The explosion on Kashirskoe Highway, according to the special services, is not a terrorist attack The capital's special services yesterday summed up the first results of the investigation into the mysterious explosion that occurred on Tuesday evening in Moscow on Kashirskoye Highway. At about 19.40 there, an explosive device went off near a public transport stop. As a result, four people who happened to be nearby were injured.

Government Changed the composition of the Board of Directors of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA). In accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Finance, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and a number of other representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development are included as government representatives on the board of directors of the DIA. The government proposes that the DIA board of directors elect Alexei Kudrin as chairman.

The Constitutional Court of Latvia accepted for consideration the claim of 20 deputies of the Seimas. They ask whether the country's education reforms comply with international law. The Russian-speaking population considers the reform a crude Latvianization of Russian schools. A week before the new school year, protests resumed in Riga. Ten Russian parents - members of the headquarters for the protection of Russian schools - began an indefinite hunger strike on Monday.

Sophos, a company that develops programs to combat viruses and unwanted advertising correspondence (spam), has published its report on the spread of spam in the world. It turned out that 42% of spam correspondence is sent from the United States, which, according to company experts, indicates the uselessness of the spam ban adopted in this country.

The Russian economy has entered the trajectory of doubling GDP According to the latest data from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, released yesterday, economic growth in the country for the first seven months of 2004 amounted to 7.4%. It turns out that if there is no major disruption in the remaining time, similar numbers can be expected at the end of the year. That is, the average annual growth of 7.2% needed to double GDP by 2012 can be achieved or even exceeded.

FFMS and Yukos minority shareholders exchanged views The Federal Service for Financial Markets presented an alternative scenario for the development of events around YUKOS. The day before yesterday, deputy heads of the service Vladimir Gusakov and Vladislav Streltsov met with the heads of Prosperity Capital Management, BP Capital Group and Atria Capital, representing the committee of minority shareholders of the oil company.

Japanese authorities are in no hurry to deport the controversial chess player The Japanese do not intend to hand over the notorious chess player Bobby Fischer to US authorities in the near future. This was reported yesterday by the Reuters news agency, citing an official source in the Japanese immigration service. The agency also notes that the former world chess champion will remain in Japan, even though the deportation order has already been issued.

United Russia activists are conducting a total inspection of schools to ensure they are ready for the school year Activists of the United Russia party have new material for an essay on the topic “How I spent my summer.” During the parliamentary and school holidays, the party in power did not waste time.

The new mayor of Vladivostok is “purging” local entrepreneurs The elections for the mayor of Vladivostok have long passed. However, the scandals they generated continue. Yesterday, LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky joined the fight for the rights of the disgraced candidate for the post of Vladivostok mayor, Viktor Cherepkov, whom the court removed from the second round of elections. Meanwhile, Vladimir Nikolaev, who was elected mayor of the city, is “lighting up” with might and main in his post.

The flagships of the domestic automobile industry presented “real cars” Despite the absence of famous world automakers, it was quite crowded at the Moscow International Automobile Exhibition "Motor Show 2004", which opened yesterday. The entire area of ​​the expo center was filled to capacity with unusually shiny trucks and buses of domestic production. Smaller exhibitors were housed in numerous pavilions.

In the men's final of the three-meter springboard diving competition, Dmitry Sautin came third. Until the last, sixth round, the Russian athlete lost only to the Chinese Pen Bo, who eventually became the Olympic champion. As at the previous Games, Dima did not succeed in his last jump. The silver medal went to Canadian Alexandre Despatier. Sautin - with “bronze”. And this is the seventh Olympic medal he has won at four Olympics.

Yesterday, an extraordinary congress of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party (HSP) elected a new prime minister. Two former Komsomol leaders were vying for this post - 45-year-old Deputy Prime Minister Peter Kis, acting head of government after the resignation of Peter Medgyesi, and former sports minister 43-year-old multimillionaire Ferenc Gyursany.

Norwegians are selling new gas transportation technology Two Norwegian companies Statoil and Leif Hoegh & Co, as well as Canadian Teekay Shipping, have jointly developed and put up for sale a new technology for transporting gas by sea. They propose not to liquefy, but to compress the gas and transport it under high pressure in large-diameter pipes placed horizontally on special sea vessels.

Khomich's disqualification ruined the weightlifters' holiday The performance of Russian strongmen in Athens left a double impression. On the one hand, many more medals have been won than four years ago in Sydney, and most importantly, now we have our own champion, Dmitry Berestov. But, on the other hand, the news about the discovery of traces of doping in the body of the leader of the women's team, Albina Khomich, can be compared to an icy shower in the sweltering heat here.

Autumn concerts - “for everyone” and not only Although the warm days, vacations and generally “back to school soon” are coming to an end, there is a bright side to this. Namely, the low season is also ending, the summer musical lull, when there are noisy open-airs, large open-air music competitions, but there is almost nothing so interesting, not only for leisure, but also for the soul and mind.