The consortium to renovate Sheremetyevo Airport is not working out The start of construction of a new terminal at Sheremetyevo Airport and reconstruction of the existing international terminal Sheremetyevo-2 has been postponed indefinitely. The airport's board of directors reviewed the terms for attracting a foreign investor, already agreed upon with another key participant in the project - Aeroflot.

Americanization of the Georgian army is accompanied by embarrassment Today, over two hundred candidates for the Komando battalion will arrive at the Ministry of Defense tent camp at the Yagludzha training ground near Tbilisi from Western Georgia. Starting August 27, the Americans will begin training this unit as part of the Train and Equip program, estimated at $64 million. The first 365 applicants have already begun field exercises.

The two rescheduled matches were played on Saturday in the Russian Football Premier League. In Elista, local Uralan and Zenit played the missed first round game. The teams failed to significantly increase their points balance, although the match will be remembered by eyewitnesses for a long time for its uncompromising nature - 3:3. The brilliant play of St. Petersburg forward Alexander Kerzhakov helped his team avoid defeat.

Aliyev is offered to abandon the referendum and elections Last Friday, the US State Department strongly recommended that Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev postpone the referendum on amending the current constitution.

There are no Spaniards or Moroccans left there The ten-day conflict between Spain and Morocco over the island of Perejil in the Mediterranean Sea received an external end: the Spaniards withdrew troops from the island (90 minutes were spent on the withdrawal of 75 legionnaires, more than it took to liberate it from Moroccan soldiers).

Representatives of the German Federal Office for Air Accident Investigation announced the first results of their investigation into the crash of a Russian Tu-154 passenger plane and a DHL Boeing 757, which collided on the night of July 2 over Lake Constance. According to experts, decoding of the flight recorders of the dead aircraft showed that all systems and instruments worked until the last moment without failures.

A powerful cyclone that arrived in Primorye last week threatens local residents with a new flood. The downpours that hit the region on Friday and Saturday have already caused a sharp rise in water in the Razdolnaya, Borisovka and Kazachka rivers. There is a real threat of flooding of Ussuriysk - the Razdolnaya River surrounds the city on three sides. According to local rescuers, the critical level in the river is 5.2 meters, but yesterday the water in Razdolnaya rose to 7.5 meters.

The famous hotel is being reconstructed for the people Yuri Luzhkov presented to journalists on Friday a new exciting project related to the city hotel industry: in addition to Intourist, its neighbor Moskva is also awaiting demolition. In 2003 - with favorable data from hydrogeological examinations - work will begin on recreating a giant hotel complex opposite the State Duma.

“Murder Countdown” on Moscow screens Seven years ago, Barbet Schroeder pulled off a miracle: in Kiss of Death, a remake of the 1947 film noir classic, he made even the most skeptical of viewers stare at Nicolas Cage.

Vyacheslav Sheremet will not return to Gazprom The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, dismissed Vyacheslav Sheremet. Although for several years Mr. Sheremet was the “second man” in the gas monopoly (formally, the first deputy chairman of the board for production, in fact, the controller of financial and gas flows), in the last year his corporate status was not entirely clear.

A special commission of experts from the Ministry of Transport, rescuers and investigators from the prosecutor's office yesterday completed work at the crash site of a Mi-6 passenger helicopter of Taimyr Airlines, which crashed on July 10 while flying along the route Norilsk - Dikson Island - Eclipse site (border post) - Cape Chelyuskin.

Two Koreas opened direct flights for nuclear power plant builders Saturday's test flight of a North Korean passenger plane into South Korea's Yangyang Airport was a welcome development following a string of squabbles and incidents that have marred already rocky relations between Pyongyang and Seoul.

Elusive Avengers have appeared in Ukraine On Saturday, a powerful explosive device was neutralized in an office building in the center of Kharkov, which, according to experts, could destroy several floors of the building. As reported by the Kharkov television company ATN, based on the initial examination, it is clear that the device was made by a professional.

Legendary Soviet dissident died in Paris “I’m giving myself five more years,” he said six months ago. It didn’t work out: Alexander Ilyich Ginzburg passed away on July 19, he was sixty-five. The only lung that remained after prisons and camps had long failed, and my heart gave out. He's been sick a lot lately.

As soon as the mountain stages began at the most prestigious road cycling race, the Tour de France, the yellow jersey of the leader was captured by the winner of the Great Loop of the last three years, American Lance Armstrong from the U.S. team. Es. Stopped." True, at first Armstrong had to work hard to catch up with the Frenchman Laurent Jalabert, who had gone into the lead at the 11th stage.