Our table tennis masters are not going to be extras The country's Olympic table tennis team includes six small racket masters. The Russians will perform in all four types of the program - women's and men's singles, as well as doubles competitions. According to the first vice-president of the federation, Viktor BATOV, with whom Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA spoke, our athletes have a real chance of being among the winners.

One of the most dangerous Russian killers found in Ukraine The Russian Prosecutor General's Office recently sent documents to the Ukrainian authorities for the extradition to Russia of the authority Sergei Khasanov, nicknamed Khasan. Russian special services had been hunting for this man for more than six years.

President Visited the Novgorod region. During the trip, Vladimir Putin met with the regional governor Mikhail Prusak and discussed with him the socio-economic situation in the region. The governor informed the head of state about the results of the development of the region for the first half of this year. Also during the trip, Vladimir Putin visited the Trinity excavation site in Veliky Novgorod and the Varlaamo-Khutyn convent.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Arkhangelsk Region began checking the circumstances of the light aircraft accident, which resulted in the death of the director of the regional media holding Arkhangelsk TV Company, Yuri Firsov, near the city of Velsk on Wednesday evening. According to the main version, the disaster occurred due to an accident and there will be no one to blame for it.

Ronnie James Dio will perform at Luzhniki One of the most powerful vocalists of rock music comes to Moscow and St. Petersburg again. Neither fans of classic 1970s rock, nor fans of all kinds of “metals” and “alternatives” need to explain who Ronnie James Dio is. Who doesn’t remember (or rather, who is able to forget) Dio’s absolutely murderous work in Black Sabbath and especially in Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow.

German rescuers are going down The odyssey of the German rescue ship Cap Anamur has been going on for more than three weeks - however, it has now moved into the European legal space. As stated by the captain of the ship, Stefan Schmidt, it all started when 37 refugees from Sudan were brought on board in the territorial waters of Malta, hanging out at sea on an inflatable boat. The ship with the rescued Africans headed for the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle.

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Deutsche Bank canceled the additional issue of Yukos shares In the process of the “divorce” of YUKOS and Sibneft, the initial stage has been overcome: yesterday, the nominal holder of YUKOS securities - Deutsche Bank - notified Roman Abramovich's structures that they now own not 26% of the disgraced holding, but 17% less. This happened as a result of the cancellation of the additional issue of 17% of Yukos shares, which were exchanged last year for 57% of Sibneft shares. However, Mr.

Alfa Bank's fees for early withdrawal of deposits raise controversy Although the crisis of confidence in banks, which caused the outflow of private deposits, is gradually subsiding, Alfa Bank has not yet decided to cancel the 10 percent commission it recently introduced for early withdrawal of deposits. According to many bankers, the long-term effect of the introduction of an “anti-crisis” commission will be negative, and lawyers generally doubt its legality.

The 11th stage of the Tour de France welcomes new participants For the second day in a row at the prestigious multi-day cycling race “Tour de France”, victory came to the owners of the track. Following Richard Virank, who won the first serious mountain stage the day before, David Monkoussier from the Cofidis team was the first to complete the 164 km distance yesterday. For 2 min. 15 sec.

The management of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) began negotiations with the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant and the Volzhsky Pipe Plant on the joint production of large-diameter pipes (LDP). According to MMK Deputy General Director Gennady Senichev, the plant has been eyeing the LDP project for the last four to five years. According to him, at the moment MMK is close to starting work on the market for the production of large-diameter pipes.

Shareholder war in Moscow airline The office of the Enkor airline at Moscow's Domodedovo airport was seized yesterday. It was the result of a split between two groups of company shareholders, who have different ideas about who is the boss at Enkor. The points of view of the conflicting parties on yesterday's events also do not coincide. According to one version, the office was seized by representatives of Siberia Airlines.

The Russian Orthodox Church is trying to regain its Ukrainian parishes The Moscow Patriarchate is once again trying to overcome the church schism in Ukraine, where it has to compete with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

The Moscow prosecutor's office yesterday formally charged Russia's most famous thief in law, Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, who was deported by US authorities on Wednesday. According to investigators, he killed two Turkish businessmen back in 1992. The events that formed the basis of the charges, according to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, looked like this.

Sergei Lavrov held negotiations in the Vatican and Rome Yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov completed a working visit to Italy and the Vatican. The day began with a conversation with the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano. The territory of the Vatican City State is not much larger than the Villa Abamelek, which belongs to the mission of the Russian Embassy in Italy, but it is the city of the Holy See. Mr.