The prosecutor's office decided that the Vladivostok lieutenant colonel did not beat the woman Police Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Lysenko, who fought in front of millions of television viewers with the fish processor of Dalmoreproduct OJSC Svetlana Demidova and her three-year-old daughter Katya, will not go to prison.

Moscow proposes to expand the coastal zone Yesterday, Ambassador-at-Large and head of the working group on the Caspian Sea of ​​the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andrei Urnov, in an interview with Interfax, recalled one of Russia’s latest initiatives on the problem of developing a new status for the Caspian Sea.

French Prime Minister destroys small parties French Prime Minister reformer Jean-Pierre Raffarin, not waiting for the start of a new political season, came up with a proposal to change the country's electoral system.

Russian water polo players won the World Cup This August turned out to be unusually fruitful for victories of Russian national teams in team sports in major international tournaments. At the beginning of the month, the water polo players of the Russian national team won the World League, and our volleyball players took home the main Grand Prix trophy.

Gazprom has created a commission on the company's regional policy, the head of which has been appointed deputy chairman of the concern's board, Alexander Ryazanov.

A lockout in the NHL cannot be avoided, but only in two years Overseas hockey fans are awaiting the 2004/05 season with serious concern, since the North American press is already fanning unprecedented passions about a possible lockout, the so-called moratorium on the NHL championship. If it happens, which no one doubts, the hockey community will fall into depression, since it will not be able to see the battles of the best players on the planet for a very long time.

Georgia is deciding how to continue living with Russia On Monday, the Georgian parliament began a debate in an emergency session over the future of Georgian-Russian relations after the August 23 bombing.

Elections in Germany will follow the American scenario On Sunday evening, all of Germany watched only two private television channels - SAT1 and RTL. As announced at the beginning of the summer, the current chancellor, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Gerhard Schröder, and his main competitor in the parliamentary elections on September 22, Prime Minister of Bavaria Edmund Stoiber, nominated by the conservative CDU/CSU, clashed in a television duel for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

The prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case for kidnapping in connection with the mysterious disappearance of the famous chemist Sergei Bakhvalov. On August 18, he left the house for “five minutes” and disappeared without a trace. Mr. Bakhvalov holds the positions of Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry at Krasnoyarsk State University and Director of the Kristall Research Center.

Hugo Chavez sells fuel to global corporations Venezuela has taken another step towards improving the economic situation. Yesterday, the president of this country, Hugo Chavez, called on OPEC countries not to increase oil production at the summit, which will take place on September 19 in Osaka, so as not to provoke a decline in world prices for raw materials.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow yesterday issued a warrant for the arrest of 45-year-old resident of Izhevsk Vladimir Shirokov, who on Thursday threatened to blow up the building of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on Lubyanka Square. The petition to take the “false terrorist” into custody was sent directly to the court by the Prosecutor General’s Office. The criminal case against him is being conducted by the FSB, which immediately qualified the emergency as terrorism.

The “Planet of Clowns” festival, which took place in Moscow for a whole month, has ended - from July 25 to August 25. Among its participants were clowns of all stripes - from the famous “Litsedeev” and popular “Masks” from Odessa to musical eccentrics and masters of the speech genre from the TV show “Full House”. However, it was not always funny.

Two seven-year-old children were injured on Sunday in Tomsk as a result of a booby trap explosion. According to the local police department, the accident occurred in the morning on Lenin Avenue, where children living in the surrounding houses were walking. Near an abandoned building, two friends, Renat Krasnikov and Nikolai Strelnikov, according to them, saw a pack of cigarettes lying on the ground and, out of curiosity, decided to pick it up.

Iraq will cost $100 billion Bush may not seek congressional approval to go to war with Iraq. Previously, George W. Bush promised to “closely consult” with lawmakers on all issues related to this problem, but now the White House has decided that the head of state does not need the approval of the inhabitants of Capitol Hill to launch military action against Baghdad.

A new pariah state will be chosen at a meeting in South Africa Yesterday, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is expected to attend the Earth Summit in Johannesburg in South Africa on September 3, announced the composition of the country's new government. It turned out that it is no different from the previous cabinet, which was dissolved by the president last Friday. Only two ministers have changed: finance and health.