The opening championship of France on synchronous swimming ended, which became the second stage of selection for the Olympic Games for two Russian duets - Anastasia Ermakova/Anastasia Davydova and Olga Kiseleva/Maria Brusnikina. According to his results, it became clear that two -time Olympic champions Brusnikin and Kiselev will not be able to protect their title in Athens, and will only participate in group competitions, as they lost their less experienced competitors.

In the market in the center of the Indian city of Rajuri (Jammu and Kashmir), a powerful explosion thundered, RIA Novosti reports. According to the local police, law enforcement agencies clarify the number of victims and victims, the investigation group determines the type of explosive device. The police have not yet reported other details of the attack. Links on the topic

In 2003, Russia received $ 5.7 billion from weapons exports, which is 26% more than planned indicators, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a meeting of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation. The unofficial statistics of the Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies are interesting. Experts argue that the revenue of the 10 largest enterprises of the military -industrial complex increased in 2003 by 21% from 4.7 billion to $ 5.7 billion.

The plane, on which the President of Macedonia Boris Trikeovsky crashed, flew 600 m lower than the minimum permitted height. This was reported on Monday by the Sarayevskaya newspaper Oslobodzhen. She refers to an expert, who was present when deciphering the conversation of the dispatcher of the Mostarsky Airport, who was “led” by the plane and the pilot, Interfax reports. “You are flying low, immediately rise,” the dispatcher warned and received consent in response.

In Tajikistan, two employees of the Ministry of Security guarding the Dushanbe City Hall, on Sunday, shot each other. According to the source in the metropolitan administration of the internal affairs, two guards of Khukumat (City Hall) Dushanbe shot each other right on the territory of Khukumat on Sunday evening. Both men died from wounds in the hospital. One of them was 29 years old, the second - 33 years.

Irina Khakamad, who is running in the presidential election as an independent candidate, filed a lawsuit today for the protection of honor and dignity to the Kalinin Federal Court of St. Petersburg. According to the Hakamad’s election headquarters, the defendants should be the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov and the All -Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

On March 1, a visa regime began to operate between Russia and Romania. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the visa regime between the two countries was introduced on the initiative of Bucharest. The Romanian side explains this step by the need to harmonize its legislation with the European in connection with the intention to join the European Union in 2007 and join the Schengen agreements on the free movement of citizens, Interfax reports.

In the Chelyabinsk region, two suspects in the murder of eight women were detained. The criminal investigators detained two men, one of them previously convicted, on suspicion of killing a 26-year-old local resident, whose burned corpse with signs of mechanical aspixia was discovered in the region. During operational investigative events, the detainees admitted the murder of this woman, as well as in the murders of seven more girls committed in the region in 2003-2004.

The search for 18 missing crew members of the Bow Mariner tanker continues, exploding off the eastern coast of the United States . The missing is looking for the coastal guard of the United States. To date, as a result of the explosion on board the tanker, according to official figures, three people died, six were saved. “Our first and main task is to find 18 people who are listed as missing,” said Chris Hannum, spokeswoman for coast guard.

According to Monday morning, 97 residential buildings in Moscow are still without gas supply as a result of an accident at the water supply , which occurred on February 29 in the area of ​​the Tula metro station. - Photo from the place of flooding According to Interfax, a source in a complex of urban economy, residential buildings located in the areas of Danilovsky, Donskoy and Zamoskvorechye are currently disconnected from gas.

On Saturday evening, the strongest snowfall began all over the west coast of France - from the Basque Country in the South to Brittany in the north. The main transport highways were paralyzed. Thousands of heavy trucks were blocked. A particularly difficult situation was on Sunday on the site of the highway between Bordeaux and the Spanish border: here the snowfall completely blocked about five thousand heavy trucks, many of which transported dangerous goods.

UPS is negotiating with Airbus on the cancellation of the A300-600 aircraft in the amount of $ 1.6 billion. United Parcel Service, the world's largest package delivery company, refers to the fact that customers began to prefer ground delivery methods.

The new musical "Warriors of the Spirit", preparing for the production in Moscow, will perpetuate the feat of the 6th company of the Pskov Airborne Forces in Chechnya in 2000. According to the press secretary of the musical Elena Shmeleva, for the first time on the Russian stage, a theatrical production is carried out, based on documentary material, the prototypes of the main characters are real heroes.

Polish soldiers from the military contingent in Iraq opened a fire on a bus and a minibus on Sunday near the Holy Shiite city of Karbela. The Poles killed one of the Iraqi driver and wounded several people, the local police said. One Polish soldier was covered with a bus several meters and received injuries, Interfax reports. The representative of the American Armed Forces told AFP that the bus did not stop at the checkpoint, so the soldiers opened fire.

The words "president" and "prime minister", so often mentioned in Russia in recent days, as magic, cause a pleasant image of democracy and legality in consciousness. No one argues that the Russian Prime Minister must be a person who is confident, or that his new government should make effective decisions. In the case of Russia, the difficulty lies in the fact that its visible appearance hides the opposite reality. And so it happens for a long time.