The decrease in prices of the most liquid Russian actions, which has prevailed all the last days against the backdrop of an unfavorable situation in world stock markets, took on a collapsible character on Friday morning, Interfax reports.

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) Cardinal Lubomir Guzar made an appeal about the situation around military graves in the Lychakovsky cemetery in Lviv, Interfax reports. He called on the Greek Catholics to “bow their heads over Ukrainian and Polish graves of Lychakov in sincere Christian prayer,” offering to lead this prayer to representatives of monastic orders, and to send a group of pilgrims to each arrival who can love and forgive.

The Ministry of Taxes and Duties announced the official data of the results of the 2002 declaration campaign. There was no sensation - instead of 12 million promised at the beginning of the declaration company, only 2.6 million declarations from individuals were received by the tax authorities. Moreover, the results of this year are not only five times worse than the optimistic forecasts of the tax authorities, but even worse than the real results of 2000.

In Veliky Novgorod, an exhibition of medieval church bells is opening today, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the information of the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve (NGGOZ). In the permanent exposition of NGGOZ, which is mounted on the ground floor of the Sofia belfry of the Novgorod Kremlin, 14 ancient bells will be represented. At the exhibition you can see the famous 700-kilogram "plague bell" from the bell tower of the Znamensky Cathedral.

Boris Yeltsin today arrived on an informal visit to Belarus. At the airport of Minsk, he said that he came to "smooth out the sharp corners of Belarusian-Russian relations." At the same time, he noted that "the emerging questions of the last time should not be called disagreements." According to Yeltsin, the Union of Belarus and Russia is a new type of relationship that has no analogues, and it is quite clear that "working moments" may arise.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the melting work of Amurmetall OJSC, two zinc boxes with 23 combat head explosives for artillery shells and three boxes with educational blades for them were found, Interfax reports. According to Friday, a dangerous find, which, when loading into the furnace, could lead to an accident and tragic consequences, was reported on Friday, the head of the militarized security of the enterprise found during the inspection of scrap metal.

On June 20, at about 21:00 local time in Nizhny Tagil, the Bright -Minh group attacked the Flight bus of the 9C route. In the Visimsky tract, approximately 20 teenagers were blocked by the road. Everyone had short-cut heads, some tattoos on the body, because of which people who were in the bus salon took teenagers for the "skinheads". The attackers were drunk. One of the teenagers climbed onto the roof and broke the glass in the driver's cab.

XXIV Moscow International Film Festival , as is usually the case with measures of such a rank, began before the official discovery. First, the organizers of the festival told the television screens about their plans and aspirations in numerous interviews, then the first big guest arrived - the author of the postman, always calling twice Bob Reifelson, who, as part of the competitive program, will present his film “House on Turkish Street (Pautetine of Lies)”.

11 people died as a result of floods in the Southern Federal District of Russia As of 23:30 Moscow time in the natural disaster area in the North Caucasus, 11 people died and three went missing. According to Interfax on Friday evening, Deputy Head of the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Viktor Beltsov, about 20 thousand people were injured.

The President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov admits that a foreigner may become the head coach of the Russian national team. In an interview with ITAR-TASS in Tokyo, he said that he had already talked on this issue with the technical director of UEFA Andy Roxburgh to tell who in Europe there are from those coaches who meet the highest requirements. At the same time, Koloskov emphasized that he does not focus on the search for an exclusively foreign coach.

President of Karachay-Cherkessia Vladimir Semenov introduced a state of emergency in the republic. This is stated in the first paragraph of the Decree "On measures aimed at eliminating the consequences of an emergency", which Semenov signed on Friday.

The Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation officially announced the creation of a Russian television broadcasting network (FSUE RTRS).

After yesterday’s attempt on the deputy prime minister of the Moscow Government, the chairman of the Moscow Government Government, Iosif Nikolaevich Ordzhonikidze, various versions about its causes began to be put forward. The head of the Deputy Prime Minister is all city hotels, as well as international investment projects, including the largest as the construction of the Moscow City complex and the Formula 1 highway in the Nagatinsky floodplain.

According to law enforcement agencies of the capital, the widespread RIA Novosti , about 15 hours Moscow time, a signal of the temple under construction in the Borisov Ponds (1 Borisovsky passage, 1) was received by the Mattle of Mattle of the Borisovsky Directorate. Currently, the fire area is 60 square meters. meters, but fire spreads with every minute.

Hong Kong scientists have developed a new freshener, "eating bad smells", which are the products of the vital activity of bacteria. According to South China Morning Post, this spray contains five types of bacteria that do not produce any aromas. Manufacturers say that their opening will simply be necessary in the life of modern society. At first, they hope to sell their invention to restaurants, karaoke bars and large offices.