The Russian Navy on the Eve of Major Transformations The Russian navy in the future will not be coastal or ocean-going, but combined. Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov spoke about this during large-scale exercises in the Far East. According to the commander-in-chief, a combined fleet is needed to protect the country along the coast and defend its interests anywhere in the World Ocean.

State leaders will not be allowed to be the first to try out the Moscow monorail The demonstration launch of the capital's monorail will take place on City Day. The general manager of Moscow Monorails OJSC, Mikhail Solomonov, told a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper about this. According to him, the route connecting the Timiryazevskaya and VDNH metro stations is now completely ready for operation.

In the new people's patriotic bloc with the working title "Communists - Agrarians - Patriots", leadership positions were publicly divided yesterday. Equally. The leader of the “Congress of Russian Communities” Sergei Glazyev got first place on the list, and State Duma deputy Dmitry Rogozin got second place and the place of head of the bloc’s election headquarters.

The company intends to once again prove the “life-giving” properties of its beer. The Moscow beer and soft drink plant Ochakovo, which last week lost its case in the Moscow Arbitration Court against the State Trade Inspectorate, does not intend to give up. After a lawsuit that began more than a year ago, the State Trade Inspectorate managed to prove that Ochakovo beer contains a preservative - sodium benzoate.

Swiss Bonnie and Clyde separated by prison The Zurich Cantonal Court last week sentenced Swiss Bonnie and Clyde Tamara Truaisch and Axel Kaiser to 18 and 9 years of rigorous imprisonment. For four years this couple terrified Switzerland. The public expected the court to impose a life sentence. Axel was 34 years old when he met Tamara in Zurich. He was a forester, and his life flowed without incident, as did 23-year-old Tamara, who worked as a secretary.

Today the maximum cost of electricity for 2004 will be determined The Federal Energy Commission (FEC) will today approve maximum electricity tariffs for next year. As the head of the Federal Energy Commission Georgy Kutovoy told reporters yesterday, for the population the cost of a kilowatt-hour will increase by a maximum of 16%, for other end consumers - by an average of no more than 13%. Thus, the FEC will fulfill Vladimir Putin’s order that there should be no sharp increase in tariffs.

CLUBS Boogie Chillen Blues. Cool Train , 21.00. Sergey Manukyan (keyboards, vocals). "M-bar" , 20.00. Valery Kiselev Quartet (clarinet, tenor saxophone). Jazz. "Seasons" , 20.00. Gigolo Party. A party by DJ Mick Wills (Germany), who plays charming electrotechno with wild guitar cuts. Mick's music contains many allusions to rock and roll and the new wave of the 80s - styles that are becoming fashionable again in dance music. August 28 at the Dj-cafe “Mio” , 0.00.

At the 60th Venice Film Festival, Russia will be represented by the film “The Return” The fate of the picture surprised even its creators.

The People's Party presented itself to voters in Manege The presentation of the People's Party took place yesterday at the Manege exhibition complex as part of the socio-political forum “Elections 2003”. Chairman of the People's Party Gennady Raikov shared with voters who came to the forum the main party goals and objectives. As expected earlier, the People's Party will go to the elections with a single federal list.

The Greek court has not yet found any error in the detention of Vladimir Gusinsky The fate of the disgraced Russian oligarch and media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, detained on Friday at Athens airport under rather mysterious circumstances, finally began to become clearer yesterday.

The new items turned out to be not so new The sixth Moscow International Motor Show 2003, the official opening of which will take place tomorrow, opened its doors to the press yesterday. The organizers' plans were a little confused by the weather - in the morning the rain poured down on the lineups of Gazelles, Sables and MAZs standing in the open air. However, the exhibition arsenal of foreign manufacturers, who settled in great comfort in indoor spaces, was not affected by the weather.

In Volgograd, as a result of an ammonia leak, four workers of bakery plant No. 5 were poisoned by ammonia fumes, three of them were hospitalized. The Voroshilovsky district of the city, where the bakery is located, was taken under special control by the Ministry of Emergency Situations and Volgograd environmentalists. The first information about the poisoning of female workers at the enterprise was received by the Civil Defense and Emergency Department early on Saturday morning.

The head of the Nenets district has been found guilty again Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Vladimir Butov on Friday fulfilled his promise to personally appear at the prosecutor's office, which put him on the federal wanted list.

The search for an ad-free firewall in the desert capital seemed to lead organizers of the video art festival Empty to a dead end this year.

In "16 tons" the group Mogwai was almost pushed by the audience On Saturday, August 23, in the reputable club "16 tons" there was nowhere to drop an apple and put a glass of beer. The reason was the concert of the Scottish group Mogwai, which brought together the most progressive young people of Moscow under its roof: the high entrance fee (600 rubles) did not discourage those who wanted to join the session of musical shamanism.