US President George W. Bush's European tour ends today. Over the previous three days, he met with more than two dozen European leaders, took part in NATO and EU-US summits, and managed to partially smooth out the contradictions in American-European relations that had worsened due to the war in Iraq. But at the same time, the United States and Europe have identified a new reason for disagreement, caused by the difference in approaches to lifting the embargo on the arms trade with China.

tennis Marat Safin played his first match since he won the Australian Open. The three-week break taken by the Russian after the Australian triumph did not do him any good - in the first round of the tournament in Dubai he lost to Nicholas Kiefer. The defeat means he is virtually guaranteed to lose his lead in the ATP title race. The tournament in Dubai, with its million-dollar prize fund, traditionally attracts the best tennis players in the world.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova reached the semi-finals of the tournament in Qatar, the prize fund of which is $600 thousand. The Russian, seeded number two at the competition, quite easily beat her opponent from France, Marion Bartoli, with a score of 6:3, 6:2. For reaching the final, Maria Sharapova will compete with the representative of Slovakia, Daniela Hantuchova, who beat the Spaniard Conchita Martinez in the quarter finals, RIA Novosti reports.

on the problem of municipal budgets 13 4 min. ... Last Tuesday, First Deputy Chairman of the Budget Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Vitaly Shuba, issued a statement in which he criticized the activities of the regional authorities regarding the crisis situation with municipal budgets in the Angara region. According to him, attention should be paid to financial industrial groups.

Project location in ranking* (place project in the rating on the previous one week) Project name Channel date ether Rating (%)** Share (%)*** 1 (7) Time. Information and analytical what program First channel 20.02 17 35.6 2 (--) false mirror First channel 20.02 13.6 30.6 3 (--) TV series Marine Cavaliers stars First channel 14.02 13.4 28 4 (8) TV series Mysteries consequences-2 Russia 15.02 13 27.2 5 (4) Time First channel 15.02.

George Bush found an approach to Vladimir Putin 7K 7 min. ... towards the summit Today Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with US President George W. Bush in Bratislava. The current summit will take place at a special historical moment: the West fears that Russia is slowly but surely sliding into dictatorship, and believes that it is time to do something about it.

and discounted its subsidiaries telecommunications The head of the Russian Ministry of Information and Communications, Leonid Reiman, said on Tuesday that the sale of the state's stake in the Svyazinvest holding could take place in 2006, and not this year, as previously planned. The stock market reacted to the minister's words by falling shares of Svyazinvest's subsidiaries.

Thursday, February 24 627 5 minutes. ... This is a very eventful and emotional day. Both positive and negative surges are possible. and even emergencies. After all, this is the day of the full moon, which is combined with the planet Uranus. And Uranus always causes deviations from the usual course of things and provokes surprises. In a positive sense, scientific discoveries and insights into thought are possible. This is a suitable day to fight for freedom, external and internal.

On February 24, deputies of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug supported the candidacy of the current governor proposed by the president .

regional policy On Tuesday, deputies of the Samara Duma removed Natalya Bobrova, a supporter of Samara Governor Konstantin Titov, from the post of vice-speaker. The resignation was initiated by the parliamentary group "People's Power" in opposition to the regional authorities, whose leader is Samara Mayor Georgy Limansky. Ms. Bobrova herself called her removal a “political reshuffle,” which was the result of an alliance of long-time irreconcilable opponents—the governor and the mayor.

272 2 minutes. ... In Samara, the head of the territorial forestry agency for the Samara region, Nikolai Bezuglov, was killed. It was not possible to apprehend the killer in hot pursuit. Now the investigation is developing all versions of the crime - from domestic to professional. Colleagues of Mr. Bezuglov are convinced that the murder is connected with the professional activities of the deceased.

"The faces of love" are rounded The X International Film Festival “Faces of Love” will be held in Moscow from March 8 to 18, President of the Kinotavr Group of Companies Mark Rudinshtein and Director of Festival Programs Sergei Lavrentiev announced this at a press conference. As usual, he tried to collect the most significant and scandalous films about love into the competition program, and this year, according to him, there were more successes than last year.

Andrey Klimentyev is fighting with the mayor's office for a “model store” 7 3 min. ... Today, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga-Vyatka District will consider the cassation appeal of entrepreneur Andrei Klimentyev in the case of the “Europe” store. According to the agreement on the creation of OJSC "Europe", drawn up by the businessman and the mayor's office of Nizhny, for ten years the city treasury received practically no money for renting premises in the center of Nizhny.

designed by Vladislav Surkov 98 3 min. ... As Kommersant learned, a cell of the youth public organization “Nashi” began its activities in Kursk, which is considered the new “Putin youth group”, designed, according to the plan of the presidential administration, to replace the “Walking Together”, which has largely discredited the president.

12 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the opening ceremony of the winter sports and tourism festival, organized by the administration of the Angara region and tour operators of the region, took place on the ice of the Irkutsk reservoir.