On the night of July 2-3, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security, famous legislator and publicist Yuri Shchekochikhin died. Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, told the radio station Ekho Moskvy about this. Yuri Shchekochikhin was born in 1950 in the city of Kirovobad, Azerbaijan SSR.

Austria Austria From July 10 to August 10, every summer in Vienna hosts the Impulstanz festival, also known as the Vienna dance weeks. This major holiday of modern dance quickly acquires the status of one of the most striking Viennese events. In August, one of the most famous music festivals in Europe will be held - Salzburg. The greatest attention of the participants and spectators of the Salzburg festival is given to the traditions and sources of Austrian art.

In the Primorsky Territory, restrictions imposed due to the SARS outbreak in China and other countries in the Asian region have been lifted. The decree on this was signed on July 3 by the chief state sanitary doctor of the Primorsky Territory, Dmitry Maslov. Restrictions on business and tourist trips of Russian citizens to China and the countries of Southeast Asia, where cases of mass cases of SARS were recorded in the spring of 2003, have been lifted.

If the court agrees with the state prosecutor 44 1 min. ... process The Moscow Garrison Military Court began yesterday the debate in the case of the former chief financier of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Georgy Oleynik. The state prosecutor asked that the defendant be sentenced to eight years in prison for abuse of power and be deprived of all titles and awards.

32 3 min. ... Yesterday, the state institution “Housing and Communal Services Management Company of the City of Naberezhnye Chelny” filed a statement of claim with the Arbitration Court of Tatarstan against the Naberezhnye Chelny LLC “City Settlement Center”, which had stopped transferring funds to the company’s current account since March of this year.

Seizure of Russian planes declared illegal 134 3 min. ... victory Yesterday, the court of the Parisian suburb of Bobigny upheld Russia's claim against the Swiss company Noga regarding the illegality of the arrests of Russian aircraft in 2001 at the aerospace show in Le Bourget. Now Russian aircraft manufacturers will be able to exhibit their aircraft at international military air exhibitions. True, only if the Swiss company agrees with the decision of the French court.

On the morning of July 3, a passenger bus overturned in the Krymsky district of the Krasnodar Territory. As a result, the bus driver died. 4 out of 30 passengers were injured, two of them are in serious condition. According to Oleg Grekov, assistant head of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia , the accident occurred 22 kilometers northwest of the city of Krymsk, on the highway leading to the Pavlovsky farm.

Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov 296 1 min. ...

"Nakoykazzi" was shown in Moscow 153 3 min. ... movie premiere The premiere of the film “Naqoyqatsi” (2003), the last part of the documentary trilogy by one of the strangest directors in the world, Godfrey Reggio, took place in Moscow. It is dedicated to the crisis of modern civilization and was created in collaboration with composer Philip Glass. The work took 12 years. Mikhail Kommersant-TROFIMENKOV comments.

On July 3, at the opening of trading on the MICEX, the oil company's shares immediately fell by 10.5%, and on the RTS quotations fell by 3.44%. Analysts attribute this collapse to the arrest of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC International Financial Association MENATEP Platon Lebedev. As is known, MENATEP is the main shareholder of YUKOS . Many big businessmen believe that this arrest marked the beginning of a campaign against the oligarchs.

The case of Evgeniy Nazdratenko lives and wins 34 2 minutes. ... government regulation Yesterday, at a meeting of the government commission for the development of legal acts in the field of the fishery complex, the concept for the development of the fishing industry for the period until 2020 was generally approved. There was no place in the concept for fish auctions, so if the government approves it on July 17, fishermen will be able to forget about them.

German Gref with Pascal Lamy 37 3 min. ... WTO Yesterday, Minister of Economic Development German Gref, accompanied by the main Russian participants in negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO, arrived in Strasbourg to meet with EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. The Ministry of Economic Development unofficially explained the need for this trip by saying that the time had come to make “political decisions” in the negotiations. Mr.

doctors and rescuers 13 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the prosecutor's office of the Omsk region issued instructions to the heads of the regional sanitary and epidemiological surveillance center and the main directorate for civil emergency situations (GU GO Emergencies) in the Omsk region regarding the mass incidence of hepatitis.

709 1 min. ... The 43-year-old president of Group Menatep Platon Lebedev, according to the British magazine Forbes, ranks 13th in the list of the richest people in Russia. Mr. Lebedev's fortune is estimated at at least $1 billion. This amount is the value of his 7% stake in Group Menatep, the main asset of which is the Yukos oil company. In 1981, Mr. Lebedev graduated from the Plekhanov Moscow Institute of National Economy.

Jack Straw visits Iraq 114 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived in Iraq to meet with the head of the interim administration, Paul Bremer. Mr Straw arrived in Basra, where he first met with the command of the British contingent in Iraq. Afterwards, on his way to Baghdad, he told reporters: "Don't think we're going to run away from here.