Chechen separatists took responsibility for blowing up the Nevsky Express The Prosecutor General's Office yesterday accepted a criminal case regarding the explosion on Monday evening of passenger train No. 166 "Nevsky Express", traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg .

CLUBS Pep-See. At one time, a variety of heroes of the domestic rock scene were involved in the group's work - from Sergei Kuryokhin to the current guitarist Vitaly Lapin from the legendary group "Nom". Only the vocalists remained unchanged, the three charming “Kipyatkov sisters”, who to this day continue to sing and dance “extreme disco”. Ikra , 21.00. "Marimba-plus". The group defines the style of its creativity as art-fusion.

Germans argue about the future of the GDR state security archives Another sensation surrounding documents from the former East German Ministry of State Security (MGB) turned out to be fake. The other day, Marianne Birtler, a former human rights activist and fighter against the regime of Erich Honecker, and now the government commissioner for the Stasi archives, announced a rare find.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Maykop (Republic of Adygea) yesterday opened a criminal case against a student of the Maykop State Technological University, Viktor Milkov, who admitted to distributing on the Internet a video recording the murder of two people based on national hatred. The prosecutor's office qualified his actions under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

Chinese experience of reform of the military-industrial complex Tomorrow, at the Chebarkul training ground in the Chelyabinsk region, the anti-terrorism exercises of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “Peace Mission 2007” will end. For China, which sent 1.7 thousand military personnel to the exercises, this is not only a review of achievements in the combat training of troops, but also a demonstration of the products of its own military-industrial complex.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's empire is sold out The sale of Yukos assets was successfully completed yesterday. The last two lots with the property of the oil company went under the hammer - accounts receivable and 100% of the shares of the Dutch subsidiary Yukos Finance, which controls the foreign assets of the bankrupt. The first went to Rosneft for 11.55 billion rubles, and the second for 7.8 billion rubles.

Georgia invited Russia to investigate the “missile incident” Russia will take part in the investigation of the incident involving the fall of a Raduga anti-radar guided missile in the Gori region on August 6. Yesterday, Ivan Volynkin, Minister Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Georgia, told Vremya Novostei that “soon, in response to the proposal of the Georgian side, Russia will send its experts to Georgia.” “We will definitely join the investigation,” the diplomat concluded.

The stable price of gold has increased the demand for it Global demand for gold is growing for the second quarter in a row. Before that, it was falling, but the price was rising. Yesterday the International Gold Council published data on the gold market for the first half of 2007. Global demand in physical terms increased by 11%, to 1.78 thousand tons, while the volume of gold supplies to the market decreased by 4% compared to the same period last year, to 1.664 thousand tons.

The first monograph in Russian about George Balanchine The book, dedicated to Diaghilev's dancer and then the founder of the famous New York City Ballet troupe, was just published in the summer of 2007. We became acquainted with Balanchine’s work in our homeland also not so long ago - half a century ago, when NYCB came on tour, and our troupes began legally performing his ballets a little over ten years ago, in the late 90s.

The main investments in the Russian economy were loans from state-owned companies Growing macroeconomic indicators are gradually making Russia one of the leaders among investment-attractive countries in the world.

North Korea, which lost more than 2 million people due to mass famine in the mid-1990s, is once again on the brink of a food crisis. Due to incessant heavy rains in the country since August 7, at the height of the harvest season, the main grain regions were flooded, more than 10% of agricultural crops were damaged. Bridges, roads and power lines were destroyed, 30 thousand houses were washed away, about 63 thousand families lost their homes, several hundred people died or went missing.

Spartak failed to take Celtic by storm Moscow Spartak started the European season with a draw. In the home match of the third qualifying round of the Champions League at Luzhniki in the presence of 50 thousand spectators, Cherchesov’s team was unable to put the squeeze on the Scottish champion Celtic - 1:1. Now, in two weeks in Glasgow, Muscovites will only be satisfied with a more effective draw or victory. Roman Pavlyuchenko scored the only goal for Spartak in this meeting.

The charter carrier decided to unify its fleet VIM-Avia, Russia's largest charter carrier, has decided to refuse to lease three of its 16 Boeing 757 aircraft. The company also removed two Yak-42s from its fleet. The company's management explains this by the desire to unify its aircraft fleet. Until recently, the basis of the VIM-Avia fleet was 16 Boeing-757-200, purchased in 2004-2006 in two batches on different financial terms.

Russian aircraft manufacturers have set themselves goals for 18 years ahead The development strategy of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will be determined by the end of the year, UAC President Alexey Fedorov said yesterday at a press conference dedicated to the MAKS-2007 international air show, which will open on August 21 in Zhukovsky near Moscow. Mr.

The Belarusian opposition intends to hold a protest action called the “European March” in October. One of the tasks is to persuade official Minsk, against the background of cooling with Moscow, to choose in favor of Europe. The rise in prices of Russian energy resources also affects the internal political situation in Belarus. President Alexander Lukashenko is increasingly turning to the theme of sovereignty, which his opponents have used for more than ten years.