The fate of the post-Soviet derby will be decided in Moscow Yesterday at the central Shakhtar stadium in Donetsk the first match of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League was played between the vice-champion of Ukraine Shakhtar and the current champion of Russia Lokomotiv Moscow. The hard-fought match ended in Shakhtar's victory - 1:0.

They were banned from appearing on the streets during the celebrations of the 280th anniversary of Yekaterinburg Today, the Yekaterinburg police are starting an operation to clear the central part of the city from “asocial elements.” As explained by the public security police of the Yekaterinburg Internal Affairs Directorate, the work will last until the evening of August 15.

The Moscow government intends to train 100 thousand entrepreneurs Having received from the federal center the right to keep taxes collected from small businesses in its budget, Moscow ordered small businesses to be fruitful and multiply. This is precisely what, in the opinion of the Moscow authorities, should be facilitated by the “Program for training personnel for a market economy in the city of Moscow for 2004-2006,” presented to journalists yesterday.

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The socio-economic forecast does not provide for a two-fold increase in GDP Today, the government, together with the draft budget, will discuss the forecast of socio-economic development for 2004 and the parameters of the forecast until 2006. Judging by the report prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development, one should not expect cardinal changes in the economic life of the country.

Alexander Lebedev calls the airline management to a meeting NRB-Group, the largest non-state shareholder of Aeroflot, will demand the convening of an extraordinary meeting of the airline’s shareholders in the coming days. As NRB President Alexander Lebedev stated, the only issue that will be considered is the re-election of the board of directors, in which the group that owns almost a third of the airlines still does not have a representative. Mr.

The Center for Contemporary Art accepts congratulations On Monday, August 11, the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) celebrated its 11th anniversary. In the cramped courtyard, friends of the NCCA - artists, critics and fans of contemporary art - drank beer and ate watermelon. Music was playing, animals were screaming from the territory of the neighboring zoo.

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Today the government will approve the draft budget for 2004 The Cabinet of Ministers will approve the draft budget for 2004 today. Confidence that it will be this way and not otherwise is given both by the logic of the development of the budget process and by yesterday’s statement by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, he said that the government is ready to coordinate and approve the state budget.

The Ministry of Press continues to fight counterfeit products The Ministry of Press Affairs announced yesterday that it had suspended six licenses for the right to produce audiovisual works and phonograms on optical media. The basis for this was a number of violations identified during inspections carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in July of this year. 28 enterprises that have equipment for the production of discs and received MPTR licenses were inspected.

When a theater teacher gives an interview, he has to choose his expressions with extreme care. It is clear with what attention his students will read the newspaper text, how they will - on the case and not on the case - look for “working instructions” in what is said. You can’t be harsh, you can’t be too open about your preferences, you can’t set one generation as an example for another—you can’t do a lot of things.

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Construction of skyscrapers for Moscow City will begin in the fall The city authorities have identified their next priorities in urban planning policy. Starting from today until 2007, the main forces of city architects and builders will be directed to the most ambitious project in the history of Moscow - the construction of the Moscow City business center.

Yesterday it became known that in Italy 60 people died in one day due to the heat. The victims of the heat are mostly elderly residents of Turin and Milan. Age - from 70 to 98 years. Most of them suffered from chronic diseases. Deaths due to the heat were also recorded in Florence, Varese and Lecce. Hot weather has set in in Italy - during the day the air in the shade warms up to 40 degrees, at night the thermometer does not drop below 30.

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