Friendship with America threatens British Prime Minister with “impeachment” 1K 4 min. ... Iraq crisis The consequences of the Iraq war for Great Britain may turn out to be unprecedented: with the start of a military operation, the country will face mass strikes and civil disobedience, and Prime Minister Tony Blair will face an almost inevitable resignation.

108 1 min. ... Until March last year, apartments for residents of houses slated for demolition were provided at the expense of the share of housing (30-50%) built on sites vacated after demolition. Developers building up the center with luxury houses, as a rule, paid the city with new buildings purchased on the periphery of the city.

According to updated data, two people died and one was hospitalized with severe burns as a result of a fire in the Yakutia Internal Affairs Directorate building. As Sergei Lyshchik, head of the Yakutsk State Fire Service detachment, reported on March 14, the fire has now been localized and four fire brigades are working on the scene. The specialists went down to the basement where the archive is located. According to preliminary data, it did not burn down.

On March 14, warplanes taking part in a joint US-British patrol over southern Iraq attacked an Iraqi radar located southwest of Baghdad. US Army Central Command said the planes' pilots used precision-guided weapons to hit the mobile radar system.

In relations with Dmitry Pumpyansky and other metallurgists 22 4 min. ... Yesterday in Taganrog, a five-party agreement on socio-economic cooperation for 2003 was concluded between the administrations of the Rostov region and the city, as well as CJSC Pipe Metallurgical Company, IC Rinako (a company affiliated with the MDM group) and OJSC Tagmet. The agreement regulates relations between the authorities and metallurgists on investment, social and tariff issues.

defend the interests of voters in court 16 2 minutes. ... The Voronezh Regional Court refused to accept City Duma deputy Sergei Vorobyov's application in which he asked to declare the Voronezh Region Law "On the Regional Budget for 2003" invalid. The court referred to the federal law “On the General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation” and pointed out to Mr.

Russia may ban the import of poultry meat from Belgium, the online publication gazeta.ru reported on March 14, citing Evgeniy Nepoklonov, head of the veterinary department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. According to the official, a request has already been sent to Belgium to see if there are cases of chicken flu in this country. It is worth noting that it is for this reason that the import of poultry meat from the Netherlands was recently banned.

Mariinsky Theater will dance at the Bolshoi 88 1 min. ... A four-day tour of the Mariinsky Theater opens at the Bolshoi. The St. Petersburg troupe brought two programs of Western classics to Moscow. Today and tomorrow they are showing the early Roland Petit: “Young Man and Death” - the first ballet of the future classic, staged by him in collaboration with Jean Cocteau back in 1946, and the world famous “Carmen”.

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The war in Iraq could cost the Spanish prime minister his freedom 206 4 min. ... Yesterday, Spain's representative to the UN, Inocencio Arias, sharply criticized UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Madrid is confident that the war in Iraq does not require UN sanctions, since they managed without them in Kosovo. And Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is ready to do anything to disarm Baghdad, even sacrifice his own career or go to prison.

City Hall demolishes dilapidated five-story buildings without warning 656 2 minutes. ... housing problem Yesterday, the Moscow Department of Housing Policy and Housing Fund held a closed meeting “On the issue of relocation of residents living in the Central Administrative District.” The department holds such meetings regularly, and resettlement is in full swing.

6 1 min. ... Morning fix ($/troy oz.) Afternoon fix ($/troy oz.) Chg. (%) Buy/Sell ($/troy oz.) Gold 342.9 334.5 -3.35 334.6 / 335.4 Silver — 4.585 -1.71 4.54 / 4.56 Platinum 700 692 -0.86 690 / 695 Palladium 237 230 -3.36 230 / 235 Rhodium — — — 530 / 610 According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 43 dated March 14, 2003, p. 18

Yesterday, Dow Jones reported that Gazprom-affiliated 57 1 min. ... Yesterday, Dow Jones reported that Intergazprom-Invest Holding Rt., a company affiliated with Gazprom. (registered in Hungary) became the owner of 29.22% of the shares of the Hungarian manufacturer of ceramic tiles - Zalakeramia Rt. Details of this transaction have not been disclosed.

process 51 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the criminal case of Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of murdering the Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva, was submitted for a new trial to the North Caucasus District Military Court. As Kommersant has learned, it is now undergoing registration, after which a new court will begin considering the case, which has been pending since February 2001.

safety 15 1 min. ... Yesterday, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported that New York taxis will be equipped with “black boxes” that will record the car’s speed and other parameters in the event of an accident. This will make life much easier for insurance companies. According to representatives of the New York insurance company American Transit Insurance, which is the insurer of 80% of city taxis, the “black boxes” will be installed by the end of this summer.