Moscow police are unable to protect Poles Moscow has become a dangerous city for Poles. Yesterday, Pavel Reszka, a correspondent for the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, was beaten in the capital. According to RIA Novosti, the journalist himself said last night in a telephone interview with the First Channel of Polish television that he was beaten by unknown assailants when he left the newspaper's office to buy cigarettes. In the underground passage he was attacked by four or five people.

The Minister of Culture was not in the Tagansky court, nor at the cabinet meeting, nor in Novo-Ogarevo The consideration of the claim of the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydkoy, against the Minister of Culture and Mass Communications, Alexander Sokolov, was postponed by the Tagansky Court until September 5.

Georgian opposition nominates single candidate The first meeting of the alternative Central Election Commission, created by opposition movements, took place in Tbilisi. At the parliamentary by-elections on October 1 - in five constituencies (there are 235 deputies in total in Georgia), the opposition for the first time agreed to nominate common candidates to try their luck in competition with Saakashvili’s ruling United National Movement.

The government does not understand who it is amnestiing The government was passing the time yesterday, figuring out who exactly the idea of ​​simplified declaration of money in exchange for placing it in Russian banks and paying a 13% income tax was aimed at. In the law prepared by the Ministry of Finance, this 13% is generally called not a tax, but a fee.

While the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya is being reformed, terrorists continue sabotage Chechen militants marked the past 24 hours with another act of sabotage against law enforcement agencies in the Vedeno region of the republic.

Georgian wine and roller coaster for Yushchenko and Saakashvili Today, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will probably still travel to Tbilisi, where he was invited for a short vacation by another famous revolutionary, Mikheil Saakashvili. Yushchenko was supposed to appear in Georgia at the end of July, but postponed the trip.

New units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya will deal with “banditry and kidnappings” Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev decided to create a department to combat organized crime in Chechnya. The decision looks like some kind of encouragement: “The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya has achieved significant results in operational activities in the last six months,” the minister said.

A mysterious investor is interested in the RRJ project The financial leasing company (FLC) plans to purchase ten regional RRJ aircraft. The contract for these aircraft, the design of which has not yet been completed, will be signed with the Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company (AHK) next week as part of the MAKS-2005 aerospace salon, FLC General Director Evgeny Zaritsky said yesterday.

Kitchen conflict paralyzes Heathrow Airport Chefs at London's Heathrow Airport, with the support of baggage handlers, yesterday forced British national airline British Airways to cancel at least three dozen flights. The impromptu strike, which broke out, as usual, over wages, had not yet ended by the time this issue went to press. Therefore, the true scale of the conflict can only be assessed today.

In a recent conversation with one famous prose writer, I heard a question that, on the one hand, is familiar, but on the other hand, amazes me every time. My interlocutor, an enlightened man, who, unlike other colleagues, follows the work of his fellow workers and even worked successfully for some time in the field of literary criticism, asked: “Why did you attack Shishkin like that?” This meant my review of Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “Venus’s Hair” (see “Vremya Novostey” of June 10) .

The British paid an Islamic extremist £15,000 a year Muslims in Britain, a country of nearly 60 million people who are home to about two million believers, are angry that the government is tightening legislation to make it easier to fight terrorism and religious extremism. As Vremya Novostei learned, several organizations in Britain decided to unite to begin the fight to “preserve democracy.” As the deputy chairman of the Muslim Community of Great Britain, Mr.

The second category BTA tournament with a prize fund of $585 thousand continues in Los Angeles, in which Russian Maria Sharapova is participating. Late yesterday evening Moscow time, in the fight for reaching the quarterfinals, she met with her compatriot Anna Chakvetadze, who defeated the Czech Iveta Beneshova in the previous round - 7:5, 4:6, 6:4. Three more Russians advanced to the third round of competition.

An American company is conquering the Internet market of China The rapid growth of Internet popularity in China does not leave many Western companies indifferent. Yesterday, the American Internet company Yahoo! Inc. signed a long-term strategic partnership agreement with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com. The value of this partnership was estimated at $1 billion - exactly the same amount as Yahoo! agreed to pay for 40% of the shares of Alibaba.com, including 35% of the voting rights.

The leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation believes that Russia has been living according to Khodorkovsky for seven years Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov told reporters yesterday about the party's plans for the near future.

Insurance company ROSNO is going to acquire two Ukrainian insurers - ALC (additional liability company) Helios and ALC Insurance Company Helios Life. The head of the Ukrainian representative office of ROSNO (opened in May), Konstantin Bergmann, said that the company has already received permission from the antimonopoly committee of the republic for the deal with Helios. After its completion, within a few weeks there will be “re-registration of companies under the ROSNO flag,” he says.