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The Moscow District Military Court yesterday convicted former Colonel Alexander Sypachev. He was found guilty of treason in the form of espionage and received eight years in a maximum security colony. In addition, the court stripped him of his military rank.

The ghost of the Inquisition haunts Russia An unusual exhibition is traveling around Russian cities. It shows nail and nostril pliers, racks, shackles, garottes, stocks, iron masks - in general, instruments of torture used in Europe since about the 19th century. These unusual exhibits were brought to us by the Milanese association “Third Millennium”. The exhibition has already visited St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and recently its opening took place in Saratov.

Foreign film landing in Moscow November and December this year are real holidays for Moscow film fans. Foreign embassies seemed to realize that they had not spent their annual cultural budget, and began organizing film weeks in Moscow. The Czechs were the first to shoot - the Czech week was held at the House of Cinema. They opened it with “Otesanek” by Jan Svankmajer - a talented surreal tale about a childless family who adopted a gluttonous log.

"Angels" at the Dutch Introdans Theater Introdans unfolds as an introduction to dans, “introduction to dance.” Dutch and English are mixed in the name, like dancers in a troupe that includes graduates of many classical schools - from MAKHU to the Paris Opera school. Thirty years ago, when Ton Wiechers founded his theater in Arnhem (the center of the province of Gelderland), his idea was to get kids interested in ballet and explain to them what it is.

The crash in the center of St. Petersburg was caused by an electric train “forgotten” by the driver Four people were killed and five were injured as a result of a train accident that occurred yesterday morning in the very center of St. Petersburg. At about 10.20, right under the arches of the Baltic station, two cars of an electric train, moving at a speed of approximately 40-50 km/h, rammed and crushed the platform.

The Ministry of Economic Development is ready for an above-plan increase in gas prices As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, at meetings held in the United States between Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Sharonov and American investors, the official changed his mind regarding the increase in tariffs for the services of natural monopolies in 2003. Just a week ago in Moscow, Mr.

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented state awards to a group of representatives of science, creative figures and businessmen yesterday in the Kremlin. A total of 41 people were awarded state awards and honorary titles.

The Ministry of Health is delaying the process in the case of Colonel Budanov Russia will not soon find out what sentence awaits the commander of the 160th tank regiment, Yuri Budanov, accused of the brutal murder of the Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva. His trial, scheduled for November 19, has once again been postponed indefinitely. This time due to the fact that the Russian Ministry of Health withdrew the report of the last psychiatric examination of Colonel Budanov.

Latest solar flare could cause earthquake The wave of tectonic fluctuations that has swept across the planet in recent weeks may also reach Russia. Recently, the Russian Expert Council on Earthquake Forecasting and Seismic Hazard Assessment of the Russian Academy of Sciences registered an alarming forecast from a group of researchers led by Leonid Doda. Scientists suggest that from November 12, strong earthquakes with a magnitude of about 8 units may occur in the Kurile-Kamchatka zone.

The Iraqi parliament did not heed Moscow's advice Yesterday, at an emergency session, the National Assembly (Parliament) of Iraq made a decision that was most unpleasant for Moscow. The deputies recommended that the Revolutionary Command Council, led by President Saddam Hussein, reject the new UN Security Council Resolution No. 1441, recently adopted by all members of the Security Council , including Russia, which had so hoped to save Iraq from war.

Two weeks of downtime at AvtoVAZ's main assembly line did not help the company get rid of surplus products. There are at least 55 thousand unsold cars in the plant’s warehouses and at dealers. At the same time, the company faces a significant reduction in revenue in the fourth quarter due to the shutdown of the conveyor - according to AvtoVAZ management estimates, about 500 million rubles.

This brought him his first unconditional victory of the season. The third stage of the Figure Skating Grand Prix could not boast of a large number of Russian participants. Only two sports pairs took to the ice in the German town of Gelsenkirchen - Maria Petrova - Alexey Tikhonov, Yulia Obertas - Alexey Sokolov, as well as two singles players - Alexander Abt and Evgeni Plushenko. Without exaggeration, we can say that the appearance of the latter became a real event of the tournament.

Theater festival in Khanty-Mansiysk If the Chaika festival had the support of the Ministry of Culture or at least the Moscow government, it could be called the “Moscow Seasons” in Siberia, by analogy with the Russian seasons in Japan. But “The Seagull” is held by private individuals, and therefore this event does not have national status, which today almost every circle at the housing office strives to achieve.

The State Duma is not indifferent to bankrupt banks This week the State Duma will consider amendments to the law on bankruptcy of credit institutions, the speedy adoption of which is sought by the Bank of Russia. The leadership of the Central Bank hopes, with the help of this document, to speed up the procedure for liquidating bankrupt banks and remove private bankruptcy trustees from the bankruptcy market.