Sport “I’m already thinking about the World Cup” Alexey Vasiliev A day after the record that Atlanta forward Ilya Kovalchuk set in a game with Buffalo in the NHL regular season, the Russian forward gave an interview to Gazeta.Ru. Lately, the first pick of the 2001 draft and forward of the Atlanta Thrashers, 19-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk, has been rarely pleased with his productive play.

March 17, 2003, 10:30 Society Deadly pneumonia spread across the world Irina Petrakova For the first time in 10 years, the World Health Organization reported the emergence of a “worldwide threat” - SARS, which has already infected approximately 500 people. Nine deaths have been reported worldwide. Most often, doctors and tourists were carriers of the disease.

Sport “We will not be thrown off this train” Sergey Skipidarov Unlike their last visit to Moscow, Real Madrid came to the meeting with Lokomotiv with its squad. It cannot be otherwise - after all, the royal club needs to win in Moscow to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League. On Monday afternoon, the lobby of the Baltschug-Kempinski Hotel resembled a lifetime Pantheon of active football gods.

There are exhibitions about which you don’t immediately understand how to write more adequately. To say that they are unambiguously bad means to trample against the importance of the artist and even against one’s own love for him. It would be hard to call them good. Solid “Torment of the Soul.” An exhibition under this title opened in an amazing place - the Museum of Archeology, a branch of the Museum of the History of Moscow.

Spring. Streams are babbling. Starlings are flying. The hormone is playing. I want to fight. Because the surge of strength requires an outlet. Remember the picture from “In the Animal World” - two handsome horned males in a forest clearing in the spring, pushing their horned foreheads together? Actually, why are they? Yes, actually, for no reason. They just didn’t divide the clearing, but nature takes its toll.

Sport Lokomotiv has nowhere to train Mikail Mustafaev Before the final match of the second group stage of the Champions League against Real Madrid, Lokomotiv Moscow was deprived of the opportunity to train fully. Neither the main field of the Lokomotiv stadium in Cherkizovo, nor the fields at the railway workers' base in Bakovka have allowed the Russian champion to prepare normally for the match for the second day.

Culture Yes, you killed!.. Anton Kostylev Demons howl, it smells sour and classic literature in Dmitry Meskhiev’s new film “Kamikaze Diary”. Tradition is tradition. The phrase “Yes, Rodion Romanych, you killed me,” will forever remain a detective culmination for Russian culture. Anyway, the main instinct here is to dial “03” when the “squirrel” is on the way - jumping around the apartment, knocking over bottles and dusty subscription editions of classics.

March 17, 2003, 21:04 Business During elections, the Central Election Commission is ready to suspend anyone Natalia Rostova On the eve of the Duma hearings on amendments to the law on the media, the Central Election Commission and media leaders gathered for a conference in Moscow to once again exchange views on election coverage. It turned out that representatives of the media and the Central Election Commission still speak different languages.

12:16 – 13:17 Germany and China reject latest ultimatum on Iraq Germany, following France and Russia, has officially rejected the latest proposal from the US, UK and Spain to adopt a new resolution on Iraq, which would open up the possibility of using military force against Baghdad. According to Reuters, Federal Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder made a statement on this matter. “Germany cannot agree to any UN resolution that gives the right to war,” Schröder said.

March 17, 2003, 10:22 Politics The President invited Chechens to the ballot boxes Elena Shishkunova Vladimir Putin spoke on Chechen television. In his speech, he called on the residents of Chechnya to “take part in the referendum and make the right choice.” On Sunday evening, Vladimir Putin made a televised address to the residents of Chechnya. “Today I am addressing those who live in Chechnya and who care about the fate of the Chechen Republic.

It’s not for nothing that they say that a good headline is half the article. You can be completely convinced of this by looking at the photograph in which the famous Ukrainian boxer Vladimir Klitschko knocks out his next opponent. In general, the ability to come up with headlines is a whole science in modern journalism.

Sport “Magnetic storms” expected in Cherepovets Mikail Mustafaev The Russian hockey championship, which started in September last year, has come to its logical conclusion. Through the intricacies of the three-stage drawing of the regular championship, more than half of the teams have already found themselves in the role of extras. While the top eight enter a playoff series designed to determine the new Russian champion.

Sport Tennis players are preparing a coup Mikail Mustafaev A split is brewing in professional men's tennis. The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) may have a competitor - the International Men's Tennis Association (IMTA). The i's will be dotted this week, during the Masters representative tournament taking place in Miami.

March 17, 2003, 19:54 Culture Vote or as always Sasha Khor Living provider, living Nikolai Senkevich and forever living “Nika”. Nominees for the award of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts have been announced. The passions surrounding the tug-of-war between the “Golden Eagle” and “Nika” in the domestic cinematic process, as one might expect, have subsided on their own. The goddess of victory is going to spread her wings for the sixteenth time to reward the most worthy.

March 17, 2003, 16:47 Culture The paragraph came to Christ and Potter Vadim Nesterov The worst books of the year were awarded the “anti-retribution prize”.