President I instructed the Minister of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov to complete the investigation into the desecration of the graves of submariners from the Kursk. “Unfortunately, the graves of some submariners from the Kursk were desecrated,” the Russian President said at a meeting with members of the government. “We need to bring this investigation to the end,” Vladimir Putin emphasized.

The Kaliningrad region wants to export electricity at the expense of Gazprom The acquaintance of Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller and Kaliningrad Governor Vladimir Egorov, which took place the other day at the corporation’s central office, has already become surrounded by myths. And quite official. As Interfax was told by the press service of the Kaliningrad region administration, the parties agreed to sign a cooperation agreement.

Rosenergoatom will assist China in the first stage of operation of the Tianwan nuclear power plant under construction. “This issue was at the center of Monday’s meeting in Moscow between the management of Rosenergoatom and the Dzhangsun Nuclear Corporation, which owns the Tianwan NPP,” noted a representative of the concern.

Stalin gave 759 lives for two Far Eastern hills 65 years ago, on July 29, 1938, two-week battles between the Red Army and the samurai of the elite Japanese Kwantung Army began in the area of ​​Lake Khasan. Blood flowed over the Nameless and Zaozernaya hills. The USSR bordered there with Korea and Manchukuo (a puppet state created by Japan). The fighting was an attempt to resolve a territorial dispute. The hills guarded the strategic approaches to Vladivostok.

Representatives of the Athens Bar Association traveled to The Hague yesterday to file a case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Tony Blair, British Defense Secretary Geoffrey Hoon and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Charges of war crimes are being brought against them. The Greeks are filing a lawsuit only against the UK, since the US does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. All political parties in Greece were united in their opposition to the Iraq war.

The European Commission approved the merger of TNK and BP TNK and BP took an important step towards creating a new company. Yesterday it became known that the deal to form TNK-BP was approved by the European Commission. Now, in order for this company to begin its activities as an independent legal entity, TNK and BP must obtain approval from the antimonopoly authorities of Russia and Ukraine.

On May 29, 2003, American actor Bob Hope turned one hundred years old. The anniversary article of our newspaper was called “Hope Never Dies.” And how else could one title the story of “the most popular representative of show business in the entire history of Western civilization,” a universal favorite, winner of about a thousand various awards and fifty titles, who successfully lived to see a mind-blowing date? Almost two months passed and Bob Hope died. From pneumonia.

The Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Support (MAP) for Moscow and the Moscow Region believes that the Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) should immediately begin recalculating subscription fees for subscribers who, as a result of a fire, had a telephone exchange that was completely unavailable for some time on February 14 of this year telephone connection.

In Saratov, power engineers turned off pumping stations due to debts In Saratov, where there has been no hot water for more than a month, problems have also arisen with cold water supply. Due to a power outage, three major city pumping stations have been out of service for several days. As a result, about a third of the city's population of one million are forced to live without water at all.

In Moscow, former chief of staff of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Valery Belyaev, was found dead yesterday in his home. According to the press service of the Airborne Forces, the tragedy occurred on Monday night in the general’s apartment on Academician Pilyugin Street in the southwest of the capital. According to the police version, Valery Belyaev committed suicide by shooting himself with a personal pistol.

The seaplane dived onto a dacha near Moscow Three people died on Sunday evening in the Mytishchi district of the Moscow region as a result of the accident of a private light seaplane "Corvette", which crashed directly into a summer cottage. To investigate the incident, by order of the head of the State Civil Aviation Service (SCSA) of the Ministry of Transport, Alexander Neradko, a special commission was created.

Lukashenko employed the dismissed prime minister A series of resignations and appointments took place in Minsk again. On Monday, the Belarusian president appointed former Energy Minister Vladimir Semashko as acting deputy prime minister in charge of the fuel and energy complex. The duties of the minister himself are now performed by his former first deputy, Eduard Tovpenets. The acting status will remain until the appointments are approved by parliament.

“October” (No. 6) opens with Svetlana Churaeva’s essay “The Last Apostle. The Tale of the Extraordinary Adventures of the Apostle Paul." The author, a participant in the Second Forum of Young Writers, is enthusiastically recommended not by anyone, but by Vladimir Makanin himself. “The hero of this story, the apostle, is also amazing. Gospel issues are fruitful if the writer is talented. Leonid Andreev... Bunin... Bulgakov... And these are just the Russian authors that immediately come to mind.

Eight people were killed yesterday during a shootout between Saudi security agents and suspected Muslim extremists. The incident occurred in the town of Buraidah in northeastern Saudi Arabia. Two policemen were among those killed. The remaining six people are called “mercenaries” in the Ministry of Internal Affairs message. Five more extremists surrendered to the police, one managed to escape. "TIME FOR NEWS"

Law enforcement officers demand a pay increase Yesterday it became known about an unprecedented protest action by four employees of the Krasnoselkup District Department of Internal Affairs of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Three officers and one foreman of the duty unit of the Krasnoselkup district police department began a hunger strike at the workplace, demanding that management raise their salaries, and their colleagues expressed their readiness to join them at any time.