Merger completed in consumer electronics retail market Moscow Dial-Electronics consumer electronics stores will change their signs within two weeks. Now they operate under the Tekhnosila brand.

The new Russian Energy Minister Igor Yusufov intends to take part in the Vienna meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in September as an observer. There they are really waiting for him to express his painful concerns. OPEC President and Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines Shakib KHALIL shares his plans with the special correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper Elena SUPONINA. -- Mr.

New cholera patients have been identified in Tatarstan - in the suburban Vysokogorsky and rural Alkeevsky districts, said the chief sanitary doctor of the republic, Viktor Morozov. According to him, the infection was brought there from Kazan, from the Azino microdistrict. A boy came to Alkeevo from Kazan and infected his uncle. Cholera was brought to the Vysokogorsk region by a local shepherd, whose clothes were washed in water from the ill-fated lake.

Russian commercial banks negotiate with Hermes one by one Russian credit organizations are gradually restoring relations with the German state export insurance agency Hermes, interrupted after the 1998 crisis. Yesterday, the Moscow Credit Bank (MCB) announced that it had received a loan from Commerzbank AG in the amount of 1.4 million euros guaranteed by Hermes. The International Moscow Bank is expected to announce a deal involving Hermes in the near future.

The bankruptcy of a defense plant is unlikely to help creditors get their money back The Far Eastern defense enterprise Vympel may soon be declared bankrupt. The bailiffs of Amursk (Khabarovsk Territory) seized the real estate of the enterprise, which still regularly supplies the troops with ammunition.

Defense engineers of Russia and France took up avionics together Russian and French defense engineers will jointly develop the latest missile guidance system for fighter jets, which is expected to equip combat aircraft of the two countries in a few years. The agreement was signed by the Russian Aerospace Equipment Corporation, the Research Institute of Instrument Engineering named after. Tikhomirov (Zhukovsky) and the French company Thales.

In Moldova The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, reassured the population of Moldova: there will be no disruptions in the supply of Russian gas to the republic. Despite the fact that debts are not paid today, and in the future they can only be overcome with the help of the same Gazprom. At a meeting in Chisinau with Miller, Moldovan Prime Minister Vasily Tarlev spoke directly about this. The reasoning of the Moldovan side is as follows.

The Vremya publishing house has published the collection “Russian Poetry of China” The anthology “Russian Poetry of China” was published in the same “Poetry Library”, where the collections of David Samoilov, Yuri Levitansky, Evgeny Yevtushenko previously appeared, and in the near future the selection of Timur Kibirov will be released.

Fighters against the mafia will sit in the bureau The next police revolution was announced yesterday by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Boris Gryzlov. Speaking at a meeting of heads of internal affairs agencies of the Northwestern Federal District, he inflicted a real attack on the system of combating organized crime that has been in place for the last ten years. “We are losing the battle against organized crime,” the minister stated.

Forever the second club in Russia is striving to join the European elite So, the start of the European football season has been made, and this time Russian fans can look to the future with optimism. Of course, we still have troubled days ahead, when the now unconvincing Chernomorets and Dynamo start in the UEFA Cup, but I don’t want to think about it for now, since Lokomotiv started off healthy.

The Burmese army will fight with our weapons On Wednesday, the official delegation of the Russian Ministry of Defense began negotiations with the military-political leadership of Myanmar (Burma). The military department avoids any comments about the consultations taking place in Yangon, but the very fact that the delegation is headed by Mikhail Dmitriev confirms rumors about the upcoming large-scale supplies of Russian weapons to the Burmese army. After all, Mr.

Yesterday, Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov launched a formal attack on the Northern and North-Western Regional Directorate for Combating Organized Crime. He accused the Rubopovites of being unable to resist the gangster groups, which, according to the minister, control the economy of the region through their inaction. For the first time, a high-ranking official stated that organized crime is the real economic power in St. Petersburg, and even named a specific group. “In St.

Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has agreed to meet Brian Nielsen on September 8 in Copenhagen. "We have already discussed all the details of the contract, and now I expect Mike to sign it," said the Dane's promoter Mogens Paul. A month later, in November, Lennox Lewis will have a rematch with WBC and IBF world champion Hasim Rahman. The latter became famous thanks to a sensational victory over Lewis in April. “We are glad that the deal has finally worked out.

The official divorce of Hollywood's most famous couple On Wednesday, American movie stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman finally legalized their relationship and divorced in Los Angeles. Many Americans sighed mournfully: for a decade, Cruise and Kidman were the most touching Hollywood couple. She forgave him for being shorter than her. He forgave her that she knew how to play, and often gave her roses for no reason.

Yesterday, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a press conference, to which representatives of the independent press were also invited. The last time such an event took place was five years ago, when parliament began discussing the issue of impeachment. The President was unusually kind, joked a lot and answered all the questions, most of which, naturally, were devoted to election issues. Alexander Lukashenko said he is absolutely confident of victory.