Suicide bombers took to the streets of Moscow Nine people are believed to have died and 42, including four children, were injured in a new terrorist attack in Moscow last night. At about 20.15 a powerful explosion occurred on the square of the Rizhsky station at the entrance to the Rizhskaya metro station. What exactly exploded there - either a car bomb or another suicide bomber - was not initially established.

Jewelers ask for protection from law enforcement agencies Production in the Russian jewelry industry will increase by 30% compared to last year. This forecast was made yesterday by the head of the Supreme Council of the Guild of Jewelers of Russia, Alexander Ivanyuk, at the largest industry exhibition in the CIS, Jeweler-2004, which opened in Moscow.

Republicans respect Russia Yesterday, delegates to the ongoing US Republican Party convention in New York approved George W. Bush as their candidate for president. Now the convention convinces America that only Bush can lead the country in wartime. "Every day I wake up asking myself how best to protect America," President Bush said yesterday. And he unexpectedly made a statement that it was impossible to completely defeat terrorists: “I don’t think it’s possible to win this war.

Tonino Benaquista is always a first person pronoun. What distinguishes a gifted master from a masterful one is that his intonation cannot be confused with anything else.

The department of Alexander Veshnyakov rewrote the electoral legislation The new political season at the Central Election Commission opened with a heated discussion about how to bring more freedom, democracy and all kinds of voting rights into the life of the Russian electorate.

A CSKA player was finally called up to the national team The Russian national team will not be left without representatives from the national champion CSKA. On the first day of the training camp before the opening match of the World Cup qualifying round with the Slovak team, Russian head coach Georgy Yartsev still called up one army player - goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev. And at first, the participation of CSKA players in the upcoming match was not foreseen by the coaching staff of our team.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation yesterday issued a resolution to accept and combine two criminal cases previously initiated by regional prosecutors' offices regarding the death of two passenger airliners on August 24 in the Rostov and Tula regions. As a result of the almost simultaneous crashes of Tu-134 and Tu-154, which took off from the capital's Domodedovo airport, a total of 90 passengers and crew members were killed.

The leaders of Russia, Germany and France paid tribute to resort diplomacy Yesterday, at his Bocharov Ruchey residence in Sochi, Vladimir Putin nevertheless met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac. Although Mr Chirac was a day late due to the French hostage crisis in Iraq. Although for each of the leaders of the three countries, internal problems are now more important than foreign policy ones.

“The Belarusian athletes who competed at the Athens Olympics lost in the competition with the peasants,” President Alexander Lukashenko, who celebrated his 50th birthday the day before yesterday, said yesterday, according to the state news agency BelTA.

Sergei Shoigu does not have enough for his salary Yesterday's government meeting was held in record time. It took cabinet members less than an hour to exhaust their agenda. And the reason is not that the prime minister was in a hurry to go to Sochi, where he may already meet with the president today. This rate of fire is understandable, since there was almost no one to discuss at the meeting. The main debaters - ministers of the economic bloc Alexei Kudrin and German Gref - were absent.

Russia will start the World Cup without a number of celebrities Tomorrow in St. Paul, the Russian team begins its performance at the World Cup with a match against the US team. This tournament became the successor to the iconic Canada Cup of the eighties, but by the sixth “edition” it had considerably lost its “political” weight. The great confrontation between the USSR and Canada, alas, has become a textbook story.

The most interesting things in Chechnya are just beginning After the results of Sunday's voting in Chechnya are announced, several people will be able to breathe a sigh of relief. The election staff who worked in Chechnya will return home, the agitators will receive their due remuneration, and the capital’s journalists will leave. The police in the surrounding regions will relax - after all, there has also been reinforcement there all these days.

The Iranians became interested in him The Russian President's Special Representative for International Energy Cooperation, Igor Yusufov, met yesterday with the Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Gholamreza Shafei. This meeting marked the premiere of Mr. Yusufov in his new post: Vladimir Putin only signed a decree on his appointment at the end of last week. Previously, Igor Yusufov was approved as Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry on special assignments.

Italian airline on the verge of bankruptcy The management of the Italian national airline Alitalia has prepared a program to bring it out of the crisis at the cost of mass layoffs and increasing production standards for the remaining staff. The plans are facing opposition from the company's unions. Meanwhile, Alitalia's share price has fallen by almost half over the past five months. The Italian government, which owns 62% of its shares, is concerned about the fate of the company.

The mayor of Chelyabinsk ordered his deputies to inspect public transport Deputy heads of the Chelyabinsk administration will become closer to the people - the mayor of the city, Vyacheslav Tarasov, has ordered his subordinates to travel by public transport at least once every two weeks. Speaking at the traditional Monday meeting in the administration, Mr.