A tournament with a record prize fund will be held in Moscow At the end of September, a grand athletics tournament will be held in Moscow, in which one hundred of the best athletes in the world will take part.

The exact date and place of the next fight of the WBC, WBA and IBF junior welterweight champion Konstantin Tszyu have been determined. On September 27, 2003, Kostya will defend his titles in the 12,000-seat Moscow Luzhniki Sports Palace. This decision was recently made by project directors Alexander Polinsky and Alexander Klimov, as well as Konstantin’s promoter Vlad Wharton and WBC vice-president Edmund Lipinsky.

Yesterday, Perekrestok Trading House officially confirmed rumors about the sale of 7.7% of its shares to the international investment fund Templeton. The seller was Perekrestok Holdings Ltd (Gibraltar) - a 100% shareholder of the Perekrestok trading house and Templeton Strategic Emerging Market Fund. According to Lev Khasis, Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC Trading House Perekrestok, additionally issued shares of the Gibraltar company were sold.

Moscow and Belgrade will talk about Kosovo. And they will keep silent about Milosevic’s wife Today, the head of diplomacy of Serbia and Montenegro (S&M), Goran Svilanovic, arrives in Moscow on a working visit. As the former head of the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, he is well known in Moscow. However, the current visit will give Svilanovic the opportunity to present himself as the chief diplomat of the new state entity.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office yesterday announced the initiation of a new criminal case against the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) Vladimir Butov. He is suspected of using violence against a government official (Article 318-2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The NAO representative office in St. Petersburg explained yesterday that this case is obviously connected with the incident that occurred on April 11. Then Mr.

President Held a meeting with authorized representatives of the head of state in the federal districts. Putin said that by July 14, 2003, it is necessary to bring regional legislation into line with federal legislation. The President noted that this problem must be solved “carefully, together with the legislative bodies of the regions.” The head of state pointed out the need to pay constant attention to strengthening the single economic space of Russia.

The Federal Securities Commission has agreed on the rules for trading Gazprom shares on the MSE through the MICEX clearing system. This document was considered again at yesterday's commission meeting, since the original version of the rules contained technical flaws. Trading in Gazprom shares on the International Stock Exchange via the MICEX will apparently begin in the near future.

CSKA remained the sole leader In the sixth round of the Russian Championship, CSKA could say goodbye to its sole leadership. Previously unbeaten Chernomorets faced death in the match with the army team, but once the Novorossiysk defense cracked. And Gogniev, inspired by an unexpected call to the national team, brought his club a victory, thanks to which CSKA will now not share the first line in the standings with anyone until at least May 4.

"Shanghai Knights" on Moscow screens Chung (Jackie Chan) and Roy (Owen Wilson), the international cowboy couple from Tom Day's comic western Shanghai Noon, are back in collective action after three years. Now that they are known to everyone without exception as an inseparable, almost Siamese couple, there is no need to spend half the screen time on mutual grinding. You can start demeaning, smoking and fooling around immediately after the opening credits.

The program of the 56th Cannes Film Festival has been announced The annual prestigious film forum will open on May 14 with a new version of the famous film “Fanfan Tulip” directed by Gerard Krawczyk and end on May 25 with a restored version of “Modern Times” by Charlie Chaplin. This year the jury is chaired by Patrice Chéreau, winner of the Berlin Golden Bear for the film Intimate. Twenty full-length films will take part in the competition.

Investigators found the first ill-wishers of Deputy Yushenkov The first person detained in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov, who was shot dead on March 17 in Moscow near his home, appeared on Tuesday evening. Investigators captured a certain Artem Stefanov, who looks like an identikit of the killer and had reason to harbor a grudge against the parliamentarian. Stefanov’s father once sent Mr. Yushenkov a threatening letter, for which he spent six months in prison.

Chemical weapons in Russia are being actively destroyed. At the end of last year, the first plant for the elimination of toxic substances (CA) began operating, and the construction of two more is planned. There is no talk about biological weapons, as if they do not exist. Meanwhile, the convention on its destruction was signed twenty years earlier. Why doesn’t it work, what are biological weapons, is it possible to create completely new pathogens, how real is bioterrorism?

The US threatens France, but not Russia, with serious consequences US Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday that France would face serious consequences for the position taken on the eve of the war. "We must look at all aspects of our relationship with France," he said. The head of the French Foreign Ministry reacted to this attack.

Central Telegraph, operator of the Centel network, which primarily provides services to corporate clients, is intensifying its work with individuals. As part of the agreement signed yesterday with the Moscow Telecommunications Corporation (Comcor), the operator of the data transmission network and cable television, Centel will provide a full range of communication services to the population of new buildings in Moscow and the Moscow region.

The other day, unknown persons stole all the military awards of the Great Patriotic War, including the Gold Star and the Order of Lenin, from the apartment of the only Hero of the Soviet Union in the Volgograd suburb of the city of Volzhsky, Alexei Filippov. Alexey Filippov literally earned medals and orders with his own blood when, at the very beginning of the war, as a 16-year-old boy he joined a partisan detachment. During the war years he was seriously wounded several times.