This was the title of a recent article in the influential American newspaper Financial Times, devoted to the issues of resolving the situation in Iraq. After all, from the statements of US Secretary of State Colin Powell, made last week at an extraordinary NATO session in Brussels, it follows that it is NATO, and not the UN, that will form a peacekeeping mission to resolve the post-war situation in Iraq...

In the story of the notorious debt of RAO VSM, which the Russian government again tried to pin on St. Petersburg, the end has been reached: the blocking of federal budget funds owed to the northern capital has been cancelled. Moreover, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Finance assure that, it turns out, there was no blocking at all. And what happened?

There are new orders in the Mariinsky Palace: the leadership of the Assembly is taking measures to ensure that no one distracts the deputies from their work. According to the new regulation regulating the procedure for entering the meeting room, deputies of the State Duma and members of the Federation Council, representatives of federal authorities, the governor of St.

The St. Petersburg City Court put an end to the detective story about the kidnapping and murder of the general director of Shivasa International, Indian businessman Subba Rao Vayakanti, and his wife Himabinda Chintapalli. The accomplices of this crime: the servant of the businessman Vadthabath Srinivas and his acquaintance Khan Israrul Hasan Nemati were convicted, but neither the preliminary investigation nor the court could identify the killers themselves (also Indians by origin).

Now insurance companies in the West are beginning to refuse to insure risks associated with natural disasters. The reason is simple - recently there has been an increase in catastrophic natural events. If in 1991 the amount of insurance payments to victims of storms, floods, hurricanes and typhoons amounted to 12 billion dollars, then in 2001 it approached 100 billion. No comments needed.