299 1 min. ... On Friday, Pavel Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Financial Markets, said that, according to his data, the banking system has lost 10% of private deposits in recent months. According to Kommersant's data, as of April 1, 2004, of the total amount of private deposits in Russian banks, which reached 1.64 trillion rubles, Sberbank accounted for 1.02 trillion rubles. (62%).

636 6 min. ... Wolves and sheep Photo: AP The US State Department has published a list of gifts to the White House residents from foreign dignitaries. Gifts, as a rule, were quite consistent with the material capabilities of the countries that the donors represented. The first place in the list of generous friends of the Bush family at the end of last year was taken by members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia: they presented gifts totaling about $130 thousand.

TV program [August 9, Monday] 247 14 min. ... FIRST CHANNEL 6.00 TV channel "Good morning" 9.00 News 9.20 Military action movie "Enemy at the Gates". Director J.-J. Anno. Cast: J. Lo, E. Harris, R. Weitz (USA - Germany - UK - Ireland) 11.40 Cartoon 12.00 News 12.10 Adventure drama "Alarming Departure". Directed by V. Chebotarev. Cast: E. Kindinov, I. Dymchenko, V. Samoilov, V.

227 8 min. ... Photo: AP The brawl in honor of the 30-year anniversary of Woodstock brought $ 28.9 million net profit to the organizers 35 years ago, the legendary Woodstock was held, which became an unattainable ideal for all subsequent rock festivals. Recently, they are increasingly turning into a tourist attraction. And it is in this form that the rock and festival culture is transferred to Russian soil.

Defense Minister Gruz will arrive in Moscow on a three-day working visit 201 2 minutes. ... August 9, Monday Georgian Defense Minister Giorgi Baramidze will arrive in Moscow on a three-day working visit. At a meeting with representatives of the Russian authorities, he will discuss issues of resolving the situation in the Caucasus.

Diego Maradona fell to Napoleons 57 1 min. ... Diego Maradona wants to appeal to Argentine President Nestor Kirchner with a request to put pressure on the football player’s family, his agents and the Argentine authorities so that they finally let him go to Cuba. Let us remember that in May, Diego Maradona, at the insistence of his relatives, was placed against his will in a private clinic in Buenos Aires, where they are once again trying to cure him of drug addiction.

Former Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen may take Jenson Button's place in the BAR-Honda team, RIA Novosti reports citing British media. The Finnish racer announced his intention to return to the big sport, and has already managed to attract the attention of the head of the Anglo-American “stable” David Richards, who intends to invite the Finn to replace Button, who is leaving the team.

Policemen trample on universal human values 138 1 min. ... Operatives of the Department of Internal Security Service of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate detained three policemen of the patrol service (PPS) of the Pechatniki police department, who allegedly beat to death a resident of Tatarstan. This was reported yesterday by the capital's law enforcement agencies.

The Russian high jump team has been formed 69 2 minutes. ... At the 2004 Olympic Games, high jumpers Vyacheslav Voronin and Tatyana Novoseltseva will compete for the Russian athletics team. The decision to include them in the Olympic team was made by the Bureau of the Presidium of the All-Russian Athletics Federation following the results of the “Golden-domed Moscow” competition, in which Vyacheslav Voronin cleared the bar at a height of 2.32 m, and Tatyana Novoseltseva - 1.98 m.

Bank of Savings and Development stopped working 62 4 min. ... The Syktyvkar Bank of Savings and Development suddenly suspended work with individuals. Notices that appeared on the doors of all 22 branches on August 4 announced that the suspension of work was caused by the bank changing its software. It was originally planned to resume customer service on August 6th. However, a new announcement dated August 6 states that the bank's suspension of work with clients will be extended until August 9.

The builders no longer counted on this 13 3 min. ... On Friday, the press service of the Russian government announced an order from Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to allocate 500 million rubles for the completion of a complex of protective structures (SPS) - a dam. The decision, which the builders themselves had little hope for, was made as part of an adjustment to the federal budget in terms of public capital investments - it should reassure Western creditors.

natural monopolies 89 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant has learned, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has asked independent gas suppliers Rospan, Northgas and NOVATEK for information about discriminatory restrictions on their access to the Unified Gas Supply System (UGSS). If violations of antimonopoly legislation are detected, Gazprom may be fined and forced to restore access to the pipe for all participants in the gas market.

A group of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) verified the safety of nuclear material in Iraq, ITAR-TASS reports. The mission was organized at the request of the Iraqi side on the basis of an agreement on safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Similar checks have been carried out in Iraq before. In contrast to the comprehensive inspections that were carried out in the period 1991-98.

263 1 min. ... Today 19.00 The main story is that the search and rescue operation continues at the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta. Genre: reportage. The intonation is tense. The presenter reports the discovery of the bodies of two miners: “Thus, the death toll has reached three people. The fate of two more miners who were in the mine at the time of the accident remains unknown.” Footage from the scene of the accident in Vorkuta is provided.

143 8 min. ... Foot storm Photo: DMITRY LEBEDEV, Kommersant We continue to talk about unusual ways to spend leisure time. This time, "Money" correspondents moved to an open body of water and learned to use the power of the wind for personal purposes, mastering the first basics of windsurfing. Henpecked nature We wouldn't talk about windsurfing as an unusual form of recreation if we lived in California. Or in Hawaii.