A bad Hollywood actor is one who has never attempted great things in his career. So handsome Benjamin Bratt took on a serious role. He plays Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci, who leads a unit sent on a dangerous mission. The staunch soldier and patriot of the usually dazzlingly smiling Bratt came out as tortured - the actor simply makes brutal faces more often than he had to do in police action films.

TermRussian rubleEuro*English pound*Japanese yenSwiss FrancIndian RupeeTurkish lira Overnight 28.4779 1.22895 1.80205 110.0303 1.25901 43,652 1353315 Tomorrow 28.4765 1.22905 1.8019 110.0083 1.25881 43,652 1352650 1 week 28,474 1.22929 1.80178 109.9539 1.25832 43.6525 1352043.9 1 month 28,482 1.23052 1.80084 109.6987 1.25596 43.6775 1375900 2 months 28,482 1.23237 1.79986 109.3297 1.25255 43.7 1393700 3 months 28,502 1.23426 1.79924 108.9775 1.24937 43.73 1416750 6 months 28,532 1.24064 1.79848

At first, it is difficult to discern the unrealized courage in the main character - the frail English pigeon Valiant, who risked joining the Royal Postal Pigeon Service. The namesake of one of the Knights of the Round Table, who can barely lift a barbell, is still allowed to participate in this task: to deliver a dispatch from France to London about the opening of the Second Front of World War II.

arbitration practice The Court of Appeal refused to recover 509 million rubles from the Capital Insurance Company (SSO). in favor of Sodbiznesbank. If the ex-head of the bank, Roman Petrov, could convince the court that his signature on the documents on the insurer’s repayment of the loan to the bank was forged, then Sodbiznesbank would be able to return to its depositors about 70% of the funds unpaid during the liquidation process.

The purchase of Malev by Russian companies is being hampered by trade unions the international cooperation A meeting of the board of the Hungarian State Privatization Agency (APV) is due to take place today. According to Kommersant's information, a deal to sell the state stake in Malev Hungarian Airlines to Airbridge Rt, a company friendly to private shareholders of Krasnoyarsk Airlines (KrasAir), may be approved.

arrest The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA and the French agency France Presse reported yesterday the arrest in Russia of Bosnian Serb Dragan Zelenovic, accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to Kommersant's information, the ICTY sent information about his exact location on Russian territory, namely in Khanty-Mansiysk, to Moscow more than three months ago.

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Yesterday, the price of oil on the NYSE reached a new historical high - $68/barrel. Day trading ended at $67.49, which is a new closing record for 22 years of concluding futures contracts for the supply of “black gold” on the exchange. The growth of quotations was spurred, in particular, by the strengthening of the tropical cyclone Katrina approaching the coast of Florida to a hurricane.

scandal On Wednesday evening, one of the key ministers in the Slovak government, Economy Minister Pavol Rusko, was dismissed. He was suspected of receiving a bribe of more than $3 million. Considering the fact that Pavol Rusko heads one of the four parties included in the ruling coalition, observers believe that this could lead to a political crisis and early parliamentary elections.

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Champions League On Wednesday, all 32 participants in the group stage of the Champions League became known. There were no loud sensations in the third qualifying round - almost all the favorites overcame it without losses. The last team from the post-Soviet space to drop out of the fight for participation in the group stage of the Champions League was Shakhtar Donetsk. Based on the sum of two meetings, the champion of Ukraine lost to the third team of Italy at the end of last season.

UEFA Cup Yesterday, two Ukrainian clubs - Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk and Metallurg Donetsk - qualified for the 1/64 of the UEFA Cup. They defeated their opponents in the second qualifying round at home: “Dnepr” - Armenian “Banants” 4:0 (first match - 4:2), and “Metallurg” - Hungarian Sopron 2:1 (3:0). However, after convincing away victories, we didn’t expect anything else from Ukrainian clubs.

Under the Criminal Code article on fraud 44 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant learned, the prosecutor's office of the Omsk region appealed the decision of the district court made in July of this year against the chief agronomist of the Omsk region, Alexander Terentyev. The court sentenced the official to two years in prison for fraud: he took money from Chinese entrepreneurs, promising to help them obtain work permits for guest workers in the Irtysh region.

The Portuguese named the composition The head coach of the Portuguese national team, Luis Felipe Scolari, announced the squad for the qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup with the teams of Luxembourg and Russia, which will take place on September 3 and 7.

10 1 min. ... Metallurgy KraMZ found a temporary manager Yesterday, by decision of the regional arbitration court, the candidacy of a temporary manager of the Krasnoyarsk Metallurgical Plant was approved. Judge Marina Grigorieva reported this. He became the arbitration manager Amir Gafarov. Let us remind you that on July 25, an external monitoring procedure was introduced at KraMZ OJSC.