DPR reproaches the Union of Right Forces for compradorism and globalism The leader of the Union of Right Forces, Boris Nemtsov, is not too concerned about active attempts to create an alternative party to the Union of Rightist Forces on the right flank. This is the initiative of the Novgorod governor Mikhail Prusak, who decided to lead and recreate the Democratic Party of Russia and the Berezovsky-Yushenkov “Liberal Russia” project. Mr.

RAO UES of Russia will come to the budget Winter without shocks and disasters - this was the leitmotif of yesterday's government meeting. Realizing that the president had actually already identified the problem of preparing for winter as a political one, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko decisively stated that technological difficulties should not be allowed to lead to a socio-political crisis.

Norilsk Nickel plans to reduce spot sales of palladium in the near future in order to achieve an increase in prices for this metal, said the head of Rosbank Evgeny Ivanov. “All long-term contracts will be fulfilled; restrictions are possible only on the spot market,” explained the head of Rosbank, which is part of the Interros group that controls Norilsk Nickel. Palladium prices have more than halved over the past six months - to $441 per troy ounce, Reuters reports.

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Khmelev Khmelev died in 1945. He died the way artists should die - in the theater on the day of the dress rehearsal. The tragedy of Alexei Tolstoy “Difficult Years” was going on. Khmelev played Ivan the Terrible, and, according to eyewitnesses, this role was to become the best in the artist’s repertoire and one of the best in the history of Russian theater.

A passenger plane Tu-154 of Dalavia airlines made an emergency landing at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo airport on Thursday night. The airliner was flying from Krasnodar to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and during the flight the crew discovered a malfunction in the hydraulic system. At 00.10 local time, the plane landed safely in Novosibirsk. None of the 122 passengers and crew members were injured during the emergency landing.

YUKOS and Sibneft met in Chukotka Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky is trying to strengthen the political “buoyancy” of his company thanks to an oil alliance with the Chukotka governor Roman Abramovich. The oligarchs decided to jointly develop oil and gas fields in the north of Chukotka, although, according to experts, making a profit in such a climatically difficult region is unlikely.

The Wagner Festival is in full swing The main event of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, celebrating its 125th anniversary, was the production of the mega-tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelungs”, which was carried out by the authoritative German director Jurgen Flimm. Over the course of a month, the cycle of four operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Twilight of the Gods) will be performed three times - four days in a row, as Wagner himself intended this grandiose performance.

Regional banks do not like the Mamut reform project The proposals of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) to reform the domestic banking system, outlined in Alexander Mamut’s interview with the Vremya Novostey newspaper (see No. 139 of August 6, 2001) , stirred up the financial community.

Inkombank creditors could not fire the manager The removal from the post of bankruptcy manager of Inkombank Vladimir Alekseev, initiated by the bank's creditors' committee, was called into question yesterday. The Moscow Arbitration Court, to which the creditors sent their petition, decided to return the application to them.

The recommendations of a prominent Georgian economist were not useful Today, the father of Polish “shock therapy,” Leszek Balcerowicz, who was hired by the Georgia-friendly United States last summer as an emergency economic adviser to Eduard Shevardnadze, is arriving in Tbilisi on his next quarterly visit.

New tragedy in Jerusalem At least 17 people were killed and about a hundred wounded in yesterday's explosion at a crowded pizzeria on the central Yafo street in West Jerusalem. 15 minutes after the tragedy, someone told AFP that the kamikaze action was the work of the Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad, which declared it “a gift to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his speech.” Apparently, for the day before yesterday's speech by the Iraqi leader in support of the Palestinians.

S. Prokofiev. Opera "Semyon Kotko". Victor Lutsyuk (Semyon Kotko), Tatyana Pavlovskaya (Sofya), Gennady Bezzubenkov (Tkachenko), Victor Chernomortsev (Tsarev), Ekaterina Solovyova (Lyubka), Olga Markova-Mikhailenko (Khivrya), Olga Savova (Frosya), etc. Choir and orchestra Mariinsky Theater. Conductor Valery Gergiev. 2 CDs, Philips. For many years, Prokofiev’s best opera, according to Svyatoslav Richter, was labeled as a pro-Soviet composition.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office recently sent a case to court against three local police officers. Officers of the Primorsky District Department of Internal Affairs are accused of accepting bribes, abuse of power and official forgery.

The agreement with the Albanians outrages the Macedonians The likelihood of signing an Albanian-Macedonian agreement, scheduled for Monday, is becoming less and less likely. The very initialing of the text on Wednesday, the day of the death of ten Macedonian police officers who were ambushed by militants of the Liberation National Army (ONA), was perceived by the Slavic Macedonians as blasphemy.

A powerful explosion occurred on Wednesday night in St. Petersburg. An unknown person planted an explosive device under a brand new G8 parked on Cosmonaut Street. The explosion severely damaged the Zhiguli and the nearby Oka - according to experts, the power of the infernal machine was about 250 grams of TNT. Detectives found out that the blown up VAZ-2108 belongs to 42-year-old businessman Alexander Melezhko. He and his wife Alla Gerasimova are the owners of the luxury clothing salon “Panther”.