Tbilisi is ready to change the preventive measure for three employees of the Stavropol Department of Internal Affairs, detained at the end of July in the Pankisi Gorge. Mikhail Tychkov, Vladimir Blinov and Yuri Ugryumov are accused of trespassing and are being held in custody. Georgian Minister of State Security Valery Khaburzania told the Vremya Novostei newspaper that the policemen who went on hunger strike on August 9 could be released under the guarantee of the Russian diplomatic mission.

Mikhail Kasyanov suggested that the Chinese look for “common clearings” Mikhail Kasyanov, having arrived in Shanghai yesterday, said several times that he was seeing this city for the first time. Apparently, Shanghai impressed him: skyscrapers, well-groomed lawns, green parks. True, a European here, even at the end of August, faces a serious problem: high temperatures, 27-30 degrees, and very high humidity, which causes your hair to turn from straight to curls.

Russian recognized as the best mathematician on the planet One of the most prestigious awards in the field of mathematics - the Fields Medal for outstanding achievements - was received by 36-year-old Russian scientist Vladimir Voevodsky. The medal was presented to the Russian by the Chairman of the People's Republic of China, Jiang Zemin.

Minority shareholders will only lose from it The regulation of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM) “On additional requirements for the procedure for preparing, convening and holding a general meeting of shareholders” has come into force. This document, according to the commission, will protect the rights of minority shareholders and stop the practice of constant manipulation of the meeting in the interests of management and large shareholders.

On the eve of the US Open starting in the last week on the American continent, the world's strongest tennis players are making final preparations for this most important event of the season. At the 2nd category WTA tournament in New Haven, America, the first round games have ended. Russian Anastasia Myskina defeated Spaniard Conchita Martinez - 6:1, 6:4, and now in the 1/8 finals she will play with the fourth racket of the competition, Justine Henin from Belgium.

Children of Vyakhirev and Chernomyrdin sold shares of Stroytransgaz to Gazprom Gazprom board member Boris Fedorov said yesterday that the gas concern currently owns a 25% stake in Stroytransgaz, Gazprom's main contractor during the era of Rem Vyakhirev and Viktor Chernomyrdin. According to Mr. Fedorov, this was discussed on Tuesday at a meeting of the concern’s board of directors. The information had the effect of a bomb exploding.

The killers got to Vladimir Golovlev before the judges State Duma deputy, one of the co-chairs of the Liberal Russia movement, Vladimir Golovlev, was killed yesterday morning in Moscow.

Tomorrow the premiere of a new French thriller “Inferno” is one of those films for which, when advertising, the first thing people remember is not the director, the leading actors or the plot, but the producer, who has his own unique style and approach to cinema. Such, for example, are the producer of summer Hollywood blockbusters Jerry Bruckheimer or the academic Ismail Merchant, prone to leisurely film adaptations of thick historical novels.

At the theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, a transition period begins The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater is simultaneously joyfully and nervously awaiting reconstruction. Yesterday, at a gathering of the troupe that had returned from vacation, noticeably less was said about the artistic plans for the season than about the erected floors of the new building (right behind the main one).

An employee of the NATO military liaison mission in Moscow, German citizen Olaf Schmunk, was found hanged on Tuesday afternoon in his home. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the officer’s body was discovered by his colleagues in the attic of house No. 103 on Vernadsky Avenue, where the housing complex of the German mission is located.

The intelligence services have not yet found any signs of terrorism. The largest rescue operation since September 1999 was completed yesterday afternoon by the capital's authorities at 32 Academician Korolev Street, where on Tuesday evening a powerful explosion destroyed the entire entrance of a five-story brick residential building. The result was eight dead and six wounded.

The death toll as a result of the Mi-26 helicopter crash that crashed on Monday evening in Chechnya near the Khankala military base has already reached 115 people. On Wednesday morning, private Sergei Fedosov died in the hospital of the North Caucasus Military District, having received severe burns in the accident. In total, there were 147 people on board the deceased Mi-26, of whom 114 died on the spot and 28 were seriously injured.

For whatever reasons Vladimir Golovlev was killed, this murder was political. This is what some Duma deputies think. Another part of the Duma members connect the murder with the “commercial” past of the deputy. “The murder of a deputy is, in any case and under any circumstances, a political matter,” believes Boris Nemtsov, leader of the SPS faction. But for Deputy Speaker of the Duma Irina Khakamada (SPS), it is obvious that there cannot be a “political motive” in the murder of Mr.

The opposition calls on Azerbaijanis to boycott A referendum on constitutional amendments scheduled for Saturday has excited Azerbaijani politicians. For the first time in the last four years, 26 opposition parties and public organizations held a large-scale protest in Baku, attracting about 15 thousand people. The ranks of supporters of the Popular Front and the Democratic Party were especially crowded.

The ninth Spartak Cup started in Moscow and Podolsk. This year, which did not bring together star names and teams, the tournament follows a fairly compact scenario and already on the second day the semi-finalists were determined. CSKA Moscow, which has recently been playing as a unified team, and Vityaz Podolsk, after their second defeats in group tournaments, can only admit their inconsistency and compete for fifth place among themselves.