Former speaker of the Russian parliament Ruslan Khasbulatov gave Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev until Thursday to resign. Otherwise, Dudayev will be removed by force. “I am not going to become either the president or any other ruler of Chechnya. But if Yeltsin and his entourage anger me, then I will definitely become one,” Khasbulatov said. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has warned Pope John Paul II against visiting Sarajevo next month.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation plans to have an unexpectedly active autumn. At the last plenum, the main orientation speech was made by Valery Kuptsov (the same one whom Yeltsin proposed as first secretary at the first congress of the Russian Communist Party). He said approximately the following: “At the previous stage, the main task was to restore the organizational structure of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

On Saturday, one of the district police stations received a phone call: an unknown person claimed that a bomb had been planted in the building of the super-techno-disco "Pilot". The techno was blasting at full blast as the DJ announced that everyone present - including security - should leave the disco without panic and in an orderly manner. Everyone together - elite and non-elite - whiled away forty minutes in the rain while a smart, specially trained dog sniffed out explosives in the room.

CHOCKE Stop resting! An interesting incident happened to me recently. I'm standing in line for bananas. The queue is small and moves quickly. The seller, a lively guy, dashingly weighs out exotic fruits. — Why bananas? - Two three hundred! The rest have 2500 and above. The first one is a thin middle-aged woman. The seller puts a small bunch on the scales and confidently declares: “Four thousand!” The woman pays without looking at the scale; Tiredly he puts the bananas in his bag and leaves.

55 years of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact Alexey BAUSIN “Stalin and Molotov are very nice. “I felt like I was among old party comrades,” German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop said in his telegram to Berlin. It was August 1939. Representatives of the USSR and Nazi Germany have just signed the Non-Capital Treaty and the secret additional protocol to this treaty.

The little Chinese man with the largest number of subordinates turns 90 years old From Dan’s quote book: “How can you organize work, mobilize activity, if the top people take everything into their own hands?” “During the “great cultural revolution”, “broad democracy” was carried out, it was believed that as soon as the masses rose up, democracy would be realized, all issues would be resolved. In reality, this led to internecine war.

...She is red-haired and covered in freckles (that's why her friends gave her the nickname - Murzilka). Her height is 179, and she doesn’t even want to talk about her weight after working in Italy. She is only 19 years old. Read the economic portrait of professional model Elena Daruse in Kopeyka

Cyprus police arrested 12 Russian citizens on charges of blackmail and illegal possession of firearms following complaints from Russian businessmen in Cyprus. Police said they were investigating emerging signs that Russian organized crime was taking root in Cyprus.

On August 21, a council of atamans of “all Rus'” was held in Novocherkassk, convened by the Supreme Ataman of the Union of Cossack Troops of Russia and Abroad, Viktor Ratiev. They scolded everyone - the ataman of the Cossack union Martynov, the patriarch of Rostov and Novocherkassk Vladimir, the State Duma, the government that adopted Resolution No. 355 on the Cossacks, and this resolution itself, especially in the part where it concerns atamans.

Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932 - 1994) “...It was cramped for him. In everyone. Even in a mournful frame.” From the poem “Man”, collection “Radius of Action” (1963 - 1965) The Chairman of the Government spoke in favor of creating an all-Russian engine-building center in Yaroslavl. According to the prime minister, “in order to keep up with world standards, we must make it a rule that a new engine must be born every year.” Viktor Chernomyrdin knows where the fulcrum is.

Estonia's Ministry of the Environment has said it will cost more than $4 billion to clean up the environmental damage caused to Estonia by Soviet and Russian troops there for 50 years.

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Brokers are thinking about how to make them smarter This time, August presented the authorities and the media with a new topic - the scandal with MMM JSC. The outrage of its investors is more social than economic in nature. However, most experts have no doubt that the main reason for what happened is the homelessness of the stock market.

Thanks to Comrade Stalin for the fact that he still WAS. If he had stayed, our life with him would have been one-episode. There is no doubt that life in the womb is calmer. Warm, cozy. Lie down, don’t rock the boat, think about the eternal. Observe reality in the dark. It was very unpleasant when someone turned on the light. When we all got outside to watch another movie. The end of the world, soft-boiled boots. Stirlitz advertises Mercedes: living to see your salary is not a field to cross.

BY THE WAY Such innovations as the “certificate of deposit of shares” and “bill of sale for shares” arose precisely in order to circumvent the legislation, which does not say a word about them. “Share” is the essence of “the right to part of the property,” which naturally assumes that the owner himself exists. That is, a “normal” share should be a registered paper. In this sense, a “stock certificate” is more likely to meet this requirement if it names the owner.