34 5 minutes. ... "We are hurting the interests of the oligarchs" Insider information from Dmitry Vasiliev Tomorrow, at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, draft laws on liability for the use of insider information and on the liability of affiliated persons will be discussed. And the other day, the First Deputy Prime Minister already held a meeting at which the issue of issuing zero-coupon bonds of the Bank of Russia was discussed.

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55 1 min. ... World Athletics Championships Women's 800 m. 1. Lyudmila Formanova (Czech Republic) - 1:56.68. 2. Maria Mutola (Mozambique) - 1:56.92. 3. Svetlana Masterkova - 1:56.93... 5. Natalya Tsyganova - 1:57.81. 6. Natalya Gorelova - 1:57.90. Men's 10,000 m. 1. Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia) - 27:57.27. 2. Paul Tergat (Kenya) - 27:58.56. 3. Assefa Nezgebu (Ethiopia) - 27:59.15. Men, disc. 1. Anthony Washington (USA) - 69.08. 2. Jurgen Schult - 68.18. 3. Lars Riedel (both Germany) - 68.09...

27 1 min. ... Seven corpses in the house of the Taliban leader Late on Tuesday evening, an assassination attempt was made on the spiritual leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar. A bomb exploded near his residence in Kandahar. Seven people were killed, including three of Omar's bodyguards. The mullah himself was not injured. “This is a conspiracy by our enemies,” said a Taliban spokesman.

23 2 minutes. ... The most European Argentine Julio Cortazar turns 85 85 years ago, one of the most popular Latin American writers in Russia, Julio Cortazar, was born. Unlike such South American soil writers as Gabriel García Márquez or Jorge Amado, whose works are for us behind a certain ethnographic barrier, Cortázar has always been perceived in our area as a European writer.

43 2 minutes. ... Swiss accountant collected weapons In extra large sizes Yesterday in Bern, prosecutors searched the office of suspended intelligence chief Peter Regli and two of his subordinates. This event became another episode of the scandal associated with the name of the chief accountant of the Swiss intelligence service, Dino Belassi, against whom a charge of embezzlement on an especially large scale was brought - 8.5 million Swiss francs ($5.75 million).

941 3 min. ... The famous gallery owner has died For forty years Leo Castelli controlled modern art Leo Castelli died in his New York home at the age of 91. For forty years he remained the most influential figure in the contemporary art market. Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra and Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman owe their fame to him. If an artist exhibited at Castelli, one could consider that he had entered the Olympus of the art world.

87 1 min. ... Is Roma advertising effective? Kirill Samotsvetov, General Director of the Begemot advertising agency - This advertising is a game of the elite. And many people understand this. Not quite clean, not quite correct. I believe that such an advertising campaign will not cause much resonance. And all of it is aimed at a narrow contingent of those who understand politics. Moreover, all this is not very effective.

46 2 minutes. ... Caspian oil will flow past Turkey The Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline is unlikely to be built This week, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Tofik Zulfugarov visited Tbilisi. He discussed how the earthquake in Turkey would affect the construction of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The implementation of this ambitious project is in jeopardy. True, this is even beneficial for Georgia.

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43 1 min. ... Birthdays On August 26, director and cinematographer Pyotr Todorovsky turns 74 years old. As a cameraman, he shot the famous films “Spring on Zarechnaya Street”, “Two Fedora”, directed the films “City Romance”, “Loyalty”, “One’s Own Land”, “The Last Sacrifice”, “The Beloved Woman of Mechanic Gavrilov”, “Military field novel", "Intergirl", "Anchor, more anchor!" and "Retro Threesome".

124 2 minutes. ... Tver bandits were disarmed Employees of the RUBOP of the Moscow region, together with their Tver colleagues, detained two bandits suspected of kidnapping. During a search in the house of one of them, an entire arsenal was found: a machine gun, a sawed-off rifle, a carbine, cartridges and 37 kg of explosives. A month ago, a resident of Balashikha near Moscow placed an advertisement in a local newspaper about the sale of a garage.

82 2 minutes. ... Khalifman for an hour Half of the final match for the FIDE World Championship is over. However, is it half? After all, Vladimir Akopyan, having lost at the start, has already equalized the score. And if six games are not enough to determine the winner, don’t blame me, but the tiebreaker meat grinder will come into force again. Well, even at the World Cup, the winner was somehow determined in a penalty shootout.

54 1 min. ... Gene Simmons: We suck musically The fact that I was born in Israel is an accident. I could have been born in Paris. I didn't choose. But I like to think that I am a child of the planet. Any artist starts out as an artist and then becomes a businessman. Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Mozart - they were all commercial artists. I think I'm in good company. Musically, we suck. But in trading in the morning we beat the nose of any group. No problem.

140 1 min. ... Rally "1000 lakes". 10th stage of the World Championship 1. Juha Kankkunen (Finland, Subaru). 2. Richard Burns (Great Britain, Subaru). 3. Carlos Sainz (Spain, Toyota). Overall standings. 1. Tommi Mäkinen (Finland, Mitsubishi) - 48 points. 2. Didier Auriol (France, Toyota) - 38. 3-4. Sainz and Kankkunen - 34. Championship of factory brands. 1. Toyota - 85. 2. Subaru - 68. 3. Mitsubishi - 61. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 153 dated 08.26.1999, p. 11