In the mountainous regions of Ingushetia, the search continues for privates Nikolai Bozhkov and Oleg Khismatulin, who disappeared after the death of a detachment of the Nazran border detachment on the Russian-Georgian border. So far no traces of them have been found. On August 23, a group of nine soldiers led by Captain Vladislav Travkin went to the Dzheirakh Gorge area to conduct patrols on the border.

Filmmakers were pleased with the prospects on the day of their professional holiday Russian Cinema Day was celebrated twice yesterday: with an official report by First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Golutva, read in the hall of the former State Cinema, and a press conference of the new Film Academy at Mosfilm, dedicated to the Golden Eagle award. Both events were united by the theme of postponing the professional holiday.

Ecologists and geologists propose to ban construction on Vorobyovy Gory Employees of local territorial public self-governments, geologists and ecologists propose declaring the Vorobyovy Gory an ecological reserve and banning construction in this area. “Sparrow Hills is one of the most dangerous landslide areas in Moscow,” said Pyotr Vasilenko, adviser to the Gagarinsky district assembly, at a press conference held yesterday at the Press Institute. - This is a geological risk zone.

Comedy "Wasabi" on Moscow screens When Luc Besson was still quite an outstanding director, one of the leaders of the French new “new wave” and a keen connoisseur of shades of blue, he could not do without the actor Jean Reno. And it was wonderful - whether he was sitting at the drum kit in a rock band from the "Underground", or busily cleaning up the bloody mess behind "Nikita", or diving headlong into the "Blue Abyss".

Jackie will tell you everything he knows about Milosevic The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, which resumed yesterday in The Hague, is again in the spotlight of the press. But this time not because of the figure of the main defendant of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, but because BBC correspondents agreed to testify in the case.

For the first time in its history, Rostselmash is shutting down, and its entire workforce is going on annual paid leave until September 16. The plant's management took this step because the current rate of production of combines was clearly ahead of the market needs. After the capital's New Commonwealth holding company became the owner of the Rostov combine plant three years ago, Rostselmash only increased its production volumes.

Monuments to the emperor, Europe and friendship with Uzbekistan will appear in Moscow Five prominent sculptors are fighting for the right to immortalize the sovereign liberator Alexander II in the memory of Muscovites. Among them are Ernst Neizvestny, Mikhail Shemyakin, Zurab Tsereteli, Alexander Rukavishnikov and Vyacheslav Klykov. Moscow's chief architect Alexander Kuzmin said yesterday that all sketches of the future monument must be submitted to the competition by September 10.

Kudrin has two new first deputies The head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, acquired two new first deputies. They were Sergei Vyazalov, who left the post of general director of Goznak, and Tatyana Golikova, who rose one step up the career ladder - from the post of deputy minister of finance - head of the budget department. The order on personnel changes in the Ministry of Finance was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

Security forces will not leave the Ministry of Finance without operational support A new round has begun in the struggle of various departments for the right to become a financial intelligence agency, which has been going on for more than a year. As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov recently ordered the liquidation of the Interdepartmental Center (ICC) for combating money laundering under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

This is the second time in the last two weeks that confusion has arisen with Gazprom’s reporting. This time it is related to data for the first half of the year. As news agencies report, in January-June this year, the net profit of the parent company decreased by 48 billion rubles compared to the same period of the previous year. - to 16.05 billion.

Yesterday, Slovak President Rudolf Schuster left for Vienna for a medical examination. Slovak doctors were never able to establish the cause of his illness. Nothing has been reported about the results of the analysis of particles from the nails and hair of the Slovak president, taken in Bratislava in connection with a suspected attempted poisoning. The version of the assassination attempt on the head of state was put forward by the president's son Peter.

Spanish militants take revenge on the government On Monday evening, Spanish police sealed off all premises of Batasuna, a coalition of radical Basque parties and associations, in the city of Pamplona. This is how the decision of Judge Baltasar Garzon was carried out to “de facto suspend for three years, with a possible extension for another two years” the activities of Batasuna.

The Chekhov Moscow Art Theater continues to attract viewers - a variety of Yesterday the Moscow Art Theater announced its plans for the upcoming 105th season. The artistic director of the theater Oleg Tabakov declared the main goal of the Moscow Art Theater, in his opinion - in the next two years to complete the consolidation of the troupe and its formation as a “collection of bright individuals”, as well as to compile a repertoire based on serious literature - both classical and modern.

The first hypermarket of the French chain Auchan opened in Moscow The French company Auchan, whose appearance on the Russian retail market has been talked about for many years, has finally opened its first discount hypermarket in Moscow. The motto of the new retail chain is simple: “Auchan” - a blow to prices!” Some retail operators have already felt the discomfort and began to reduce prices.

For being rude to foreign tourists Malaysian taxi drivers have driven the country's Minister of Culture, Arts and Tourism, Abdul Kadir Fadzir, to the brink of exasperation. In an interview with The New Straits Times, the minister said that he has been bombarded with written complaints from foreign tourists who are outraged by the rudeness of taxi drivers, as well as the fact that they shortchange passengers at every opportunity.