Boris Gryzlov's department proposes to increase budget revenues by 20 percent The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has begun developing a large-scale program to bring entire sectors of the domestic economy out of the shadows.

In the final of the 34th European Championship in Perm, 22-year-old Alexander POVETKIN boxed in the final pair with his contemporary from Italy, Roberto Camarelle. The nine Russians who entered the ring before him won eight victories, but the young hero managed to put a spectacular end to the competition, which was extremely successful for Nikolai Khromov’s squad, with great difficulty. Another 20 seconds before the final bell the score was tied - 16:16.

In Primorye, everyone was saved from the flood, even the goats Governor of Primorye Sergei Darkin yesterday actually blamed the Chinese for the flood that happened in Primorye last weekend. According to him, the main cause of the disaster was not so much the two-week rains in the region, but the emergency opening of locks in the border areas of the PRC.

The fight for the “sixth button” is not over The procedures for liquidating the MNVK company may be suspended - the television company again has a chance to return to the “sixth button”. Last week, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District declared the actions of bailiff Andrei Fedorchenko to stop broadcasting MNVK on TV-6 channel illegal.

As we have already reported, the CSKA basketball club has signed a contract with a new head coach. According to this agreement, signed in Nice, France, for the next three years the army team will be led by Yugoslav specialist Dusan Ivkovic, nicknamed Duda. Discussion on the topic “Do Russia need foreign coaches?” flared up in our country even before the start of the last hockey season, when the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv was headed by the Czech Vladimir Vuytek.

The prevention of a major terrorist attack - comparable in scale to the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow, Buynaksk and Volgodonsk in the fall of 1999 - was announced yesterday by the Russian special services. This happened during a joint operation carried out last Friday by employees of the central office of the FSB and Stavropol counterintelligence officers.

Vasily Boyko will have to fight the oligarchs affected by his activities Some victims of the activities of Vasily Boyko, head of the company “Your Financial Trustee” (VFP), decided to fight against the practice of corporate blackmail. The need for such steps, they argue, is caused by the fact that, in addition to the interests of their enterprises, the entire Russian investment climate is suffering.

Beijing is offended by criticism from Washington This July has become a hot period in US-Chinese relations. One after another, Washington dealt Beijing a series of painful jabs. First, the Pentagon exposed the expansionist aspirations of the Chinese military. A week later, a congressional report came out warning that a “rich but unfree” China could become a powerful rival to the United States in the struggle for influence in Asia.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice for Moscow filed a lawsuit for the liquidation of the Kingdom of God Church in the Nagatinsky District Court. The church is part of the Russian United Union of Christians of the Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals), and its representatives believe that they are clean before the law. In 1997, the charter of this religious organization was officially registered, and in 1999 the church successfully passed re-registration.

At the beginning of August, the Bank of Moscow will begin issuing a combined Visa Electron card and a Muscovite social card, said Farid Nasibullin, head of the business development department of the bank’s retail business development department. He noted that due to the participation of the Visa payment system in this project, the Muscovite social card has become an international card that will be accepted at more than 20 million service points around the world.

Former Central Intelligence Agency employee Edward Lee Howard, who fled to the USSR in 1985, died in Moscow at the age of 50. As far as is known, he was the first CIA employee to defect to the Soviet Union. The death of the defector was reported by The Washington Post. She refers to a family friend of Howard's who asked not to be named. According to him, the ex-agent fell from the porch at the dacha and broke his neck.

Government agencies are fighting against non-business suits The authorities of Rostov-on-Don no longer intend to allow people in shorts to approach them. At one of the recent planning meetings, city leaders categorically demanded that their subordinates exclude any appearance in the city hall of people in shorts, T-shirts and tracksuits.

“Slavic Bazaar” is in full swing in Vitebsk The festival, taking place this year for the eleventh time, officially opened on July 19, but the vibrant life began a week earlier. The harbinger of the “Slavic Bazaar” was a show of children’s creativity, where an incredible number of groups of different ages from different countries of the world performed, presenting musical and choreographic programs to the audience.

The victory of the Hungarian chess player Peter Leko ended the traditional super tournament in Dortmund, which this time had the status of a qualifier for the world championship match. In the final round of four classical games, Leko defeated the Bulgarian Veselin Topalov and received the right to play against Vladimir Kramnik. Before the final, a lot testified in favor of Leko.

For the first time in Russia, from July 30 to August 3, the International Parachuting Competition in Memory of Anton Malevsky will be held at the Stupino airfield near Moscow. As reported by the Federation of Aviation Sports (FAS) of Russia, the initiators of the competition were friends of the famous Russian businessman and parachutist Anton Malevsky, who tragically died last year while training in South Africa.