The Omsk plant plans to supply airfield equipment worth $30 million to Egypt The Omsk production association "Irtysh" entered into a contract for the repair of drive stations previously supplied to Egypt for military airfields. Plant director Alexander Datskov told a Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent that this contract will be followed by new efforts to promote the company's products on the Egyptian market.

A new power structure has been approved in the Samara region On September 26, the Samara Provincial Duma approved the draft law “On the structure of the administration of the Samara region.” It radically changes the status of the Samara governor Konstantin Titov and the vice-governors who oversaw individual departments. As a result of the innovations, Mr.

Kyiv claims that Washington has finally become disillusioned with Kuchma Observers who are following the development of the tense political situation in Ukraine predict a quick outcome. For several months now, the pro-Western government of Viktor Yushchenko, which enjoys the support of Washington, has been waging a “cold war” against local pressure groups.

Russia intends to hold a series of negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization by the end of the year. According to Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Medvedkov, “until the end of the year, meetings with interested parties will be held almost every month.” Thus, negotiations with the EU are planned for early October, a meeting with representatives of Canada is planned for October 31 - November 1, and with Japan in October-November.

The US suspended a key participant in the Middle East settlement American observers predict that the deprivation of US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk's secret clearance will not disrupt, but will only complicate the Clinton administration's attempts to become the “midwife” of the Middle East settlement.

Russians Maria Kiseleva and Olga Brusnikina yesterday added another gold medal to the treasury of our Olympic team: in the duet competition in synchronized swimming. Olga ERMOLINA, a special correspondent for the Vremya Novostey newspaper, reports from the Olympic Aquatic Center. The doping scandal, in which Kiseleva was involved literally on the eve of the Games, could have prevented the world’s best couple from participating in the Olympics.

Moscow anarchists showed themselves yesterday in the fight against the World Bank and the IMF. A rally at the Mayakovsky monument was chosen as a form of protest. But the capital’s authorities did not allow the picket, and as a result, minor fans of Prince Kropotkin’s ideas only had to walk along the Garden Ring without permission.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is headed by Vladimir Naumov. Since the beginning of 1999, he headed the presidential security service, and under him this department became notorious. It was then that Lukashenko’s opponents began to disappear in the republic. One of the opposition leaders Gennady Karpenko died a mysterious death, former Interior Ministry chief Yuri Zakharenko and famous politician Viktor Gonchar disappeared.

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Football. Men. Semi-final matches . Spain - USA - 3:1, Cameroon - Chile - 2:1. If the participation of the Spanish team in the final of the Olympic tournament was almost obvious, since the players from the Iberian Peninsula were clear favorites in the match with the Americans, then the victory of the Cameroon team over the Chileans, led by the famous Ivan Zamorano, looks sensational.

Handball. Men. 1/4 finals . Russia - Slovenia - 33:22, Spain - Germany - 27:26, Yugoslavia - France - 26:21, Sweden - Egypt - 27:23. Our handball players more than confidently beat their opponents from Slovenia in the quarterfinals. But the Spaniards' victory over the German national team was achieved with great difficulty, and everything was decided by one goal. The next opponent of the Russian team is the Yugoslav team, which beat the French. Prepared by Nikolai PROKHOROV

The St. Petersburg Philharmonic opened the new season with a greatly updated composition. Its management team has almost completely changed - Yuri Schwarzkopf took the place of director, leaving a similar position at the Mariinsky Theater; Leonid Sats from the Culture Committee became his deputy; Valentina Azovskaya returned to the Small Hall; musicologist and lecturer, conservatory professor Leonid Gakkel was appointed first deputy artistic director.

KMB Bank received another “mother” loan Yesterday, an agreement was signed between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Small Business Lending Bank (KMB-Bank) to provide the latter with a credit line in the amount of $30 million. As with the previous loan issued by KMB last year, the current 30 million is loaned to the bank for a period of five years at the rate of Libor + 2.5%. The funds will be used to develop the EBRD program for lending to small businesses.

The President sent Gazprom and Media-Most to the address There were high hopes for yesterday's meeting between Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev at Media-Most. After all, there is still no public reaction from the head of state to the latest events around the media holding (published documents of the failed deal between Media-Most and Gazprom-Media for a total of $773 million, including the already famous “Appendix No. 6” with Press Minister Lesin’s visa) was not available.

A wrestler from Kabardino-Balkaria did not let his family down In the final match of Greco-Roman wrestlers in the up to 76 kg category, Murat KARDANOV defeated American Matt Leadland. Immediately after the success, the Russian gave an interview to a correspondent of the newspaper Vremya Novostei. - What did you know about your opponent in the final? - That he will fight to the end. And so it happened. We had a tough fight, but the coaches told me how to build it tactically correctly.