On October 30, an explosive device went off at the entrance to the Baghdad bureau of the pan-Arab satellite TV channel Al-Arabiya, located in the center of the Iraqi capital. 16 canal employees were injured. There is no information about the dead. The explosion caused serious damage to the building. Al-Arabiya's Baghdad correspondent Najwa Kassem reported that after the explosion, a large fire broke out in the offices. Television equipment is damaged.

The Japanese "King Lear" will be played at the Moscow Art Theater The Moscow Art Theater will host the Moscow premiere of the play “King Lear,” directed by the famous Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki (Kommersant wrote about him on October 18).

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ATP St Petersburg Open tournament. Prize fund - $1 million 286 1 min. ... Second circle. Marat Safin (Russia, 1) - Sargis Sargsyan (Armenia) 6:4, 6:2. 1/4 finals. Karol Beck (Slovakia) - Cyril Saulnier (France) 6:3, 7:6 (7:3). Michael Llodra (France, 7)-- Safin 4:6, 1:6. Mikhail Youzhny (Russia, 4) - Julien Benneteau (France) 6:0, 6:1. ATP tournament in Basel (Switzerland). Prize fund - €989 thousand. Second circle. Stefan Koubek (Austria) - Gaston Gaudio (Argentina, 3) 6:1, 1:6, 6:3.

for eyes 68 2 minutes. ... The Khabarovsk regional branch of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPUR) held a picket yesterday near the building of the Russian Presidential Embassy in the Far Eastern Federal District. The action was organized against the transfer of the Tarabarovs and part of the Big Ussuri Islands to China. The picketers promised to appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation if the demarcation changes are ratified.

Adrian Mutu sacked by Chelsea Romanian national football team striker Adrian Mutu has been sacked from Chelsea in London. “The contract with the player was terminated due to Adrian Mutu being convicted of drug use,” the club said in a statement. Let us recall that the September doping test of the football player (whom the Londoners bought from Parma for almost $30 million in August last year) gave a positive result for cocaine.

eleven 1 min. ... Yesterday in the Leninsky Court of Samara a hearing was held on the claim of the city prosecutor's office, demanding that the creation of an anti-terrorism commission by the city administration be declared illegal. Judge Alexander Lapchenko postponed the hearing of the case until November 17 due to the fact that the parties reached a temporary compromise.

Sergei Bagapsh served as President of Abkhazia for only five hours fair elections The situation in Abkhazia has deteriorated to the limit. As Kommersant has already reported, on Thursday evening Judge Georgy Akaba announced the decision of the Supreme Court of the republic, according to which opposition candidate Sergei Bagapsh was recognized as the winner of the presidential elections held on October 3.

without the Mensheviks and the mayor 5 2 minutes. ... Yesterday in Samara, 20 deputies of the City Duma, in the absence of the speaker and mayor of the city Georgy Limansky and 10 parliamentarians loyal to him, held a meeting. They considered about 20 issues, but the most important ones - about budget execution in the first half of 2004, about the draft budget for 2005 and changes to the city Charter - could not be discussed without their opponents.

Board of Directors Yesterday the Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia met in Moscow. The issues considered varied: from analyzing the progress of reforming the electric power industry in general to the creation of new energy entities - territorial generating companies (TGK). In addition, the directorate of the energy holding made a decision regarding additional issues of shares of its subsidiaries - the System Operator company and the Bureyskaya HPP.

Evrazholding received more than $500 million in six months Yesterday the Evrazholding group announced the results of the activities of Mastercroft Ltd, the group's holding company, in the first half of 2004 according to IFRS. Net profit for this period amounted to $508.9 million, revenue reached $2.83 billion. Mastercroft's total assets by June 30 amounted to $3.44 billion (as of December 31, 2003 - $2.09 billion).

integration Yesterday in Rome, the leaders of 25 EU member countries signed a pan-European constitution. This act could be called historic (a united Europe receives a single fundamental law for the first time), if not for many factors casting doubt on whether this document will ever begin to work. The need to adopt a pan-European fundamental law was discussed at the beginning of the last century, when the idea of ​​​​creating the United States of Europe (USE) appeared.

paying 8.5 million rubles to the budget of the Krasnodar region 313 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Tax Crimes Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnodar Territory dropped claims against Philip Morris Kuban OJSC regarding non-payment of value added tax in the amount of 8.5 million rubles, since the company had fully repaid its debt to the budget. Identification of tax violations of other budget-forming enterprises of the region will continue.

as determined by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation 13 1 min. ... As Kommersant learned, the panel of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the submission of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation against the Supreme Court's ruling dated September 27, according to which the case on setting the date for the election of the governor of the Samara region was returned to the regional court.

Part of its deposits went to TNK-BP 156 2 minutes. ... Last Thursday, the oil company TNK-BP announced the acquisition from NK Slavneft, of which it is a shareholder, four enterprises that own licenses for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Yamalo-Nenets and Taimyr Autonomous Okrug. The parties do not disclose the purchase price; the investment companies estimate it at $150 million.