The producer of the Tattoo duet, Ivan Shapovalov, perplexed the statements of the group promoters that Tattoos Tattoos in the UK were canceled due to a poor sale of tickets. The Russian Duet "Tatu" is very popular in the UK, and there were "all the possibilities of holding a concert," Shapovalov said on the air of the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" . “They are very popular here, like in any other country.

Moscow hopes that the United States will take a fundamental, consistent position for all terrorist organizations in Chechnya.

Fearing an epidemic of atypical pneumonia (SARS), the DPRK stopped air traffic with China. The last flight on the route Pyongyang-Pekin-Pyongyang has been made today by the IL-62 Air-Kore, ITAR-TASS. Since the beginning of May, flights to Beijing and Shenyan have been canceled - two main international flights of the airline. Due to the lack of a sufficient number of passengers, Air-Core also stopped flying to Khabarovsk.

In the south of the Gaza sector, near the Israeli-Egyptian border on Friday evening, the British operator James Miller, who died at night in the Israeli hospital, was mortally wounded. He shot an Israeli military operation in the area of ​​the border. According to the Israeli newspaper Akhronot with reference to army sources, the Israeli tank platoon performed the task of identifying and destroying underground tunnels used for smuggling weapons and explosives to gas sector.

Most likely, not 32, but 36 teams will play at the nearest world championship in Germany. On Saturday, at a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee, they came to a fundamental agreement to satisfy the request of the South American Association Konmebol. Recall that at the last meeting of the Executive Committee, the South Americans filed a petition to increase the number of teams at the world championship in Germany.

At least ten people were killed and about 90 were injured and burns of varying severity as a result of an explosion of a regular bus in the north of Vietnam, ITAR-TASS reports. The incident, as a representative of law enforcement agencies said on Saturday, occurred the day before in the province of Baknin, located 35 km north of Hanoi. The explosion occurred during the parking lot of the bus, which runs between neighboring provinces near the central market of the city of Kornnin.

The festival of Russian films (La Exhibition of Russia Cinema ") can be a regular and significant event in Hollywood's life. About this said, summing up the results of the Russian Film Festival in an interview with" Interfax ", First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Denis Molieur. “The festival surpassed our most bold expectations. The main criterion here is a spectator interest, our festival was - and by the standards of Hollywood he was incredibly great,” said Molchanov.

Most Russians / 72 percent / consider the most acceptable form of family relations official registration at the registry office. These are the results of a survey of the Agency for Regional Political Studies received by ITAR-TASS. Only 16 percent of respondents prefer to live in a civil marriage, and 7 percent put above all the wedding or other religious consecration of the family. Apparently, in many Russian families love and mutual understanding reign.

Assigned only 10 days ago by the head of the Iraqi police Zuheir al-Nuime fired today. Commenting on this step by the chief of the police, the representative of the American forces in Iraq Alan King said that the al-Nuime thereby wanted to "open the younger way." According to King, during his short stay in the post of police chief, the al-Nuime managed to remove more than 380 thousand dollars and 100 kg of gold from the looters.

Seven private households burned on Saturday night in Makhachkala, Interfax was told in the dispatching service of Salvation "01" of the Ministry of Emergencies of Dagestan. According to these data, the fire began at 23:07 in one of the houses on Groznyskaya Street, and then spread to six neighboring households. 14 cars were involved in the extinguishing. The fire was awarded the third category of complexity. Fire destroyed buildings on an area of ​​285 square meters. meters.

In London, the bosses and technical directors of all teams Formula 1 again discussed changes in the regulations for the upcoming season. After that, in the final press release of FIA it was noted that all decisions were made unanimously. As a result, the leaders of the teams managed to defend the "Track-Control". Now in 2004, the electronic traction control system or, as it is called, "Track-Control" will be preserved.

The coach of the Russian national hockey team, Vladimir Plyushchev, after the match with the Swedish team, admitted that his rivals were stronger. According to the mentor, the Swedes gave the Russians to play only since the middle of the second period. In addition, Plyushchev complained to the bias of refereeing. According to him, at the end of the game, when the Russians took off the goalkeeper, the judges did not give two net removal from the Swedes.

British diplomats return to Iraq for the first time after the war in the 1991 Persian Gulf. According to RIA Novosti in the British Foreign Ministry, four British diplomats will arrive in Baghdad this weekend to resume work in the Iraqi capital. The British diplomatic mission in Iraq will be headed by Christopher Sigars, who until 1991 served as the General of the Consul General and Deputy Head of the UK Dip Department in Baghdad.

Foreign ministers of the Member countries of the European Union agreed to create a single European military doctrine, BBC reports. Its creation will help in the future to avoid schisms like that arose during the war in Iraq. European countries are trying to overcome the Iraqi Syndrome simultaneously with the announcement of the United States that six EU countries will provide their troops to create multinational stabilization forces in Iraq, led by the United States.

Five-time world champion Michael Schumacher won the qualification of the "Grand Prix of Spain" and on Sunday in the race will start from the first position. Schumacher on the New Ferrari Bolid F2003-Ga the only one of all pilots overcame the line of a minute and 18 seconds. The result of Michael is 1.17,762. According to Schumacher, the whole team was waiting for something like that from the new car.