As part of the official Russian delegation, a group of lawyers will go to the Olympic Games in Athens for the first time. This decision was made by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in connection with a series of various scandals that erupted at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In addition, our representative became one of the arbitrators of the International Sports Court in Lausanne. This was the head of the relevant R&D department, Alexandra Brilliantova.

The Turkish Parliament has authorized the country's Supreme Court to begin proceedings against ex-Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and former Minister of State and Yilmaz's closest adviser Güneş Taner. Yilmaz and Taner are accused of abuses and corruption in connection with the privatization of the state-owned Turkbank. The privatization of Turkbank led to the fact that Turkish state banks lost about $20 billion, which, in turn, caused the economic crisis of 2001.

The head of Rosvetnadzor warned the Dutch about a possible ban on the import of vegetables Representatives of Dutch flower companies turned themselves in to the Russian capital.

Sharapova was not going to play with Kournikova Today, the winner of the Wimbledon tournament, 17-year-old Maria Sharapova, will play her first match after her British triumph. The Russian will play in the US club championship for the Newport Beach Brickers. However, then Maria, who is very tired of the busy competition schedule and the excessive attention that has fallen on her from representatives of the media, intends to take a break.

The best performances of the season have something in common The Moscow season 2003/04 is qualitatively different from the previous one. This is not about the fact that many more smart and beautiful premieres have been released. It is in this sense that the seasons are almost equal.

Aircraft manufacturers criticize the idea of ​​reducing duties Aircraft manufacturers yesterday began to criticize in a rather harsh manner the idea of ​​revising import duties on the import of aircraft.

Doctors give conflicting testimony about Viktor Cherepkov's condition Yesterday, the Vladivostok City Election Commission unanimously approved the list of participants in the second round of elections for the mayor of the city, scheduled for July 18.

Kasimzhanov won the world championship in the knockout system Yesterday, the last game of the World Championship in the knockout system was played in the capital of Libya, Tripoli. The title of the strongest chess player of this tournament was won by the 24-year-old Uzbek grandmaster Rustam Kasimzhanov.

The subsidiaries of RAO UES will invest billions of rubles in the energy sector of St. Petersburg Smolny is demonstrating success on the front of attracting funds from large Russian companies to the city economy. Yesterday, municipal authorities agreed with Lenenergo and the Federal Grid Company (FSK, a 100 percent subsidiary of RAO UES of Russia) on investments worth about $1.5 billion, which the parties will jointly invest in the energy sector of St. Petersburg over the next five years .

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Forecast for the coming days Southern cyclones are working hard in the center of Russia. And the cyclone, which settled in Scandinavia, shed rain in the north-west of European territory. Today, cyclones will give the central regions of Russia a short respite. At night, with partly cloudy weather, there will be no precipitation at all; fog will swirl in the humid air in places, due to which visibility will deteriorate to 300-500 meters.

Competition intensifies in the luxury housing market The main event of the year in the real estate market today can confidently be called an unprecedented jump in prices. Prices for luxury housing have risen to a record level - $10 thousand per meter. Analysts consider this figure to be a psychological barrier that will not allow buyers to pay more for the apartment they like. Such high prices were recorded at the end of winter in the Ostozhenka and Prechistenka areas.

Russians do not like the reduction in the number of deferments from the army even more than the monetization of benefits If the State Duma nevertheless decides to pass new bills that abolish most of the grounds for obtaining deferments from military service, then these bills have every chance of becoming the most unpopular in recent Russian history. There are even more opponents to reducing the grounds for deferrals in Russia than to the monetization of benefits.

It was decided not to consider the inventor of the “supercomputer” a victim anymore The epic about the kidnapping of programmer Dmitry Smirnov in Moscow, which was sensational a year ago, ended quite unexpectedly the other day. According to his relatives and friends, he developed a “supercomputer” that had no analogues, which a foreign company became interested in.

New state symbols have inspired the separatists Yesterday, the parliament of Montenegro, formally still part of the same state community with Serbia, approved its own national symbols. At the same time, Statehood Day was established - July 13. Yesterday, without waiting for the laws to come into force and their texts to be published in newspapers, Montenegrins celebrated a new holiday.