%, as a result of which it exceeded 8.6 trillion rubles. This was stated yesterday at the banking forum in Nizhny Novgorod by the director of the department for licensing activities and financial rehabilitation of credit institutions of the Bank of Russia, Mikhail Sukhov (pictured) .

Russians are not known for their political correctness when choosing spouses Sociologists have found that when it comes to family ties, Russians are not nearly as tolerant of representatives of other nationalities.

Yesterday, the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation named the culprit in the plane crash of two Su-27 aircraft from the Russian Knights aerobatic team that crashed at the MAKS air show in August last year. According to the investigation, the emergency occurred due to a violation of flight rules committed by the commander of the Knights, Colonel Igor Tkachenko. Now he will not be able to answer for himself, since he died in that disaster.

Illegal parking blocks the airport The head of one of the territorial divisions of the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor) of Russia, Yuri Zhirkov, said yesterday that difficulties with travel to Domodedovo Airport , which the director of the airport complex Vyacheslav Nekrasov complained about the day before, are caused by improper placement of parking lots. The management of Rosavtodor, which Mr.

Conservationists are trying to calculate the damage from the fires Independent environmentalists have estimated the damage caused by this summer's fires to Russian forests at $375 billion. “According to very conservative estimates, the economic damage from fires is at least 25 thousand dollars per hectare of forest,” Alexey Zimenko, general director of the Wildlife Conservation Center, said yesterday at a press conference gathered by the heads of environmental organizations.

Young Russian judokas “silvered” the national team’s piggy bank in Singapore Winning an Olympic medal at the age of 17 was something judokas could only dream of before. But with the advent of a unique competition called the “Youth Olympic Games” on the 2010 calendar, such dreams have become a reality.

Sarkozy imposes ideas on political rival French President Nicolas Sarkozy, meeting with the national diplomatic corps, outlined his strategy for the presidency of the G8 and G20. The French leader did not act entirely correctly, given that the work of the G20 is still led by South Korea, and the main event of its chairmanship - the meeting of heads of state - is yet to come in November in Seoul.