The rear-wheel drive Lincoln LS was first introduced in 1999. During production, the car underwent minor changes. Recently, demand for LS has fallen and in 2004 less than 30 thousand of these cars were sold. Production of the LS will end in May. To replace it, Ford is preparing a new sedan on Volvo's front-wheel drive platform. The new Lincoln is expected to appear in late 2007.

17:33 Bryntsalov is outraged by the ban on Corvalol and Valocardine in Lithuania The President of the Ferrein pharmaceutical concern, Vladimir Bryntsalov, is perplexed by the decision of the Lithuanian authorities to include Corvalol and Valocordin in the list of narcotic and psychotropic drugs, which provides grounds for banning their transportation when citizens transit through the country.

August 30, 2005, 12:23 p.m Subaru will release a minivan based on Legacy Fuji Heavy is going to replace the outdated Traviq, which is a redesigned Opel Zafira, with a new minivan. The new product will be built on the Legacy model platform and will receive a traditional 2.5-liter boxer engine and all-wheel drive transmission. It is assumed that the new minivan will be smaller and cheaper than the Subaru B9 Tribeca SUV.

30 August 2005, 17:22 Politics Lebanon grabbed the hands of Syria Anatoly Goldovsky UN investigators are close to solving the most notorious murder in the Middle East. Three main suspects in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri were arrested in Lebanon on Tuesday. There has been a breakthrough in the investigation into the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri .

August 30, 2005, 12:02 p.m The production of Chinese SUVs is planned to be organized in Syzran Chinese Great Wall Motors Ltd. (“Great Wall”), with the participation of the SOK group of companies, plans to open an assembly plant for SUVs in the Samara region. Perhaps Syzran will be chosen as the production site, the press service of the Samara City Hall reported.

The country's first Porsche center will be opened in Lahore in the first quarter of 2006, followed by two other centers in Islamabad and Karachi. The sales of cars will be handled by Pakistani Autotechnik Pvt. Ltd. Over the past ten years the company has expanded its scope of activities. The number of countries where it is represented has increased from 40 to more than 90. A year ago, Porsche AG sold soybean cars in India, the company's press service reports.

30 August 2005, 12:36 Opinions Putin will become Anti-Putin Survey of Experts Following the Kremlin administration, Gazeta.Ru became concerned with finding a successor to the current president, who can remain in office in 2008 only in violation of the Constitution in force at the time of his election, that is, according to Lukashenko’s option.

Well, football is already fun at home, even too much. How much fun it will be with external affairs - early autumn will show. To be honest, my premonitions are not very good, but we have to accept the situation as it is. And come what may. The last round before the break was affected by so many different kinds of non-football and football-related circumstances that they could not help but affect the game itself.

August 30, 2005, 20:03 Business Telenor seeks control over Alpha in New York Timofey Dzyadko The Norwegian holding Telenor filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the Southern District of New York demanding that representatives of Alfa Group, Telenor's partner in VimpelCom, be prohibited from participating in the meeting of shareholders of the mobile operator.

30 August 2005, 12:29 Politics "Crowbar" on the nerves Ilya Zhegulev , Alexandra Zaitseva , Kazbek Vakhachev (Grozny) Militants attacked the Government House of Chechnya. According to them, there are killed and wounded. The Chechen authorities heard nothing about the militant attack.

30 August 2005, 19:32 Politics Netanyahu goes to prime minister Anatoly Goldovsky Former Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially announced that he will participate in the next election of the leader of the Likud party, which is now headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. If Netanyahu does not change his plans, he has every chance of soon becoming Israeli Prime Minister again.

August 30, 2005, 12:14 Society Immigrants burned to death in a Paris swamp Evgenia Malyar In the historical part of Paris, another house inhabited by immigrants from Africa burned down. Seven people from Ivory Coast were killed and 14 more people were injured. Police do not rule out the possibility of arson. The owner of the building is confident that until the government resolves the housing issue, immigrants will continue to suffer.

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August 30, 2005, 11:51 Society “Ours” beat the left Elena Andreeva Photo: ITAR-TASS In Moscow, a group of teenagers with baseball bats attacked activists of the NBP*, AKM and Rodina. The hooligans were caught, taken to the police, but soon released. The capital's police department says nothing about the identities of the detainees. But left-wing radicals are sure that it was “Ours” - and have already announced the beginning of a “civil war”.