The charity match between Jagr and Bure temporarily overshadowed the rest of the Spartak Cup games. Meanwhile, Krylya Sovetov lost to Ak Bars with a score of 0:4, and the day before they lost to the army team by a minimal margin of one goal - 0:1. Three more matches took place yesterday: CSKA lost to Avangard - 2:5, and the meeting between Spartak and Ak Bars ended in overtime with a score of 3:2, and Krylia Sovetov defeated Stars of Russia - 7:5.

Power plants cannot unload all the cars with coal RAO UES of Russia and the Ministry of Railways yesterday exchanged sharp accusations regarding the delivery of coal to Far Eastern power plants. Energy experts say that railway workers deliver coal irregularly, and because of this, unloading terminals are either idle or working in emergency mode.

A group of tourists from Great Britain was detained last Tuesday late at night in St. Petersburg by police officers. The British were photographed naked in front of the Mariinsky Palace, where the city's legislative assembly is located. In total, seven London residents were detained - two girls and five young men aged 29-30 years. Moreover, only men posed naked, and their companions photographed them.

By the end of the year, at least 74 thousand new jobs will appear in the capital. This optimistic forecast was announced yesterday by the head of the department of the Federal Employment Service for Moscow, Sergei Dudnikov. According to him, unemployment in the Mother See has not exceeded the “civilized” 0.6% of the economically active population for many years now. Currently, only 32,322 unemployed are officially registered at labor exchanges.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Vladimir Goryunov notified the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Converse Bank Vitaly Konovalov that the Central Bank “has suspended the process of placing the eighth issue of shares of Converse Bank CJSC.” The securities of this issue were purchased by MDM Bank, which now owns a controlling stake in Conversbank.

Already in the fall, conscripts from the capital will have a real opportunity to take advantage of the constitutional right to alternative service without leaving their hometown. Muscovites will be able to replace their time in the army with work in the capital's police and fire service. This was agreed upon by the head of the capital city police department Vladimir Pronin, mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov.

On Tuesday, employees of the State Customs Committee's anti-smuggling department had to deal with outright banditry. While customs officers were pursuing two trucks that they believed were carrying smuggled goods, one of the escort vehicles guarding the trucks tried to hit the customs Volga from behind in order to provoke an accident and allow the trucks to escape. All these events unfolded on the Moscow Ring Road.

Slavneft will respond to the German subsidiary of the Central Bank with a counterclaim The scandal between the Russian-Belarusian company Slavneft and a subsidiary of the Central Bank Ost-West Handelsbank AG is gaining momentum. Yesterday, a representative of Slavneft said that the company intends to file a claim against the bank to protect its business reputation.

LUKOIL, one of the shareholders of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, officially confirmed yesterday that the official launch ceremony of the Tengiz-Novorossiysk oil pipeline is being postponed. “The deadlines have been postponed from September 2 to the last week of the month,” LUKOIL Vice President Alexander Vasilenko said yesterday. This is the fourth postponement of the ceremony, which CPC sources explain by shareholder disagreements regarding the transport agreement. "TIME FOR NEWS"

Ivan Sklyarov is being employed in Nizhny Novgorod On the sidelines of the Legislative Assembly (LA) of the Nizhny Novgorod region, the further political fate of now ex-governor Ivan Sklyarov is being actively discussed. As the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly Anatoly Kozeradsky said, he intends to propose Ivan Sklyarov as a candidate for the post of representative of the legislative assembly in the Federation Council. At the same time, Mr.

Russian aircraft manufacturers do not want to be friends, but to compete Two leading Russian fighter aircraft manufacturers are counting on independently making a technological breakthrough towards the next generation of combat vehicles. Joining efforts to solve this problem is not included in the plans of either the Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSC) MiG or the Aviation Military-Industrial Complex (AMIC) Sukhoi.

A methane explosion occurred on Wednesday night at the Antonovskaya mine in Kuzbass. As a result, miners Sergei Titov and Vladimir Gerasimov died. Three more miners - driver Oleg Pleshko, tunnelers Alexey Antonov and Oleg Petrikevich - were seriously injured. The lives of the last two miners, despite the fractures and burns, are not in danger, and doctors from the Novokuznetsk neurosurgical clinic are trying to save Pleshko. The Antonovskaya mine is a modern coal enterprise in Kuzbass.

Six American military helicopters of the UH-1H type, better known from the Vietnam War as “Iroquois”, will go to assembly in Georgia under the Georgian-American “helicopter contract” on August 21-22, Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia Gela Bezhuashvili told the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

DPI spun off Apple's business into a separate company The Russian company DPI, which began as an official representative of Apple Computer Inc., transformed into a group and again separated the Apple business into a separate structure. The group's management predicts that the growth of its turnover will outstrip the gross growth in the Russian computer market.

Military personnel switch to self-financing Since the beginning of the year, in parts of the Far Eastern Military District, according to the prosecutor's office of the Far Eastern Military District, 15 crimes related to the theft of weapons and ammunition have been solved. 21 military personnel were convicted, including two officers and two warrant officers.