15K 4 min. ... The Case of the Skopinsky Pope Employees of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Ryazan Region arrested the criminal "authority" Vyacheslav Kuzin.

414 3 min. ... The fattest and thinnest director in the world Vladimir Naumov, director: — This is an outstanding director, the founder of an entire movement in cinematography. Until the end of his days he remained an unsurpassed master in his genre. He was called the fattest and thinnest director in the world. Thick - in the physical sense and thin - in the psychological sense. He is one of the pillars of world cinema.

100 2 minutes. ... The Prime Minister with whom there is nothing to bargain I. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday took the first step towards his approval in the State Duma. The traditional consultations of the candidate for the prime minister's post with the Duma members do not promise any surprises: even Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who, as a rule, actively puts forward conditions for the next candidate, ended up doing without it yesterday.

315 2 minutes. ... Journalists beaten on private island Security guards of Damir Shadayev, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region, beat the film crew of the television program “Sutki”. Journalists tried to film a report about how the deputy, who is now running for the post of governor of the Leningrad region, lives. A criminal case has been opened into the attack on reporters.

32 7 min. ... Prices of major commodities on international exchanges Product name Place of sale Type of contract, maturity date Unit of measurement Price as of 08/11/99 ($) Change per day ($) Aluminum LME spot ton 1427 +4 Aluminum LME 3 months ton 1456 +4 Copper grade A LME spot ton 1653 -16 Copper grade A LME 3 months ton 1686 -18 Copper COMEX futures, September lb.

18 2 minutes. ... The Beavers are in a cage The Ministry of Justice gave a negative opinion on the draft government resolution regulating the issue of Bank of Russia bonds ("beavers"). The remarks of the Ministry of Justice are so significant that they nullify the attempts of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance to legitimize the issue of these securities in a form convenient for themselves. Bank of Russia bonds appeared on the market immediately after the August crisis.

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113 1 min. ... Videotaped robbery Yesterday afternoon in the center of St. Petersburg, not far from the Sennaya Ploshchad metro station, a pawn shop was robbed. The security alarm went off on time, but the criminals acted so quickly that they managed to escape before the police arrived. The Admiralty branch of OJSC "United Pawnshop" on Petra Alekseev Street, 4 is one of the oldest and largest pawnshops of this company (it has seven similar establishments in total).

37 1 min. ... TODAY: Vladimir Putin will take part in a meeting of the Interregional Association "Siberian Agreement" in Tomsk The calendar plan for the election campaign will be adopted at the meeting of the Central Election Commission Leaders of the Fatherland, All Russia and Agrarian Party movements will discuss tactics in the parliamentary elections READ TOMORROW'S ISSUE OF KOMMERSANT Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 144 dated 08/13/1999, p. 1

233 2 minutes. ... Not combat losses With the outbreak of fighting in Dagestan, an information war broke out between the federal authorities and militants. Each side reports its successes and seeks to hide its failures. Because of this, a lot of confusion arises when calculating losses. Although there is no doubt that before the start of a large-scale military operation, the federal forces with superior technology lost significantly fewer people than Islamic extremists.

368 32 min. ... Poster poster August 14-20 Moscow Exhibitions museums State Tretyakov Gallery Lavrushinsky lane, 10 951-1362 "The World of Art and the Revival of Original Engraving" / until the end of September Ignatius Nivinsky. "Nude." 1915-1916 (State Tretyakov Gallery) State Museum of Fine Arts named after. A. S. Pushkina st.

14 1 min. ... What will happen to Russian offshore companies? "...The Russian Ministry of Finance considers it necessary: propose to local self-government bodies of CATU... to make changes to agreements with taxpayers on the provision of tax benefits, with a view to completely excluding from them tax benefits on excise taxes and VAT, as well as taxes and fees credited to target budget funds.

60 3 min. ... Mozart is a circus The world's most prestigious opera festival has opened in Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace. This year, for the first time in its 74-year history, it turned completely towards contemporary music.

8 1 min. ... Indices of leading stock exchanges as of August 11 (points) (at the close of trading) DJIA 10787.80 (+132.65) FTSE-100 6014.4 (+36.0) CAC-40 4268.95 (+23.60) DAX-30 5019.69 (+18.82) Nikkei-225* 17422.97 (+211.81). *As of August 12.

97 2 minutes. ... “I will teach them how to fight, which means I will save someone’s life.” Yesterday Budennovsk said goodbye to two pilots of the local 487th helicopter air regiment - Hero of Russia, Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Naumov and Senior Lieutenant Alik Gayazov. They died on Monday during militant shelling of the Botlikh airfield in Dagestan. Friends of the dead pilots promised to avenge them and raze the positions of Shamil Basayev and Khattab to the ground.