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32 2 minutes. ... Result Tennis WTA rating list. (In parentheses is the previous ranking position of the tennis player). 12). Lynsey Davenport (USA) - 5590 points. 2 (1). Martina Hingis (Switzerland) - 5293.3 (3). Steffi Graf (Germany) - 4500. 4 (5). Venus Williams (USA) - 3474.5 (4). Monica Seles (USA) - 3411. 6 (7). Marie Pierce (France) - 2639.7 (6). Yana Novotna (Czech Republic) - 2340. 8 (9). Arancha Sanchez Vicario (Spain) - 2128.9 (10). Amanda Coetzer (South Africa) - 1942. 10 (8).

612 2 minutes. ... Prices will rise by the end of July On July 1, a sales tax was introduced in Moscow. So far prices have barely reacted to it. According to experts, their jump can be expected in two to three weeks. The first attempt to introduce a sales tax was made back in February, but then deputies of the Moscow City Duma and the Moscow government could not agree. The bone of contention was the tax rate. The Duma proposed limiting it to 2%, but Luzhkov insisted on a maximum of 5%.

56 4 min. ... Hamlet can't survive Fortinbras Neither in this century nor in the next In the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, as part of the European Month of Culture program, the international theater festival "Hamlet 2000" was held. It hosted the first foreign tours of both Moscow Hamlets, staged last year by Peter Stein in the enterprise of the Confederation of Theater Unions and Robert Sturua in the Satyricon Theater.

2K 3 min. ... wet business Have you noticed that folk traditions live their own special life, not too dependent on the socio-economic formation and the dominant religion? For example, on July 7, the Orthodox Church celebrates one of its most important holidays - the day of John the Baptist (popularly Ivan Kupala).

911 13 min. ... The mouse got confused The June tournament of portfolio managers ended last week. And with it the whole competition, which consisted of four tournaments. In it I took 83rd place out of 650, despite a complete fiasco in the last tournament. It would be better if I didn’t take part in it at all - I still spent half a month on vacation. Of course, I knew when I was on vacation and could easily have “sold” my portfolio at that time and been left with only money.

163 2 minutes. ... The pension fund sued Sibneft Sibneft, owned by Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky (part of whose shares will soon be put up for sale - see the material on this page) was defeated in a legal battle brought by the Russian Pension Fund. Due to the bankruptcy of the MENATEP bank, Sibneft, which held its accounts in it, was unable to pay the Pension Fund on bills of exchange for more than $40 million.

2K 2 minutes. ... Statistics know everything For example, that today we are all passengers. The simple arguments of the old hit are supported by statistics from the Department of Road Transport of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, according to which public passenger transport enterprises annually transport up to 25 billion passengers.

39 1 min. ... Hamlet could be a woman If it were not for Angela Winkler in the title role, there would be absolutely nothing to say about Hamlet by the famous German director Peter Zadek, staged this year for the Vienna Festival. But Winkler plays so strangely and so strongly that you don’t think about her partners at all. Her acting power lies not in her temperament, but in her ability to mix dull colors and soft emotions.

58 2 minutes. ... The President can be replaced without his consent Yesterday, the Constitutional Court explained how and when the president transfers his powers to the prime minister. After the judges’ verdict, questions about the technology of temporary transfer of power in Russia became not less, but more. The State Duma asked the Constitutional Court to answer three questions. Should the president, in all cases where he is unable to exercise his powers, transfer them to the prime minister?

24 1 min. ... There was no hurricane Employees of emergency and rescue services in the Samara region reported on the consequences of the hurricane, which, as Kommersant already reported, swept over the region last Monday. And they said that the media are greatly exaggerating the size of the natural disaster. Local structures for civil defense and emergency situations believe that there was no real hurricane, which means that no one is to blame that Samara residents were not prepared for it.

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1K 8 min. ... What to put on the wall Are you tired of always bumping into the corners of closets, tripping over vacuum cleaners and constantly bumping into children's toys and clothes scattered around the house that no longer fit anywhere? For sure. And in the summer, when dust accumulates everywhere, such minor troubles become real torture. At times like these, you can give a lot to have everything in one safe place. And there is such a possibility.

5K 1 min. ... It is advisable to find not guilty The Prosecutor General's Office dropped the criminal case regarding the misuse of currency for entertainment expenses by the former head of the Central Bank Sergei Dubinin and his deputies. Thus, the investigators were unable to implement the only promising of all the charges brought against the Central Bank. The Central Bank case can be considered closed.

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