Abkhazia will be ruled from the Kodori Gorge Yesterday, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced to the people the full control of the central authorities over the Kodori Gorge: “Today Georgia has taken a serious step forward and for the first time in the last 13 years has restored full control over the territory of the Kodori Gorge of Abkhazia.” Now the “legitimate government” of Abkhazia will be located in the Kodori Gorge.

Goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni caught up with his great Paraguayan colleague The guard of the goal of the Brazilian national team and the world champion among Sao Paulo clubs, 33-year-old Rogerio Ceni, equaled the number of goals scored in official meetings with another famous goalkeeper-goalkeeper, Paraguayan José Luis Chilavert. This event took place in the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores, a tournament of the strongest club teams in South America.

Yesterday, the Belarusian opposition was going to celebrate an alternative independence day, but there were no protests. It was not possible to obtain permission for the rallies. Let us explain that on July 27, 1990, the Supreme Council of Belarus adopted a resolution on the day of declaration of independence, and the opposition reveres it.

On May 14, 1996, the Soyuz-U launch vehicle was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which was supposed to launch the Kometa photo reconnaissance satellite into low-Earth orbit. Due to the destruction of the nose fairing, the rocket exploded 49 seconds into the flight. On June 20, 1996, a Soyuz-U launch vehicle with a military satellite of the Cosmos series launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

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Yesterday in the Malaysian capital, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with colleagues from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Director of the Department of ASEAN Countries and Pan-Asian Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander IVANOV told Vremya Novostei special correspondent Katerina LABETSKAYA in Kuala Lumpur about Russia's relations with ASEAN. — ASEAN is a very important structure for us, because it is the core of integration processes in East Asia.

Venice introduces dress code for gondolieros One of the symbols of Venice, which is very popular among Russian tourists - the famous gondolieros - will have to seriously take care of its appearance. Moreover, both his own and his main tool of labor. The authorities of the city of canals seem to have taken seriously the preservation of cultural heritage, which, of course, includes gondola rides accompanied by singing serenades.

The scandal surrounding money laundering at the Bank of New York is over A long-standing high-profile trial involving one of the oldest American banks, the Bank of New York, related to money laundering for the “Russian mafia,” ended last Wednesday in the United States.

A local court found the country guilty in the crash of the Bashkir Airlines plane. Yesterday, the Baden-Württemberg Regional Court in the city of Constance made a decision against Germany on the claim of the Bashkir Airlines airline. We are talking about the trial in the case of a collision on July 1, 2002 in the airspace over Germany of a Bashkir plane and a cargo airliner of the courier mail company DHL. As a result, 71 people died, mostly children flying from Ufa on vacation to Spain.

There is too little electricity and too many cars in the Nizhny Novgorod region August 8 will mark a year since the former vice-mayor of Moscow Valery Shantsev took office as governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The head of the region came to his native Moscow to tell the Russian government, which was discussing the region’s development program at a regular meeting, and to journalists about his achievements and problems. After a year of leadership, Mr.

Bush administration wants to update surveillance law The US administration is pushing to change the Alien Surveillance Act, passed in 1978. CIA Director Michael Hayden told the US Senate Judiciary Committee that this need was dictated by technological progress and the growing terrorist threat.

An unsuccessful launch of a Russian-Ukrainian launch vehicle was carried out at Baikonur Immediately 17 spacecraft from Italy, Colombia, the USA and other countries were destroyed due to the unsuccessful launch of the Dnepr launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Among the lost devices is the student microsatellite “Baumanets” of a famous Russian technical university.

The United States will decide to deploy a military base with elements of missile defense (BMD) in one of the European countries by the end of September 2006. This was stated yesterday in an interview with Polish radio by Rick Lehner, press secretary of the US Missile Defense Agency. According to Vremya Novostey, the United States is choosing between Poland and the Czech Republic to locate such a base.

The 231st season of the Bolshoi Theater will be the third for artistic director of the ballet Alexei Ratmansky: in a year his contract ends and... either a new one is signed with him, or the choreographer flies out of Moscow as a free bird (he will be welcome in many theaters, especially after the phenomenal success of his recent premiere of “Russian Seasons” at the New York City Ballet).

The President of Ukraine is trying to create a coalition of all political forces Yesterday, a national round table, convened on the initiative of President Viktor Yushchenko, began work at the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine. In fact, this is the last chance for a peaceful exit from the acute political crisis that Ukraine is experiencing after the spring parliamentary elections. The round table meeting on Wednesday, as announced by Rada Speaker Alexander Moroz, did not take place.