1K 3 min. ... Auction And the princess is naked! The main event of British social life - the wedding of Queen Elizabeth's youngest son Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones, scheduled for June 19 - was overshadowed by scandal on Wednesday. The country's largest newspaper, The Sun, published colorful photographs of the bride, photographed half-naked in the company of a man.

57 2 minutes. ... The best sellers of the Motherland The Russian Ministry of Trade has published a list of the best Russian exporters in 1998. Not a single large company in the fuel and energy complex, whose products account for at least 40% of all Russian exports, was on this list.

13 1 min. ... Currency currency to dollar rates Official rates of the Central Bank of Russia as of June 2, 1999 Australian dollar 15.77 Austrian schilling* 18.52 English pound 39.07 Belarusian ruble** 75.54 Belgian franc*** 63.16 Dutch guilder 11.56 Greek drachma**** 78.63 Danish krone* 34.31 U.S.

85 3 min. ... "My honest uncle is sick" Premiere of English "Onegin" The world premiere of the English film "Onegin" took place in St. Petersburg. Before you start grumbling about the “cranberries,” you should remember that we ourselves, apart from the “Russian Revolt” that has sunk into the budget abyss and the prisoner declaiming “I’m writing to you, what more...”, have nothing for the holiday. And this “Onegin” does not pretend to be called “Russian”.

1K 1 min. ... The euro will soon be equal to the dollar US stock prices continued to fall last week. And in Europe the euro fell. American investors reacted adequately to Alan Greenspan's statement that the Fed was ready to raise key interest rates in the near future: they had been getting rid of dollar assets all week. Particularly active, according to traders, are the shares whose quotes have grown the most recently: securities of Internet providers and computer companies.

27 2 minutes. ... The Moscow City Duma voted against registration and the mayor To “not give arguments to Moscow’s opponents” The draft amendment to the federal law "On the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to freedom of movement...", which Yuri Luzhkov asked the capital's deputies to adopt, has failed. 11 Moscow City Duma deputies spoke out against it. And only 4 are in favor. Kommersant already wrote on April 7 and May 19 about the new registration initiative of the Moscow City Hall.

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44 1 min. ... He drives a Cadillac Yevtushenko received the Walt Whitman Prize Love is evil. Naive, narrow-minded Americans, just as they fell in love with Yevgeny Yevtushenko 40 years ago, still cannot get rid of this feeling or adequately express it. This time, the rhyming essayist has been awarded their Walt Whitman Award. The rules of the award itself are quite curious and enrich the semi-mythical figure of Yevtushenko with additional colors.

777 12 min. ... Three sisters against the background of Pushkin There are actually four of them. But I never got to see my middle sister, Ms. Fiona Mercedes. She lives somewhere far away, on her estate among the valleys and lakes of Scotland, from where she rarely leaves.

24 2 minutes. ... They promised freedom and then took it away On Saturday, a concert in memory of Yehudi Menuhin was held in the Great Hall of the Conservatory to a full house, at which the world-famous violinist GIDON KREMER performed, accompanied by the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of the chief conductor of the Jena Philharmonic Andrei Boreyko. After the concert, he gave an exclusive interview to Kommersant music observer ELENA CHEREMNYKH. — How did you feel about Menuhin?

137 5 minutes. ... Vedomosti Emergency in the Supreme Court Four Turkish workers were hospitalized yesterday from the construction of the 24-story building of the Supreme Court of Russia (Povarskaya St., 15). Massive reinforced concrete blocks standing on the construction site collapsed on them. In order to pull the victims out from under the rubble, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations had to be called.

32 1 min. ... 60 students paid the assistant professor to take the exam Employees of the anti-corruption department of the UBEP of the Tula region detained Leonid Ermak, associate professor of the Russian Correspondence Institute of Finance and Economics. He was caught red-handed while accepting bribes from 60 part-time students. Leonid Ermak’s main place of work is the head Russian Correspondence Institute of Finance and Economics. He came to the Tula branch of the institute only for sessions.

10 1 min. ... Are dealers preparing for the summer holidays? The first day of summer on the stock market was quite calm - the activity of participants was at a minimum level. However, it is too early to say that most investors and dealers are going on vacation, so in the coming days we can expect increased trading in all sectors. Some will invest money before going on vacation, others will test the strength of the new authorities. The foreign exchange market will be tested first.

1K 3 min. ... Current account Depositors defeated the Central Bank Moscow depositors, who won cases against debtor banks in the courts, finally had the opportunity to return their money through the cash settlement centers (CCS) of the Bank of Russia.

1K 5 minutes. ... Drachmas have no smell The other day, a presentation of a very exotic project took place at the Orlyonok hotel in the capital. The club with the no less exotic name “480 BC” told about underwater archaeological excavations planned for August off the coast of the Taman Peninsula.