The 855th anniversary of Moscow does not promise any surprises City Day in Moscow this time will coincide with the end of summer and the Day of Knowledge: September begins on Sunday, and tradition dictates that the holiday be held on the first Sunday of September. Yesterday the Moscow government considered the program of celebrations. Despite some roundness of the date - the official age of the capital has reached 855 years - everything so far looks rather modest.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is still against the legalization of marijuana Russia, together with the rest of the CIS countries, is one of the largest channels for the supply of drugs to Europe and is more active than the so-called Balkan route, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (GUBNON) Mikhail Melikhov said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

Ustinov will return without militants The mission of Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, who yesterday urgently flew to Tbilisi to negotiate with his Georgian colleague on the issue of extraditing to Russia 13 Chechen militants who were detained on August 3 and 5 by Georgian border guards, ended in complete fiasco. The day before, President Putin personally discussed this problem with Mr.

Another “army” emergency occurred on Monday at the coastal base of missile ships of the Baltic Fleet. At night, three drunken sailors beat an officer to death. According to the Military Prosecutor's Office, Lieutenant Commander Pavel Lipchik was on duty at the base that night and checked the daily squad.

Our KamAZ trucks are also beyond competition Participants of the Master Rally stage race on the Russian off-road for five days. Having started in St. Petersburg, the participants only reached the banks of the Volga in the Saratov region on the fourth day, from where the caravan turned south, heading for Volgograd. Almost 2,500 kilometers and the first, including irreparable, losses were left behind.

The Moscow District Military Court yesterday again rejected the cassation submission of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP), which insisted on the re-arrest of the former chief military financier of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Georgy Oleynik. In April, he was sentenced by the Moscow Garrison Military Court to three years in prison for abuse of power and now remains in prison. Then the GVP accused Mr.

The owner of Dynamo Makhachkala uncovered another “anti-Russian” FBI conspiracy Representatives of the US FBI recently officially announced that they had issued an international search warrant for a major Russian businessman, the president of the Dynamo Makhachkala football club (FC) Osman Kadiev. The Americans accuse him of extorting money from immigrants from the USSR, forging documents, and call him “man No.

On August 14, a meeting between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, Heydar Aliyev and Robert Kocharyan, will take place on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the Nakhichevan region. An agreement was reached during their telephone conversation yesterday, reports the Armenian agency Mediamax with reference to the press service of the President of Armenia. The information was confirmed in Baku.

Now Bush has a lot of time for golf George Bush went on vacation. All would be well, but the 43rd President of the United States did this in the midst of the war on terrorism, an economic recession and noise over Iraq. He took a record 32 days of vacation for American leaders.

In the meantime, he and Kafelnikov are experiencing another failure The very first playing day of the next Masters series tournament in Cincinnati, America, with a prize fund of 2 million 950 thousand US dollars, brought Russian tennis fans a lot of grief. Already in the starting round, both of our representatives, Marat Safin and Yevgeny Kafelnikov, dropped out of further competition. Safin, seeded number two in the main draw, met with Briton Greg Rusedski.

A new deputy head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate was appointed yesterday by order of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Boris Gryzlov. This was Colonel of Justice Viktor Cherkashin, who until recently headed the Internal Affairs Directorate of the North-Western District of the capital. In his new post, he replaced Major General Vasily Chemisov, who resigned after the pogroms committed in the center of Moscow by football fans on June 9.

The new coaching staff is in no hurry to divide the team into national and youth Yesterday, the executive committee of the Russian Football Union approved a list of 59 candidates for the national and youth teams of the country. Assistants to the head coach of the Russian national team Valery Gazzaev were also approved. They were Alexander Borodyuk and Andrey Chernyshev. Moreover, Chernyshev also led the country’s youth team.

“The main symbol of Russia” was presented in Moscow Yesterday, the exhibition “The Main Symbol of Russia. To the 120th anniversary of the Great State Emblem." At the back of the hall is a tricolor flag. Along the perimeter are huge copper coats of arms of Russian cities. In a carved oak frame, in a place of honor, the Great Coat of Arms approved by Alexander III with archangels under the mantle flaunts.

While the Russian men's team is just making plans to participate in the Tour de France, our women's cycling group is starting for the second year in the women's analogue of the Great Loop - Grande Boucle Feminine. On Sunday this race started for the 17th time. The women's stage race runs along almost the same roads and finishes in Paris, although its length is one and a half times shorter. As in the men's stage race, there are practically no random winners in the Gran Boucle.

At the press conference, the contours of the future festival became clear The grandiose music festival “Invasion” will have a stage director for the first time this year. Perhaps this is for the best. In any case, in past years, the organizers’ attempt to give the concert at least some kind of artistic unity did not result in anything good. The show will be directed by Olga Subbotina. She is a typical representative of young Moscow directors.