George Bush won't apologize Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush has refused to apologize for publicly insulting New York Times correspondent Adam Clymer. The scandal erupted Monday as Bush and Dick Cheney, who is running for vice president against the Texas governor, stood in front of a microphone to deliver a Labor Day speech.

Kharms' office opened at the Pushkin Museum Most of the exhibits in Sergei Yakunin’s exhibition “Harms Cabinet”, which opened at the Pushkin Museum, are priceless. Made from cardboard, wrapping paper, freshly planed sticks and rusty springs, they are devoid of any material value. How much can a book from the "Kharms Library" - "all made of small tablets" - cost?

There was a release of harmful substances in the Urals The Sredneuralsk Copper Smelter (SUMZ) presented residents of surrounding settlements with another surprise. Toxic emissions from factory pipes, traveling three kilometers, fell on the center of the city of Pervouralsk. The consequences were immediate: 25 people were already hospitalized with pain in the head and abdomen; in total, more than 180 people turned to the clinics at their place of residence with various complaints.

"Romeo Must Die" on Moscow movie screens In the United States of America, Jet Li's existence became known in 1998, when the ruthless Asian almost defeated Mel Gibson himself in the fourth episode of Lethal Weapon. But our viewers managed to fall in love with him at least ten years earlier - perhaps even before Gibson. At that time Jet was not yet Jet (that is, “jet”), he lived in mainland China and responded to the very Chinese name Li Ling Ji.

There is no secrecy in budget expenditures intended for the media. Yesterday it turned out that the relevant articles in the draft 2001 budget were classified as “top secret” by pure chance. A bureaucratic mistake was made, a senior White House official told a Vremya Novostey correspondent.

Tbilisi fears that the visa barrier with Russia will destabilize the internal situation Russia's decision to leave the Bishkek Agreement, announced last week, caused a nervous and not always adequate reaction in Tbilisi. After the Russian Foreign Ministry distributed earrings to all the sisters, sending out special notes to the CIS countries, it became obvious that Georgia, which was being transferred to a “special visa situation,” turned out to be the most unloved country.

Putin attended the anniversary General Assembly The Millennium Summit began with a session of the UN General Assembly. Representatives from 188 countries gathered in the iconic building on the banks of the East River on Wednesday morning. Theoretically, in order to sum up the results of the 20th century and agree on increasing the role of the UN in the 21st century. But in fact - to participate in the largest (in the literal sense of the word) political party in the world.

The head coach of the Dynamo hockey team is not going abroad The next Russian hockey championship in the Super League starts today. 18 clubs will compete for the title of the best team in the country this season, which, according to experts, promises to be very intriguing. The reason is not only the noticeably increased competition among the clubs, but also the fact that on the eve of the start a decision was made to change the championship regulations.

To be convincing, they took Talukan On the night of September 6, the forces of the Islamic Taliban movement completely captured Talukan, the administrative center of the Afghan province of Takhor, bordering Tajikistan, in the northeast of the country. It’s hard to call it a sensation.

Rudolf Scharping was unlucky again On Tuesday, an international scandal broke out on the approaches to the US military department. The car in which German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping was traveling to the official welcoming ceremony was thrown with terrible force by an automatic barricade at one of the Pentagon checkpoints. The German minister, having hit the ceiling and the front partition of the cabin, received a severe head injury, broke his glasses and injured his leg.

The rating of PR agencies will not soon be based on their actual turnover Since national elections (and the distribution of large budgets) are not expected in the near future, yesterday's presentation of the second rating of Russian public relations agencies was much calmer than last year.

The government was lucky with northern supplies this year. According to the forecasts of the Hydrometeorological Center, the navigation period in the north can be extended by at least a week, or even 10 days, so there will be more time for northern delivery.

The former head of Dzhokhar Dudayev's personal security, Abu Arsanukaev, was recently detained in Chechnya. At one time, after the death of the president of Ichkeria, the head of the security service was appointed first deputy prosecutor of the self-proclaimed republic. Last fall, the “prosecutor” was promoted, and he became the head of the operational headquarters of President Maskhadov. He was detained as an active participant in illegal armed groups.

Virtual business has its own exhibition Like Russian e-commerce itself, the e -Commex-2000 exhibition, which opened yesterday at the World Trade Center on Krasnaya Presnya, turned out to be small. All of it fit into half the area of ​​the exhibition hall. However, the organizer, the M-Expo company, cherishes the hope of making the exhibition international by February and holding it twice a year.

The XIII Moscow International Book Fair has begun The Thirteenth Moscow International Book Fair was opened not quickly, but very quickly. A group of respectable men, led by Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko, quickly entered the area in front of pavilion No. 57 of the All-Russian Exhibition Center (where the book treasures are located). Press Minister Mikhail Lesin gave her the floor.