Georgian intelligence services detained three suspects in the kidnapping of Sadi Sharifov, the father of Vagit Sharifov, vice president of the Russian oil company LUKOIL. According to the head of the regional police of Georgia, Aleko Bukia, two of the three detainees have already admitted that they participated in the kidnapping. They said 78-year-old Sadi Sharifov died of a heart attack about an hour after the abduction.

President Conducted the first meeting of the Council on Physical Culture and Sports. Opening the meeting, Vladimir Putin called the main task of this council the revival of mass sports and mass physical culture. In addition, the president noted that Russia “needs to develop a clear and effective sports policy.” In 2003, the budget provides for a doubling of financial resources allocated to finance physical education and sports.

The 40-year-old veteran received $5 million for his defeat. Most likely, Evander Holyfield will remain a four-time world champion. Saturday's attempt by the 40-year-old American to become the owner of the IBF gold belt ended unsuccessfully. The coveted trophy was raised above his head by his opponent Chris Byrd, and it seemed that the time had come for Holyfield to leave the ring.

Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Yuri FEDOTOV comments on the situation to Vremya Novostei newspaper columnist Elena SUPONINA. -- Russians are working in Iraq within the framework of sanctions. And here is the result - Iraq threatens to break the contract with LUKOIL. Maybe we should work outside of sanctions - as the Iraqis want? -- Working outside the framework of UN Security Council sanctions will lead to the most negative consequences for the companies themselves.

Trains stop again at Vorobyovy Gory station It took metro builders just over 18 years to reopen one of the most unusual metropolitan subway stations for passengers. The Leninskie Gory station, which first opened in January 1959, became not only the only one located on an overpass, but also the longest in the world (270 meters).

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Yesterday, the exhibition “Impressions of Light: French Landscape from Corot to Monet” opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 150 works from the museum’s collection tell about the development of that direction of landscape painting, which is commonly called “plein airism”. In addition to paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, engravings and photographs are exhibited.

“The Circus Has Arrived” at the Musical Theater The chief choreographer of the Musical Theater, Dmitry Bryantsev, promised this performance to the press a long time ago.

The deputies did not give it to the railway workers The State Duma yesterday adopted in the second reading a package of 4 bills on reform of the railway industry. As it turned out, the adopted bills contradict the concept of reform, since they do not solve the main problem - ownership of the land under the railway facilities. And the “conductor” of the reform, the Ministry of Railways, believes that the laws will have to be returned to the second reading.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season.

The fate of Moscow Cellular Communications (MCS), operator of the NMT-450 analog standard network, has finally been decided. Recently, Rostelecom and RTK-Leasing, through affiliated structures, completed a number of transactions and increased their consolidated stake in MCC from 45.5 to 76.5%. A new page in the history of MCC began in the spring of this year, when the owner of one of the shareholders changed - the RTDC holding, which owns 22% of MCC and 42.5% of the St.

Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais recently held meetings in London with representatives of 12 investment funds, which own about 5% of the energy holding's shares. They discussed the prospects for reforming the holding, in particular, ensuring the rights of its shareholders during the restructuring. Mr.

The motto of our delegation turned out to be prophetic UEFA has determined the organizer of the 2008 European Championship. The continental championship, as expected, will be hosted by Austria and Switzerland. The Russian application was eliminated in the first round, along with obvious outsiders. So we will have to forget about those seven modern stadiums that were planned to be built for the European Championship in Russia.

Salman Raduev died in a prison hospital One of the most odious Chechen field commanders, Salman Raduev, died on Saturday in a hospital in the city of Solikamsk (Perm region). The terrorist, who was serving a life sentence in one of the local colonies for taking hostages in Kizlyar and the massacre in the village of Pervomaisky, was brought there a week ago with a diagnosis of hemorrhagic vasculitis (inflammation of the walls of small blood vessels) and an ulcer.

Detroit Auto Show ends Another all-American, or rather, world show has ended. America directed it, Japan and the advanced part of Europe took part. The show was called the 2002 Detroit Auto Show. The world, and first of all the Americans themselves, has changed a lot after the “American tragedy of the third millennium.” But preparations for the salon began a long time ago, when nothing that happened in September could even have occurred to anyone.