On the famous New York Time Square, another risky experiment has ended today. Inspired by the example of the stuntman and illusionist David Blaine, another adventurer Chris Angel spent 24 hours in a canister of water the size of a telephone booth. All this time he was breathing with the help of a tube brought from the canister. At the end of the term allotted for the experiment, Angel got out of voluntary imprisonment under the greetings of the assembled onlookers.

The Jubilee, 105th season will be the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov. It will open on September 2 by the performance "Basic Svyatosh", where the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater Oleg Tabakov acts as Moliere. On Tuesday, at the traditional collection of the troupe, he will publish the plans of the team he headed for the new creative year.

The director of the Institute of Religion and Law Anatoly Pchelintsev approves the failure to fail to be in the questionnaire for the All-Russian Census 2002 Counts on religion. He stated this live on the air of the Echo of Moscow . According to A.

One hundred paintings written by Olga Alexandrovna Romanova, the younger sister of Tsar Nicholas P, will soon be able to see at the exhibition in Moscow. As ITAR-TASS reports, this is the first exposition in Russia dedicated to the Grand Duke. She is satisfied with the Russian-Canadian charity foundation named after Olga Alexandrovna.

The Ministry of Economic Development came up with how to increase income from tax on property tax by 13 times, while reducing its rate by 20 times. According to officials, it should be considered not from the inventory, but from the market value of housing. The current law on the property of individuals was adopted in 1991 and has long been outdated. As calculated in the Ministry of Economic Development, the inventory value of housing is underestimated compared to the market by 15-30 times.

The head coach of the Russian national team Valery Gazzaev named the names of the players who will prepare for the starting match of the qualifying cycle of the European football championship against Ireland, which will be held on September 7 at the Moscow Lokomotiv stadium.

On Tuesday, Russia celebrates the traditional day of Russian cinema, which has been held in our country for several decades. On this day, events are held throughout Russia, one way or another associated with this most popular of the arts. One of the centers of the current holiday will be the capital's house of Khanzhonkov, where these days the annual film festival "Moscow Pegasus", which provides the opportunity to see your favorite paintings, meet with masters of cinema, reports ITAR-TASS.

During the recent population census conducted in Australia, a paradoxical fact was discovered. More than 70 thousand people (one of the 270 respondents √ about 0.37% of the population) in the column "Religion" wrote: "Jedi religion", BBC reports.

On Tuesday at 18:10 Moscow time in the area of ​​the Kerigo Pass from the territory of Georgia, a group of unknown persons fired at the Russian border outfit. There are no losses among our warriors.

The Russians are gradually rich. They began to spend more and put off "on a rainy day." Moreover, for the first time after the 1998 crisis, the purchase of foreign currency became less popular than real estate investments, securities and bank deposits. According to Gazeta with reference to the data of the Unicon Macroeconomic Research Center, in the first half of 2002, the Russians earned 2.8 trillion. rubles. The real disposable cash incomes of the population increased by almost 8%per year.

Near the St. Petersburg airport "Pulkovo", ammunition of the time of the Great Patriotic War was discovered and neutralized, sources in the Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported on Tuesday "Interfax". During road construction work near the airport, a German artillery shell of a 150 mm caliber, two mines 81 and 82 mm, as well as a projectile from an anti-tank gun of a caliber of 50 mm of the Great Patriotic War were discovered.

The government plans to index pensions three times in 2003, said the head of the Russian Pension Fund, Mikhail Zurabov. When planning the indexation of pensions, the government proceeds from the inflation rate in 2003 at 11.3%. The first time pensions are planned to be indexed from February 1, the second time - from April 1 by 11.2%, the third time - from August 1 by 6%, said the chairman of the FIU.

The International Olympic Committee hopes to get detailed information about the Tokhtakhunov case from Italian and American justice. According to Tuesday, IOC President Jacques Rogge, requests to Italy and the FBI have already been sent to the operational provision of information on the progress of the scandal investigation related to the judging of the skaters competitions at the Salt Lake City Olympics.

One of every 32 Americans either sits in prison or sentenced to conditional punishment. Statistics, published by the Ministry of Justice of the United States, indicates a record scope of the country's penitentiary system. The number of US citizens who have suffered punishment for violations of laws reached 6 million 600 thousand people at the end of last year.

The Government of the Russian Federation has established a new subsistence minimum per capita. According to the calculations of officials, in the whole country for the second quarter of 2002, this indicator amounted to 1804 rubles. per month. For the able -bodied population, the cost of living is 1960 rubles, for pensioners -1383 rubles, for children - 1795 rubles. per month, reports Prime-Tass. Compared to the first quarter, the cost of living has increased by 95 rubles.