Moldovan law ends Yushchenko's plan Non-governmental organizations in Moldova yesterday accused the OSCE and Russia of “pressuring the Moldovan authorities” to return them to the negotiating table. And they called for resolving the Transnistrian conflict “on the basis of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova,” as provided for in the law on the main provisions of the special legal status of Transnistria, recently adopted by the Moldovan parliament.

We award the published photograph with the modest title “Photo of the Day.” On it you see the main character of today's cultural life of the Russian capital, Pyotr Naumovich Fomenko, director of the play "The Forest", brought by the Comedie Française theater. This performance closes the Chekhov Festival. The excitement around it is unheard of (read the review in tomorrow's issue) .

The Ural security forces are changing at catastrophic speed In the Sverdlovsk region, a massive replacement of heads of law enforcement agencies has begun. The first to suffer was the regional prosecutor, then it was the turn of the head of the regional traffic police, and the third was the head of the tax service department. Moreover, all the changes occurred in one week, which greatly puzzled the regional elite.

At a meeting with 38 law enforcement officers, Vladimir Putin said that the army must resist military-political pressure from the outside, and called on the security forces to take preventive action against terrorists. The Vremya Novostei newspaper decided to find out from political scientists what the head of state meant.

The first matches of the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League took place on Tuesday. There were immediate sensations. The old-timer of the tournament, Dynamo Kiev, failed to win at home against the Swiss champion Thun - 2:2. The Kiev team started the meeting with attacks, but immediately almost paid for their inattention in defense. And then Dynamo’s defensive formations didn’t look their best. Twice the home team took the lead, and both times the Swiss champion equalized.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia will defend together from Tbilisi Abkhazia and South Ossetia agreed on mutual assistance in the event of a forceful action by the Georgian leadership against the rebel regions. After several meetings held recently in Abkhazia by the presidents of the unrecognized republics, Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity, a military alliance of “outcasts” began to emerge.

Boris Yeltsin and Helmut Kohl arrived in Irkutsk on Tuesday. Former leaders of Russia and Germany are planning several days of active recreation on Lake Baikal. It is expected that in addition to fishing and boat trips, they will also visit local attractions - the Circum-Baikal Railway, which is a monument of engineering art of the 19th century and famous for its numerous tunnels cut into the coastal rocks, as well as the architectural and ethnographic museum complex "Taltsy".

Rosoboronexport presented exotic weapons Yesterday, in the exhibition hall of the Scientific and Technical Center "Commonwealth", the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosoboronexport" together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of Russia presented the latest developments of special technical means and weapons for the fight against terrorism.

Instead of ideas and parties in Russia, bureaucrats compete with each other The newly appointed head of the government commission on administrative reform, chief of staff of the government, Sergei Naryshkin, made his debut in a new field. After the commission meeting, he gave his first press conference in his new capacity yesterday. And he convinced everyone that there was no need to expect a new quality of administrative reform in Russia.

Americans saw Kim Jong Il as a “chairman” The fourth round of six-party talks on the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula continues in Beijing. Yesterday, delegations from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South and North Korea held a closed plenary meeting at which they discussed the prospects for the negotiation process.

Forecast for the coming days Cyclones and their atmospheric fronts continue to rain, sometimes heavily, in the north, south and center of European Russia. In the central regions, rain covered almost the entire territory. The most precipitation, up to 18 mm, fell in the Moscow, Tula and Ivanovo regions. And in the Volga Federal District there was intense heat on Tuesday; thermometers in the Saratov region in the shade reached 40 degrees.

In July, Russia received a new world champion in professional boxing. Roman Karmazin, having defeated Kassim Ouma, won the IBF championship belt. On Wednesday, Roman KARMAZIN flew to Moscow and found time to answer questions from Vremya Novostei correspondent Andrei VDOVINA. - Roman, what does it feel like to be a world champion? -- Don't know. Honestly. It’s only now starting to dawn on me what I’ve achieved. But I still haven’t fully realized that I am a world champion.

The President of Ukraine accuses security officers and journalists Ukraine is rocked by a scandal surrounding the luxurious life of 19-year-old Andrei Yushchenko, the son of the country's current president. Yesterday, the Ukrainian TV channel NTN reported that the other day Andrei moved into a luxurious apartment with an area of ​​150 square meters. meters in Lipki - the most fashionable district of Kyiv. A square meter here costs about 5 thousand dollars.

Maria Gaidar and Zhanna Nemtsova answer questions from Vremya Novostei The daughters of the founding fathers of the Union of Right Forces party - Yegor Gaidar and Boris Nemtsov - gathered to participate in the upcoming elections to the Moscow City Duma. A graduate of the Academy of National Economy, 24-year-old Maria GAIDAR, may head the SPS electoral list, and 21-year-old Zhanna NEMTSOVA, who graduated from MGIMO, will run in a single-mandate constituency.

Ethnic star from Haiti Marlene Dorsena will perform in Moscow Musical philanthropy is a great force. We could see this from the example of the much-hyped Live 8 event. But there is another side to this story - less publicized, but no less effective. I mean folk performers from third countries who have become famous abroad and whose success, including financial success, helps ordinary people live in forgotten corners of the world. The most striking example is Cesaria Evora and Cape Verde.