The television company RTR and ORT agreed on the joint acquisition of matches of the world championship in 2002, equally dividing all 64 games of the championship. Television rights will cost two Russian companies in twenty million dollars. Accordingly, the financial share of the participation of both channels will be distributed: each of them will contribute to 10 million dollars.

In the Silkovsky district of Chechnya, with the onset of dawn on Monday, investigative actions continued at the site of the fall of the Mi-8 helicopter, in which a number of high-ranking officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian army died on the eve, Interfax reports. "The place of the fall of the car is numb, a large number of examinations are carried out," said Hussein Tutuev, head of the administration of the Silkovsky district of Chechnya, said today.

On Monday afternoon in the capital, Killer dealt with the general director of the Beijing Hotel Konstantin Georgiev, Interfax reports. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the criminal opened the shooting of Makarov’s pistol at 13:40 near the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics on Priorov Street. In Cyto, the 46-year-old Georgiev came to the dressing at approximately 13:00 in his own jeep of Chevrolet. When he left the institute, shots sounded.

On January 28, a hurricane collapsed to the UK, as a result of which tens of kilometers of power lines were damaged, more than 20 thousand people were left without electricity. A difficult situation arose on highways and on railways in Scotland and in the northern counties of England. The wind speed in these areas of the country exceeds 160 km per hour.

The electricity vacation limit for coastal military forces was reduced to 50 percent on Monday. This was announced by the Deputy General Director for Public Relations of the company "Dalenergosbyt" Mikhail Zedrik. Nevertheless, according to him, “no strategic object has fallen under the switch,” RIA Novosti reports.

Last year has become a record for the BMW concern for all basic positions. According to the company's management, the company fully took advantage of the growth of the market of prestigious cars and set records in the production of cars, and in their sales and investments. The growth was so strong that the BMW could not even prevent the slowdown in the world economy and the uncertainty of consumers after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Financial Times notes.

Fans of Kevin Costner may not wait for the wedding of their idol. His bride, 27-year-old model Christina Baumgartner, broke the engagement. Her friends say that the cause of the part of the couple was the behavior of Costner. He began to spend evenings in the company of friends, participate in bachelor parties and drink a lot. Representatives of Kevin Costner deny his parting with the bride, reports Kinozal.ru .

The first SUV KIA Sportage model has left the assembly line of the Avtotor Kaliningrad Automobile Automobile Plant today. The director of automobile production "Autotor" Vladimir Kalinnikov notes that this is the first "in the full sense of the word domestic car": the body is cooked and painted directly at the factory, and not in Korea, as it was before.

The Turkish company Ramenka, which owns the largest retail chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets Ramstor in Russia, will open 4 new supermarkets in Moscow in March of this year. According to Interfax , the total area of ​​new stores will be more than 5,000 square meters. meters. In addition, by the end of this year, Ramstor will open 2 more hypermarkets and 4 supermarkets in various areas of Moscow.

In the city of Monchegorsk, the Murmansk region, a man was stolen by unknown persons. After the release of the prisoner, it turned out that he ardently insisted not to initiate a criminal case against his offenders, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs, the incident occurred last Saturday.

" The Roman Catholic Church wants to develop not only good and correct relations with the Russian Orthodox Church , but also fraternal fruitful cooperation." This is stated in the report of the Papal Council to promote the unity of Christians, the presentation of which was placed by the Vatican newspaper Oservator Romano, ITAR-TASS reports.

A series of powerful explosions shocked the Nigerian city of Lagos on Sunday. The cause of the tragedy, according to preliminary data, was a fire that flared up in a warehouse of weapons and ammunition, Reuters reports. Numerous bodies of the dead are raised this morning from the water of the channel flowing through the city center. According to ITAR-TASS, at least 580 people died. Eyewitnesses claim that they saw at least a dozen dead bodies on Lagos's streets.

In Spain there was an accident at the chemical fertilizer factory. A huge cloud hung on Sunday over the Escabyr Valley near Kartate, a state of emergency was declared in the city. According to RIA Novosti , the cloud is caused by a large accident at the Featyberia chemical fertilizers factory. In the afternoon, the cloud has reached the suburbs of cartels.

The leadership of the National Hockey League Club New Jersey Devils was resigned in full force. Together with now his former chief Larry Robinson, he lost his post as an assistant to the head coach and Vyacheslav Fetisov. The fact of dismissal has not yet been reflected in the American media or on the official website of the Devils. However, this became known to ITAR-TASS from sources close to the chief coach of the Russian Olympic team.

The American company Hop -On Communications, which is based in California, intends to release a new product - disposable mobile phones in March to the consumer market. According to the company representative, the novelty will be sold at a price of $ 30, and its buyers will automatically get the opportunity to make calls within the United States and say 60 minutes. When the paid minutes are “pronounced”, the phone is thrown into the first urn that fall.