Ukraine won the case regarding the plane detained in Canada The Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday ordered the release of the Ukrainian Ruslan aircraft, which had been under arrest at Guzbey airfield for more than a year. The Antonov Airlines company, which owns this plane, is now trying to rescue another exactly the same aircraft, seized in Belgium. Actually, neither the Canadian nor the Belgian justice has any complaints against Antonov Airlines.

Gazprom may gain control over strategic energy facilities in Georgia Working meetings between representatives of the Georgian government and the Gazprom delegation ended in Tbilisi. Representatives of the Russian concern, as Georgian media report, were invited by the Minister of Economic Development Kakha Bendukidze, and they are ready to offer $300 million for control of the Georgian main gas pipeline for the transit of gas to Europe from Iran.

Konstantin Zvezdochetov gave us an exhibition on his birthday Above the threshold of Gallery XL there is a sign like a road sign: in a red triangle there is the number “46” and the caption: “At a construction site.” For 46 years, from the moment of his birth to this day, Konstantin Zvezdochetov, the guru of Moscow conceptualism, the founder of various avant-garde associations and groups with good-natured names like “KLAVA” and “Mukhomor”, has been working hard in the field of art, an amazing

General Yudhoyono became president 55-year-old retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won Monday's presidential election in Indonesia. Of the 122 million voters who voted, over 60% preferred him. This was the first direct election of the head of state since the country gained independence in 1945 - previously the president was appointed by the highest legislative body, the People's Consultative Congress.

The Kremlin may have to pay for the appointment of governors by electing senators The implementation of Vladimir Putin's initiative to elect regional heads on the proposal of the president may entail further changes in the structure of state power. One of the consequences of this reform is that the existence of the Federation Council in its current form becomes absolutely meaningless.

Prime Minister Erdogan fights for Ankara's EU membership Yesterday in Brussels, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan achieved a decisive turning point in the wary and skeptical attitude of the European bureaucracy towards his country's membership in the EU. First, a decisive conversation took place with the European Commissioner for EU Enlargement, Gunther Verheugen, then Erdogan met with the Chairman of the European Commission, Romano Prodi.

The suspect in the terrorist attack has not been officially identified The identity of the man who was driving a car with explosives in Moscow, discovered on September 18 in Spiridonyevsky Lane, has not yet been identified. The intelligence services announced that the attacker was a former military submariner from St. Petersburg, Alexander Pumane, who died after interrogation.

The list of prohibited tax schemes is formed without the participation of officials Without waiting for the authorities to legislatively define the criteria separating legal tax minimization from illegal ones (the Ministry of Finance promises to present a report on this next week), businesses are independently trying to find out the legality of their “scheme formation”.

President Accepted the report of the head of the Federal Customs Service, Alexander Zherikhov, on the situation on the borders of Russia.

CLUBS “Pakawa It.” September 24 in “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00. DJ Spencer Parker . Party by an English DJ from the Defected Records label. Parker is a resident of the English Ministry of Sound, Heaven, Fabric, in Ibiza he plays in the clubs Savannah, Bora Bora. September 24 and 25 at Jet Set , 11 p.m. Dlhe diely (Slovakia). The band, led by Daniel Salontay, guitarist of the cult band Neuropa, plays folk rock interspersed with electronics. September 24 in “Project O.G.I.” , 22.00.

An international motor show opened in the capital of France The Mondial de L'Automobile 2004 car show opened in Paris. In terms of popularity, this show surpasses any other in Europe, despite the fact that due to the abundance of modified and restyled models, it is often accused of lacking real new products. The exhibition takes place every two years. The Paris Expo complex, where the exhibition takes place, traditionally receives about 1.5 million visitors.

A Dagestan court sentenced 72-year-old poet Adallo Aliyev to probation Russian justice has demonstrated that not all Caucasian poets who participated in the war against Russia will meet the fate of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, who was blown up in Qatar. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Dagestan handed down a verdict in the case of the lesser-known “poet of the Caucasian revolution,” 72-year-old Adallo Aliyev. Mr.

The ground will make it difficult for our opponents to play Tomorrow in the capital's Luzhniki Sports Palace a match will begin between the men's tennis teams of Russia and Thailand for the right to play in the World Group of the 2005 Davis Cup. Yesterday's draw determined that Igor Andreev and Paradorn Srichapan will be the first to take to the court, then the duel between Marat Safin and Danay Udomchok will take place.

The state is trying to restore the trust of air passengers in the security services Russians seem to have perceived the authorities’ calls on society to show consciousness and make all possible contributions to the fight against terrorism as an admission by the state of the powerlessness of the special services. And they drew the appropriate conclusions, and not at all those that were expected from them.

YUKOS shares yesterday showed the most significant growth on the RTS, rising by 1.39% to $4. Investors reacted to the news that Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Bank had completed its assessment of Yuganskneftegaz. According to some media reports, the bank valued the company at $15-17 billion, which, according to experts, is a fair price. True, the head of the Russian branch of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Bob Foresman, believes that the assessment is still not completed.