On the eve of the negotiations between Putin and Bush, the Yabloko leader expressed his proposals for resolving the situation in Iraq Tomorrow, Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet with US President George W. Bush. It is expected that the main issue on the agenda will be the situation in Iraq.

His “daughter” acquired the Rostov pharmacy chain “Be Healthy!” The capital's Rigla company, which is now actively building its pharmacy network in Moscow and the Moscow region, bought ten medical supermarkets “Be Healthy!” in Rostov-on-Don. The transaction amount is not disclosed.

Spartak and Torpedo played their first matches in the UEFA Cup Thanks to the draw that favored our clubs in the 1/64 UEFA Cup, Russian fans were finally able to experience joyful feelings. “Spartak” and “Torpedo” decided not to give surprises and finished their matches with quite acceptable results. Fedotov's team won a victory over the Danish Esbjerg - 2:0, and the Torpedo team in the game with CSKA Sofia achieved a productive draw away - 1:1.

This weekend, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush are meeting at Camp David, the country retreat of US leaders. The Vremya Novostey newspaper talks with Leon ARON, a leading expert on Russia from the American Enterprise Institute (AIP), about how this summit is perceived in the United States. — Since Soviet times, Moscow has presented meetings with American presidents as something epoch-making. How do you see this from Washington? - There is an asymmetry of impressions here.

The Blur group pretended to talk to Moscow journalists The famous English band, whose name is associated with the rise of the Britpop style that was fashionable in the mid-90s, not only gives two concerts in Moscow, but also played one song on the MTV music channel. (Read the report about the Blur concert in Gorbukha tomorrow.) Actually, this TV channel initiated the invitation of the group to Moscow in honor of its fifth anniversary.

One of Akhmat Kadyrov's retired opponents may return today Russia's Supreme Court will have to decide today how many candidates will take part in the presidential elections in Chechnya, scheduled for October 5. Ten days before the vote, this is still unclear: there are now seven names on the ballot papers, but one more line has been left blank in case Moscow businessman Malik Saidullaev wins today's meeting. Then his last name will become the eighth.

NASA will form a new aviation safety council The demonstrative resignation of all nine members of NASA's flight safety board ended the investigation into the circumstances of the February crash of the space shuttle Columbia. For the council's experts, in whose direction only the lazy have thrown stones overseas in the months since the shuttle's death, the last straw was the recent speech by NASA CEO Sean O'Keefe.

In Moscow, at the Olimpiysky sports complex, the 14th Kremlin Cup tennis tournament with a total prize fund of $2.3 million starts on September 27. As the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev promised, Russian spectators will have the opportunity to see Marat Safin return to big-time sports after a long treatment . At the same time, the Kremlin Cup will be one of the last tournaments for Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who finally decided to end his professional career.

CLUBS Rechenzentrum (Germany). A techno-art project that has recently turned from a trio into a duo. The musical component is futuristic techno-minimalism, combining elements of punk rock, 80s pop music, techno and ambient. At concerts, musicians present a multimedia show that combines video and sound, without rehearsals or a pre-prepared script. The combination of music and video and, conversely, the transformation of a picture into music occurs on the basis of a random selection. "B2" , 23.00.

In the last decade, the number of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church has increased sharply. As follows from the figures given by the department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, today there are 130 dioceses (for comparison: in 1989 there were only 67), more than 22 thousand parishes (in 1988 there were 6893), 569 monasteries (versus 18 operating in 1980). At almost every meeting of the Holy Synod, new parishes are approved.

KamAZ crushed a minibus Eight people died in a major car accident that occurred yesterday near St. Petersburg, in the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region. According to the regional center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the North-West region, the blame for the accident lies with the driver of the minibus, who did not give way to the KamAZ moving along the main road.

Yesterday, a delegation from Minsk headed by acting leader arrived in Moscow to hold negotiations on increasing gas supplies to Belarus next year. Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko. She will also have to hold consultations with Gazprom on the restructuring of the Belarusian debt, which, as of September 1, amounted to $126 million.

The preparation of our strongest basketball clubs for the national championship has reached the home stretch. In the coming season, three new clubs have joined the elite division, and among them, of course, Dynamo near Moscow stands apart. A glorious name and at the same time perhaps the shortest biography in our basketball. The newcomer to the elite, if you count from the first official match, will turn just a year old the other day!

Russia's largest CD manufacturer comes under suspicion again Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs recently conducted an inspection of the activities of one of the largest Russian manufacturers of audio and video products and software - the Russobit-Soft plant.

Today, the Big Symphony Orchestra named after P.I. opens the season with a concert of works by composers of the 20th century. Tchaikovsky, the best Moscow group today. After a rehearsal on the eve of the concert, newspaper columnist Sergei KHACHATUROV managed to meet with the artistic director of the BSO, the internationally recognized conductor-patriarch Vladimir FEDOSEYEV. -- Big Symphony Orchestra named after P.I.