The city authorities paid compensation for a car damaged during the assault on Dubrovka The claim of one of the former hostages of the Dubrovka Theater Center was satisfied yesterday by the Moscow government. The Department of Finance entered into a pre-trial settlement and paid Mikhail Khomantovsky 50 thousand rubles for the Mitsubishi-Galant car damaged during the storming of the building. And the Tverskoy court stopped the proceedings yesterday at the request of Mr. Khomantovsky.

Nadir Khachilaev turned out to have too many enemies Dagestani special services yesterday summed up the first results of the investigation into the murder of ex-State Duma deputy, former head of the Union of Muslims of Russia and leader of the Lak opposition Nadirshakh Khachilayev, who was shot by unknown assailants in Makhachkala on Monday evening. The investigation has not yet been able to find the killers, or even presumably find out who could be behind the assassination attempt.

The overseas league loses its status as the strongest in the world The NBA regular season is nearing its end. The first pass to the playoffs, where the four best teams from the Western and Eastern Conferences qualify, was secured by the Detroit Shock. This club has a basketball player familiar to our fans - Senegalese Astou Njae-Diatta became the champion of Russia in 2002 as part of the capital's Dynamo.

Litigation in America will continue for years The American system is designed in such a way that in the event of a disaster or terrorist attack, the victims, their families and the families of the victims have much more opportunities for compensation for damage than Russian citizens. The amount of monetary compensation consists of at least three sources. Firstly, in the USA, as in our country, the authorities pay financial compensation to victims and “families left without a breadwinner”.

CLUBS Jean-Loup Longion (France, trumpet) with the participation of musicians from St. Petersburg: Yuri Bogatyrev (saxophone), Vladimir Koltsov-Krutov (double bass), Alexey Shikhov (drums), Alexey Cheremizov (piano). Jean-Loup Longnon is a professional trumpet player, one of the leading European jazz musicians. Several of his albums were awarded the Django Renhard, Boris Vian, and Django Or awards.

Evgeny Kurgin became the chief auto insurer At the general meeting of members of the Russian Union of Auto Insurers (RUA) held yesterday, the general director of the insurance company ROSNO, Evgeny Kurgin, was elected its president. Within two months, he is obliged to leave the post of head of the company and hand over the affairs to its new management. The former head of the RSA, Andrei Slepnev, did not even join the board of the union. RSA was established in August 2002.

The last major free agent on the NBA market, Lamar Odom, has signed a pre-contract agreement with the Miami Heat. The term of the agreement is for six years, during which the player must receive $63 million. Odom’s status as a restricted free agent does not allow us to definitively talk about Odom’s transfer. In other words, his former club, the Los Angeles Clippers, has the right to keep him by matching Miami's offer.

David Mirtskhulava could not stand the accusations of pro-Russian orientation Georgian Minister of Fuel and Energy David Mirtskhulava put his resignation letter on Eduard Shevardnadze's desk on Tuesday evening. This was reported by the Tbilisi television company “Mze” (“Sun”), citing sources in the state chancellery. It is expected that this will be officially announced at a government meeting on Wednesday.

The main ethnic festival in the UK has ended The largest ethnic music festival WOMAD (that is, “World of Music, Art and Dance”) was held this year in the British city of Reading. Over the course of three days, more than sixty artists from various countries performed at several venues.

The peace process in the Middle East has been undermined Two terrorist attacks occurred yesterday in Israel. The first explosion occurred at about nine o'clock in the morning in the city of Rosh Ayn, which is half an hour's drive from Tel Aviv. There, a Palestinian suicide bomber entered a supermarket and detonated an explosive device. Several people were injured, one was killed.

The mayor promises to clear all capital's courtyards of cars Moscow authorities intend to ban the placement of cars outside parking lots. And not only on the sides of the road, but also in the courtyards of residential buildings. For placing a car in the wrong place, a fine of five times the minimum wage is expected.

Candidate for governor of the Leningrad region Vadim Gustov fought his way into United Russia A brutal split occurred in the Leningrad region branch of the United Russia party on the eve of the regional governor elections, which will take place on September 21. The split was caused by the fact that some party members supported the current governor Valery Serdyukov, while others chose the candidacy of Senator Vadim Gustov, who led the region until 1998.

"The Abduction from the Seraglio" at the Salzburg Festival This music festival is one of the most celebrated events of the Austrian opera season. A few hours before the start of the performances, the street in front of the theater is cordoned off by police. The public convention attracts the attention of onlookers. Crowds gather to look at the dresses of the ladies and the famous gentlemen accompanying them. This season even Prince Charles of England visited Salzburg.

SUAL Group, one of the world's ten largest aluminum producers, announced the appointment of Brent Hegger as project manager for the Komi Aluminum project. The project involves the construction and subsequent operation of a modern alumina-aluminum complex in Komi. The capacity of the new production will be 1.4 million tons of alumina per year and 300-500 thousand tons of primary aluminum per year. Mr. Hegger will be responsible for the technical implementation of the complex's construction.

The resort airport will be completed by private owners By the end of the year, the air terminal complex (AVK) of the city of Sochi will be put up for auction. According to the acting general director of the state unitary enterprise Sochi Airport, Igor Moiseenko, the Russian government has made a final decision on the future of the most famous long-term construction of the resort city. Mr.