“Gazprom” on Friday published the results of the company's activities for the first half of 2003 according to the international reporting standards IAS. The net profit of Gazprom OJSC for the first half of the year amounted to 103.765 billion rubles against 10.3777 billion rubles a year earlier, ITAR-TASS reports. Gazprom’s balance sheet earnings increased 1.8 times over 6 months and amounted to 144.793 billion rubles.

On Thursday, on Thursday, the British government reported that as a result of the attacks in Istanbul , except for the Consul General Roger Short, another representative of the diplomatic corps - Lisa Holvorz, reports, reports Reuters. “Although there are still accurate data about the dead, Forin Offis (British Foreign Ministry) came to the conclusion that as a result of this terrible tragedy, both British and Turkish diplomats were killed at the consulate,” the Briatan foreign policy said.

After the history with Yukos, the persecution of Russian firms by justice will continue, fears economist Yevgeny Yasin “Success also often leads to complacency as too much gullibility - to contempt.

The football player of the Munich Bavaria Sebastian Daisler, who was diagnosed with depression on Friday, was out of order until the end of the year. Such an assumption was expressed by the head coach of Bavaria Ottmar Hitzfeld, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the German press. “This is a big loss for us,” said Munich mentor.

The shoulders are deployed, the chest with a wheel, the young soldier stands like in a parade. Camouflage, brilliantly polished shoes, on the shoulder of an automatic machine, around the head - a halo. He has a person’s face for whom a debt is everything. So the newspaper New York Times describes the image of a soldier Evgeny Rodionov, who martyrs who martyled in the Chechen war (the website of Inopressa.ru introduces the publication).

The night before, in one of the Moscow apartments, according to the hostess, Poltergeist raged. This was announced by an employee of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow Evgeny Makarova. At about 20:00, the hostess of 46 house number 25 on green avenue turned to the police. In a “excited voice,” the woman said that she had paranormal phenomena at her house.

On Friday morning, the residents of these houses heard a crack, the bricks began to collapse, cracks appeared in the walls. In this regard, the inhabitants of the towers called representatives of Digger Spas. “We did not find powerful vertical cracks, but there is a loss of facing brick with the facade and end part,” Mikhailov said in an interview with the Echo of Moscow radio station.

In the center of Baghdad, on Friday morning, from missile installations, disguised on carts drawn by donkeys, Palestine and Sheraton hotels , in which foreign journalists live, were also fired by the Iraq oil . The Iraqi police found later two more carts among the embassies of Italy and Turkey . They also contained missile installations with dozens of missiles ready for launch. All the attackers were disguised as agricultural merchants, and their carts were littered with vegetables from above.

Today, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates a great holiday - the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael and other heavenly forces of the ethereal, which is also known as Mikhailov's day. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II will perform this morning the Divine Liturgy in the Arkhangelsk Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, RIA Novosti was informed in the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate .

On Thursday evening, the opening of the Czech photography of the Czech photography of Frantishek Dorticol took place in the Moscow Museum-Exhibition Complex of the Moscow House of Photography. The exhibition "Frantshek Drugko: photos of 1918-1935" was organized with the participation of the Czech center in Moscow under the patronage of the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic of Paul.

The process of postoperative rehabilitation of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma proceeds normally, RIA Novosti said Presidential Press Secretary Alena Grumpitskaya with reference to the attending physician of academician Alexander Vozanov. According to him, the satisfactory state of health of the head of the Ukrainian state allows him to adhere to the working regime - work with documents, read, accept visitors and answer phone calls.

In front of the large hotels of Istanbul, blue-blue police vans appeared. There are no exceptions to the hotel CEYLAN Inter-Continental, located near Taxim Square, there is no exceptions to anyone, writes Corriere Della Sera in the material, which is published by Inopressa.ru . Until yesterday, this five -star hotel, receiving tourists, businessmen and public figures, “defended” only metal detectors. “We feel safe. It happened once, and not repeat it anymore,” said Dr.

The Siberian taiga hermit Agafya Lykova spends this winter surrounded by goats, dogs and kittens. All this living creature arrived at its snow-covered courtyard by helicopter from the city of Tashtagol, located a hundred kilometers, ITAR-TASS reports.

In a mined car discovered on Friday in the residential quarter of Yekaterinburg, a note was found with a home address of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for the Ural Federal District Yuri Zolotov. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the Internal Affairs Directorate of Yekaterinburg. The white "Lada" were parked near the house of Yuri Zolotov in Krasnoy Lane.

The driver from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Konstantin Makarov was sentenced to ten years in prison for knocking down six pedestrians standing on the sidewalk. Three of the victims died. The verdict was issued by the court of the Central District of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The accident occurred in August 2003. The investigation found that the driver violated the rules of the road, while intoxicated. Konstantin Makarov will serve a term in a general regime colony.