The meteorite thieves were detained at the end of last week by the Bikin environmental inspection team "Tiger" during a raid in the vicinity of the village of Meteoritnoye (not far from Vladivostok). They had 28 kilograms of meteorite fragments with them. According to the attackers, they planned to sell the fragments to foreign tourists as souvenirs or some kind of “reliable remedy for impotence” (allegedly the latest development by Primorsky scientists).

A large hemp plantation was destroyed at the end of last week near Moscow by employees of the Moscow region RUBOP. Investigators discovered a marijuana field with a total area of ​​8 hectares under a power line near the town of Vidnoye in the Leninsky district of the region. The efforts to mow down and destroy the drug took the police two days. In total, about 30 tons of the potion were destroyed (we are, however, talking about raw, not dried grass).

Six athletes compete for 50 kg gold The famous Irina Privalova phenomenally won the Golden League competition in Monaco. There are three main components of this mini-sensation. Firstly, 32-year-old Privalova is a veteran by athletics standards. Secondly, for more than two years now she has been struggling not only with her rivals, but also with the consequences of a terrible leg injury. Finally, thirdly and, perhaps, most importantly: this season Irina changed her specialization.

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A grand arts festival will be held in Sydney in parallel to the Olympic Games To ensure that concert halls and theaters would not be empty while respectable audiences enjoyed tennis or the long jump, the Olympic Arts Festival opened four weeks before the games. And they did the right thing. Still, people from all over the world will come to Sydney primarily to enjoy the beauty of the human body. So spiritual joys must be served separately.

With the start of the Olympic Games in Sydney, the activity of fighters for the rights of the indigenous population of Australia promises to increase. The organizers of the Aboriginal movement called their action 'Protest 2000' and intend to create a tent camp near the Olympic Village where they plan to hold rallies. Some of them will be accompanied by drumming in order to attract maximum attention of the Games guests to the performances.

Yalta 2000 will be remembered for a long time Yalta, or even Foros, is, of course, not Camp David. It would be naive to expect that at the “tieless” CIS summit in the Black Sea health resort it will be possible to find a peace formula for distant Central Asia, which is blazing with fire. This was made clear by the presidents of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan Islam Karimov and Askar Akayev, who refused to come to Crimea at the last minute.

The opposition is rehearsing the presidential elections in Ingushetia The scandal with the disruption of the elections of a State Duma deputy in Ingushetia, which occurred on July 2, seems to be not the last.

DeltaCredit is ready to open a credit line for the largest house-building plant The US-Russia Investment Fund, within the framework of the DeltaCredit program (the program is dedicated to the development of mortgage lending), may provide a credit line to one of the largest Moscow construction organizations, DSK-1. The contract is expected to be signed at the end of August. This cooperation between the fund and DSK-1 can take the still stalling Moscow mortgage to a new level.

The Fuehrer of Köpenick and democratic Germany In Europe, they haven’t talked as much about neo-Nazism for a long time as they did last week. And this is connected not only with the fact that August 17 marked the next anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy for ideology, who ended his days in 1987 in the West Berlin Spandau prison.

Six people died and 33 received various injuries as a result of a major car accident in the Orenburg region. The tragedy occurred last Friday at the 1201st kilometer of the Moscow-Chelyabinsk highway. A heavy MAZ truck with a semi-trailer unexpectedly drove into oncoming traffic, and the driver of an Ikarus bus filled with people, driving towards him, did not have time to avoid a head-on collision. A few seconds later, the “nine” that was following it flew into the mangled bus at full speed.

Lokomotiv equaled Spartak in terms of lost points The next round of the Russian football championship had three hot spots. On Friday, Zenit hosted CSKA (0:1), and the next match in St. Petersburg was marked by a fight between fans and police and riot police. On Saturday, Dynamo took two points from the potential championship leader, playing in a draw with fellow railway workers (2:2).

Cameroonian footballer Gerry-Christian Tchuyse received Russian citizenship. Now this dark-skinned defender of Spartak Moscow may well become a player for the Russian national team. The head coach of the national team, Oleg Romantsev, told reporters about this, stipulating that this will only happen if Tchuise is better than all other candidates for inclusion in the squad. Oleg Ivanovich also noted: “Nothing supernatural happened. Take the British, the French.

The agreement on the establishment of a bank was recognized as valid On Friday, a very unusual trial for Russia took place - a group of individuals sought to invalidate the registration of the National Reserve Bank (NRB). After long delays, the court finally considered the claim of entrepreneurs Natalya Arkhipova and Gennady Petrukhin, but did not satisfy it.

Several public organizations in Russia accused the leadership of the Navy and the government commission for eliminating the consequences of the accident on the Kursk nuclear submarine of violating Russian and international laws. We are talking about laws that were adopted “under the influence” of the Chernobyl accident and oblige officials to promptly and truthfully inform the public about emergency incidents at nuclear facilities.