On August 5, in Moscow, at the 73rd year of life, the well-known Soviet skating Rimma Zhukov, famous in the past, died . In the 50s, she became the absolute world champion, repeatedly won the prize medals of world championships, and also set world records at distances of 1,500 and 5000 meters. At the match of the world of the world chess champion between Russian Aliso Galyamova and Kitianka, the account of the world champion and Kitianka, the score was again equal.

The head of the guard and two military personnel of one of the units in the Murmansk region were killed and two more were seriously injured tonight, when two sailors of the Northern Fleet, armed with axes, attacked the guard room . Later, during an operation to neutralize criminals, one of the sailors was killed and the other shot himself. Today, in the Tomsk region, the soldiers, being on guard, shot two of his colleagues from the machine gun and committed suicide.

Says Radio "Freedom". "Russia yesterday, today, tomorrow." The microphone in Prague Anatoly Shot with the program "Your Letters". A letter from Belarus: “Once I decided to change my blood $ 30 dollars in a higher rate than in government banks: I see nothing bad in exchange of money on the street if the market price in my favor ignores the“ decree ”of the president. The guys who brought me to the change of the change were police officers.

In the laboratories of the American research corporation Human Genome Sciences Incorporated, two proteins are identified that can expand the possibilities of medicine in the fight against cancer . These proteins, which are named Meth-1 and Meth-2, slow down the speed of the formation of capillary networks that supply blood to malignant tumors. Similar substances are of great interest for pharmacologists, which intend to create powerful drugs for the treatment of cancer on their basis.

On Friday, a decree of the Russian government on the repayment of debt on the payment of pensions entered into force . According to the document, for these purposes, the Pension Fund may receive a loan of a savings bank in the amount of 10 billion rubles at 30 percent per annum. The loan must be repaid before the end of the year. 5 and a half million tons of grain, of which 4 million tons of winter wheat were collected this year in the Kuban, the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory said.

The leaders of the Kosovo Albanians Hashim Tachi and Ibrahim Rugov held a meeting in Protina yesterday . According to Tachi, an agreement was reached on the participation of the Kosovo Democratic League party, which is the leader of which is Rugova, in the work of the Provisional Council under the auspices of the UN. Earlier, the Rugova party boycotted meetings of the Council.

- About Russia's debts to the London club of Western crediting banks. - privatization and the role of the state in the economy of Spain. - Why did the duty -free trade system be canceled in the European Union? - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: In just two past weeks, Russia held negotiations with its main foreign creditors. First - with the International Monetary Fund, which decided to resume the lending program.

The British magazine "End Sound" turned to a number of leading filmmakers in the world with a request to name the best film by Alfred Hitchcock, in connection with his approaching century . The best 1960 painting was recognized as the best. In the first three days of showing in the Moscow cinema "Pushkin", George Lucas's film "Star Wars. The Episode First" broke the records established by the Titanic and the Siberian Barber .

In the Primorsky Territory, a third person was revealed, sick with a cholera . Like the first two, he fell ill after a trip to China. All three are currently in satisfactory condition and, according to doctors, their life is not in danger. The entry of China citizens is prohibited into the territory of the region. At the same time, the regional authorities decided not to let Russian citizens into the northern regions of China.

Vitaly Portnikov, Macedonia: The decision of Ibrahim Rugova and Hashim Tachi that the Democratic League of Kosovo will participate in the advisory council, which was created under the auspices of the UN, is the first step towards mutual understanding between the two largest political forces in the Kosovo movement - Coa and DLK.

Aya Kuga, Belgrade: Montenegro offers the establishment of new relations with Serbia within the framework of the state, which would not be called Yugoslavia, but the "Union of Montenegro and Serbia." “The existing SRU Constitution cannot be the basis of these new relations,” the document begins with these words, which was adopted on Thursday by the Montenegrin government.

Leading Sergey Seninsky - About Russia's debts to the London club of Western crediting banks. - privatization and the role of the state in the economy of Spain. - Why did the duty -free trade system be canceled in the European Union? - A review of the publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: In just two past weeks, Russia held negotiations with its main foreign creditors.