And they promise to become a third cheaper Kaliningrad-based JSC Avtotor, which assembles passenger cars and light-duty Korean KIA and BMW 3 and 5 series, has added an American brand to its car collection. Yesterday, the company signed a general agreement with General Motors CIS (representing GM in Russia) to assemble the American Hummer-2 SUV at its facilities.

On August 26, at about 23.00 Moscow time, at the Stade de France, 27-year-old triple jumper Tatiana LEBEDEVA from Volgograd literally took a leap into history. Landing in the fourth attempt at 15 meters 18 centimeters, she became the first two-time world champion in the individual event in the history of Russian athletics. After the award ceremony, an emotional and unusually smiling Tatyana answered questions from a correspondent for the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

The Alexandrinsky Theater has a new artistic director On Tuesday, Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoy finally introduced a new artistic director to the Alexandrinsky Theater troupe - Valery Fokin. This appointment has a long history. Alexandrinka, still officially called the State Drama Theater named after Pushkin, has been toiling for years, looking for a person whom she could entrust with power over herself.

Summer is coming to an end, which, having started late, gives way to autumn ahead of time. The reason for this is the change of Atlantic cyclones, tirelessly carrying dense clouds and autumn rains. The only thing that distinguishes it from autumn so far is warm nights. After all, at the end of August frosts are no longer uncommon. There will be almost no change in the coming days. As before, most of the European territory of Russia will remain at the mercy of Atlantic cyclones.

Flood of feelings and awe The day before the performance, believers protest! Messages on the Internet, faxes from some “Committee for Moral Revival” and even Archpriest Shargunov on television worried about the people. All this is because the French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj staged a twenty-minute ballet on a gospel plot and gave the role of the Archangel Gabriel to a dancer.

The unification of the currencies of Russia and Belarus may not take place Yesterday, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko unexpectedly announced to everyone that there should be no rush to introduce a single currency.

Severstal, having purchased OSPAZ, received half of the metal products market Yesterday, details of the transaction for the purchase by the Cherepovets Steel-Rolling Plant (ChSPZ, part of the metallurgical division of Severstal Group) of the Oryol Steel-Rolling Plant (OSPAZ) were made public. Experts believe that it will allow Alexey Mordashov’s company to become the largest player in the hardware market (wire, nails, ropes, mesh, etc.).

Whatever forces were behind the bombing of the UN office in Iraq, at first glance they acted contrary to their own interests. After all, this international organization as a whole and especially its Security Council act today as the only real counterbalance to the United States.

Lebedeva and Skurygin brought Russia to first place Tatyana Lebedeva's victory in the triple jump sector and German Skurygin's second place in the 50 km walk brought the Russian team into sole leadership of the team event at the World Athletics Championships in Paris. After yesterday's morning competition program, our team had three gold, one silver and three bronze medals. The Belarusian team has one less silver, the Americans have two golds and three second places.

Russia delivered the first two Su-30KI to Indonesia Russia has supplied Indonesia with the first two Su-30KI multirole fighters. They were delivered to the Indonesian Air Force Base Esfahyudi in the east of Java by an An-124 Ruslan aircraft. The two remaining fighters will be delivered there in the near future. Later, they are expected to be relocated to the south of Sulawesi. The Su-30KI differs from the basic Su-27 only in that it is equipped with an in-flight refueling system.

The House of Photography hosted the last exhibition from the “24+” series Once again, lovers of architectural photography had to make sure that everything comes to an end on Tuesday. Alexander Dzhikia’s “Top Point”—the thirty-sixth exhibition of the three-year (and seemingly endless) architectural photography project “24”—really turned out to be the last. At least from personal ones. To date.

The Central Election Commission legalized expenses for the election campaign According to the leadership of the Central Election Commission, political parties and candidates were allowed not to deny themselves anything during the election campaign.

The ideologist of the Dagestan constitution was blown up in his car Political assassinations in Dagestan seem to be becoming as commonplace as terrorist attacks. Yesterday morning, Minister of National Affairs Magomedsalikh Gusaev was killed in Makhachkala. Detectives do not yet know the reasons for the murder, but everyone is sure that it is related to his professional activities. Mr.

The President of Azerbaijan showed a positive reaction to treatment in the USA Azerbaijan is caught up in the pre-election bustle. However, all the “movements” of political figures take place in foreign countries. The country's 80-year-old president, Heydar Aliyev, has been undergoing treatment for about two months now. First he was sick in Ankara, and now at the Cleveland Clinic in the American state of Ohio. During this time, Aliyev Sr.

National Bolsheviks decorated the party show with a performance At the closing of the socio-political forum “Elections 2003”, the leaders of the main political parties in Russia looked happy and talked about consolidation. Small party formations, not invited to the forum and especially not to the stage, expressed emotions from the audience.