Another helicopter crashed in Grozny The first serious plane crash this year occurred yesterday morning in Chechnya. In the suburbs of Grozny, shortly after takeoff from the airfield of the military base in Khankala, a military transport helicopter Mi-8, belonging to the 4th Army of the Russian Air Force, crashed. Of the 15 people on board, four died.

Dear Vladimir Semenovich! The article “Gone with the Current,” published on June 30 in the Vremya Novostei newspaper, contains information that does not correspond to reality. In particular, journalist Nikolai Gorelov informs the readership about the fact of buying up shares of the Bureyskaya HPP by managers of RAO UES of Russia.

The shadow of al-Qaeda looms behind the tragedy in Quetta, Pakistan. Government troops were deployed to Quetta, Pakistan, the capital of Balochistan province near the border with Afghanistan this weekend. The city is under a curfew, which was lifted for only five hours on Saturday to allow Shiites to bury those killed in Friday's attack, including children aged between five and 11. This bloody terrorist attack shocked the entire country.

Leading computer software manufacturer Microsoft intends to please its shareholders with the largest dividends in the history of corporate America. As the Financial Times reports, citing the French publication Les Echos, Microsoft is considering the possibility of directing more than $10 billion to pay dividends. As a result, the company's co-owners will receive more than $1 per share. When and in what form shareholders will receive income is still unknown.

Georgy SATAROV, president of the political science foundation "INDEM": - The most important event of the week remains the situation around YUKOS. I believe that this is one of the careless actions of the authorities, which can lead to unforeseen consequences. It is difficult to predict what exactly this will be, but I am one hundred percent sure that these consequences will not coincide with the expectations of the authorities.

"The Beautiful Miller's Wife" by Christophe Marthaler - the latest masterpiece of the Chekhov Festival “The Beautiful Miller's Wife” from the Zurich Schauspielhaus was shown on the stage of the Army Theater on the first warm week-end of this summer - the hall was half empty, and not only because the townspeople had finally rushed to their dachas. The organizers deluded themselves into thinking that there were so many Moscow Marthaler fans that they could fill the huge hall three times.

In Omsk they are unhappy that the majority of justices of the peace are young women Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk Region intend to seek tightening of the federal law on magistrates. Magistrate judges have the same status as federal judges, but they are appointed by local legislative authorities. Their jurisdiction includes cases related to domestic conflicts, as well as criminal cases, the punishment for which does not exceed two years of imprisonment.

The 90th Tour de France super-stage race started in Paris on Saturday. At the main event of the year in the world of professional cycling (probably even a person far from sports knows that the Tour is celebrating its centenary this year), Russia is represented by five cyclists. Two-time Olympic champion Vyacheslav Ekimov is the most prominent figure of this community. He has many truly outstanding achievements.

Issuer State register. Number Denomination, rub. 27 Jun 30 Jun 1 Jul 2 Jul 3 Jul RAO "UES" (o) MF73-1-00901 0.5 7,795 8,038 8,040 8,247 8,333 Rostel-1(o) 73-1p-1947 0.0025 52,700 52,850 53.120 54,070 54.180 Mosenergo (about) 73-1-3242 1 2,190 2,207 2.218 2.233 2,258 Irkutsken.

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For that generation of Russians who managed to see the decline of the Soviet Union at a conscious age, Bulgaria was the closest and most accessible foreign country - almost not a foreign country at all. In the next decade, the role of a resort “for all” residents of our country was taken away from Bulgaria by Türkiye and Egypt. Now Bulgaria is trying to develop its tourism industry “on two fronts”.

The date of elections in Chechnya has been set The Kremlin has prepared a gift for Akhmat Kadyrov. Last Friday, Vladimir Putin, by decree, scheduled presidential elections in Chechnya for October 5. And although literally the next day this event was overshadowed by the suicide bombing of Chechen kamikaze terrorists in Moscow, the acting head of the republic certainly has reason for joy: this date gives him a significant advantage over other candidates.

- Please tell me, are you having enough trouble with Yasnaya Polyana? Why did you also need Krapivna? - This is our new idea - to turn into a museum the former district town of Krapivna, in which Lev Nikolaevich once served as a peace mediator. There was a small school museum of local history, rather ethnographic, containing a number of interesting things related to peasant, bourgeois, and merchant life. And in order to prevent the destruction of the museum, we took it as a branch.

By growth potential The annual ranking of the thousand largest banks in the world according to the British magazine The Banker adds points to the Russian banking sector for the second year in a row. At the end of 2002, the top-1000 list from Russia (see table) for the first time included the Bank of Moscow, Uralsib, the Trust investment bank (Trust and Investment Bank) and the International Moscow Bank, and the total number of domestic banks reached seventeen.

In his opinion, economic development is impossible without abandoning traditional values The scientific director of the Higher School of Economics, Professor Evgeny Yasin, questioned the possibility of developing and modernizing the domestic economy according to the current government recipes.