"Alien" on Moscow screens American science fiction writer Philip Kindred Dick has been filmed infrequently, but sniper-style. The very first was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, where in the hanging gardens of a future that never came, Harrison Ford tried on the Humphreybogart blues and saw a unicorn in a dream. Then - "Total Recall" by Paul Verhoeven, Schwarzenegger's memoirs wholesale and retail.

RAO UES of Russia wants to manipulate “other people’s” electricity The Supervisory Board of the Administrator of the Trading System (ATS) of the electricity market at the next meeting adopted the basic principles of the functioning of the market. The document describes the activities of the automatic telephone exchange and delineates the powers between this structure, the Federal Grid Company (FGC) and the System Operator (SO, dispatch company).

Paris attacked Bush Hubert Vedrine, the French Foreign Minister, called the American approach to solving international problems “simplistic.” Speaking on a program on Paris radio station France Inter on Wednesday, he sharply criticized US foreign policy.

If manufacturers don't intervene The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, has decided to take care of motorists. By October 1, as it became known from Brussels, new, more liberal rules for car trade should be adopted. Which, according to their developers, will lead to increased competition between different brands and, accordingly, a noticeable reduction in prices.

Chinese and Russian environmentalists are fighting for the cleanliness of the river For the first time in the history of relations between Russia and China, the two countries intend to cooperate in the field of ecology. According to the agreement signed yesterday between the Khabarovsk Territory, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, protecting the Amur from pollution is declared a common cause for the three adjacent territories.

The European media concern is waiting for help from the state The empire of 75-year-old Bavarian Leo Kirch, who owns the largest European film and television concern KirchGruppe, is about to be recognized as a German national treasure. Yesterday, the DPA agency, citing sources in the Federal Chancellor's Office, reported that due to the enormous importance of the Kirch concern for Germany, the authorities are developing a plan for its restructuring.

The government is calculating scenarios for the year Ensuring macroeconomic stability in 2002, no matter how hard Kasyanov's cabinet tries, will still seriously and directly depend on the situation on the world oil market. The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, which will present a report at a government meeting today, traditionally provides for three options for the development of events: optimistic, pessimistic and “moderate severity”.

The Gazexport company, the monopoly supplier of Russian gas to the world market, has changed management, Gazprom's press service reported. The new general director of the company is Oleg Sienko, who recently was the chairman of the board of directors of the Gazkomerts company. The order for his appointment was signed yesterday by the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller.

New chapters of the Tax Code may cause trouble for the Ministry of Taxes and Taxes Tax reform, sown in the summer of 2000, bore fruitful fruit in 2001. As Minister of Taxes and Duties Gennady Bukaev told Interfax yesterday, last year budgets of all levels received 32% more taxes than in 2000 - 1,955.8 billion rubles. Moreover, according to the minister, the growth rate of tax collections in real terms outpaced the growth rate of real GDP (11.3% and 5%, respectively).

The draw for the first round of the Davis Cup World Group will take place today. It will determine in what order tennis players from Russia and Switzerland will appear on the Olympic court. The day before, Olga ERMOLINA, a correspondent for the Vremya Novostey newspaper, spoke with the President of the All-Russian Tennis Association, captain of our team Shamil TARPISCHEV. - Shamil Anvyarovich, how are preparations for the match going? - The Davis Cup is a very difficult competition.

The draw for the men's basketball world championship took place in Indianapolis (USA), which will be held in the same city from August 29 to September 8. The Russian team ended up in Group D with Argentina, New Zealand and Venezuela. In the adjacent group “C” are the teams of the USA, China, Algeria and Germany. The composition of the remaining groups: “A” - Spain, Yugoslavia, Angola, Canada; "B" - Brazil, Türkiye, Puerto Rico, Lebanon.

Ten more sets of awards will be awarded in Salt Lake City than in Nagano At the Winter Olympics, which starts tomorrow in Salt Lake City, 78 sets of medals will be awarded. The schedule of the last Winter Games in 1998 in Nagano, Japan included ten fewer disciplines. Today we will try to analyze who will benefit from this expansion of the competition program. Skiers will compete in sprint races for the first time.

The commission of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, headed by the commander of the Airborne Forces Georgy Shpak, yesterday completed work in the Ulyanovsk 31st separate airborne brigade, two of whose fighters - Almaz Shageev and Mikhail Sukhorukov - staged a bloody raid on the roads of the Ulyanovsk region and Tatarstan at the beginning of the week. As Mr.

The first justices of the peace were sworn in in the capital World justice has finally reached Moscow: yesterday 24 justices of the peace were solemnly sworn in and received certificates. In fact, such servants of Themis should have appeared in Russia after the adoption of a special law on them in 1998. To become just those representatives of justice who are closest to ordinary citizens - a kind of precinct from the judicial system.

The head of the Ministry of Press, Mikhail Lesin, said that the general director of the Gazprom-Media holding, Boris Jordan, together with one of the Russian bankers, is buying out his stake in NTV (30% of shares) from Vladimir Gusinsky. Mr. Lesin was immediately refuted. Boris Jordan said on NTV: “The information that Mikhail Lesin disseminated on Wednesday is not true. It’s a shame that the public is being misled.” (At the same time, Mr.