Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ 38 1 min. ... Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk, Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ On this day, the Church experiences the event when Jesus Christ, on the way to Jerusalem, ascended Mount Tabor, taking with Him three of His disciples: Peter, James and John, and was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as light (Matt. 17:2).

118 2 minutes. ... Over the past two weeks, law enforcement officers in Krasnoyarsk have neutralized two criminal groups that committed robbery attacks in the regional center. Oleg Ozerskikh, deputy head of the criminal police of the Krasnoyarsk Internal Affairs Directorate, announced this at a specially convened press conference yesterday.

8 1 min. ... Term (days) MIBOR (RUB) LIBOR ($) LIBOR (JPY) LIBOR (EUR) LIBOR (GBP) LIBOR (CHF) 1 4.02 — — — — — 7 5.60 1.5625 0.0325 2.06363 4.8175 0.3 thirty 7.18 1.6 0.0375 2.07825 4.855 0.36 60 — 1.67 0.04375 2.09238 4.89125 0.45833 90 7.80 1.73 0.05 2.113 4.95875 0.52 180 9.12 1.92125 0.06 2.16013 5.07375 0.65 360 10.00 2.23 0.08875 2.27025 5.22625 0.85 According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 152 dated 08/19/2004, p. 8

The Nord-Ost tour in St. Petersburg is scheduled to begin on September 24. As planned by the organization 72 3 min. ... Yesterday information appeared about the cancellation of the tour of the musical "Nord-Ost" in St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg Music Hall, on whose stage the tour was planned, unexpectedly refused to host the famous performance. The Nord-Ost tour in St. Petersburg is scheduled to begin on September 24.

Islamic manuscripts in the Historical Museum 137 3 min. ... exhibition of rarities An exhibition of Islamic handwritten books from Moscow collections has opened at the Historical Museum. Exhibitions of this scale have not been held in Moscow for more than a hundred years. Looking at manuscripts that had never been exhibited before, SERGEY Kommersant-Khodnev tried to discern the difference between the “naskh” and “nastaliq” handwritings of Arabic writing.

At the artistic gymnasts' individual all-around competitions held on August 19 at the Olympic Games in Athens, Russian Svetlana Khorkina won a silver medal. American Carly Patterson took the lead. Chinese representative Zhang Nan received bronze. Another Russian gymnast Anna Pavlova became fourth.

Due to the conflict between the mayor and deputies eleven 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, in the Leninsky District Court of Samara, a process began on the application of the city mayor and Duma Speaker Georgy Limansky to a group of deputies. The mayor asks that the holding of a meeting by 23 people's representatives on July 23, at which, in his absence, they distributed Duma portfolios among themselves and changed some local laws, should be declared illegal.

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19 1 min. ... The director of the Barnaul Basic Medical College, Nikolai Kolmykov, was detained for accepting a bribe in the amount of 10 thousand rubles. Yesterday the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Altai Territory reported this. According to the police, he received a bribe for helping an applicant enter the Faculty of Preventive Medicine. Operational measures were taken to expose the bribe-taker.

On August 19, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow rejected the petition of the defender of the chairman of the board of directors of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev. The lawyer asked to change the measure of restraint for his client and release him from custody. In addition, the court rejected the defense’s request to order an independent medical examination for Platon Lebedev and suspend the trial until the completion of the medical examination, RIA Novosti reports.

On August 19, the Russian government will hold a meeting, the main issue of which will be a discussion of the forecast for the country's socio-economic development for 2005, as well as for the period up to 2007. The head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, German Gref, will present the forecasts. In addition, Mr.

swimming 479 2 minutes. ... Last night, the most prestigious event of the Olympic swimming program - the final of the 100-meter freestyle - took place in the Athens Olympic pool. Dutch sprinter Pieter van den Hoogenband, as four years ago in Sydney, became the first. Kommersant correspondent ALEXEY DOSPEKHOV provides details. It was completely unclear what to expect from this swim: many incredible events happened in the swimming sprint at the Olympics before it.

make a capital crime 15 2 minutes. ... Yesterday in Khabarovsk, a meeting with journalists was held by the deputy head of the ORB department for economic and tax crimes of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, Alexander Kushnir. Mr.

Chinese weightlifter, 2003 world champion Li Chinhong set world and Olympic records in the snatch at the Athens Olympics. Li Chunhong, competing in the up to 69 kg category, set a record among women by lifting 122.5 kg in the snatch, ITAR-TASS reports.

He faces a fine for discrimination 128 2 minutes. ... antitrust investigation Yesterday, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) opened a case against Gazprom OJSC, Mezhregiongaz LLC and Surgutgazprom LLC on grounds of violation of antimonopoly legislation, expressed in discrimination against independent gas suppliers - Rospan CJSC, Northgas LLC and OJSC NOVATEK - to the Unified Gas Supply System (UGSS). This decision may result in fines against the suspects.