A powerful explosion occurred at the main entrance to the Sverdlovsk-Pasazhirsky railway station on Monday afternoon. According to preliminary data from FSB officers in the Sverdlovsk region, it was caused by careless handling of a gas cylinder by one of the hot sausage sellers. Fortunately, no one died, but within an hour, 15 people were taken to the city's medical facilities. Most of the victims received severe cuts from glass fragments knocked out by the blast wave.

General Director of Gazprom-Media Alfred KOCH tells the Vremya Novostey newspaper about the process of implementing the agreement between Media-Most and Gazprom. —You said that starting Monday you are ready to accept financial and legal documentation from Media-Most. Is there already any progress on this issue? -- The process is underway. On Monday we met with Andrei Tsimailo (first deputy chairman of the board of directors of Media-Most. - Ed.

An American lawyer warms his hands on the tragedy in Kaprun, Austria Austria will soon be in trouble. The famous American lawyer Ed Fagan volunteered to defend the rights of relatives of the victims of the tragic cable car fire in the Alpine Kaprun. Not long ago, Fagan became famous for extorting billions of marks from the German government and private businesses to pay compensation to victims of forced labor during the war.

A brutal murder occurred yesterday morning in Naberezhnye Chelny. The former head of the Aktanysh and Tukaevsky districts of the republic, Alex Khabibullin, was beaten to death in the courtyard of his own house. Recently, he headed the Nizhnekamsk fuel pumping station of the main pipeline of the Srednevolzhsky Transnefteproduct company. At about 7 o'clock in the morning, Khabibullin left the entrance of his own house, heading to his official car.

At the junction of autumn and winter - from November 29 to December 1 - the international exhibition "Football Market 2000" will be held in the capital's Expo Center. Representatives of companies and firms from more than ten countries of the world will come to participate in it; even representatives of countries as exotic by football standards as Canada and Nigeria will be in Moscow.

The Prosecutor General's Office took control of the investigation into the criminal case of the beating of the former vice-governor of the Kursk region Sergei Maksachev. As already reported, on Sunday the official was taken to the hospital with numerous injuries directly from the regional administration building, where, according to his statement, he was beaten by two employees of the new governor Alexander Mikhailov.

The government will transform RAO UES of Russia in December Soon there will be one less natural monopoly. At yesterday's meeting on energy issues, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov suggested that the head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais, prepare a draft document on the start of the company's restructuring. Mr.

Yesterday a conference on smart maps in Russia opened in Moscow. As State Duma deputy Pavel Medvedev said, several bills on regulating the electronic card market have already appeared in parliament.

But the prospects for its export are not very great The Russian-Belarusian oil company Slavneft began exporting turbine kerosene, the main component of Jet A-1 aviation fuel. It is used by almost all medium- and long-haul foreign-made airliners, in particular Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The production of turbine kerosene at the Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez plant began in October of this year using technology from British Petroleum, which holds an international license for this type of fuel.

The board of directors of the Seversky Pipe Plant is accused of preparing bankruptcy The industrial group MAIR, one of the largest operators in the ferrous metals market, accused the board of directors of the Seversky Pipe Plant (STZ) of collusion. According to IARC managers, the decision of the board of directors to acquire a 10 percent stake in its own shares could lead to bankruptcy of the enterprise.

Grigory Pasko will again become a defendant The trial in the case of military journalist Grigory Pasko will begin from the very beginning - this was decided by the Supreme Court yesterday. Moreover, the new trial could end with a real prison sentence for the journalist who is now at large. Mr. Pasko was charged with treason for passing allegedly classified material about the fleet to Japanese media.

The English version of the Glenn Miller Orchestra performed at the State Kremlin Palace The Vremya Novostey newspaper wrote yesterday about the scandal that had begun related to the tour of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, or more precisely, its English “copy,” because no one from Glenn Miller Orchestra UK (that’s what the British tribute is called) actually interacted with the great conductor himself. worked.

Oleg Romantsev is confident in his team Today the capital's Spartak is playing its last home match of the 2000 season. The strongest club in Russia will host London's Arsenal in the second group stage of the Champions League at the Luzhniki Stadium. The interest in the match is huge. Already two days before the game, not a single ticket was left at the stadium box office, and speculators' prices reached 2,000-2,500 rubles.

The Moscow City Court, where the case of US citizen Edmond Pope, accused of espionage, is being heard, yesterday rejected the defense's request to disqualify state prosecutor Oleg Plotnikov on the grounds of family ties with a member of the investigative team. Earlier it turned out that at the first stage, Mr. Plotnikov’s son participated in the investigation, so the defense believed that this circumstance would discredit all the charges brought against the American.

The situation in Israel is increasingly approaching the front line The situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, which sharply worsened on Monday due to a terrorist attack by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (a bus carrying schoolchildren was blown up), is deteriorating. Yesterday, Israel carried out large-scale retaliatory strikes against targets in Palestinian territory.