Army General, President of the Academy of Military Sciences Mahmut GAREEV answered questions from Vremya Novostei newspaper columnist Elena SUPONINA. In the early 70s, he was the chief of staff of the USSR's chief military adviser in Egypt. — When did the USSR learn about the plans of Syria and Egypt to start a war against Israel? -- After Israel's victory in the six-day war of 1967, the situation was always tense. The Soviet Union did everything to prevent war from happening.

At the end of last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair strengthened his position. Although on the eve of the Labor Party convention in the town of Bournemouth, there was no shortage of forecasts that promised Blair the darkest fate - up to the loss of the posts of party leader and prime minister. But such forecasts were caused mainly by wishful thinking.

The example of Poland, which joined the European Union (EU) along with nine other newcomers on May 1, 2004, clearly illustrates the essence of the debate around the draft future EU constitution. State Secretary of the Office of the European Integration Committee of Poland (coordinating structure under the Polish Council of Ministers on European Union issues) Jaroslav PETRAS talks with the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

The Ministry of Culture discussed plans for the development of the country's main museum On Friday, the Board of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation discussed a fascinating and threatening issue - the “Development Program of the State Hermitage”.

The film "The Return" was nominated for an Oscar late On Friday, October 3, information appeared in the media that Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “The Return” was nominated for an Oscar from Russia.

On Saturday night in the Tyumen region, a film crew from the Tyumen bureau of Channel One - correspondent Natalya Astafieva, cameraman Sergei Isakov and driver Yuri Selyanov - died in a car accident. According to the local traffic police, the accident occurred at about 4 a.m. on the Khanty-Mansiysk-Tyumen highway, when the journalists were returning from Nizhnevartovsk from filming. Their car drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into a KamAZ truck moving towards them.

International climate conference passed without recommendations Participants in the World Climate Change Conference ended the Moscow seminar without reaching any definite agreements. At the final press conference, the organizers of the event again refused to give a definite answer to the question of whether Russia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere or not.

President Bush, it turns out, has a sensitive and amorous soul. “President Bush is a wonderful leader and a wonderful husband,” said First Lady Laura Bush in Washington at the opening of the National Book Festival. “I bet you didn’t know he was also a poet.” And Laura Bush said that when she returned from a trip to Europe, poems written by her husband were waiting for her. “Roses are red, violets are blue. Oh, my little lump under the blanket, how I miss you,” she read.

The prosecutor's office is trying to prove that Yukos evaded paying taxes The Prosecutor General's Office again conducted searches in structures controlled by YUKOS. This time, investigators paid attention to the boarding lyceum in the village of Koralovo (Odintsovo district), financed by YUKOS, and the company’s business center in the village of Zhukovka.

Brussels shouted at Paris and got scared itself. The headquarters of the European Commission demanded that the French reduce their budget deficit as soon as possible. At the same time, the EU understands perfectly well that the cabinet of Jean-Pierre Raffarin is unable to fulfill this requirement. The economy of the Fifth Republic has been so undermined by the long years of socialist and communist rule that there is no point in hoping for miracles.

Crimean officials accused of abuses In Crimea there is a massive redistribution of land, accompanied by a personnel purge. The mayor of Alushta, the chief architect of Yalta and two chairmen of village councils were detained by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. Crimean officials are accused of illegally allocating land for rent with subsequent privatization. 33 criminal cases have been initiated and 12 lawsuits filed.

The higher the RTS index, the more fear investors have The RTS index broke the previous record. Last Friday, the main indicator of the Russian stock market crossed the 600 point mark, but by the end of trading it still rolled back a little, stopping at another historical maximum - 594.26 points. Analysts and investors attribute market growth to political and economic stability in the country. That, however, does not prevent experts from warily observing such, as they say, “reckless” growth.

Victims of terrorists united in a public organization The families of the former Nord-Ost hostages, having not received compensation for moral damage from the Moscow government, decided to turn to foreign funds and the public for help. Recently, victims of terrorist actions at the Dubrovka Theater Center reported the creation of the public organization “Nord-Ost”. And they turned to foreign sponsors for financial help.

Anastasia Myskina won the Kremlin Cup For the first time in the history of the Kremlin Cup, a Russian tennis player won it. Anastasia Myskina won the 14th Moscow tennis tournament, earning $189 thousand. In the final, Myskina met with the Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo, who, in spite of everything, was considered by many to be the favorite of this tournament. “I lost this match because I made so many unforgivable mistakes,” Mauresmo said.

30 years ago a war broke out, in which the USA and the USSR at first glance did not participate. On October 6, Syria and Egypt launched attacks on Israeli positions. The Jewish fast of the Day of Judgment was in full swing. And Muslims, too, were supposed not to fight, but to rest their souls and pray during their holy fast of Ramadan. But the Arabs preferred to get even for previous defeats. The defeat of 1967 was especially humiliating. Then the war ended in just six days.