A daring robbery took place yesterday morning in the very center of Moscow. At 10.15, Alexander Kiranov, rector of the Institute of Sustainable Development, contacted the police. He told investigators that he and a friend came home to Barykovsky Lane. However, as soon as the owner opened the door, three young men in masks attacked the visitors. They were armed with two pistols with silencers and a machine gun.

Kavalerovsky district is the most unlucky in Primorye. It was he who suffered more than others from the energy crisis last winter. And it was the residents of this area who experienced all the delights of liquidating bankrupt enterprises. Today, every fourth able-bodied resident here does not have a permanent job. An army of “superfluous” people appeared here after the closure in 1997 of five of the six mines of the only city-forming enterprise - OJSC Khrustalnenskaya Tin Mining Company (KhOK).

The Russian government has approved a loan agreement for a World Bank loan of $80 million for a pilot project for the resettlement of disabled and unemployed people from the Far North. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

Luzhkov told Chubais about Siberia Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor's office reported, spoke with the head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais - at the request of Mr. Chubais. At the same time, Moscow authorities say, the mayor of Moscow, having warned in advance that he would not talk about the scandal with the management of Mosenergo, yesterday was busy blaming the chief electrician of Russia for the unsatisfactory state of the economy of RAO UES of Russia in Tyumen and Kuzbass.

A group of fraudsters, who had been engaged in “breaking” currency for several months near the Kievsky railway station in Moscow, was recently neutralized by employees of the capital’s Regional Directorate for Combating Organized Crime. The team of swindlers consisted of 10-12 people, mostly Azerbaijanis. The scammers worked from 6 to 10 am - at this time the station square is already quite crowded, but the currency exchange offices are still closed.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to find out the fate of millions sent to restore Chechnya The first high-profile investigation into the money allocated for the restoration of Chechnya was launched by Russian law enforcement agencies.

MDM Bank came up with a new takeover method The struggle of MDM Bank with opponents who are hindering the process of absorption of Converse Bank by the MDM group is moving from the behind-the-scenes administrative stage to the open stage.

The capital's doctors assure that in the near future Moscow will not be threatened with cholera, plague or smallpox. This was stated by the chief sanitary doctor of Moscow Nikolai Filatov. “There is no cholera in Moscow, and there are also no conditions in the capital for the spread of infection,” he said. -- Surveys are being conducted among all passengers arriving in Moscow from Kazan to find out whether they are complaining about their health.

Tataria has found its own way to save insolvent enterprises, says Alexei Semin, chairman of the republican committee for financial recovery (the same department is also a territorial body of the federal ministry). In his opinion, this method is fully consistent with all-Russian legislation and allows enterprises to be pulled out of the crisis with the least losses for teams and the regional economy. The procedure is based on the restructuring of production.

“Friendship of Peoples” (No. 7) publishes Vasil Bykov’s story “Swamp”. The writer is recognizable from the first lines: “Having got out of the gloomy forest wilds, where they wandered half the night, Gusakov sighed with relief: the forest ended, a field spread out in front of them.” The relief is deceptive: three (at first anonymous “they”, gradually acquiring surnames, ranks, titles, characters, pasts, turning into living people as the narrative progresses) were in the wrong place.

The Kemerovo region has accumulated vast experience in closing large industrial enterprises, mainly mines, during industry restructuring. This experience has been around for at least seven years, but neither the public employment service specialists nor the local authorities can claim that everyone has gotten used to it and adapted. According to Pyotr Bizyukov, a Kemerovo sociologist and labor relations specialist, the problem was and remains.

The Russian men's team failed to win gold medals at the European Baseball Championship that ended in Germany. In the final match our team lost to the Dutch - 0:4. Our guys had a greater chance than ever to rise to the top of continental baseball, especially since in the preliminary round they had already proven that they were no weaker than the Dutch (who had never fallen below 2nd place in such tournaments), beating them with a score of 4:3 .

The labor market suffers from a shortage of qualified personnel Russian laws quite closely protect the employee from the consequences that the bankruptcy of an enterprise entails, as well as from the problems that arise during unemployment. True, those who rely only on the force of the law prepare themselves for either chronic unemployment or chronic idleness at work, receiving in both cases the only guarantee: life below the poverty line.

The conversation about “entertainment” and “serious” principles in contemporary art (see “Vremya Novostey” on August 3) is continued by the prose writer from Krasnoyarsk Mikhail USPENSKY, author of the popular trilogy about the adventures of the hero Zhikhar and his comrades (“Where We Are Not”, “ It’s Time”, “Whom to Send for Death”), fantastic and humorous stories, the novel “Look into the Eyes of Monsters” (written together with Andrei Lazarchuk).

Investors rely on household savings and drive up housing prices It's a busy time for Moscow builders and realtors. There was no end to buyers of apartments in new buildings, even in the heat. According to realtors, investors have raised the price per square meter on the primary market by 20-40% since the beginning of the year (depending on their location and the quality of the house).