The other day, the leadership was replaced by the leadership: Alexei Barantsev was replaced by Dmitry Strezhnev in the chair of the general director of the company. So far, Barantsev is officially called the "acting", however, the statements that the new management make are not confirmed by this temporary status. For example, in a pair of press releases, production development plans for the next few years are outlined.

At Podgornaya station at midnight, a 45-year-old physical education teacher of the local school N1 lay on rails under a passing cargo train. It was already impossible to stop the locomotive. The driver who noticed a man began to signal, but the teacher did not react to this in any way. According to law enforcement agencies conducting an investigation, it was suicide.

About 4 thousand Irish fans will arrive for the European Football Championship of the 2004 European Football Championship. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference in RIA Novosti by the head coach of the Russian national team Valery Gazzaev. According to Gazzaev, the Ireland team proved itself from the good side at the recent World Cup. “The Irish has qualified players,” the Russian team mentor noted.

According to preliminary data, the amount of damage caused by a hurricane, which spent over the Irgiz district of the Aktobe region of Kazakhstan (in the west of the republic) last Friday, amounted to about 300 million tenge (i.e. about $ 2 million). As Interfax was informed in the regional emergency department, the exact amount of damage will be named in two weeks.

The baggage of the Russian Basketball team in London was delivered to Spain. According to RIA Novosti , all the things left by the misunderstanding of the British Airways airline at the London Airport were taken to Malaga, to the hotel where the Stanislav Eremin team was located. A day earlier, the Russian team flew to Malaga from Belgrade through London, and upon arrival, it turned out that out of 23 units of baggage of basketball players, only 7 were delivered.

The apartment of the famous St. Petersburg musician, a former participant in the Bit Quartet "Secret" by Andrei Zheudovsky was robbed last weekend, reports Fontanka.ru . As the wife of Zazudovsky, Ada Bulgakov, said, not yet installed by the attackers, apparently, penetrated the apartment located on the second floor in house 3 along the small Poddyachika street, through the window.

In the capital of Georgia on Wednesday, Niko Lominadze, the financial director of the American energy company AES-Talasi, who owns the Tbilisan energy networks, was killed on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the corpse of 30-year-old Niko Lominadze was discovered in the apartment of his parents in one of the Tbilisi regions. The body of the murdered was connected. According to preliminary data, death came from a shot from a pistol to the head.

The condition of the head of the Palestinian administration of Yasir Arafat is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars. This was stated on Tuesday in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense of the Knesset, the head of Israeli military intelligence, Major General Aaron Zeevi, reports The Jerusalem Post . (The translation of the material is published on the website inopressa.ru ).

At the World Cockeng Championships, which was held in the Swedish place of Yossebo, the local rooster named Helmer became the absolute champion. In twenty minutes, he bought 49 times, leaving all the opponents far behind. “At home, he can overdo it 66 times,” said the hostess of the winner Lena Lundquiston.

A resident of the Altai Territory Sergei Sorokin was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a strict colony for the murder of his pregnant cohabitant. According to RIA Novosti , the assistant prosecutor of the Altai Territory Valery Ziyastinov, the murder was committed on February 28, 2002 in the village of Pereshchny, the Yegoryevsky district. Sorokin, who rented a room there, met a girlfriend in the yard. The woman was drunk, Sorokin was also intoxicated.

The 15-year-old Russian woman Maria Molotnikova, the disappearance of which in London was reported to the British media, was discovered by a whole and unharmed. Maria Molotnikova, came to the British capital as part of a tourist group, she almost did not speak English and had not been to that in the UK, RIA Novosti reports. According to Scotland Yard, Marina was last seen in the central part of the city-in the Marble-Arch area, between Hyde Park and Oxford Street.

The head of the Asian Confederation of Football (AFK) Mohammad Bin Hamman believes that Asia deserved five places at the World Cup, RIA Novosti reports. Bin Hamman said this on Wednesday at the AFC Congress in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). According to him, the success of the national teams of South Korea and Japan at a recent World Cup shows that the Asian continent widespread that five teams represent him at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Today in Israel, the trial of Marwan Barguti, a member of the Legislative Assembly of the PA, the leader of the FATH organization in the territories of Judea and Samaria, the commander of the Tanzim armed group, begins. His case will be obeyed in the civil district court of Tel Aviv. For two years, the "intifada al-axa" is the first trial of the leader of the radical Arab movement.

President Putin proposed to accelerate the processes of integration with Belarus and introduce a single payment remedy - a Russian ruble - a year earlier than a previously planned deadline. Putin believes that citizens of the two countries will begin to pay from January 1, 2004 with a single ruble.

President Alexander Lukashenko said that "most likely the Union of Belarus and Russia will develop on the basis of the current union agreement and concluded in the framework of the Union of Agreements." "We did not use the possibilities of the current union agreement ...