New Israelis are preparing a new oath The day after tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will submit an amendment to the citizenship law to the government for consideration. This will be the new text of the oath of allegiance to Israel as a “democratic and Jewish” state taken when accepting citizenship. These epithets are not in the current text of the oath, and the innovation will still have to be approved by the Knesset.

The weather on the European territory of Russia is mostly rainless, and the average daily air temperature is close to normal. On Friday in the North-Western and Central regions there will be no precipitation, during the day +9...+14оС. In the Central region there is no precipitation, during the day +8...+14оС, in the Central Black Earth region without precipitation, during the day +6...+11оС.

The start of the season was stormy. If not explosive. In recent weeks, the NTV channel has not given away the yellow jersey of the TV leader to anyone, as in the old days. NTV, together with President Medvedev, removed the capital's mayor from power due to loss of confidence.

The dollar continued to fall yesterday, falling by 0.5% to $1.399 per euro. During trading, it dropped to its lowest level since January 28 - 1.402. The world's largest central banks are trying to weaken their currencies, but the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are refraining from decisive actions and statements ahead of the G7 summit, which will talk about a "currency war." At yesterday's meeting, the ECB left the minimum rate at 1% per annum.

In Dublin our players will have to play against a strong team Today the Russian team is playing another qualifying match for the 2012 European Championship against Ireland in Dublin. After the September home defeat from Slovakia (0:1), another fiasco could create intractable problems for our team in fulfilling its main task - getting to the continental championship. Ireland is a strong, skilled and rather inconvenient opponent.

Independent environmentalists do not believe in the authorities’ ability to prevent new forest fires A change in the leadership of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz) and the reassignment of the agency directly to the head of government, Vladimir Putin, will not allow Russia to avoid a repeat of the catastrophic fires that engulfed the entire European part of the country last summer.

“The main event of this year after the heat, fires and suffocating smog is the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov.” With these words the presenter Anton Khrekov began the NTVshniki program. This talk show itself, where the removal of the Moscow mayor from office was discussed with forgotten frankness and relaxedness, became a real television event. The names of television personalities non grata Malashenko and Berezovsky were heard, the semi-forbidden 31st and rallies on Triumfalnaya were mentioned.

Rosokhrankultura is being merged with the ministry in order to “better protect monuments” Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev announced yesterday that documents on the project of merging the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Field of the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrankultura) with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation have been submitted to the government.

The authorities know what the North Caucasus should be, but do not know how to achieve it Since the beginning of this week, a document entitled “Strategy for the socio-economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District until 2025” has been available in full on the website of the Russian government.

The British Prime Minister promised to give power to the people In mid-October, British Foreign Secretary William Hague plans to visit Moscow to achieve “some improvement in British-Russian relations, which have been difficult in recent years.” Recently, in a conversation with journalists, he noted: “Britain and Russia are two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. We work together to address issues such as nuclear proliferation, including the Iranian nuclear program.

Alexey Miller and Yuri Boyko are preparing Vladimir Putin’s visit to Ukraine The Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine, Yuriy Boyko, came to Moscow again yesterday to meet with the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller.

Is it necessary to create state reserves as an insurance against a crisis or would it be logical to invest money in the economy and infrastructure, as they say, here and now. This question, as it turned out, in the post-crisis period, in conditions of a shortage of financial resources, is no less, if not more relevant, than in the “fat years”. And not only in Russia, but also in other countries, the lion's share of whose budget comes from income from energy exports.

It's time for the main meetings at the volleyball world championship Tomorrow in the semi-final matches of the Volleyball World Championship among men's teams in Italy, the hosts of the competition will compete with the current gold holders, the Brazilians, and the offenders of our national team, the Serbs, will play against Cuba, which sensationally continues to fight for medals.

Still no progress on IMF reform US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner believes that current global economic development trends require a more ambitious modernization of the International Monetary Fund. Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington ahead of the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank governors, Mr.

The Russian stock market reacted to an external factor The alarming situation in the European and American markets led to a fall in Russian stock indices on Friday. The RTS index lost 2.67%, falling below the psychologically important level of 1,500 points. Global investors are concerned about the US authorities' plans to limit the activities and size of systemically important banks, as well as the problems of Greece, which is on the verge of default.