Grand Prix in rhythmic gymnastics Your husband will not insist on a festive dinner if you invite him to the international Grand Prix tournament in rhythmic gymnastics. The most graceful athletes in the world will compete in the tournament, which will take place this weekend at the Druzhba universal sports hall. These beautiful athletes are entirely the elite of world rhythmic gymnastics, representatives of 34 countries.

Russian ice hockey championship 283 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, Togliatti's Lada hosted the national champion, Yaroslavl's Lokomotiv, on its ice. This season, these teams have already met twice: in September in Yaroslavl the rivals lost 1:1, and in December on the banks of the Volga Lada won 2:0. Lokomotiv failed to defeat the VAZ team even on the third attempt. And thus, he was unable to become the winner of the regular season ahead of schedule.

scandal 22 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, deputies of the State Assembly of Bashkiria adopted an appeal to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Kasyanov, in which they complained to him about their fellow countryman, Minister of Taxes and Duties Gennady Bukaev. The reason for such an unusual message was the demand of the Ministry of Taxes and Taxes to the Ufa oil refineries to pay the excise taxes they underpaid in 2001 in the amount of more than 10 billion rubles.

On March 7, at the Bocharov Ruchei residence, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a brief working meeting with the head of the executive power of Abkhazia, Gennady Gagulia. The day before, the Russian head of state held a meeting with Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze there. Their second meeting will take place later today.

Female version of the film "Once More About Love" 1K 3 min. ... movie premiere Yesterday at the Central House of Writers there was a premiere of the film "Sky. Airplane. Girl", created, in fact, by three women. According to ANDREY PLAKHOV, this is not only a gift to female viewers on March 8, but also a clear sign of the feminization of our cinema. Feminization has led to the fact that emotions are back in fashion today. During films, it is common to freeze in fear and shed tears.

This is what PNT shareholders decided 34 1 min. ... Yesterday, CJSC Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT), which transships petroleum products in the St. Petersburg Seaport, announced its plans to prepare to work with crude oil. At the same time, the shareholders decided to rename the company to CJSC Petersburg Oil Port. In 2002, PNT's revenue increased by 36.36%, to $30 million. Cargo turnover increased by 35%, to 6.73 million tons, including 3.9 million tons of dark oil products (an increase of 34%).

fire 331 2 minutes. ... Another emergency occurred in the Northern Fleet. A fire occurred on the nuclear submarine "Pskov", which is undergoing scheduled repairs in the floating dock of ship repair plant 82 (the village of Roslyakovo, Murmansk region). This time everything ended well: the fire was quickly put out and no one was hurt. With details from Severomorsk - VYACHESLAV GUDKOV. The Project 945 multi-purpose nuclear submarine Pskov began scheduled repairs at SRZ-82 about a month ago.

asset Management 453 2 minutes. ... This week, the seven-year struggle for the Chebarkul Metallurgical Plant (JSC Ural Forge, Sverdlovsk Region) ended. As Kommersant has learned, a controlling stake in the enterprise was purchased by the Uralinvestenergo industrial group, headed by Andrei Akhtyamov, a regional Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The other participant in the transaction was the management of the enterprise.

Early presidential elections canceled in Latvia 75 1 min. ... The four parties of Latvia's ruling coalition yesterday canceled their earlier decision to hold early presidential elections on March 12 and re-elect the current head of state Vaira Vike-Freiberga to this post. Prime Minister of the Republic Einars Repse said that elections will be held at the end of June, as provided by law.

On March 7, the court of third instance - the State Court of Estonia - rejected the cassation appeal against the decision of the Tallinn District Court of December 19, 2002 against the 80-year-old veteran security officer, Russian citizen Yuri Karpov. Then the court dismissed Karpov’s appeal, which he filed on November 18 last year against the verdict of the Tallinn court.

Islam Karimov received Rudolf Schuster 124 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov held talks in Tashkent with President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, who arrived on a working visit to Uzbekistan. Following the negotiations, which discussed issues of bilateral cooperation and the situation in the world, in particular the fight against international terrorism and the problem of Iraq, the leaders of the two countries held a joint press conference. Speaking at it, Mr.

President Bush urgently called a press conference 88 1 min. ... Yesterday, US President George Bush urgently called a press conference. It took place at 20:00 Washington time (in Moscow it was 4:00 in the morning). The significance and originality of the event is evidenced by the fact that the press conference was held in the East Office of the White House.

High court OKs 'three strikes' law 50 3 min. ... Supreme Court gives greenlight to 'three strikes law' WARREN RICHEY WARREN RICHEY Shoplifters can now receive sentences of up to life in prison, under the three-offenses-to-life principle, without violating constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. In two rulings Wednesday, by a 5-4 vote, the U.S.

On March 7, at a plenary session , the State Duma refused to approve the draft appeal prepared by deputy Alexander Chuev to the President of Russia, which, in particular, proposed returning the tax on childlessness. In a draft appeal to the president, Deputy Chuev proposed restoring the tax on childlessness as a priority measure to overcome the birth crisis.

agenda 474 4 min. ... Yesterday, the President of the Russian Federation held a production meeting in Tyumen on socio-economic problems of the Ural Federal District. To complete this meeting, the president needed, according to Kommersant special correspondent ANDREY KOLESNIKOV, a generalization of the level of such a great thinker as Plato. The President began the meeting by sharing the good news. He called the Ural District the country's energy and fuel storehouse.