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.

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.

And he doesn’t want to hear about “subsidies” The ink had barely dried on the historical documents adopted by the People's Council of Turkmenistan on August 15, when it became clear that the main one, the Country Development Program until 2020, “does not fully meet the requirements.” After carefully reading the document, the Turkmen leader himself discovered this. Therefore, on August 22, he gathered his ministers and gave them another scolding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Heat left Romania without electricity The Cernavoda nuclear power plant, which produces 10% of Romania's electricity, has been shut down due to a record drop in water levels in the Danube, near which the country's only nuclear power plant is located. Economy Minister Dan Ioan Popescu announced that further operation of the nuclear power plant with a lack of water in the cooling system was dangerous and that the reactors would be restarted no earlier than October.

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.

Moscow authorities promise to increase additional payments to teachers In order for Moscow teachers to receive a salary at least equal to the subsistence level, the capital’s authorities will have to pay them approximately a third of the existing salary. This was announced yesterday by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who took part in the teachers' council, which traditionally took place in the city on the eve of the start of the new school year. Mr.

Government Approved the program of socio-economic development of Russia for the medium term (2003-2005). According to the document, federal executive authorities, when developing regulatory legal acts, must be guided by the provisions of the approved program. In addition, it is recommended that the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the federation, when developing regional programs for socio-economic development, be guided by the provisions of this program.

Killed and wounded appeared in the presidential elections in Karachay-Cherkessia Preparations for the second round of presidential elections in Karachay-Cherkessia are proceeding, as expected, very dramatically. Yesterday afternoon, unknown persons near the village of Krasnogorskaya, Dzhegutinsky district of the republic, fired at a convoy of cars: as a result, two passengers were killed and two more were wounded.

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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.

Passengers and passers-by are victims of mysterious explosions in the capital of Kuban The Krasnodar region was transferred to an essentially paramilitary situation yesterday due to a mysterious series of terrorist attacks that shook the city early in the morning. Three powerful explosions occurred almost simultaneously in three administrative districts of the regional center - Western, Karasunsky and Prikubansky. The homemade bombs began going off around 7:30, one after another for ten minutes.