In Nizhny Novgorod, the trial of a drug dealer, whom law enforcement agencies detained last summer, has ended. A guilty verdict was handed down to Melik Ismailov, who tried to sell 500 grams of heroin in small quantities. Before detaining Ismailov, Nizhny Novgorod operatives watched the suspect for several days. The seizure took place during the transfer of drugs.

A controlling stake in the Moskovia TV channel may soon come under the control of a private structure, the Ekho Moskvy radio station reports, citing the Interfax agency.

One of the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition, former Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is convinced of the pointlessness of negotiations with President Leonid Kuchma. According to her, the opposition has “two goals” - “the removal of Kuchma from power and the limitation of his powers.” “It is unrealistic to do this with the hands of the president: Leonid Danilovich is not capable of self-restraint, either mentally or genetically.

The scale of forced absenteeism and underemployment in 2000 was halved compared to 1999, Russian agencies report, citing data from the Russian State Statistics Committee . Part-time work, namely administrative leave, part-time work, part-time work - in 2000 was estimated at 712 million man-hours, which is equivalent to 355 thousand people absent from work every day. At the same time, according to the State Statistics Committee, the figures for 1999 were twice as high (44%).

Every cloud has a silver lining √ a loud scandal surrounding the British royals, when the wife of the youngest son of Elizabeth II, Countess of Wessex Sophia, had the imprudence to tell a lot of unnecessary things to the correspondent of the “yellow” newspaper News of the World, forced Buckingham Palace to begin a thorough audit of the commercial activities of all members of the court from the smallest up to big The Queen of Britain and her husband Prince Philip, Crown Prince Charles and

Boris Becker, after losing his last match at Wimbledon 99 to Patrick Rafter, was so upset that he got drunk and drunkenly entered into sexual relations with Russian model Angela Ermakova. The result of the party was the birth of Anna Ermakova, whose father was Boris Becker. After a DNA test, Becker had to admit paternity and also talk about how it happened. “It wasn’t even a romance,” Becker said in an interview with ARD television. "It was an act that lasted five seconds.

Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko declared the inadmissibility of euthanasia, commenting on the intention of the Dutch parliament to legalize the killing of patients by doctors in extreme cases, reports Ekho Moskvy with reference to Interfax. The head of the Ministry of Health is convinced that such a law will never be adopted in Russia, since our society, our traditions and culture will not allow this. “There should be no euthanasia in our country.

On Tuesday, April 10, the Japanese yen rose in Asian currency trading after Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa made it clear that the government may begin buying the yen to stop the fall in the national currency. As reported on Monday, April 9, finance ministers of Southeast Asian countries expressed their concern about the fall in the yen to its lowest level in two and a half years . In their opinion, such a weakening of the Japanese currency could negatively affect the Asian economy.

Mufti of Chechnya Akhmad-haji Shamayev condemned those who organized a weapons depot in the mosque in the village of Kirov-Yurt, Vedeno district, as well as those who shot civilians in the village of Kulary, Urus-Martan district. He stated this on Tuesday in Gudermes at a meeting with journalists, ITAR-TASS reports. As the mufti stated, “a mosque is a sacred place for every Muslim. This is our home.

On Monday, April 9, the price of May oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) rose by 22 cents to $27.28 per barrel ahead of the seasonal increase in demand for gasoline, Bloomberg reports. At the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London, the May futures price for Brent crude oil stood at $25.28 per barrel on April 9, up 11 cents from the previous price.

An Austrian man was today given a ten-month suspended prison sentence for counterfeiting banknotes to depict Adolf Hitler instead of Austrian economist von Böhm-Bawerk. He used counterfeit banknotes to buy drugs. According to the EFE agency, a drug addict used a computer to produce at least 46 counterfeit bills, which ended up in the National Bank of Austria. According to the judges, the young man convicted of fraud was lucky because he was not charged with promoting Nazism.

The courts of Novosibirsk are receiving statements of claim from employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and soldiers of special forces who returned from business trips to the North Caucasus. The military does not agree with the decision to stop paying them so-called “combat” money - bonuses for service in Chechnya.

On the northern outskirts of Khankala, a few kilometers from Grozny, soldiers of a motorized rifle company are serving. They are jokingly called border guards. Here is the front line of defense. Minefields and barbed wire. And what follows, as the soldiers say, is not our territory, Chechen territory. In the event of an attack, the company must be the first to take the fight and hold out until the main forces arrive.

Alfa Bank President Petr Aven believes that the current international credit rating of Russia is underestimated and does not reflect the real state of affairs in the country. He expressed this opinion at the fourth economic forum "Russia-2001" , which opened on Tuesday, April 11, in London.

President Vladimir Putin sent congratulations to Russian Jews on the holiday of Pesach (Easter). This was reported by Ekho Moskvy with reference to Interfax. As the text of the congratulatory message says, the ancient events associated with the exodus of the Jews from Egyptian captivity “echo the present time,” and “the ten commandments given by God to the Jews on the way from Egypt have become generally accepted moral standards and an invaluable spiritual heritage of all humanity ".