America is again shocked by Russian cooperation with Iran The plan for developing trade and cooperation between Russia and Iran, approved by Russian Prime Minister Kasyanov on Wednesday and announced on Friday, came as a complete surprise to Washington.

Forward Dmitry Cheryshev, known for his performances for Dynamo Moscow and the Spanish Sporting, may end up in Alania Vladikavkaz. Cheryshev spent the last season in the Spanish second division club Burgos, but failed to gain a foothold there in the main team. In addition to Alania, Russian first division clubs Rubin and Volgar-Gazprom are vying for Cheryshev.

In Moscow, at the age of 61, theater and film artist Vsevolod Abdulov died after a long illness. Filmgoers remember him from the films “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed,” “Armed and Very Dangerous,” “The Broken Trust,” “Contraband,” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Theatergoers - in the play “Solo for a striking clock,” where Abdulov, the son of the famous artist of the forties and fifties, Osip Abdulov, played along with the elders of the Moscow Art Theater.

At the end of last week, an international conference ended in Moscow, at which the heads of the ministries of health of the CIS countries agreed to jointly fight AIDS. One of its results can be considered the promise made by the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, to allocate $20 million to the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria.

The prestige of the Ukrainian army collapsed at the Lviv airfield Today, nationwide mourning has been declared in Ukraine in memory of the victims of the terrible tragedy that happened last Saturday at the Lvov Sknyliv airfield. During an air show watched by 10,000 people, a Su-27 fighter jet crashed into the stands and then exploded, turning about a hundred people into a bloody pulp. The TV news footage is shocking - the remains of people are identified literally by fragments of bodies.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation notified the Russians Ivan Ochirov and Dmitry Kosyakov, sentenced to death in Zanzibar, of their readiness to petition the authorities of this Tanzanian island for their transfer to Russia. Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgaev told INTERFAX about this over the weekend. According to him, so far the consul of the Russian embassy has met with Ochirov and Kosyakov.

In the Sverdlovsk region, security services are again concerned about searching for an armed deserter. The emergency occurred in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma near Yekaterinburg. Late in the evening, a conscript soldier escaped from a local military unit. At the same time, it turned out that the duty officer for the unit’s vehicle fleet had lost his service pistol.

No anti-Semitism or terrorism found in the night explosion A new surge of emotions around the activity of “anti-Semitic terrorists” was caused by an explosion that occurred early Sunday morning near one of the residential buildings in the capital’s Yasenevo microdistrict. This time, fortunately, no one was hurt, and everything turned out to be a few broken window panes, but the strange inscriptions found at the scene of the emergency gave rise to harsh statements.

National Bolshevik newspaper moves to the Internet Despite the decision of the Khamovnichesky court, which banned the publication of the Limonka newspaper last Friday, fans of the work of Eduard Limonov and the ideas of National Bolshevism will not be left without their organ. Back at the end of June, between acting. The head of the National Bolshevik Party, Mr.

She won her first tournament at age 16 and a half. Following Mikhail Youzhny, who won his first tournament a week ago in Stuttgart, Germany, the young Russian Dinara Safina achieved similar success last Saturday. She won the 3rd category BTA competition with a prize fund of 300 thousand US dollars, held on the clay courts of Sopot, Poland. In the final match, the sister of our famous tennis player Marat Safina met with Slovakian Henrietta Nadiova.

Anatoly Vasiliev showed an open rehearsal of “The Iliad” Those who have been to Anatoly Vasilyev’s new theater on Sretenka know: there is a lot of air and light there, freely penetrating through the prisms of the transparent roofs. The run-through of the Iliad took place in the most light- and sound-permeable space of the theater - the so-called Tau Hall.

Air transportation market growth predicted Global civil air traffic has fallen for the second year in a row. But soon people will start flying more again, and then the air transport business is looking at two decades of steady growth. This forecast was published by the American corporation Boeing during the Farnborough 2002 international air show that ended yesterday. Boeing experts estimated the market capacity for new aircraft and aviation services at $4.9 trillion by 2021.

Saddam's enemies invited to talk The Bush administration invited six major Iraqi opposition leaders to Washington. Although American representatives have met with them separately in the past, this will be their first trip to Washington together. The meeting, scheduled for August 9 (alternate date August 16), is jointly organized by the US Department of Defense and the State Department.

Chen Shui-bian proclaimed Taiwan a friend of Russia Last Saturday, Taiwanese leader Chen Shui-bian recalled that he pays special attention to developing relations with Russia. He delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the non-governmental Taiwan-Russian Association (TRA) held in Taipei. This structure proclaims the goal of promoting bilateral ties in all areas, from trade and investment to culture and tourism.

In Dagestan, police officers detained a group of unusual scammers who, instead of careless applicants, took exams at a local state university for money. As detectives found out, five students of the Makhachkala Pedagogical Institute were involved in the scam. They forged passports containing information about university applicants and pretended to be their clients. At the same time, the scammers, having studied the university program tickets well, usually passed the exams with excellent marks.