The Minister of Defense of Uruguay, former Minister of Culture and Education, Mr. Yamandu FAU, visited Moscow. The minister told the Vremya Novostei newspaper why relations between Russia and the distant South American country in the military sphere are suddenly growing stronger. - First of all, this was facilitated by the remnants of the Russian debt to Uruguay, left over from the times of the USSR - about 50 million dollars.

The State Drug Control Service may find its own “werewolves” The campaign to expose “werewolves in uniform”, launched this summer by the leadership of the Russian special services, seems to have reached the “newborn” department - the State Committee for Control over the Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Drugs (Gosnarkokontrol).

A modern dance festival will be held in Moscow This autumn festival has existed since 1997, it just had different names. Either ADF or EDF - depending on which troupes - American or European - the festival management managed to lure to Moscow. Now we have come to a stable name, not related to geography - Dance Inversion. But, having established themselves in the name, they lost the venue - the Musical Theatre, whose management organizes these festivals, closed for reconstruction.

Massacre at the market A massive brawl occurred yesterday at a food market near the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the conflict broke out at 10.15 between members of two Azerbaijani families who did not share a trading place in the market. After a brief verbal altercation, the Caucasians used knives. As a result, 25-year-old Raghib Maliev was killed.

Former German Chancellor lost to archivist Experts can now learn a lot of interesting things about the “Chancellor of German unity” Helmut Kohl. The fact is that Kohl suffered a serious defeat in a legal dispute with Mrs. Birtler, the commissioner for documentation of the former MGB of the GDR (in popular parlance Stasi, from Staatssicherheit - state security). The keeper of the Stasi archives, Mrs. Marianne Birtler, appealed the court decision of July 4, 2001.

Alexander Veshnyakov believes that St. Petersburg is ready for elections Chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov completed yesterday a two-day inspection trip to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, where he checked readiness for the gubernatorial elections of these two subjects scheduled for September 21. Summing up the results of his inspection, Mr. Veshnyakov made a sensational confession to journalists.

The unremarkable village of Ovsyannikovo, which is gradually fading away among the fields overgrown with weeds in the Kaluga region, suddenly became famous not only in its area, but even in the capital. The Indian colony brought glory to the village. They came here two years ago and began buying up bankrupt collective farms.

300 inspectors were fired in a year The Road Safety Inspectorate seems to have carried out instructions to identify “werewolves” in its ranks. More than 300 traffic police officers were dismissed from internal affairs bodies in 2003 as a result of 12 thousand special measures carried out by control and preventive units.

CLUBS Alex Rostotsky Trio . The famous ensemble of an excellent bass player and jazz producer. Le Club , 20.00. Trio “ChiK” and Konstantin Serov (guitar). "Course" , 20.00. Moscow Ragtime Band. "Chinese pilot Zhao Da." 23.00. Tigran Grigoryan (piano). Latin American jazz. "Restoration" , 21.30. Dog Korolenko. The original verse player continues his concerts at the Apshu club.

The law on insurance of deposits in banks, the adoption of which was once called for by the Kremlin and the White House, was surprisingly easily approved by the Duma in the first reading yesterday. The government hopes that the president will sign it by the end of the year. But to the disappointment of officials, deputies will radically amend the law in the second reading.

The astronauts themselves will monitor the skin of the shuttles. The American Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has again postponed the resumption of American shuttle flights to the International Space Station. The reusable spacecraft Atlantis, which will be the first to go into orbit, will remain in hangars at least until next summer.

But he got a trump card in the fight for Sukhoi Log As a result of the open auction held yesterday, the state-owned stake in Lenzoloto OJSC in the amount of 44.9% of shares (58.55% of votes) went to MMC Norilsk Nickel (part of the Interros holding) for 4.665 billion rubles, with a starting price of 1.065 billion rubles. On the eve of the auction, few doubted that control over Lenzolot would go to Norilsk Nickel. Meanwhile, observers believe that the victory was too costly.

Prime Minister Signed an order approving the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, agreed with the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Science and the Belarusian side, on the development of a draft scientific and technical program of the union state “Increasing the efficiency of production and processing of fruits and vegetables based on advanced technologies and equipment in 2004-2006.” .

The government has extended the deadline for pension reform Pension reform in Russia is delayed by at least three months. This fact was officially formalized at yesterday's government meeting, which approved amendments to extend the deadline for sending pension notices to Russians and for them to choose their management company (MC). From now on, it is ordered to send out and select until November 1 and December 31, respectively.

The US has drawn the ire of the Arab world and the approval of Israel There is a new international scandal in the Middle East. The United States late Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Israel refrain from deporting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and stop threatening him. The threat loomed over the 74-year-old Palestinian after the Israeli government decided to “eliminate” him on September 11. This can be interpreted both as “expulsion” and “physical liquidation”.