Russian film Paper Soldier will be presented at the Venice International Film Festival, August 27-September 2, 2008. The film director thinks it’s already a victory.

Yesterday French police detained a Russian cargo ship they suspect of dumping fuel into the English Channel causing a 25-kilometer-long slick.

The change of the ambassador to the USA won’t mean changes in the Russian-American relations.

Four Russian workers, crew members of the Swedish vessel Hercules and a gas tanker Berger Sisar, kidnapped by the Nigerian militants last week, are released.

News about Russia’s events takes one of the lowest positions in the US mass media foreign coverage chart.

Russia will discuss the role and value of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with other members in Tadzhikistan.

A draft of The World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum will be presented at the Russian pavilion at the XI Venice Architecture Biennale on September 11-November 23.

Ukraine marks the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia on July 24-27. Patriarch Aleksei II of Moscow and all Russia is arriving at Kiev tomorrow.

The US State Department is worried about Russian –Venezuelan arm deal, which says 20 Russian air-defense systems, 12 military transport planes and 24 fighter jets go to South America.

A delegation of the Central Election Committee of RF will inspect US presidential election in November.