The boss of the Formula-1 team Bar David Richards announced that next season the team does not plan to use the services of Mr. Jacques Wilnev. This was announced by the press after a telephone conversation with Richards, the manager of the Canadian racer Craig Pollock. The race in Japan, which will take place on the coming weekend, will be the last for Vilnev in the BAR team, reports F1.Riding-Live.com .

The government of Belarus believes that negotiations on Russian ruble and gas can be intensified. “We suggest that the Russian side prepare a separate agreement on these issues,” Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Economics Andrei Kobyakov said on Monday of Interfax. Belarus and Russia must necessarily agree on the principles of budget policy when introducing a Russian ruble as the only legal payment fund in the republic, the minister said.

Being a believer in Azerbaijan has become problematic. This conclusion was reached by representatives of the delegation of the International Association of Religious Freedom (Mars), who recently visited Baku at the invitation of the local branch of this international organization, Blagovet-Info reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the American publication The New York Times . Putin gave an interview on Saturday evening at the presidential residence in Novo-Ogarsky near Moscow. Putin answered questions regarding the outbreak of war in Iraq and its consequences, Iran’s nuclear program, a split between the United States and its European allies, conflict in Chechnya and many others (interviews can be read on Inopressa.ru ).

The Pope John Pavel II , who on the eve of the head of the Anglican Church of the Archbishop of the Canterbury Rowean Williams, expressed his concern about the facts of homosexuality in the bosom of the Church, reports ITAR-TASS. “It must be recognized that new serious problems arose on the path of the unity of churches. Some of them concern the fundamental issues of faith and morality,” the Roman high priest said.

The participants of the Plenary Assembly of the Council of Chairman of the Conference of Bishops of European Bishops of Bishops of Bishops of Bishop, in the capital of Lithuania, called in the Preambul of the new project of the EU Constitution. Her work ended on the eve of the solemn Sunday Messa in the Cathedral in Vilnius, reports ITAR-TASS.

The Moscow Patriarchate refutes the reports of a number of publications that the head of the department of external church ties (ACCS) of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev), spoke positively about the visits of the Pope to the Orthodox countries. This is stated in the statement of the Association, which was transferred today to the Interfax agency.

The leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod hockey club "Torpedo" fired Gennady Tsygurov from the post of the head coach of the team. The decision was made at a meeting in which the vice president of the Pugin club, General Director Gorshkov and Gennady Tsygurov took part. Having discussed the tournament situation in which, according to the results of 11 rounds of the Russian championship, the Nizhny Novgorod team turned out to be, Tsygurov decided to resign, which was adopted.

The coach of the Russian national football team Georgy Yartsev believes that the match with Georgians may be even harder than with the Irish and Swiss. This was the mentor of the Russian national team at a press conference in Bor, where the national team began preparations for the upcoming match of the European qualifying tournament with the Georgian team on Saturday, RIA Novosti reports.

The latest study of British doctors showed that many rich suffer from dyslexia. This means that they are extremely collected from separate letters of the word, read and write. The number of dyslexics among the financially successful people reaches 40%, while only every tenth person suffers on average this syndrome, reports DailyRepord .

6 thousand miners on the North Ural Boxyit mine (Subr) in the Sverdlovsk region continue the protest . About 500 of them are in the mine at a depth of 290 to 770 m. All protesters refuse to leave jobs, demanding an increase in salaries and reducing production standards, ITAR-TASS reports. The leadership, as well as representatives of the trade unions are on the mine and are trying to resolve the conflict.

The English illusionist Derren Brown survived after his trick "Russian roulette", which was shown on Sunday on the live air of Channel 4. The self -proclaimed "psychological illusionist" Derren Brown was supposed to put a Smith & Wesson revolver with one cartridge to his head. He promised to press the trigger five times before the bullet stops at the box. He had to make this shot into the air. Brown survived, although the trick did not go the way he hoped.

Two trucks with tanks filled with 10 thousand liters of aviation fuel exploded on Sunday evening at the Venezuela La Carlota Venezuela. As a result of explosions in Karakas, a strong fire arose, which was visible at a distance of a few kilometers from the airport. Firefighters flooded the place of explosion at the airport with foam, as well as the landing strip of private aircraft, which is often used by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez.

In Baghdad, an absentee court began over the former minister of information Iraq Muhammad al-Sahhaf. According to the local newspaper "As-Sabach", the Ministry of Culture of Iraq accuses the former minister of embezzlement of nine cars belonging to the Department of History. If the court finds As-Sahhaf guilty, then Iraq will demand the ex-minister from Interpol, RIA Novosti reports.

The US administration decided to create a group for stabilization in Iraq. The new unit will be headed by the Assistant President for National Security of Kondoliza Rice. As it became here today is known from government sources, at the end of last week she sent the corresponding Memorandum to the US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Minister Donald Ramsfeld and CIA Director George Tenet.