Kuchma's son-in-law beat Tymoshenko, maintaining control over ferroalloys The Ukrainian government’s attempt to change management at one of the world’s largest ferroalloy plants, Nikopol, which belonged under the previous government to the son-in-law of the ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Pinchuk, failed. Yesterday there was supposed to be a meeting of NZF shareholders, where the government planned to appoint new management to prepare the plant for re-privatization.

After the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Royal Races will take a break This weekend the 13th round of the Formula 1 World Championship will take place in Hungary at the Hungaroring circuit, after which the championship will take a three-week break. Teams and drivers will try to score the maximum number of points before the August holidays in order to reach the finish line with the best performance. The current championship in the Royal Races is more intense than ever.

CLUBS Peter Mamonov. One of the most important figures in modern music, the leader of the legendary “Sounds of Mu” has not given concerts for a very long time, preferring to play performances. Today Pyotr Nikolaevich will finally perform the concert program “Mice + Zelenenky”, compiled based on the material of his last two albums. July 29 in “Orange” , 20.30. Magyar Posse (Finland). Chamber post-rock orchestra with an abundance of string instruments and many beautiful, piercing ballads.

Yulia Tymoshenko cannot influence Alexey Ivchenko As expected by the Vremya Novostey newspaper, the Ukrainian government on Wednesday once again failed to consider the gas issue. Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine Alexey Ivchenko, who was supposed to present a report on the implementation of the gas balance and show the Cabinet of Ministers the original contracts for the purchase of an additional 11 billion cubic meters by the end of the year, carefreely went on vacation.

Jurgen Schremp is happy, investors are happy There are serious changes at the American-German automobile concern DaimlerChrysler AG. After announcing the financial results of the second quarter, the head of the company, Jürgen Schremp, was about to resign. Yesterday he announced that he would do this before the end of the year, although the contract with him was signed until 2008. Schremp made the decision to leave on his own, but did not explain the reasons for his premature departure.

Dmitry Ayatskov is being prevented from breaking Lukashenko’s strong regime Today, the Belarusian capital is expecting the arrival of the new Russian Ambassador Dmitry Ayatskov. First, they were waiting for him in Minsk by plane late yesterday evening. However, on Wednesday, a Russian embassy official said that Mr. Ayatskov's arrival had been postponed indefinitely. True, these words were denied by the Russian Foreign Ministry a few hours later.

For the first time in the history of the National Hockey League, absolutely all the teams participating in the North American Championship will take to the ice on one game day. This will happen on October 5, the opening day of the 2005/06 season, when 15 matches will be played at once. From the NHL calendar released yesterday it follows that the regular season will last until April 18. Each team will play 82 matches.

In December, the Russian president will attend the ASEAN summit for the first time Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sang to a soundtrack yesterday. Moreover, he also armed himself with a glowing sword and dressed in a brown robe with a hood. The plastic blade of the toy sword with a blue handle glowed thanks to the batteries inserted inside. The minister portrayed a Jedi - a knight of good from the famous science-fiction epic "Star Wars".

NASA chooses between corporate image and astronaut safety The Discovery shuttle, it seems, will have to return not only seven crew members, but also the entire American astronautics to the sinful Earth. Yesterday, even before the spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station, space shuttle program manager Bill Parsons announced the decision to once again suspend flights indefinitely.

The Vremya publishing house has published a collection of poems by Marina Boroditskaya If I didn’t like Marina Boroditskaya’s poems, I would have written a review of her relatively “final” collection “It turns out that it is possible...” in no time. I would speak out in full. And about how tired I am of the chatter of quotation, domesticity and memories of the pioneer paradise. And about how annoying (from a young age it was infuriating) the bard’s sentimental coquettishness.

The intelligence services went on the offensive against Dagestani saboteurs Shots and explosions rang out again in Makhachkala yesterday. True, this time it was not terrorists who acted, but, on the contrary, the special services. In one of the apartments in the very center of the city, they managed to discover the base of one of the sabotage “cells” of the separatists.

FIRST MONDAY, AUGUST 1 6.00 Good morning 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00 News 9.20 "STAYING ALIVE." Adventure film (S) 10.50 “LOBER OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATION DASHA VASILYEVA.” Detective 12.20 “VIVAT, midshipmen!” Adventure film 15.20 “HERO OF OUR TRIBE.” Series 15.50 “WEALTH”. Series 16.50 “MISTRESS OF DESTINY.” Series 18.10 Criminal Russia 18.40 “TWO FATES”. Hood.

“House of Wax” on Moscow screens Recently, the posters of modern cinemas are becoming more and more suspiciously reminiscent of drive-in schedules from half a century ago: every now and then modernized versions of the very films that Stephen King himself watched at a tender age are released on the screens: “House on Haunted Hill”, “13 ghosts", "Ghost Ship"...

The Russian army moved from Batumi to Vladikavkaz Today the first convoy of equipment is due to leave the Russian military base in Batumi. It consists of nine staff vehicles of the 12th Russian military base in Adjara and two escort vehicles. The equipment will head to Vladikavkaz under its own power. “Thus, we can say that we are beginning the process of withdrawing the bases,” Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, deputy commander of the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia, told Vremya Novostey.

Al-Qaeda has eclipsed Irish militants The Irish Republican Army (IRA) renounces armed struggle. For more than 30 years she fought by violent means for the annexation of Ulster to Ireland. And yesterday her people received an order to lay down their arms.