It's time to make some money on the name of the great playwright The Observer reports on the grandiose project of the British company Will Power Hoddings to create a giant amusement park “Shakespeare's World” in four countries at once - Great Britain, the USA, Russia and Japan. A visit to Shakespeare World will probably be the same holiday for those eager to taste the spirit of the Tudor era, which is a trip to Disney World for children who dream of getting into a cartoon fairy tale.

A major accident occurred on Saturday on the western coast of Kamchatka. 40 km from the village of Ust-Bolsheretsk, while trying to ford the Utka River, a Ural truck in which 13 local fishermen were traveling to fish overturned. According to preliminary data, the driver was unable to control the heavy vehicle. She ran over some rocks and overturned. The water temperature in the river was very cold, 7 degrees Celsius. Only three men managed to get out of the icy stream.

Azerbaijanis are forced to create self-defense units Beatings of citizens of “southern” nationality have become commonplace in St. Petersburg in recent months. On Friday, 53-year-old Azerbaijani Mamed Mamedov, who was selling watermelons, was attacked by 30 skinheads, surrounded and beaten to death within five minutes. Two “hooligans” were detained at the crime scene. On Saturday evening, skinheads dealt with another Azerbaijani citizen, Oruj Magomedov.

Alina Kabaeva won the first tournament after her disqualification was lifted. Kabaeva won in Japan at the Aeon Cup 2002 tournament. It is noteworthy that second place in this tournament was taken by Irina Chashchina, who, like Kabaeva, was also disqualified for using prohibited drugs. The third step of the podium was taken by Ukrainian Tamara Erofeeva. Russian gymnasts also beat Ukraine in the team competition. Konstantin IVANOV

“I want to buy a good racing car with my prize money,” admitted athlete from the Dominican Republic Felix Sanchez after the Grand Prix final in athletics, which took place in Paris last weekend. It was Sanchez and three other athletes - American Marion Jones, Mexican Anna Guevara and Hicham El Gerouj from Morocco - who shared the main prize of the Grand Prix competition - a 50-kilogram gold bar.

Only “Russia” will remain publicly available in the center A special place in the project of the tourist recreational zone is given to hotels. Their number will increase sharply, and their “stardom” will increase radically. There are now seven operating hotels in the center (and another one under construction in the area of ​​Neglinnaya Street with the truly old Moscow name “Ararat”). They can accommodate about nine and a half thousand people at the same time.

Georgians and Chechens shoot at each other in the Pankisi Gorge Vladimir Putin's tough statement on Georgia allowed the Kremlin to seize the diplomatic initiative and improve its position in a complex solitaire involving Russia's role in the international fight against terrorism, as well as its interests in the Transcaucasus and Iraq. In a recent letter to the UN Security Council, Mr.

Russian synchronized swimmer 19-year-old Anastasia Davydova brought the team the first bronze medal, performing a solo program at the X World Synchronized Swimming Cup in Zurich. However, according to experts, this award does not reflect the real state of affairs. Davydova’s free program called “Arabian Nights” was more expressive and interesting than that of the Japanese Miya Tashibana.

The government is trying to scare budget recipients The balance of funds in the accounts of budget recipients, despite all the forecasts of the Ministry of Finance, by the end of the summer did not decrease, but increased by 6 billion rubles. As Deputy Minister of Finance and Head of the Treasury Tatyana Nesterenko reported on Friday, by the end of August it amounted to 98 billion rubles. Ms. Nesterenko stated that the Ministry of Finance today has no legal ability to influence this process.

The mobilization of reservists and militias has been announced in South Ossetia. President of the Republic Eduard KOKOYTY answers the questions of the Vremya Novostei newspaper's own correspondent in Georgia, Mikhail VIGNANSKY. - Is the situation really so serious that emergency measures are needed? - We will call up up to three thousand reservists and volunteers - this is approximately half of the personnel of the regular armed forces of South Ossetia.

The creation of a recreational zone in the center of Moscow will inevitably affect the cost of real estate: offices, retail premises, and housing. All this will definitely become more expensive and will certainly lead to a change in existing procedures. First of all, this will of course affect tenants. The problem of vehicle access will inevitably worsen. It is already important for tenants in the Central Administrative District of Moscow to get to the office with minimal loss of time.

The conflict between Russia and the United States over “Bush's legs” appears to be over. Yesterday, a new veterinary certificate for the import of poultry meat from the United States, agreed with the Americans, came into effect in Russia. It was because of him that many copies were broken during months of negotiations. According to the new rules, importers are required to comply with all sanitary and hygienic standards in force in Russia.

The court did not give Nizhny Novgorod residents a chance to elect Andrei Klimentyev as mayor Andrei Klimentyev, who had the greatest chance of becoming mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, did not make it to the elections. On Saturday, the Nizhny Novgorod District Court decided to cancel his registration.

"Kinoshok" finished its work The last days of the Open Film Festival of the CIS and Baltic countries were marked by a completely Aivazov-like storm and thunderstorms. However, no special cataclysms were observed on the screen of the Oktyabr cinema, where competitive screenings took place.

In Kurgan, attacks on policemen are not even recorded The Department of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Ural Federal District has completed an inspection of the Kurgan Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate regarding the registration of crimes. Its results shocked even experienced prosecutors, who decided to inspect the Kurgan police after they found “too positive” data in statistical reports: over the six months of this year, the crime rate in the Kurgan region decreased by 30%.