In the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court there is a trial of the incident, which forces to think that the morals of the Middle Ages are still alive in the Russian outback, NTV reports. Two villagers considered that the pensioner selling moonshine is a witch, and twice tried to burn her. Until now, none of the inhabitants of the village of Znamenka can understand what the 87-year-old old woman has not pleased to two guards of a rural poultry house.

At the upcoming world championship, which will be held this summer in Japan and South Korea, FIFA is going to take a blood test from the players for the first time. Representatives of this football organization reported that the procedure will have the goal of identifying primarily the content of the EPO and Darbopoetin in the blood, causing the enrichment of muscular tissues with oxygen, which, in turn, helps to improve work and the fastest restoration of muscles.

The leadership of the Togliatti club filed an official protest, which has not yet allowed to finally call the "Magnitor" semi-finalist of the playoffs of the Russian hockey super League. "Lada" believes that she was "stolen" for almost 40 seconds of the game time, which, perhaps, was not enough to leve the situation. According to ITAR-TASS, the protest should be considered, according to the regulations, within three days.

Two people died and three more were injured as a result of a large car accident on the Moscow Ring Road. The collision of two cars and a fuel truck occurred at about 16:35 Moscow time at 94 km of the Moscow Ring Road, the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the capital said. As a result of the accident, the drivers of the Zhiguli and UAZ died on the spot, three more passengers of "cars" were injured of varying severity.

Another group of eight nominees, including Russian Vladimir Yurzinov, will be officially introduced into the Glory Hall of the International Hockey Federation. The solemn ceremony will take place during the next world championship, which starts on April 26 in Sweden. About this in a telephone interview with ITAR-TASS from the headquarters of the IIHF in the Swiss Zurich was announced by the director of the IHF for the public relations of the Finn Kimmoy Leinonon.

Brent oil prices, according to the results of trading on Monday on world exchanges, grew to a record level over the past six months - above $ 25 per barrel. The cause of Bloomberg experts so significant in psychological terms of increasing prices call good news from the United States, where an increase in oil and gasoline demand with an imminent rise in the economy.

The former head of KrAZ Anatoly Bykov on March 20 will be sent for examination in connection with the exacerbation of gallstone disease. This was announced on Tuesday by his lawyer Henry Padva on Tuesday. In the process in the Bykov case, a break will be announced. Henry Padva denied rumors that the main witness of the prosecution in the Bykov case Alexander Vasilenko, who officially abandoned his testimony, again decided to speak in court.

The RGD-5 grenade was thrown into the building of the operational group of Russian troops / OGRV / in Tiraspol. According to RIA Novosti sources in the command of the OGRV, the incident occurred on Tuesday 01.55 Moscow time. As a result of the explosion, all windows are knocked out at the headquarters. By a happy chance, no one was injured. A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the explosion.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin with the general director of Russian aluminum OJSC Oleg Deripaska. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the press secretary of the head of state Alexei Gromov. In particular, issues of state support for Russian industrial companies implementing international projects were discussed. It was also about improving the image of goods produced in Russia.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation plans to conduct special raids, the purpose of which is to “identify and punish enterprises that delay the payment of salaries,” said the head of the Ministry of the Pochinok at the All -Russian meeting on the main results of the social development of the Russian Federation in 2001 and the tasks for 2002. At the same time, the repair stressed that the increase in salary debt was stopped.

Nine prime ministers are scheduled for the next season in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. The creative plans of the country's main musical theater are published at today's press conference in ITAR-TASS. The Gabta General Director Anatoly Iksanov took part in it, the musical director is the chief conductor Alexander Vedernikov, who managed the groups of the opera troupe of Makval Kasrashvili, the artistic director of the ballet Boris Akimov.

In the case of the victory of the non-profit partnership "Media-Socium" in the competition for the right to broadcast on the "sixth button", TV-6 journalists can return on the air within a month. This, according to RIA Novosti , said on Tuesday by the editor-in-chief of the sixth television channel CJSC, part of the Media-Socium, Evgeny Kiselev. He recalled that before getting on the air, the liquidation of TV-6, which the liquidation commission is now engaged in the air, should be completed.

In the north of Pakistan, after a short break caused by the collapse of the Afghan Taliban regime, their "spiritual followers" - Pakistani students of the madrasah (religious schools) again began to cut television cables and break satellite antennas, allegedly spreading anti -Islamic ideology, RIA Novosti reports.

Russia will switch to the "summer" time on the night of March 30 to March 31. According to the widespread message of the press service of the State Standard of Russia, the “summer” time will operate from March 31, 2002 to October 27, 2002. In this regard, the State Standard of Russia notifies the need to transfer the watchman of the clock throughout the Russian Federation one hour ahead at 2:00 local time on March 31, Interfax reports.

Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" entered the semifinals of the Russian hockey super League, having outplayed the house in the fourth match of the Togliatti "Lada" series with a score of 3: 2. Recall that the champions of Russia in the last round of the regular championship could not bypass their current rivals, and, eventually taking fifth place, lost the advantage of their site.