131 1 min. ... the governor of the Kostroma region and the president of the Association of Russian Banks will take part in the meeting of the regional council of interbank cooperation. Sergey Shelekhov, President of the association of tobacco distributors "Grandtabak", will hold negotiations with top managers of the Bulgarian tobacco holding "Bulgartabak", at which the terms of further cooperation will be discussed.

According to Japanese authorities, the fire that started on July 4 at one of the country's nuclear power plants has stopped. There were no casualties, no radiation leak was detected. The official version of the incident is that the fire started after the explosion of a furnace in which waste with low levels of radiation was burned. This furnace is located in an auxiliary room near the reactor.

On July 4, the agency postponed the launch of the Mars exploration vehicle to July 6. The engineers were unable to fix the detected problems in a timely manner. AP reports that technical errors were also identified during testing on the already launched Mars Express device. According to experts, the rover operates at only 70% of its capacity. NASA has set the deadline for the launch of the second Mars Express to July 15. It should be launched into orbit by a Delta II rocket.

obituary 124 1 min. ... Jazz flautist Herbie Mann died of prostate cancer in New Mexico. He was seventy-three years old. Herbie Mann was once asked a question: what would be the ideal lineup of musicians for his music? Mann replied that it would be a big band, but with three rhythm sections - for jazz, Brazilian music and soul: "I could play all this music, I don't like to play the same thing. I like to try to develop the music, take it to a new level.

Baron Singer 162 3 min. ... The scandal with the possible eviction of the St. Petersburg House of Books from a historic building on Nevsky has reached a new level. Yesterday, high city and federal officials came to Singer's mansion to understand the situation on the spot. At the same time, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Valery Nazarov, publicly stated that he would not allow the St. Petersburg real estate agency to evict a famous store from it. With details LILIYA TRETYAKOVA.

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On July 10 and 11, the performance of the Taiwanese physical theater "Ecmi" "Zhan Ruan" (directed by Shih-Ji-Tze) will be presented at the School of Dramatic Arts theater. Viewers should not expect a familiar story about a womanizer and an atheist: the East is a delicate matter. And physical theater (albeit the most brutal of all varieties of modern dance) is a particularly delicate matter. Those who do physical theater are almost stuntmen.

by oneself 16 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, in the administration of the Rostov region, the Minister of Industry, Energy and Natural Resources of the Rostov Region Sergei Nazarov held a meeting with representatives of the capital's Akropol Bank, which is an investor in the construction of three new mines and a processing plant in the Eastern Donbass.

16 3 min. ... On Wednesday, at the next off-site meeting of the federal and regional commissions to prepare for the celebration of the centenary of the canonization of St. Seraphim of Sarov, the first results of the work were summed up. At the moment, 80% of the plan for the restoration and reconstruction of facilities located in Sarov and Diveevo has been completed.

To compete with large holdings 109 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, at an extended meeting of the Council of the Association of Peasant and Farm Enterprises (AKFH) of the Omsk Region, the President of the Russian Farmers Association, Vladimir Bashmachnikov, said that average farmers will be able to compete with large agricultural holdings only by cooperating with each other.

Mezhprombank was searched incorrectly 196 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Leninsky District Court of Ufa adopted a resolution in which it declared illegal the search in the Ufa branch of Mezhprombank, carried out on June 11 by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria (see Kommersant of June 16).

panic 1K 2 minutes. ... The scandalous events surrounding YUKOS reduced the company's capitalization by $2 billion. Yesterday, at the end of the day, the company's shares fell in price by 6%, while during trading the drop reached 11%. A greater fall was prevented by brokers close to YUKOS, who began buying up the company's shares.

tourist market 41 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST) sent a letter to the head of the State Civil Aviation Service of the Ministry of Transport, Alexander Neradko. PCT's appeal is caused by the critical situation with the departure of tourists from Sheremetyevo Airport. The airport demands payment for additional services, threatening to postpone charter flights.

The current rating is truly summer. It contained a selection of books that seemed designed to be forgotten on the beach. Moreover, they were all ranked on the list according to the degree of speed of forgetting. If you can still take a walk “West of the Sun” with the popular Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, then “Testament of a Raven”, “The Role of a Virgin” and “Taste of a Vampire”, like true trash literature, are just asking to be thrown into the trash cans.

On July 4, a Moscow court granted the claim of the chairman of the Yabloko party for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The deputy demanded to refute the statements of the host of the Gloomy Morning program that Mr. Yavlinsky was personally to blame for the collapse of the Soviet Union. In addition, the party leader was dissatisfied with Alexander Gordon's statement that Grigory Yavlinsky's election campaign was financed from the United States.