The Pope John Pavel II made a decision on Monday to create the so -called "church province" of the Roman Catholic Church of the four dioceses - in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Saratov and Irkutsk - led by the Metropolitan. Today, in the Vatican , the Pope John Pavel II announced the appointment of an Apostolic administrator for Catholics of the European part of Russia Tadeusz Kondrusevich Metropolitan.

Gazprom is ready to provide independent gas producers with the possibility of exporting raw materials, said Alexander Ryazanov, deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom OJSC, speaking on Monday at the State Duma parliamentary hearings. According to him, Gazprom is currently not considering the problem of access to its gas transportation system of independent manufacturers, Interfax reports.

The temporary attorney in the US affairs in Tbilisi Philip Remler believes that the terrorists from Al-Qaeda are hiding in the Pankisian gorge of Georgia on the border with Chechnya. The American diplomat said that dozens of al-Qaeda supporters fled from Afghanistan and are now operating in mountainous areas, including in the Pankisian Gorge. According to Remler, several of these persons made contact with Jordan Hattab, fighting against the Russian troops in Chechnya.

Most of the British advocate the UK entering the number of the European Union Member countries related to the zone of action of the pan-European currency of the euro. More than 75% of foggy Albion citizens believe that London’s entry into the number of euro-dining rooms will occur no later than 2005, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the survey conducted by Graham Bishop . Last year, only 33%voted for the entry of London in the euro zone.

A sports plane crashed in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reports. According to the law enforcement agencies of the Moscow Region on Monday, the Yak-52 double aircraft, which performed a training flight, had suffered an accident on the eve when landing at the airfield near the village of Kostylevo Egorievsky district. As a result of the accident, a 21-year-old pilot student and a 40-year-old instructor pilot with various fractures are hospitalized.

Kobi Bryant became the most useful player in the match. However, any mention or its appearance on the basketball court in Philadelphia caused a storm of discontent among the fans. Since the "Lakers" with its help beat "the 76th" in the final of the NBA championship, the love of fans in Philadelphia has replaced hatred. “Yes, I was really very upset,” said Brian. 31 points gained by Kobi allowed the Western Conference team to beat the East with a score of 135: 120.

In the Sverdlovsk region, drunken traffic police officers shot down a person and disappeared from the scene of the crime, the New Region reports. This happened in the village of Makhnevo, where the school evening of the meeting of graduates took place. Former students of this school, and now the police officers of Yekaterinburg, were intoxicated.

In Romania, prostitutes introduce discounts for certain categories of citizens, reports Ananova.com . The poor became the beneficiaries - students and soldiers. The service of the priestess of love that service districts said that the rally of reducing prices is carried out in order to revive the services market in the intimate sphere.

The official opening of the Ford Motor Company plant in the city of Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, will be held in May 2002. This was announced by the governor of the region Valery Serdyukov today at an expanded meeting of the College of the Department of the Ministry of Taxes and the training of the Russian Federation for the Leningrad Region. According to the governor, the conveyor for the assembly of Ford brand cars has practically earned at the new enterprise.

Russia considers the visit of the Minister of Defense of Afghanistan to Moscow as the beginning of the new stage of cooperation between the two countries. This was stated today by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov at a meeting with his Afghan colleague Mohammad Fahim, ITAR-TASS reports.

The famous television journalist Sergei Dorenko appealed to the chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova, in which he asks her to introduce a supervisory protest to him by the Kuntsevsky court of the capital. According to Interfax on Monday, lawyer Dorenko Maxim Smal, the journalist insists that the verdict is canceled and the case against him is terminated for the lack of corpus delicti.

On Monday night, a cyclone hit the south of Kamchatka, Interfax reports. Because of the cyclone in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, all schools and airport are closed. According to Kamchatka weather forecasters on Monday, the current cyclone came from the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and caught only the southern part of the peninsula. Heavy snow is now coming south of Kamchatka, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky covered the windy wing of the cyclone, there the gusts of wind reach 30 meters per second.

The organizers of the Olympic Games call the Russian biathlete Pavel Rostovtsev one of the three favorites of the 20 km race, which will begin on Monday late in the evening of Moscow time. In the game organizing committee, Rostovtsev’s statement is in the first place in forecasts for the most difficult race in the men's biathlon, ITAR-TASS reports.

An earthquake by force of 5.2 points on the Richter scale occurred on Monday in Tiba Prefecture next to Tokyo. Nothing has been reported about the victims and damage, RIA Novosti reports. The underground shocks began at 10:10 Tokyo time. The epicenter of the earthquake, as announced by the meteorological administration of Japan, was at a depth of about 50 km from the surface of the Earth in the area of ​​the Ibaraki Prefecture, located northeast of Tokyo.

Russia handed over to the Ministry of Culture of Afghanistan film projection equipment, film capes and videos of more than a dozen films. All tapes were removed by eastern motives and translated to Pashta and Dari √ the most common languages ​​in this country.