Greek law enforcement agencies late Friday evening detained Vladimir Gusinsky, the former chief media tycoon of Russia and head of the Media-Most holding, at Athens airport. The news immediately caused a heated discussion in Moscow in the intelligence services and at all levels of government. After all, the criminal epic of the creator of the country’s first non-state TV channel has been an integral part of the political life of Russia over the past few years. Only in the last year, after Mr.

China will inform Russians via the Internet and satellite television The Chinese authorities have decided to seriously engage in the construction of a cultural and information “bridge of friendship” between the Celestial Empire and Russia.

Igor YAKOVLEV, vice-president of the Russian Association of Political Science: — The brightest and saddest event of this week was first the disappearance, and then the news of the death of the governor of the Sakhalin region, Igor Farkhutdinov. This sad event not only shocked many people, but also significantly influenced the balance of political forces, primarily in the Sakhalin region.

Today the band's new studio album is available in music stores all over the world. Arriving at Gorbushka last Friday, the first thing your observer heard was something that didn’t seem to have happened yet: songs from the new album Bananas by the legendary British band, blasting from “pirate” speakers throughout the entire square. At the same time, the volume of pre-orders for the legal “product” is amazing.

End. Start on page 1 One way or another, the crashed Mi-8 was found 40 km away from the route it was supposed to follow. The body of the car was generally preserved, but was badly damaged. Rescuers found small fragments of the car scattered within a radius of 70 meters. Most of the dead were recovered from the broken hull, with several nearby. Apparently, when the car fell, they were thrown out of the cabin in the air.

The US Embassy in Ashgabat sent two diplomatic notes to the Turkmen Foreign Ministry on August 19 and 22, expressing “strong protest” in connection with the actions of the Turkmen authorities.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" on Moscow screens Gore Verbinski's film with the long title "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" became the first pirate movie to achieve success in many years.

Raikkonen and Montoya almost caught up with the Red Baron Fernando Alonso took his first victory in Formula 1, winning by an overwhelming margin over his rivals at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Renault driver finished ahead of two title contenders, Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya. Michael Schumacher finished the race only eighth, but retained a minimal lead in the individual championship. The young Spaniard, only competing in the royal race for the second season, had a brilliant weekend.

The main cause of malaise and even deterioration in health these days will be a turbulent geomagnetic background. People with cardiovascular diseases and psycho-emotional disorders are most sensitive to its fluctuations. The medications recommended for you will help you stay in shape. such a case by the attending physician. Even in completely healthy people, due to fluctuations in the geomagnetic background, sleep can be disturbed and performance can decrease.

Volleyball players of the Russian men's national team became winners of the international tournament in the Czech city of Jablonec. In the final round match, our flying ball masters prevailed over the hosts of the competition - 3:1 (25:18, 25:21, 18:25, 25:17). Following the results of the tournament, national team coach Gennady Shipulin decided on candidates for the position of diagonal striker.

CLUBS Big band of Igor Butman. Jazz. Le Club , 20.00. Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone) and Dj Yazykov as part of the Tandem project. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00. Alexey Badyanov Trio (guitar). Cool Train , 21.00. Okasana Mikhailovskaya. Jazz vocals. "M-bar" , 20.00. “Arabian Night” by R. Schimmelpfening. Directed by Alexander Nazarov. Starring Nelly Ubarova, Grigory Siyatvinda, Igor Larin and others. "B2" , 20.00. Legendary Pink Dots (Holland).

Schröder doesn't have to like Berlusconi After Saturday's meeting between Chancellor Schröder and Prime Minister Berlusconi, as the Germans say, “peace, joy and egg pies” once again reigned in relations between Germany and Italy. During the meeting in Verona, everything returned to normal. As before, the Chancellor calls Italy a “wonderful country.” The Italian prime minister again speaks of the Germans as the most important economic partners in Europe.

The corporation is privatized by the state The government does not intend to transfer the MiG into private hands, although this flagship of the domestic military-industrial complex is included in the government privatization program for 2004. All shares of the Russian Aircraft Corporation (RSC) MiG after corporatization will be in federal ownership. This explanation was given to journalists last Friday by the head of the Department of Government Information (DPI), Alexey Gorshkov.

Shareholders who opposed the merger of automobile giants will receive $300 million Corporate mergers can be more troublesome than they appear at first glance. Experience shows that many companies are forced to bear enormous costs associated with lawsuits from shareholders who are dissatisfied with certain aspects of the transactions. As a rule, their dissatisfaction is caused not only by the conflict of interests typical for such a situation, but also by the result of the merger as such.

Russian owners of pocket computers received full access to information resources on the Internet The information site Newsru.com has created a special page for Palm computer users. The main advantage of the new mini version is its functionality combined with high practicality. So, if someone is not going to spend extra time downloading various secondary resources, he can easily use the new version from a regular computer.