To your bottler Greece's Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (Coca-Cola HBC) signed an agreement on Friday with The Coca-Cola Company to buy its soft drink bottling business in Russia and the Baltic countries. The transaction includes, in particular, the purchase of enterprises in Moscow, St. Petersburg, central Russia and the Far East, as well as the acquisition of shares in Coca-Cola Molino Beverages Limited owned by The Coca-Cola Co.

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior At the closing of the Days of Bavaria, the Moscow elite, led by Yuri Luzhkov, met a very interesting group. The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra plays a supporting role in the German orchestral community. Even in the single state of Bavaria, he has at least two serious competitors - the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of James Levine and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by Lorin Maazel.

The surge in popularity of specialties related to information technology, noted this year during entrance exams to higher educational institutions, is most likely associated with the emergence of the federal target program “Electronic Russia”. To implement this program, which provides for “widespread computerization of the entire country” by 2010, specialists will be needed - those who will sit down to work on computers.

All coal in Russia has been divided With the sale of the federal stake in the Kuzbassugol coal company, large liquid assets in the Russian coal industry will end. 79.7% of the shares of Kuzbassugol have already been put up for privatization auctions in two packages and will find an owner (or owners) no later than October 4. There are no surprises expected.

Advertising Advice Against Advertising The Russian advertising market is growing at a record pace. According to the forecast of the Advertising Council of Russia (RCP, a public organization engaged in self-regulation of the advertising business and uniting the majority of large Russian advertising companies), in 2001 advertisers have every chance of exceeding the budgets of the peak year of 1997. However, PCP advocates strict restrictions on “its” market.

The first Bitsa ponds in the Bitsa recreation area practically disappeared from the face of the earth as a result of heavy rain that broke out on Saturday evening in the south of Moscow. Powerful flows washed away the dams that divided the reservoirs into several multi-level cascades. As a result, the water simply left the First Ponds located above the other ponds - previously their depth was more than two and a half meters, but now they were no deeper than 40 centimeters.

Valuable personnel will not be left without work. Yesterday, Colonel General Valery Manilov, former first deputy chief of the General Staff, said that he was ready to represent the Primorsky Territory in the Senate.

The mayor of Nizhny Novgorod is accused of loving the beautiful life Last Friday, officers from the department for combating economic crimes of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region raided the Nizhny Novgorod City Hall with a search. Investigators seized financial documents from the city administration's affairs department. Investigative actions were carried out as part of the investigation of criminal case No.

Awarding the title of Hero of Russia to a Chechen boy is a very timely and politically calibrated step by the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that without the help of the Chechen people themselves, the bandits in the republic cannot be dealt with. Tenth-grader Magomed Tashukhadzhiev, who received the title of Hero for shooting militants, seems to now become a kind of example of the fact that resistance to separatists and even their murder is welcomed by the federal center.

Football. German Championship. 1st round. Munich 1860 -- Kaiserslautern -- 0:4, Borussia (D) -- Nuremberg -- 2:0, Bayer -- Wolfsburg -- 2:1, Borussia ( M) - "Bayern" - 1:0, "Energie" - "Hamburg" - 1:0, "Freiburg" - "Werder" - 3:0, "Stuttgart" - "Cologne" - - 0:0. Both Munich clubs suffered defeats without scoring a single goal. Particularly noteworthy was the victory of Borussia Mönchengladbach, which returned to the first Bundesliga, over the Champions League winner Bayern.

Another major accident at the construction site of an elite house marked yesterday for the Moscow authorities. At about one o'clock in the afternoon on Friedrich Engels Street, 31, not far from the Baumanskaya metro station, where the Miel company had almost completed the construction of a nine-story panel building, the extension of a two-story store almost completely collapsed. What caused the accident is still unknown.

Russia promised not to clone anyone for five years Russia has joined the community of countries that have banned research into creating human copies. Last Friday, the government decided to impose a five-year moratorium on human cloning experiments and the import and export of cloned human embryos. At the same time, according to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government Alexey Volin, relevant experiments on animals will continue.

Another contract killing occurred in Moscow at the end of last week. On Friday night, 35-year-old Armenian thief in law Mais Karapetyan was shot in the very center of the capital. At about twelve o'clock at night he left the restaurant on Bolshaya Bronnaya and headed to his BMW. At that moment, two killers ran up to him and shot him point-blank with pistols, finally firing a control shot in the head. Then the criminals got into a dark foreign car that was waiting for them and disappeared.

Spartak again came out on top in the Russian Championship The density in the top division championship table is so high that after almost every round there are changes in the position of the teams. The 19th round turned out to be one of the most intriguing in the current championship, as there was a change of leader. Spartak came out on top thanks to two factors - a home victory over Rostselmash and the defeat of its rival, Krylya Sovetov, from Anzhi in Makhachkala.

The 12th stage of the Formula 1 World Championship ended with the triumph of the German Williams-BMW driver Ralf Schumacher. His teammate Juan Pablo Montoya led most of the race, but he initially lost a lot of time due to a fuel tank failure and then retired from the track. Championship leader Michael Schumacher also failed to complete the race due to a car breakdown.