"Motor Show 2004" has ended The automobile exhibition "Motor Show 2004", according to the organizers, was supposed to not only show buyers what they would soon be able to buy from dealers, but also convince them of the development potential of the Russian automobile industry. As you know, foreign manufacturers are not interested in participating in the Motor Show, so this exhibition is a showcase of the achievements of domestic car factories.

The population will pay for gas in full Gazprom and the Federal Tariff Service pointedly ignored the president’s position on a rather sensitive issue. At a recent meeting between Vladimir Putin and Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller, the head of state specifically drew the attention of the head of the gas monopoly to the need to take care of the population and not create shocks for household consumers when indexing regulated gas prices.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in an official statement, categorically rejected the possibility of Israeli agents conducting intelligence activities on US soil. On Friday, the American television company CBS, citing sources in the FBI, reported that a “mole” working for the Jewish state had been discovered in the US Department of Defense. The suspected Pentagon spy is Larry Franklin, a senior analyst at the Bureau of Middle East and South Asian Affairs.

Mikhail Fradkov is involved in reforms of natural monopolies Mikhail Fradkov tried to reduce the intensity of passions around the discussion of reforms. According to the prime minister, transformations in the Russian economy will continue - but without shocks.

SPS has come up with a new procedure for electing party chairman At the end of last week, at a meeting of the Federal Political Council, the Union of Right Forces party adopted a new procedure for electing a leader. Now the document will be sent to the regional branches of the party for possible correction.

Alan Greenspan believes it is necessary to raise the retirement age in the United States For the successful development of the American economy, the authorities and society need to undertake painful reforms - restructuring the pension system and increasing the retirement age, which is now 65 years. This is the only way to solve the problem of the aging of the nation, said America's economic guru, 78-year-old Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Alan Greenspan, at the end of last week.

Yesterday, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin held two consecutive emergency cabinet meetings in connection with threats from extremists from the Islamic Army of Iraq (IAI) to execute two French journalists. Christian Chesneau of Radio France Internationale and Georges Malbrunot of the Le Figaro newspaper disappeared on August 20 on their way to Najaf, where they were planning to interview radical Shiite leader Imam Muqtada al-Sadr. Paris has always opposed the American war in Iraq.

The railway is approaching Lena President of Yakutia Vyacheslav Shtyrov and prominent industry officials from Moscow on Saturday opened passenger traffic on Russia's first railway line that is not part of the structure of RAO Russian Railways. Republican authorities hope to use this road to put an end to northern imports in the future.

CLUBS II International Festival of Argentine Tango in Moscow “Milonguero Nights-2004”. Closing of the festival. The evening will begin with the orchestra Los cosos de al lao (Buenos Aires). Next, two Moscow duets will perform: Valentina Ustinova and Vasily Pepelyaev with the program Una Emocion and Alena Evseeva and Dmitry Mayorov with the program Sur o no Sur. In the second part of the evening, Yulia Zueva and Alexey Barbolin from St.

North Korean leader mourns mother of his successor The family life of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is a closely guarded secret. However, the news of the death of Ko Yong-hee, the common-law wife of the 62-year-old North Korean leader, was confirmed by “reliable sources on the Korean Peninsula.” Typically, such sources refer to South Korean intelligence, whose information about the DPRK is in most cases trustworthy.

Alina Kabaeva still became an Olympic champion Russian Alina Kabaeva won the individual championship among masters of rhythmic gymnastics. The sum of the four exercises in the final was 108.4 points. Her team colleague Irina Chashchina won silver with 107.325, the bronze medal went to Ukrainian Anna Bessonova with 106.7. Even before the start of the tournament, no one doubted that these three athletes would fight for gold. In Athens, Kabaeva was in the lead after qualifying.

A new leader of the republic is being elected in Chechnya The progress of the early presidential elections in Chechnya in Grozny was observed by Vremya Novostei special correspondent Ivan SUKHOV. The head of the republic's election commission, Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov, announced that the elections had taken place on Sunday at two o'clock in the afternoon. Of the 585,023 included in the voter lists, 249,015, or 42.56% of the required 30%, had voted by this time.

Forecast for the coming days In the last days of summer, the European territory of Russia is still influenced by the vast Arctic anticyclone, and therefore moderately warm weather with short-term rains and occasional downpours will remain here. For the coming days, weather forecasters promise warm weather in the Moscow region with almost no precipitation. According to popular wisdom, the time of a young “Indian summer” is coming.

On Friday, President Alexander Lukashenko made a number of personnel decisions. The former head of the Belarusian Railway, Vasily Gapeev, became the new deputy prime minister. His predecessor Anatoly Tyutyunov lost his position a month ago due to failure to comply with the president’s orders regarding the Svetlogorsk pulp and cardboard mill. Vasily Gapeev will oversee the construction industry in the government, in particular.

In the last days of the Olympic athletics tournament, Russian athletes won a number of bright and beautiful victories. In the women's long jump, the entire podium was ours - in order of places taken, Tatyana Lebedeva, Irina Simagina, Tatyana Kotova stood on it. Volgograd resident Elena Slesarenko not only won the high jump, but also tried, unsuccessfully, to break the world record.