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).

Today, when it was early morning in Moscow, in Indianapolis, America, the finalists of a major tournament took to the center court of the local tennis stadium: Russian Marat Safin and Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten. The tennis players have already met this season in the finals of the Masters Series tournament in Hamburg, Germany, and then success was on the side of Kuerten, the current leader of the world rankings.

The leader of the National Democrats misses Soviet power - Mr. Voigt, how do you feel about the threat of banning your party? — Over the 36 years of the NPG’s existence, they wanted to ban us many times. I personally do not believe that a lawsuit will be filed to ban NPG. And even if it is submitted, the constitutional court will not satisfy it. The problems that exist now, in particular attacks on foreigners, are due to the fact that 30 years ago no one listened to the NPG.

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.

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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.

But the boat will definitely be raised After a week of senseless trampling in the place of the Russian military, foreign rescuers arrived at the Kursk. Having started work at noon, by the time the number was signed, the Norwegian divers had already turned off the valve of the transition hatch of the Kursk airlock chamber and, apparently, found the body of the first Russian sailor in the airlock chamber.

“Foreigners are killing us and raping our women, Jews are plundering our national wealth, and the government is only engaged in silencing us, true patriots! And this is called democracy and freedom of speech!” Last Saturday, the leader of the Norwegian neo-Nazi group Boot boys, Terje Sjoli, unleashed the full force of his temperament on the inhabitants of the town of Ashim, who were wandering around the shops in the center of the town on their day off.

Why did the “people's power” of the GDR support the far right? The rise of neo-Nazi sentiments in East Germany, which has been talked about a lot lately, is not a surprise to experts. Even before 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were quite a few neo-Nazis in the GDR. The German Ministry of State Security (Stasi) worked in these circles, directing their activities in its own political interests.

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.

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.

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.

Yuri Davydov completed his main book When the first part of Yuri Davydov's novel "Bestseller" appeared in "Znamya" (1998, Nos. 11--12), its title was perceived as a playful definition of the text itself. Like, you need a bestseller - get it! And there will be plot secrets, and thick historical flavor, and fatal passions.