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 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.

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.

Sir Norman Foster has blessed London with a new creation Official celebrations will take place today to mark the opening of London's new City Hall. The glass structure, reminiscent of a stack of deep plates stacked upside down, was created by the workshop of the famous modernist Sir Norman Foster.

Last Sunday in Kosovo, the commander of a platoon of Russian peacekeepers, Captain Alexander Kolodyazhny, died during a patrol. Soldiers of the Russian military contingent (RMC) served in the mountainous terrain of the KFOR East sector on the border of Serbia and Macedonia. The path along which the armored vehicle was to climb turned out to be washed out and very dangerous to climb.

At midnight on July 21, the System Operator took over control of the unified energy system of Russia. Now the Central Dispatch Department (CDC) is transferring its functions to it. So far, as explained by the head of the press service of RAO UES of Russia, Yuri Melikhov, there has only been a name change, but in the near future the structure of the System Operator will be radically changed.

Bans on wearing certain clothes are not new for authorities around the world. Last year, in the midst of 30-degree heat, the mayor of Chisinau banned minibus drivers from driving in shorts and T-shirts. The authorities of the American town of Moscow, for their part, do not allow girls to work at car washes without bras.

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.

Having won two confident victories over the Cuban national team in Havana (3:1, 3:0), the Russian volleyball team ahead of schedule won the right to play in the final tournament, which will be held in Brazil from August 13 to 18. Most of the World League participants still have four more matches to play, but the four finalists are already known today - Brazil, Russia, Italy and Spain.

“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 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.

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.