Moscow authorities will refuse to build an underground parking lot on Pushkin Square if fragments of the wall of the White City, a 16th-century fortress demolished under Catherine II, appear in its place, said Moscow’s chief archaeologist Alexander Veksler . He recalled that on the site of modern Pushkin Square in the 16th century there was a wall of the White City, there stood the Passion Monastery, the Church of Dmitry of Thessalonica and a number of other ancient buildings.

Today, September 14, the XIII Forum of Publishers opened in Lviv. Over the course of four days, the fair will host about 250 presentations of various books, promotions and meetings with writers. Taking this into account, the Forum unofficially became the largest book event in Ukraine. In addition to writers, Ukrainian politicians and government officials also came to the forum.

One of the most visually attractive representatives of world women's tennis, Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova is a versatile personality. Daniela speaks fluent Slovak, English and German, and is also actively learning the basics of Italian. In addition to tennis, Hantuchova enjoys skiing, basketball, skating and swimming. In addition, Daniela has an excellent command of the basics of playing the classical piano, which she spent eight years studying before she began to play tennis seriously.

Igor Netto did not hesitate to call his partners “rams” when they messed up the moment. I think that Egor Titov during and after the match in Munich had no less grounds for characterizing the actions of his teammates. Netto had great partners - all Olympic champions and European champions, so the comparison is initially lame (by the way, they were not offended by the captain - the number one midfielder in the history of domestic football was just as merciless towards himself).

A man was sitting across the aisle to my left on the plane. We were separated not only by passage, but also by tastes. The man is a lover of Russian detective stories and Moskovsky Komsomolets , believes only Khinshtein, believes that there is no one more beautiful in the world than “Russian girls”, although he has a purely theoretical idea about this very world. The man turned out to be from Gazprom.

Every person in the world has their own concerns, desires and aspirations. Some people think day and night about how to get a piece of bread, while others dream with a shudder in their hearts about conquering Everest. Many say that the rich have their own quirks, and these words were confirmed by Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack , who in an interview with the Daily Star said that, despite a salary of 6 million pounds a year, he could not afford to buy a house in London.

14 September 2006, 04:38 More than 20 cars collided on a highway in Japan In the center of the Japanese island of Honshu, more than 20 vehicles, including trucks, collided on an expressway in Nagano Prefecture near the city of Ichimura. According to the main police department, the first accident occurred at approximately 01.30 local time (22.30 Moscow time).

The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building recommended that the State Duma adopt in the first reading a bill prohibiting deputy prime ministers and federal ministers from having dual citizenship.

14 September 2006, 09:09 AvtoVAZ increased prices for Zhiguli AvtoVAZ entered into an open conflict with dealers, raising prices for the entire model range by 4,000 rubles. A representative of the plant says that this is a forced measure associated with an increase in production costs - rising prices for energy, metal, and components, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. Earlier it was reported that the largest dealers of AvtoVAZ proposed to Nagaitsev to freeze prices for the plant’s products .

The recently married Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich is haunted. His home was searched by Swiss authorities on Wednesday. According to the Associated Press, investigative measures are being carried out as part of an investigation into the doping scandal involving the Spanish doctor Eufimiano Fuentes.

Business The government is talking about loans Mikhail Fradkov instructed the Central Bank to influence the cost of loans in the country Ekaterina Mereminskaya Mikhail Fradkov asks the Central Bank to help revive industrial growth: to make loans cheaper. However, in Russia the Central Bank cannot influence rates in commercial banks in any way, in addition, such measures can accelerate already uncontrollable inflation.

A team of Japanese astronomers from the National Observatory and the University of Tokyo has discovered the most distant and ancient galaxy known to date, which is located at a distance of approximately 12.88 billion light years from Earth. For this purpose, a powerful Subaru telescope with a mirror diameter of 8.2 meters located in the Hawaiian Islands was used, the international scientific journal Nature reported today.

NATIONALISTS GAZETA.RU In the center of Moscow, nationalists from the DPNI held a rally against the “invasion of student dormitories” by Caucasians. The second Kondopoga did not happen: the young patriots were met by the police and anti-fascists. The Public Chamber, meanwhile, called for the liquidation of the movement, calling it extremist.

In Turkmenistan, a correspondent for Radio Liberty (the organization is included in the list of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice) in Ashgabat, Ogulsapar Muradova, died in prison. The cause of death is unknown. Her relatives were called to the morgue today for official identification, reports the Radio Liberty website. The 58-year-old journalist was arrested in June. In August, she was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of illegal possession of ammunition.

Since the mid-90s, officials of this rank have not been killed in Russia. Therefore, the public reaction to the murder of Andrei Kozlov turned out to be especially painful and even confused. Authorities were also unable to immediately give an adequate assessment of what happened.