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63 2 minutes. ... Keizo Obuchi remained leader parties and states Yesterday, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) held elections for its chairman. This post was retained by Keizo Obuchi, who automatically remains the country's prime minister for another two years. The overwhelming majority of LDP parliamentarians (253 out of 371) and ordinary party members voted for Keizo Obuchi.

16 2 minutes. ... "Spartak" was left without two Points and players We all expected victory, but it didn’t work out - tired Spartak, with enormous difficulty, brought the Champions League match with Sparta Prague to a 1:1 draw, and it finished the game with nine men. For the second time: on December 8, 1993 at Luzhniki in the Champions League game against Galatasaray, Spartak were let down by Mamedov and Onopko. There was also a draw - 0:0. Nobody doubts the strength of Spartak anymore.

460 3 min. ... Be healthy! The hero of the popular film "Pokrovsky Gate" Khobotov, trying to charm a girl medical worker, invites her to admire the romance of autumn - leaves falling in the rain, etc. To which a reasonable girl replies that this is the most flu time and it is necessary to get vaccinated. Why not listen to the advice of a health professional? It is better to prevent the flu than to treat it later with harmful and expensive antibiotics.

1K 4 min. ... Let's chip in a ruble At the beginning of August (see “Money” #30) in the “Bank of Ideas” section an article was published about the advisability of creating a ruble sign, that is, a symbol that, for example, the dollar has. This idea had both supporters and sponsors. And as a result, a new competition event was born - “Ruble Sign”. In that same article, we recall, we asked the question: why does the Russian ruble need its own symbol?

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2K 4 min. ... The culprit of the explosions has been found The police have been preparing for terrorist attacks since spring The police authorities found the person responsible for the explosion of a house on Kashirskoye Highway. This is the district police officer of the Nagatino-Sadovniki municipal district, Lieutenant Dmitry Kuzovov.

58 3 min. ... People don't want to be idiots That's why they buy contemporary artists The Paris Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) traditionally opens the international art fair season. Its main sensation is that contemporary art has ceased to be elitist, says our Paris correspondent VLADIMIR Y-MIRONENKO. This time the fair was held in a new location - in the Parc des Expositions on the outskirts of Paris (previously it was held on the Seine embankment and in the Grand Palais).

925 1 min. ... Alumina processing After a long conflict last week, representatives of Alfa Group, with the support of the administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, managed to take control of the Achinsk Alumina Refinery. The Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, expelled from the enterprise, began an economic blockade of the AGC. Until October 1996, the Achinsk Alumina Refinery was managed by KrAZ, its main shareholder.

20 1 min. ... New head of a dead service Yesterday Vasily Kozhin was appointed new director of the Federal Service for Currency and Export Control (VEC). However, a personnel change will not change anything if the VEC remains the “fifth wheel” in the currency control system. Kozhin’s appointment is not surprising - until recently he headed the North-Western regional department of the EEC, located in St. Petersburg. And the St.

797 7 min. ... TV program TV program [Wednesday, September 22] ORT 6.00 TV channel "Good morning" 9.00 News 9.15 "In the name of love" 10.15 "Pun". Humor magazine 10.45 Topic 11.25 Home library 11.30 "Family Secrets" 12.00 News (with sign language translation) 12.15 TV channel "Good Day" 13.10 "We call fire on ourselves." Episode 2 14.30 Program "Together" 15.00 News (with sign language translation) 15.15 Cartoon session.

59 2 minutes. ... Luzhkov opened Vienna and again offended Yeltsin Arriving in Vienna, Luzhkov once again used a foreign platform to sharply criticize Boris Yeltsin. At the same time, the mayor again renounced his presidential ambitions and announced that he would support President Yevgeny Primakov in the elections. From Vienna - Kommersant correspondent ELENA TREGUBOVA.

27 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 09.20.99 ($) Change per day ($) Aluminum LME spot ton 1511 +10 Aluminum LME 3 months ton 1545 +9 Copper grade A LME spot ton 1795 +25 Copper grade A LME 3 months ton 1830 +24 Copper COMEX futures, December lb.

54 2 minutes. ... Last night of Taipei On Tuesday night, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale occurred in Taiwan. More than 1,800 people were killed, up to 10 thousand were injured. The number of dead and injured will grow, since at least 1.2 thousand island residents are buried under the ruins of collapsed houses. The epicenter of the earthquake was in a resort area in Nantou County, 145 kilometers southwest of Taiwan's capital Taipei.

83 4 min. ... What to read with Mikhail Kommersant-Novikov Melancholy autumn leaves "In matters of culture, it is not demand that determines supply, but exactly the opposite. You read Dante because he wrote the Divine Comedy, and not because you suddenly felt the need for Dante." Brodsky, as usual, said it bluntly. Poetic Marxism, inverted, also applies to such a mundane area as book publishing.