Tyson and Lewis will finally meet in the ring on Saturday June 8. Pyramide Arena in Memphis. This is the time and place of one of the most anticipated boxing matches in the last ten years. Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson. At stake is a lot of money and two championship belts according to the WBC and IBF, which the Englishman still holds. But by and large, the boxers will be putting their own fate on the line, which may be decided by the outcome of Saturday's fight.

The “Passport of Freedom” will be presented next week to the former Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and current leader of the Kazakh opposition Akezhan Kazhegeldin in the European Parliament. The “Passport of Freedom” is evidence that the highest legislative body of the United Europe supports the activities of its holder to uphold democratic values ​​in countries where they are not respected. The initiative to present a “passport of freedom” to Mr.

Human rights activists consider the Labor Code useless Human rights activists consider the results of the first four months after the entry into force of the new Labor Code to be disappointing. Moreover, this document is given a negative assessment by both representatives of public organizations and members of the expert council of the Commissioner for Human Rights under the presidential administration.

In Europe, Chisinau is not expected Moldovan producers are in shock: brotherly Romania has introduced a ban on the import of meat, chicken eggs and dairy products from the neighboring country. According to the Minister of Agriculture of Moldova, Dmitry Todoroglo, today about 400 thousand tons of meat and 15 million eggs have accumulated in the warehouses of the republic, some of which are already subject to destruction due to their unsuitability for consumption.

The opera "Boris Godunov" will be shown outdoors At yesterday's press conference at the Bolshoi Theater, details of a new large-scale project were announced - a performance of Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov" by the theater at the walls of the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Monastery in the Pushkin Mountains (Pskov region).

Sony was deprived of the right to exclusively use the word Walkman in the name of its products. An Austrian court has ruled that the word Walkman has long been used as a synonym for “personal player.” Lawyers decided that it had entered the everyday language of most countries of the world on a par with words such as “copier” or “satellite”. The proceedings began after representatives of Sony filed a lawsuit against Time Tron Corp.

Since September, the Russian electric power industry begins to immerse itself in the market Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko last night set the date for the start of market relations in the electric power industry - September 1 of this year. In accordance with the industry reform program, during the transition period it is allowed to sell 5-15% of generated electricity through the Trading System Administrator (ATS) at market prices. Mr.

The trial of a group of Chechen saboteurs and subversives has come to an end in the Stavropol Regional Court. According to the prosecutor's office, Aslan Shepiev, Idris Batalov and Arbi Tashaev organized an armed group during 2000-2001 and regularly carried out explosions of military trains and trains on the Gudermes-Dzhalka railway section. Among other things, investigators established that it was this group that derailed armored train No.

The Prosecutor General's Office has found a new reason to call a Central Bank employee an official and accused The conflict between the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation over the fate of the deputy head of the Central Bank's main department for Moscow, Alexander Alekseev, recently received a new scandalous development. Mr.

The special services of the Kaliningrad region announced yesterday the detention of the second suspect in the attempt on the life of the Deputy Head of the Pacific Regional Directorate of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia, Major General Vitaly Gamov. On the night of May 21 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, unknown criminals threw Molotov cocktails at the general’s apartment, as a result of which the general and his wife received severe burns.

The concern has a chance to become even closer to Europe The Lithuanian government has approved a program for the sale of the second stake in Lietuvos dujos (Lithuanian Gas), intended for the supplier, read Gazprom. It contains the following basic conditions. First: the buyer cannot be a company or an enterprise controlled by it that has already become a strategic investor (the German concerns Ruhrgas and E.ON Energie became such after the first stage of privatization).

So far, Radjabov is just learning from Kasparov No wonder they say: history repeats itself. Back in 1978 - 15-year-old Baku resident Garry Kasparov brilliantly wins the All-Union qualifying tournament and confidently plays in the top league of the USSR championship. 2002 - another 15-year-old Baku resident, Teymur Radjabov, confidently defeats eminent grandmasters at the Grand Prix tournament. It is also symptomatic that the paths of fellow countrymen crossed for the first time in Moscow.

United industrialists want to become a real force There are more people wishing to take part in the upcoming State Duma elections every day.

At the next meeting of Avtobank shareholders, a new composition of the supervisory board of 11 people was approved. As the newspaper Vremya Novostey learned, two-thirds of the seats on the council went to representatives of IBG NIKoil. Apparently, the deal to acquire Avtobank by NIKoil can be considered completed.

Radu Poklitaru helped out “Ramp of Moscow” The penultimate evening of the Moscow Footlights festival was saved by Radu Poklitaru and Evgeniy Panfilov. In fact, the management of the salvation fest did not deserve to be saved: the event was done on the knees. Starting with the dense name and ending with money not paid on time to foreign guest performers.