Wire thieves paralyzed railway traffic between Moscow and St. Petersburg for five hours The central railway terminal of St. Petersburg - Moskovsky Station - all day yesterday resembled a huge overcrowded camp and was overcrowded with people greeting and wishing to board the train with a purchased ticket.

The President of Israel prefers slim and young people Israeli government legal adviser Menachem Mazouz has ordered a police investigation into accusations of sexual harassment against the country's President Moshe Katsav (pictured) . The scandalous rumors, which are called “the affair of the president and his secretaries,” received official confirmation yesterday.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is back on Moscow screens The first film about the adventures of Jack Sparrow bravely and brilliantly broke the curse that had hung over the pirate film for many years.

Mikhail Kasyanov defined the status of the “Other Russia” The main event of the “Other Russia” conference that ended yesterday in Moscow, in which Russian politicians and human rights activists opposed to the Kremlin took part, was the speech of the leader of the People’s Democratic Union, Mikhail Kasyanov.

The helicopter fleet of the Russian army is awaiting a global update Yesterday in Rostov-on-Don, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov, at a meeting with the heads of defense enterprises in the region, promised that “over the next nine years we will purchase 67 of the latest Mi-28N combat helicopters, each of which, in terms of its combat qualities, replaces three Mi-24 helicopter. In fact, we are purchasing three times as many helicopters, the Deputy Prime Minister joked.

The Tour de France was led by the little-known Cyril Desseille At the Tour de France cycling stage race, another change in the leader of the overall classification took place. Moreover, the yellow jersey of the Ukrainian Sergei Gonchar from the German team “T-Mobile” was taken away by a little-known participant of the “Big Loop” - a teammate of our Alexander Bocharov from “Prevoyance” Cyril Dessel.

The Ministry of Industry and Energy and the Federal Antimonopoly Service exchanged “gas” approvals Two long-standing draft government regulations related to the development of the gas market completed the process of interdepartmental approvals this week.

Russian business has not learned to work with the Mongolian authorities Russian business is striving to develop rich mineral resources in Mongolia, but its arrival in the neighboring country will not be easy. This became clear during a breakfast held yesterday in Ulaanbaatar by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, who was visiting Mongolia, with representatives of Russian and Mongolian business.

Vnesheconombank again sets a borrowing record Chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev yesterday signed an agreement to attract a three-year loan in the amount of $800 million with representatives of a syndicate of 28 largest foreign banks. The rate at which VEB raised money is the lowest for similar transactions concluded by Russian banks - LIBOR plus 0.35%.

Nuclear power plants in the UK are going to be built by the German E.ON and RWE and the French EDF British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a recently published 216-page report entitled “The Energy Challenge,” reports that the government has approved the construction of a number of new generation nuclear power units.

CLUBS Stereo MC`s (UK). The group performs hip-hop with a sophisticated musical basis: funk, acid jazz, house, etc. The Moscow tour is part of the tour in support of the Paradise album. "Sixteen tons" , 22.00. Daniil Kramer (piano). Concert of one of the best Russian performers of “academic” jazz. "Le Club" , 20.30.

Yushchenko is negotiating with Yanukovych Yesterday in Ukraine, negotiations began between the Our Ukraine bloc of President Viktor Yushchenko and the Party of Regions of Viktor Yanukovych on the creation of a broad coalition.

Nino Burjanadze complained about peacekeepers to the UN Today Georgian parliamentarians are meeting for an extraordinary session. It was planned at the very first meeting to consider the situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the advisability of having Russian peacekeepers in conflict zones. This issue has been postponed, but not for long.

Witnesses and the prosecutor's office are confused in the testimony in the “Sychev case” The court in the “case of Private Sychev” has completed the interrogation of the main witnesses for the prosecution - military personnel of the Chelyabinsk Tank School. However, their testimony did not bring any clarity to the complicated case of hazing.

The authors of the novel “Look into the Eyes of Monsters” tried to resurrect Gumilyov once again I confess: I can’t stand today’s annotations, inviting texts on covers, “enthusiastic” - often literally torn out of a completely different context - quotes, with the help of which publishers try to draw attention to the next masterpiece. Or rather, they imitate “promotion”, lazily working out the number.