The laureate of the TEFI television award program “Stew Light” from Monday, March 10, may stop going to the TVS due to financial difficulties on the TV channel.

389 deputies of the State Duma with one voice against the proposal of independent deputy Nikolai Ryzhkov, the “people's deputy” Gennady Raikov, the leader of the “Regions of Russia” group Oleg Morozov and the Vice-Spiker from the OVR Arthur Chilingarov, to perpetuate the memory of the Chairman of the Council of the USSR Brezhnev time, Alexei Kosygin, were supported.

The dollar lost 3 kopecks, a new rate - 31 rubles 56 kopecks. On the Forex euro market, it was possible to overcome the level of $ 1.1 and gain a foothold slightly higher. Pessimism reigns in world stock markets, which is not surprising, given the very high probability of war. In the Russian stock market, there is a correction to the previous growth, the RTS index by 14:30 lost 0.9% and amounted to 394.02 points. The version updated for PO "It.ru.

In the Czech Republic, again, now officially, a list of persons who collaborated with the communist secret police will be published. According to the Russian BBC service, this should happen on March 20. The names of collaborators will be placed in the public domain on the government website, as well as published by the section of archives and documents of the Ministry of the Interior. What exactly these people are involved in, it will not be indicated.

As expected , the upper house of the US Congress ratified the Russian-American agreement on a reduction in strategic offensive potentials, actually legalizing the status quo between our states. The decision was made unanimously, despite the concern expressed by representatives of the Democratic Party in connection with the very significant provisions of the contract.

The dollar lost 3 kopecks, a new rate - 31 rubles 56 kopecks. On the Forex euro market, it was possible to overcome the level of $ 1.1 and gain a foothold slightly higher. On world stock markets, pessimism, which is not surprising, given the very high probability of war. In the Russian stock market, there is a correction to the previous growth, the RTS index by 14:30 lost 0.9% and amounted to 394.02 points. Review of the Finmarket agency

From the editor We are publishing two paragraphs of Hasan Huseynov’s book “The Map of Our Motherland: Ideologeme between Word and Body,” published in April by the OGI Publishing House . The book continues the series "OGI-Polit.Ru". ¬1. Visiotype in discourse The abolition or transformation of symbols and ideologies accompany any historical breakdown, but they do not always explain the meaning of this breakdown.

On the eve of today's meeting of the UN Security Council, George Bush tried to once again convince Vladimir Putin, but, apparently, to no avail. On the initiative of the American side, Rosbalt reports, a telephone conversation was held between the two presidents. At the same time, as noted in the press service of Putin, the Russian side again announced its position in supporting the peaceful settlement of the problem. The leaders of the two states agreed to continue the dialogue.

The hopes for the quick unification of Cyprus and its entry into the European Union in mid -April by a single state seem to be a thing of the past. The leader of the Turkish part of Cyprus Rauf Dentkash, acting today in the parliament of Turkey, said that the plan of unification of the country, proposed by the UN and involving the creation of a state with two equal parts, Turkish in the north and Greek in the south, would put Turkish Cypriots under the Greek hegemony.

Today, the continuation of the "Bashkir scenario" was expected, only already in Karachay-Cherkessia. = The People’s Assembly of this Republic was considering the issue of the date of the presidential election: the day before, a proposal was announced to combine them with the elections of the President of Russia. This would mean the extension of the powers of the current president and the former commander of the Semenov ground forces for at least six months.

A meeting of the UN Security Council for Iraq = and with a sufficient degree of confidence = you can predict = its scenario. = The head of the UN Hans inspectors in his report, apparently, will once again try to cool the ardor of the United States and Great Britain, eager for the adoption of a new strict resolution on Iraq, and will once again call to give more time to the inspectors.

In time handling in direct television, President George Bush made it clear that the war in Iraq would begin in the coming days. Speech was broadcast on American television channels at the most popular time. Bush directly stated that he did not agree with the offer of France to give inspectors in Iraq more time and more employees. The American president is convinced that the only thing that can really help inspectors is V is the real cooperation of the Iraqi leadership, but this is not in sight.

Correctly nostalgic in Soviet times, the deputies of the Duma, nevertheless, are not always trying to restore their signs. So, today in the lower house the proposal of the independent deputy Alexander Chuev about the restoration of the tax on childlessness. The deputy suggested sending an appeal on this issue to President Putin. However, an obviously meaningless initiative was rejected extremely harmoniously: only 37 deputies supported the project.

The Minister of the Pakistani Province of Belujan Sanaulla Zehri Laden said that not Bin Laden was caught in the province, == as reported earlier , but his son. More precisely, two sons, 14-year-old Hamza and 18-year-old Saad. The eldest of them can, according to observers, over time, change Ben Laden at the head of Al-Qaeda. At the same time, everyone mentions that Ben Laden has a lot of sons, but they call different numbers. In any case, more than ten.

Today, the Duma was seriously concerned about the health of its citizens and the state of the environment V and adopted in the third reading the law "On the prohibition of the production and circulation of ethized automobile gasoline in the Russian Federation." Now the law should be approved by the Federation Council and the president is signed. After that, from the first of July 2003, the production and sale of “dirty” gasoline in Russia will be prohibited.