Inexpensive flights to the German capital and Bavaria have opened Germania Express airline made its first flight to Russia yesterday. From this day on, it will begin running five times a week between Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Berlin and Munich.

The People's Party helps villagers defend their rights Residents of the village of Lipitsy, Serpukhov district, demanded last weekend the return of the land due to them by law. The gathering of villagers became one of the mass events within the framework of the “program for the protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of village residents,” carried out by the “People's Front in Defense of the Russian Land” with the support of the People's Party.

Yesterday, the Moscow City Court resumed the criminal trial against Pavel Zaitsev, an investigator of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused by the Prosecutor General's Office of exceeding his official powers in the investigation of a scandalous criminal case about the smuggling of furniture sold in the Three Kita and Grand shopping centers. Yesterday the prosecutor read out the indictment again. The investigation accused Mr.

Candidates for governors are fighting for state employees and metallurgists At the end of last week, candidate for governor of the Sverdlovsk region Yuri Kuznetsov filed a lawsuit in the regional court demanding to cancel the registration of another candidate, former Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Andrei Vikharev. This is quite common in elections of this level - according to Mr. Kuznetsov, nominated by the Sverdlovsk branch of the Yabloko party, Mr.

The net profit of Mobile Telesystems OJSC (MTS) according to US GAAP in the first half of 2003 amounted to $208.7 million, which is 94% higher than the same figure last year - $107.6 million. MTS revenue in January-June amounted to 1.05 billion versus $563.9 million in 2002. Operating expenses increased to 677 million from $369 million. Net operating profit increased to 375 million from $194.8 million.

The main reason for illness and even deterioration of health on Wednesday will remain the turbulent geomagnetic background. The most sensitive to its fluctuations are people with cardiovascular diseases, those who have suffered a myocardial infarction or stroke, patients with atherosclerosis, hypertension, neurocirculatory dystonia and psycho-emotional disorders.

A film made by a child will be shown at the Venice Film Festival The jury of the 60th anniversary festival will be headed by Italian cinema veteran Mario Monicelli. The jury will include Italian actor Stefano Accorsi and German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who directed the film “Gangs of New York.” Hollywood will be represented only by producer Monty Montgomery, who worked on David Lynch's films.

23-year-old pole vaulter Svetlana Feofanova brought the Russian team a second gold medal at the IX World Championships ongoing in Paris. In order to reach the winning height (4.75), the winter champion and world record holder needed eight jumps, and only one of them was unsuccessful. A correspondent for the Vremya Novostei newspaper was one of the first with whom Svetlana FEOFANOVA shared her impressions immediately after the victory.

Water is the subject of the best exhibitions of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg The chief architect of the city of St. Petersburg, which celebrated its glorious anniversary, is the Neva. Without it, the scale, proportions, and rhythm of the City seen by Man would not have been found. The most important thing would disappear - the subject of their dialogue, the element. City: piles, columns, stone, granite, bolt, culture, humility, firmament.

Bank North-West OVK, the only one of the heirs of SBS-Agro, over which its legendary founder Alexander Smolensky retained control, is going to change its name. Its new brand - "Capital Credit Partnership" - has practically been agreed upon with the Central Bank. According to the Vremya Novostey newspaper, having abandoned the bank’s previous name, Mr. Smolensky fulfilled the terms of the deal to sell the UWC group to the Interros holding.

The third day of competition at the World Athletics Championships in Paris brought the Russian team a second gold medal. The reward, as they say, is almost guaranteed. First place in the pole vault sector was taken by former world record holder Svetlana Feofanova. True, despite the fact that throughout the season the Russians dominated this type of program, only occasionally meeting resistance from the American Stacey Dragila, events in Paris developed quite dramatically.

Prime Minister Formed a government commission to develop normative legal acts in the field of reform and regulation of land relations. The commission was established to coordinate the activities of federal executive authorities and organizations in the field of developing regulatory legal acts and introducing organizational and economic mechanisms in the field of reforming and regulating land relations. Meetings of the commission are held at least once a month.

In negotiations, we must proceed exclusively from Russia’s interests. It is important for us not to find out for sure whether the DPRK has nuclear weapons; it is important for us that there are none on the Korean Peninsula. We need this problem to be resolved at the negotiating table and under no circumstances escalate into a conflict. “Punishment” of the North Koreans will result in a tragedy for the population of our Far East.

American schoolchildren will be graded on appearance and weight The fight against excess weight is gradually becoming an integral part of the process of raising new US citizens. The authorities of the country, famous for its huge number of obese citizens, have long been trying to draw the attention of the younger generation to the need to control their weight.

The Board of Directors of RAO UES was asked to force the holding's management to work more efficiently Oleg Deripaska's group, after becoming a shareholder of RAO UES of Russia, continues to attack the management of the energy holding. At a meeting of the board of directors of RAO on August 1, board member David Geovanis proposed creating a committee to motivate management, the goal of which was to pay everyone only according to their merits.