On Monday, the Moscow City Duma held a regular meeting on film distribution issues. They have been planning to create their own film distribution association in Moscow for a long time, there is even a director for the new state unitary enterprise - Anna Pendrakovskaya, but there are no final decisions legitimizing this initiative.

Andrey SHKIL, a member of the Rada and in the recent past the leader of the right-wing radical nationalist organization UNA-UNSO, tells the correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper in Kyiv Svetlana STEPANENKO about the possible development of events around the island of Tuzla. He was one of the initiators of the creation of detachments of Ukrainian volunteers to protect the island of Tuzla Spit. — How likely is a military conflict in the Kerch Strait?

OPS "Uralmash" decided to win back another plant The management of the Artemovsk machine-building plant "Venkon" (Sverdlovsk region) is preparing to repel a new forceful attack by one of the shareholders. The general director of the enterprise, Vladimir Makarov, claims that in the coming week, representatives of the now disbanded socio-political union (OPS) Uralmash will make a second attempt to enter the enterprise.

Almost twenty years have passed since the last championship of the most titled NBA club, the Boston Celtics. The club, once considered the standard of basketball management, has been trying for a long time and hopelessly to restore the lost spirit of victories. This week's biggest trade of the off-season was also announced as the beginning of a new era.

One person was killed and three were injured as a result of a powerful explosion that occurred early yesterday morning in Kursk on the territory of the Vasilievsky market. The force of the explosion was such that the walls of the first floor of the shopping complex were completely destroyed and the roof collapsed over an area of ​​about 100 square meters. meters. All day yesterday, rescue teams cleared the rubble and employees of local special services worked at the scene of the emergency.

Guarded by snipers, he spoke with the lady president Yesterday President Bush flew to the Indonesian paradise island of Bali for four hours. The visit is symbolic - exactly a year ago, explosions killed 202 people in two nightclubs in the popular resort. The terrorist attack was organized by the local radical organization Jemaah Al-Islamiya, associated with Al-Qaeda. Indonesian authorities arrested about a hundred activists of the organization, put 29 on trial, and sentenced three to death.

Government It promptly resolves all issues related to the financing of the International Space Station (ISS) , and there is currently no underfunding of the station’s budget, said Deputy Prime Minister Boris Aleshin, commenting on several media reports that the Russian aerospace industry is underfunded. The Deputy Prime Minister recalled that it is planned to allocate an additional 2.5 billion rubles from the federal budget for the ISS financing program next year.

Forecast for the coming days Over the past 24 hours, the first tastes of winter have occurred in the middle zone. Snow fell in the south and east of the Moscow region, in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Temporary snow cover even established in the Tver region. Since the cyclones have now chosen a more southern trajectory - they are moving almost along the 50th parallel, the winds in the center of the European territory of Russia have changed to northern and eastern ones.

Sergei Mironov “relocated” the Central Bank to the banks of the Neva The proposal of the new governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, to move “one of the branches of government” to St. Petersburg received an unexpected continuation yesterday.

The prestigious and crowded Parisian quarter of the Invalides was cordoned off by police yesterday. The metro (the Invalidy station is a hub and transfer station) was crowded: ambulances and khaki-colored trucks were everywhere. Over the internal broadcast of the metro, the female voice on duty announced: “Please do not worry. An exercise is underway with a simulation of a chemical-bacteriological terrorist attack.” This was the first time such an experiment was carried out in the Paris metro.

The Central Election Commission has finished accepting documents for registration of parliamentary candidates Yesterday the deadline for submitting documents to the Russian Central Election Commission for registration to participate in the parliamentary elections expired. If any party or individual majoritarian did not have time to submit documents, they were late - the election campaign will take place without them.

Russian dam near the Ukrainian border Relations between Ukraine and Russia have approached a boiling point: last night there were several tens of meters left from the Russian dam in the Kerch Strait to the Ukrainian border. Its construction continues around the clock. However, yesterday it became known that Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov proposed to the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory to suspend work on the construction of a dam in the Kerch Strait.

Shares of Irkut and Volga-Dnepr will soon appear on the market Two well-known Russian aviation companies announced yesterday plans to issue their shares on the stock exchange. The Irkut Corporation, which produces Su brand combat aircraft, intends to conduct an initial placement of 20% of its shares in February-March 2004. Volga-Dnepr Airlines, which specializes in transporting super-heavy and oversized cargo, may resort to this method of raising funds in 2005.

The road was spoiled for policemen returning from Chechnya On Tuesday evening, Chechen militants tried to blow up passenger train No. 487 Nazran-Moscow. When the train was passing the administrative border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, in the area of ​​the 2030th km mark of the Moscow-Baku road, a powerful bomb planted under the rails went off. Fortunately, there were no serious consequences.

And money for Iraq As the Russian ITAR-TASS agency reported yesterday, the American administration in Iraq has decided on three main candidates for the country's presidency. The Americans announced their preferences without waiting for the adoption of the Iraqi constitution and the announcement of the date of future elections. All candidates are from the “former” ones.