On the occasion of Dinara Asanova's sixtieth birthday In the summer of 1988, at a small festival in the Italian town of Pesaro, which, like everyone else then, cared about big Soviet politics, the main treat was the cinema of the “Leningrad school” of different decades. A year earlier, “films liberated by Gorbachev” were solemnly presented here, and now - films that, according to Italian simple thought, prepared a bright democratic future, Gorbachev and perestroyka.

The Ministry of Railways (MRT) decided to maintain control over the repair base of the industry. The ministry states: “Almost the only consumer of the products of repair enterprises is the railways.

Onlookers drink beer while waiting for the assault On one of the columns of the Proletarskaya metro station there is still a bright poster stuck to it: “Nord-Ost. Classic musical." And an arrow indicating where to exit. However, you can figure it out without the arrow: groups of bawling high school students are heading towards the exit towards Melnikov Street. Many drink beer on the go and look around excitedly.

Gazprom received a program for developing its raw material base The Gazprom Management Board, among other issues, discussed the report of VNIIgaz General Director Rudolf Ter-Sarkisov “On measures to develop the mineral resource base (MSB) of OJSC Gazprom for the period up to 2030.” As the speaker himself told the Vremya Novostey newspaper, the basis for his speech was the program of the same name prepared by the institute.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Atlanta" -- "New Jersey" -- 1:2 -- Kovalchuk "A" (1+0 ), "Columbus" -- "Tampa Bay" -- 2:2 OT, "Ottawa" -- " Carolina" -- 4:1 -- Happy "O" (2+0), Volchenkov "O" (0+2) , "Detroit" -- "Los Angeles" -- 3:3 (OT) -- Datsyuk “D” (1+0), S. Fedorov “D” (1+0), Frolov “L” (0+1) , “New York Rangers” - “Washington” - 1:2, “Toronto” " -- "Florida" -- 1:4 -- V. Bure "F" (1+1), Yushkevich "F" (0+1).

It took State Duma deputies only fifteen minutes to consider and approve the law “On Presidential Elections” in the first reading yesterday. 416 votes were cast in support of the new version of the law, two abstained. Chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov, whose department took an active part in the development of the bill, spoke at the plenary session.

The Health Committee mobilized ambulance doctors and psychologists Despite the fact that all day yesterday the authorities denied reports of an impending assault, the capital's medical services were preparing for the worst-case scenario. The Moscow Health Committee “mobilized” all available emergency medical teams.

Olympic tragedy. Munich, 1972 On the morning of September 5, 1972, Arab extremists from the terrorist organization Black September attacked the premises occupied by the Israeli team participating in the 20th Summer Olympic Games in Munich. The gunmen killed two athletes and took nine other team members hostage. The terrorists demanded the release of 234 Palestinian extremists from Israeli prisons within 12 hours and threatened to kill all hostages otherwise.

As is known, the terrorists demanded the withdrawal of all units and units of Russian troops from Chechnya within a week. With the question of how realistic this period is, we turned to one of the officers of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff, who knows Chechnya well.

Hopes for a peaceful resolution to the Chechen conflict have been destroyed by terrorists The entire political future of Chechnya was dependent on the development of events at the Dubrovka Theater Center. “It is already very difficult to turn the political process in Chechnya from a purely forceful solution into a peaceful direction,” Nadirsolt Elsunkaev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Research under the republican administration, told a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

The Russian army is stuck in Transnistria Negotiations began in Tiraspol between the delegation of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Transnistrian authorities regarding the withdrawal of Russian weapons from the territory of the region. According to the OSCE Istanbul agreements, this process should be completed by the end of this year. The warehouses of the operational group of Russian troops (OGRF) near the village of Kolbasnoye contain about 40 thousand tons of weapons and ammunition.

From Montgomery County, Maryland, Washington region, where I have been temporarily living for a month and a half now, I didn’t want to write about a sniper. Today is an exception... Day one - not knowing anything about the sniper, I was scared when I didn’t find my own (as well as strangers, but this is not immediately noticed) child on the playground near the school, where children usually finish their school day.

The growth of the Yukos share price is hampered by the terrorist attack in Moscow YUKOS yesterday was the main newsmaker on the Russian oil market. Firstly, he took another step towards the upcoming takeover of the Eastern Oil Company (VNK). Mikhail Khodorkovsky's company has published an offer of intent to buy 5 million of its own shares (0.2% of the authorized capital), which it plans to exchange for VNK shares. The conversion rate is not yet known.

The cultural program for the weekend in the capital will not change The tragic events at the Dubrovka Theater Center had virtually no impact on the work of the capital's entertainment establishments. And over the coming weekend, Moscow clubs, theaters, cinemas, exhibitions and other venues intend to carry out the planned cultural program.

The organizers of the musical “Nord-Ost” will not receive any insurance payments. As the newspaper Vremya Novostey learned, neither the troupe, nor the props, nor the building of the House of Culture of the Moscow Ball Bearing Plant were insured. No one simply could foresee any emergency situations. Last year, the project managers entered into a contract with the Russian Insurance Traditions company, which expired on January 1 of this year.