Investigator Zaitsev convinced the court that he was investigating the “Three Whales” case according to the law Yesterday, the Moscow City Court completely acquitted the investigator of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Pavel Zaitsev, one of the main characters in the scandalous epic surrounding smuggled furniture sold through the Three Whales and Grand shopping centers, accused by the Prosecutor General's Office of violating the

Chechnya celebrates Independence Day as part of Russia The head of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, officials of his administration, the command of the federal forces in the republic and functionaries of the republican branch of United Russia are celebrating today the Independence Day of Ichkeria - a holiday once established by Dzhokhar Dudayev. Eleven years ago, his guards stormed the House of Political Education in Grozny and dispersed the Supreme Council of Checheno-Ingushetia.

The Prosecutor General demands to name the culprits of the environmental disaster in Moscow Thursday morning was the gloomiest in the last two months, during which Moscow has been in a shrinking ring of peat fires. The smoke screen in the Russian capital reached such concentration and density that it was impossible to hide from it even behind tightly closed doors.

The scandal surrounding the telecommunications company WorldCom due to distortions in financial statements has taken another turn: employees suspected of fraud were again released. The former executives of the corporation, chief financial officer Scott Sullivan and head of the financial reporting department Buford Yates, were found not guilty by a federal court. Both employees were arrested last week on fraud charges.

The government will point out the lag in the reform of the Ministry of Railways The railway reform is behind schedule, and the government will require several ministers to eliminate this backlog today. The first stage of the reform should be completed by the end of this year (the structural reform program in railway transport and the plan of priority measures were approved by the government on May 18, 2001).

They wanted to kill Hamid Karzai at his brother's wedding Yesterday's events were a tragic reminder that Afghanistan is still very far from a calm, peaceful life. In the afternoon, in the center of Kabul, in a busy shopping area near the building of the Ministry of Information and Culture, a powerful bomb planted in a car exploded. UN officials reported 22 killed and 65 wounded. Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai was attending his younger brother's wedding in Kandahar.

Rosenergoatom plans to increase investments in 2003 to 30.7 billion from 19.8 billion rubles. this year, said the president of the concern Oleg Saraev. Revenue from the sale of electricity, according to his forecast, will amount to 28 billion rubles this year, and about 50 billion next year. According to Mr.

Here he will meet Tony Blair Vladimir Putin will spend his next week-long vacation in Sochi. His plane landed at Sochi airport yesterday at 14.40. Then the Russian President boarded the helicopter, and 15 minutes later he was already on the territory of his Bocharov Ruchey residence. Yesterday, the presidential press service did not disseminate any specific information about Vladimir Putin’s plans.

An investigator from Kazan was found in the Moscow River The Prosecutor General's Office yesterday confirmed information provided by news agencies about the death of its responsible employee, investigator Khakimov. However, they immediately noted that they have not yet linked the incident with the high-profile investigations of Mr. Ustinov’s department. Moreover, it turned out that Mr.

The intelligence center has been completely withdrawn from Cuba There is no longer a Russian electronic intelligence center in Cuba. Over 15 flights, An-124 and Il-76 military transport aircraft transported all personnel and equipment from Lourdes (a suburb of Havana). Yesterday the removal operation was completely completed. In December 2000, President Vladimir Putin visited Lourdes. In October 2001 (a month after 9/11) he announced the center's closure.

The intelligence services of Abkhazia reported the neutralization of a group of Georgian saboteurs in the Gali region. Three people were killed, two wounded were captured. During interrogations, they allegedly said that they had undergone training in Kutaisi with the participation of American instructors. At the request of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, Sergei SHAMBA, comments on the situation. -- Sergei Mironovich, is this really so?

“Hamlet in Hot Sauce” was staged at the Moscow Art Theater Let's imagine the incredible. V.V. Putin dressed up as Mavrikievna, tied a headscarf, put on glasses, and in this form appeared at some summit. At the G8 meeting, for example. Around them, dressed according to protocol, Chirac, Schröder, Bush put on a serious look and speak in diplomatic language, and our president folds his lips into a bow and calls Bush Nikitichna.

The chess elite gathered again in Moscow From September 8 to 11 in Moscow, on the initiative of FIDE, a match is being held between the chess teams of Russia and the rest of the world. If we look at history, this is already the third fight of this scale. The first two took place in 1970 and 1974. The 1970 Soviet team included all the world champions alive at that time.

Russian State Duma deputy Vladimir Semenkov died yesterday in a car accident. The accident happened at the entrance to Achinsk, a small city in the western Krasnoyarsk Territory, where the deputy was supposed to meet with his constituents. At 8.40 a.m. local time, a Toyota jeep driven by Mr. Semenkov tried to overtake a heavily loaded truck. At a speed of almost 100 km/h, he flew into the oncoming lane and collided with a KamAZ truck.

The state intends to attach a crutch to the aviation industry On Friday, the Cabinet of Ministers will consider a report from the Ministry of Economic Development on the progress in implementing government decisions on organizing the leasing of domestic aircraft. “Russia must have its own wings,” the government loudly declared a year ago. Since the mid-90s, it became clear that the aircraft fleet was rapidly becoming outdated, and it was impossible to update it.