Human rights activists and muftis stood up for devout Muslim women Recent terrorist attacks and related actions by security forces have once again aggravated interethnic relations in the capital. As many human rights activists feared, the capital’s police again took seriously people with non-Slavic appearance.

A Russian-Ukrainian music festival will take place in Yalta. The upcoming multi-hour event called “Speaker” is held in honor of the 350th anniversary of the “reunification of Ukraine and Russia” - this is the official concept of the festival. It is characteristic that the upcoming “Rupor” is not the first - last year the festival was already held in the city of Sochi.

Today the Prosecutor General's Office will decide the fate of Moscow prosecutors Today, at a special board of the Prosecutor General's Office, the fate of the leadership of the capital's prosecutor's office will be decided. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper reported on Wednesday, the other day a special commission created by order of Vladimir Ustinov completed an inspection of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office and found its work unsatisfactory.

The results of the 2002/03 season are beyond doubt. Middle This summer, director Elena Nevezhina, talking with Irina Alpatova (“In ten years we will have a cultural revolution,” newspaper “Culture”, 06/12/03), made a number of interesting and, it seems, quite responsible statements, of course, except for the fact that which is included in the title.

The main problem of the national team remains personnel Yesterday, the Russian basketball team completed the third stage of preparation for the European Championship, which will be held in Sweden from September 5 to 14. The main team of the country in Kyiv took part in the international basketball tournament Friendship Cup. Today our guys returned to Moscow. Unfortunately, the Russians were again unable to assemble full ammunition.

The traffic police asks truckers to rest until summer residents leave the city Moscow region traffic inspectors sent an appeal to truck drivers in adjacent regions and republics, primarily in the Smolensk region and Belarus, with a request to refrain from traveling on highways adjacent to Moscow on Friday and Sunday evenings, as well as on Saturday mornings.

Yesterday a dead end was reached in Russian peacekeeping in the Balkans. The last of ten echelons of the Russian military contingent in Kosovo (RVK) arrived in the Moscow region at Nara station. In pursuance of the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Russia, by August 1, all our peacekeepers from the Balkans arrived at their new destinations: 650 RVK military personnel to the Moscow Military District and 320 “blue helmets” from BiH to the Leningrad Military District.

Georgians called boats between Sukhumi and Sochi “pirate” The scandal caused by the resumption of maritime passenger traffic between Sukhumi and Sochi this week after an 11-year break could lead to the most serious consequences, including armed clashes.

The President of the Honduran Football Federation, Senor Callejas, stated his great interest in having the country's national team led by the famous Serbian specialist Bora Milutinovic. The Serb, as a mentor, became famous in the football world for having already led teams from different countries to the finals of the World Championships three times. Milutinovic did this with Costa Rica (1990), Nigeria (1998) and China (2002).

With a “screwdriver”, right-hand drive and a diesel engine The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, part of the automotive division of the Severstal-Auto company, announced plans to increase foreign sales. The company's export expansion is aimed primarily at the markets of developing countries. By the end of the year, exports in total UAZ sales should rise from 18 (first half of the year) to 30%.

The volume of social benefits in Russia is more than 20% of GDP The words that the system of state support for the population is ineffective and cumbersome have long become a common statement both in election battles and during discussions of the country’s budget for the next year. However, none of the politicians has yet provided exact figures on how much these benefits cost the country; no official calculations have been made.

The largest batch of heroin in recent years was seized on Tuesday by Russian special services in the Moscow region. During the day, in the Orekhovo-Zuevo area on Gorkovskoe Highway, while checking a KamAZ truck that was traveling with a load of fruit from Central Asia, operatives discovered a cache located in the double bottom of a spare gas tank. In total, about 220 kg of pure heroin was recovered from it.

President Met with the Chairman of the Human Rights Commission under the President of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova. The meeting discussed the state of the human rights situation in the country. As Ella Pamfilova reported at the end of the meeting, Vladimir Putin supported the commission’s initiative to hold an All-Russian Civil Forum in October and strongly recommended that heads of law enforcement agencies take part in it.

The enterprises of Russian Aluminum, one of the world's three largest aluminum producers, produced 1.3 million tons of commercial aluminum in the first half of 2003, which is 3.55% higher than the corresponding figure for the same period last year. At the same time, the share of aluminum products with high added value increased by 65% ​​and amounted to 25% (at the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter - 34%) of the total aluminum production compared to 16% for the same period last year.

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