English Tottenham are interested in two leading players from Moscow Spartak. The performance of Yegor Titov and Viktor Bulatov in the Champions League impressed Spurs coach George Graham, and he decided to consult with the team’s Ukrainian legionnaire Sergei Rebrov. The English media reported that Rebrov named Titov √ 13 million dollars and Bulatov √ 7 million as a possible transfer price. So far, however, Tottenham has not made any specific offers to Spartak.

Today, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica denied reports from the Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States that Slobodan Milosevic will allegedly be arrested before March 31, calling such a statement “not consistent with the official position of the government,” ITAR-TASS reports. Speaking at a press conference in Belgrade, Kostunica advised Ambassador to the United States Milan Protic to continue to coordinate his statements with the official point of view.

The reburial ceremony of the ashes of the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova at the Novodevichy cemetery in the capital, planned for March 14, will not take place. As RIA Novosti was told at the Golders Green crematorium in London, where the urn with Pavlova's ashes is kept, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov informed the organizers of the reburial - the London Cremation company - through the Russian embassy in London that he was asking to cancel the ceremony scheduled for March 14.

As Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax, three people were killed and two were burned as a result of an accident on the Yamburg-Tula-1 gas pipeline. According to the Russian State Mining and Technical Supervision Service, on March 8 at 00:15 Moscow time, during scheduled diagnostic work on the Yamburg-Tula-1 gas pipeline section, 180 km southwest of the village of Yamburg, the receiving chamber for cleaning devices was destroyed.

Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded a prize named after former US President George H. W. Bush, which is awarded to famous political leaders of the world “for services to society,” RIA Novosti reports. The award to the former USSR President was announced by the George H. W. Bush Memorial Presidential Library in Houston, Texas, which has a special fund that awards this award. George Bush Sr. and Mikhail Gorbachev, while presidents, held 5 bilateral meetings.

In honor of March 8, the capital's "walruses" staged a festive swim. The athletes had to swim a 4 x 25 meter relay in icy water. This is only for the uninitiated, the sight of people swimming in icy water is a heartbreaking picture. The “walruses”, “walrus women” and “walrus girls” themselves would not exchange swimming in an ice hole for anything in the world. But they are not able to explain to others why all this is for. They say: try it yourself and you will understand.

Lyudmila Gurchenko was named “Queen of the Screen” at the XI annual festival named after Vera Kholodnaya “Women of Cinema”. The award ceremony took place today at the Khanzhonkov House. Famous Russian actresses were awarded the "Seven Beauties of Cinema" prizes.

At the gates of the official residence of the British Prime Minister on Downing Street in London, a man who threatened to commit self-immolation surrendered to the police. He was detained for violating public order. According to official information from Scotland Yard, a middle-aged man took a position opposite the Prime Minister's residence at noon. The unknown person announced that he had doused himself with gasoline and intended to set himself on fire.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov went to the Kaliningrad region, from where he will go to Stockholm for negotiations with the leadership of Sweden and the delegation of the European Union. As NTV reports with reference to Interfax, in Kaliningrad the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry plans to meet with Governor Vladimir Yegorov and regional deputies.

A friendly match between the national teams of Mexico and Brazil took place in Guadalajara, Mexico. By the 80th minute, the guests were losing with a score of 1:2 and none other than Romario helped the Brazilians escape from a disappointing defeat, scoring a double in the last 10 minutes of the meeting.

Boris Markovnikov's exhibition "Hello, Queen" has opened in the capital's "Fine Art" gallery. The artist seeks to prove that painting is still relevant and viable as a genre. Therefore, the exhibition contains paintings of large size and varied colors. Markovnikov uses all colors of the spectrum, sometimes in combination with graphic black or colored lines. Despite the meaningful titles of the paintings, their content is absolutely abstract.

In St. Petersburg, at the Museum of Nonconformist Art on Pushkinskaya, 10, Dmitry Gutov’s art project “Blind” is presented. The exhibition was prepared with the participation of the Marat Gelman Gallery. It included five large black-and-white photographs and several monitors with documentary videos of blind musicians playing in subway passages. “For several years in a row, every day I had to pass through the Kitay-Gorod metro station, the former Nogin Square.

Today, about 300 American peacekeepers from the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo entered the Macedonian village of Tanushevtsi, Yugoslav media reported. On the Kosovo-Macedonian border, clashes between Albanian extremists and soldiers of the Macedonian army have not stopped for three weeks.

That night, rescuers managed to dig out and remove most of the cars that were buried under the snow as a result of an avalanche in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. On a mountain pass 2 thousand meters high, the temperature dropped to minus 20 degrees. Squally winds reached 40 m/s. Gusts of wind could throw both people and equipment into the abyss. It was extremely difficult for rescuers to work in such conditions. The snowstorm covered what they managed to dig up.

The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is America's most classified combat aircraft. Access to it is strictly limited. Almost everything in this combat vehicle has no analogues. It took almost a decade for the American command to finally show the B-2 in action. The screening conditions are extremely strict: video recording of computers and radar readings is prohibited. The flight on which the journalist was taken took place over the states of Missouri and Kansas.