Wives beating by husbands is a common practice in family life “In French families, husbands have beaten, are beating and will continue to beat their wives unless women, without delay, take active measures to protect themselves,” said participants in the national hearing “Women Against Violence” held at the Sorbonne. This meeting is not a sob of suffragism at the turn of the third millennium, but an expression of French concern about a problem whose relevance does not diminish with time.

And waits for Lewis to pay attention to him Vladimir Klitschko justified all the optimistic forecasts (addressed to him). The fight in Atlantic City, America, ended in his unconditional victory. Already in the sixth round, the Ukrainian’s opponent, 41-year-old American Ray Mercer, stopped all resistance.

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State Minister Jorbenadze has been instructed to revive the “Union of Citizens” An extraordinary congress of the once powerful “Union of Citizens” elected State Minister (Prime Minister) Avtandil Jorbenadze as party chairman. The honorary chairman was Eduard Shevardnadze, who until September last year headed this organization for eight years without a break.

The Russian men's water polo team began its participation in the new tournament - the World League - with a defeat. In the first meeting in the pool of the capital's Olympic sports complex, the Russians lost to the Hungarian team - 6:12. Never before have teams played under such a time limit - four periods of nine minutes each (instead of the usual 4x7 format). It seems that our water polo players were completely unprepared for these experimental rules. They simply didn't have enough strength.

The President was angry with Chubais The investigation into the causes and consequences of the devastating flood in southern Russia, begun by Vladimir Putin with a trip to the Stavropol Territory, continued last weekend. Upon returning to Moscow, the president ordered the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Boris Gryzlov, to take special control of the situation in disaster areas and prevent cases of looting. On Saturday morning, the President held a meeting with members of government.

Last night the prizes of the XXIV Moscow International Film Festival were awarded. The main prize - "Golden George" - was awarded to the film by Italian directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani "Resurrection" based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to the editors of the Vremya Novostei newspaper, the chairman of the jury, writer Chingiz Aitmatov, insisted on this decision.

From today, Russian state television begins large-scale foreign broadcasting. The new project of the VGTRK holding is called “RTR-Planet”. The broadcast will be carried out via the Express-3A satellite. In mid-June, a new Russian satellite was launched into orbit, providing broadcasting of the RTR, ORT and “Culture” channels to the European part of Russia.

The Museum of Architecture glorifies the Moscow metro Of the many wonderful photographs of the exhibition “Underground Paradise of the Proletariat,” curated by MUAR employees Irina Kokkinaki and Maria Rogozina, one was especially memorable. It depicts the well-known Kropotkinskaya station. The photo dates from the time of construction, 1935. Then this station - the creation of the great architect Alexei Dushkin - was called the “Palace of Soviets”.

Dayton contemporary dance company in Moscow Troupes engaged in modern dance are usually original: their movements are invented and limited by the imagination of one person.

Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Colonel General of Police Alexander CHEKALIN, believes that even the flashing of banknotes during communication between an inspector and a driver is a crime. Since July 1, traffic police officers find themselves in harsh conditions when all their actions are regulated.

Ivan Rybkin lost the fourth game The smaller the party, the more principled it is, and therefore extremely strict towards party members. For example, the Socialist United Party of Russia (SEPR) emerged only in March of this year, has not even had time to receive registration documents from the Ministry of Justice, but has already expelled its chairman, Ivan Rybkin. Mr.

And Korea has a good football future left to its share The match for third place at the world championship has always been called a repechage final, a game in which losers meet among the favorites who are one step away from the top. However, this time almost the heroes of the championship played. Both Turkey and South Korea idolize their teams for breaking into the elite of world football. However, Guus Hiddink was still upset: “I feel like we lost in the final match.

Russians will have it thanks to new taxes Before the spring season closed, the Duma helped the government take several more revolutionary tax steps. Taxpayers are happy with the new chapters of the second part of the Tax Code: two are dedicated to small businesses, another one is about the transport tax - for almost all Russians, companies involved in the extraction of mineral resources should make their work life easier with a special tax regime when implementing production sharing agreements.

The group a-ha performed at the Olimpiyskiy What people say is true: “A bad beginning does not lead to a good end.” The members of the Norwegian trio were almost two hours late for a press conference at the Marriott because their plane... landed at the wrong airport. There is nothing scary about this for Moscow journalists, well, they were late and they were late, the main thing is that they landed in the right city.