On May 20, the former commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, Admiral Gennady Suchkov, who was sentenced to 4 years of probation for the death of the K-159 nuclear submarine, filed a preliminary cassation appeal against the verdict. As a source in the Northern Sea Military Court told ITAR-TASS , the lawyers have not yet presented arguments on which they hope to appeal the court's decision. This will be done after the defense attorneys review the court records.

There is no mechanism for enforcement of decisions of the European Court. 38 1 min. ... There is no mechanism for enforcement of decisions of the European Court. Mr. Gusinsky’s lawyers will not be able, following the example of Noga’s lawyers, to seize Russian property abroad for the purpose of foreclosure on it. However, during the entire existence of the European Court, not a single case is known when its decision was not voluntarily executed.

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municipal elections 68 3 min. ... Yesterday, the former mayor of the capital of Primorye, State Duma deputy Viktor Cherepkov and deputy of the regional legislative assembly Vladimir Nikolaev notified the city electoral commission of their intention to run for the post of mayor of Vladivostok. Both politicians, along with the current mayor Yuri Kopylov, are considered favorites in the upcoming elections scheduled for July 4.

10 1 min. ... Morning fix ($/troy oz.) Afternoon fix ($/troy oz.) Chg. (%) Buy/Sell ($/troy oz.) Gold 380.2 380.75 +0.81 382.2 / 382.8 Silver — 5.72 -0.35 5.88 / 5.92 Platinum 804 806 +0.62 804 / 808 Palladium 240 242 +1.68 241 / 246 Rhodium — — — 780 / 850 According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 89 dated May 20, 2004, p. 18

Employees of the Georgian Ministry of State Security arrested in Tbilisi before the massacre 14 1 min. ... Employees of the Ministry of State Security of Georgia arrested in Tbilisi in front of the residence of the president a member of the country's parliament, elected on the list of the ruling party (the party of President Mikheil Saakashvili) "United National Movement - Democrats", Giorgi Kenchadze. He is charged with extortion.

Yesterday, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II (pictured on the right) consecrated the temple 69 1 min. ... Yesterday, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II (pictured on the right) consecrated the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Kashirskoe Highway, founded in honor of the millennium of the baptism of Rus'. According to the designers, it should become the second most important (after the Cathedral of Christ the Savior) church in Russia.

The head of Khakassia was hospitalized with thrombosis 18 1 min. ... Yesterday, unofficial sources in Abakan reported that the Chairman of the Government of Khakassia, Alexey Lebed, was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the republican hospital with a diagnosis of thrombosis of the venous system. He was operated on in the hospital, and in the coming days he is due to fly to Moscow for further treatment.

On May 20, the press secretary of the commission created by George Bush to study available intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, Larry McQuillan, announced that the commission would begin work in the near future. The commission will compare intelligence data on Iraqi weapons with those obtained after the start of the Iraq War. "The goal is to determine how reliable American intelligence was.

12 2 minutes. ... (billion rubles) Money supply as of 04/01/04 3430.4 Monetary base as of 05/11/04 1469.5 Gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank as of 07.

Writer Sergey Kurkov, Moscow: “Before the Duma adopted the law on compulsory insurance of auto-citizenship, there was an opinion that as soon as he enters into force, such a phenomenon as settles would immediately disappear from our roads. But everything, alas, remained the oldest. The story that took place on an April day with my 65-year-old father, he was a confirmation of this.

As St. Petersburg prosecutor Nikolai Vinnichenko announced on May 20, there are already detainees in the high-profile murder case of a 9-year-old girl from Tajikistan in the northern capital. Investigators believe that the Tajik family was attacked not by skinheads, but by hooligans. Mr. Vinnychenko boasted that under his leadership “the investigation does not stop for a single day.” The work yielded results: there are “specific suspects,” but the prosecutor did not say who they were.

foreign investment 64 3 min. ... Yesterday, the American oil and gas company Dune Energy (DE) announced the purchase of 78% of its own shares in one of the Itera group companies - Itera Holdings BV. The stock market capitalization of this stake is about $70 million, but it cost Itera only $12 million. There is no official explanation for this discrepancy in the value of the purchased shares of Itera.

Causes of plane collision revealed 1K 3 min. ... plane crash investigation Yesterday, the German Federal Air Accident Investigation Office (BFU) published the final report on the investigation into the causes of the collision on July 1, 2002 over Lake Constance between a Bashkir Airlines TU-154 and a DHL Boeing cargo plane. As a result of the disaster, 71 people died, including 48 children.