WTA tournament in Manhattan Beach (USA). Prize fund - $585 thousand. thirty 1 min. ... The final. Chanda Rubin (USA, 12)--Linsey Davenport (USA, 3) 5:7, 7:6 (7:5), 6:3. ATP Masters Series tournament in Cincinnati (USA). Prize fund: $2.95 million. The final. Carlos Moya (Spain, 16) - Lleyton Hewitt (Australia, 1) 7:5, 7:6 (7:5). Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 142 dated 08/13/2002, p. 16

From August 13, residents of the Northern Hemisphere and some areas of the Southern Hemisphere can observe the annual shower of stars - the fall of the Perseids . This night, many Chinese have already gone to watch how dozens of meteors from the constellation Perseus burn up as they enter the atmosphere (their speed reaches 60 km per second). The Perseids are created by the Earth's annual passage through the orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle.

pole vaulting 64 3 min. ... Victory in the pole vault for 22-year-old Muscovite Svetlana Feofanova at the European Athletics Championships in Munich brought her a very modest result of 4 m 60 cm. However, as the current European record holder SVETLANA FEOFANOVA told Kommersant correspondent VALERIYA MIRONOVA, she is already potentially ready not only take the world record - 4.81, owned by American Stacy Dragila, but beat it.

in Venice 55 4 min. ... biennale architecture The VIII International Architecture Biennale will open on September 7 in Venice. The theme of the biennale is Next architecture. Russia, as Kommersant has already written, represents the project of curator David Sarkisyan “Two Theaters”, the reconstruction project of the Bolshoi Theater by Mikhail Khazanov and Mikhail Belov and the project of the Mariinsky Theater by the American Eric Owen Moss.

On August 12, the head of the UN environmental program UNEP, Klaus Toepfer, appealed to the leaders of the world's leading countries to “move from declarations to concrete steps” and help developing countries cope with the lack of water resources. As reported by the AP, speaking in Stockholm at the opening of the annual symposium on the use of water resources, Toepfer said that 1.1 billion people on the planet lack drinking water, and 2.4 billion cannot use purified and disinfected water.

for non-payment of Internet services 66 3 min. ... Yesterday, information leaked to the media that the local telephone monopolist OJSC North-West Telecom no longer has the right to disconnect the telephone for non-payment of the Internet on credit service. It turns out that the court decision prohibiting Sevzaptelecom from using the right to disconnect was made back in April of this year.

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On August 12, an Israeli military court ruled that relatives of Palestinians suspected of belonging to extremist organizations should be expelled from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. As the BBC notes, analysts have already assessed this measure as a manifestation of the new tactics of the Israeli authorities. It aims to persuade the Palestinians to stop attacking Israelis. According to the court decision, Intisar and Kifa Ajuri, brother and sister of Ali Ajuri, will leave the west bank.

protocol 18 1 min. ... “Finally, I saw with my own eyes what I only read about in books and saw on TV,” Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov said yesterday at a press conference in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. And he explained that he meant not only the world’s only valley of geysers and the Karymsky volcano, but also the entire complex of problems of the Far East. Mr.

On August 13 in St. Petersburg, assistant to the chairman of the New Way of Russia party, Vyacheslav Marychev, Galina Kochurova, reported that the politician suffered a second stroke and was hospitalized in the Leningrad Regional Hospital. The former State Duma deputy, known for his eccentricity, had his right arm and leg paralyzed, and his speech was lost. According to the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Vyacheslav Marychev’s condition is assessed as serious. He was a State Duma deputy in 1993-1995.

Alexander Kommersant-Kabakov 20 2 minutes. ... Kommersant department editor Justice always triumphs. The only sad thing is that some people are invited to this celebration as decorations and hung on trees and lamp posts. In Africa there is a country called Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). For the time being, it languished under the yoke of colonialism.

Russia refuses American volunteers 177 2 minutes. ... scandal The American Peace Corps is forced to significantly reduce the scope of its activities in Russia - Russian authorities have not extended the visas of half of the workers of this voluntary public organization. According to the authorities in many areas where American volunteers worked, they lacked qualifications, and some were simply spies or crazy.

On August 13, representatives of the American Peace Corps announced that they would not send their volunteers to Russia this year due to the Russian authorities’ refusal to issue visas to the organization’s employees. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not comment on what is happening. As BBCRussian.com reports, official structures refuse to renew residence permits in Russia for more than half of the volunteers working in the country.

On August 13, in the Jewish Autonomous Region, a collision between a foreign car and a train at a railway crossing near the Dezhnevo station killed 4 people. The accident occurred at a controlled crossing. The dead - passengers of the car - residents of Khabarovsk.

process 127 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Gagarinsky Court of Moscow released Yakov Goldovsky, the former president of SIBUR, on bail of 20 million rubles. This happened during the trial, which the judge closed from journalists and relatives of the defendants.