In Afghanistan, with the assistance of the UN Children's Fund, a private radio channel for women was opened in Kabul, reports Sana's agency. There are only five Afghan women on the staff under the leadership of the editor -in -chief of a monthly magazine for women, Dictor of Afghan radio and television Jamily Mujahid. The programs are broadcast one hour in the afternoon and are caught only 20 kilometers from Kabul, but Jamil plans to double the airtime and expand the broadcasting area.

Anton Nikolaev The Sunday final television coincided with the meeting of the heads of Great Britain, Spain and the USA in the Azores - the fate of Iraq and the Middle East as a whole was decided. In the course of the air, inclusions from Portugal were made, correspondents talked about what was happening. Ahead of the planet, as always, turned out to be RTR, whose correspondent made an unexpected assumption that the assault on Iraq would begin today.

On the site of the blown up house on Guryanov Street this fall, they will put a chapel this fall, and at the entrance to the theater center on Dubrovka V Monument to the victims of Nord-Ost, ITAR-TASS Moscow City Hall said. The chapel in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “all mourning joy” is planned to be built next to the granite cross, which rises in place of the house, where relatives and relatives of the dead are gathering.

It became known that in the evening in Chechnya, on the road between Shali and the village of Serezhen-Yurt, the chairman of the regional branch of the Russian-Chechen friendship society, Imran Ejiev, was stolen. According to one of the employees of the Society, Zaur Kharipov, he and Imran Ezhiev drove a car from Shali in Serzhen-Yurt, the native village of Ezhiev.

Following France and Russia, the ultimatum Bush is rejected by Germany and China. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said his country would not agree with the UN resolution, which would allow war against Iraq, Reuters reports. The newly appointed Foreign Minister of China Lee Zhaosin also confirmed today that China hopes for the possibility of the UN to find a political solution to the Iraqi problem.

Today it became known that on March 15 in Armenia in the case of the murder of a famous television journalist, chairman of the public television and radio of the Republic of Tigran Nagdalyan, entrepreneur Armen Sargsyan was detained. One of the detainee’s native brothers, Aram Sargsyan, was previously the prime minister, and in the presidents who had just passed the elections. Another brother - Vazgen - was also the prime minister.

In connection with the impending operation against Baghdad, VTsIOM conducted a special survey of public opinion. These survey show that many Russians do not have special illusions about the essence of Hussein’s regime V 45% believe that it comes from a threat to peace and security on Earth, they believe that Baghdad has a weapon of mass destruction, 43% negatively relate to Hussein and its regime.

The United States resolves that do not hold important posts of diplomats and employees of American representative offices from Israel, Syria and Kuwait. According to Reuters , the corresponding order on Sunday published the State Department in connection with an increase in the threat of war in Iraq. The Americans are also recommended to leave Israel, the western bank of the Jordan River and the Gas Sector, RIA Novosti reports.

The size of the fine, which will be charged with the drivers that have not been insured by their auto -citizens, is finally determined. If the law on compulsory insurance of responsibility of owners of vehicles (OSAGO) will enter into force, as expected, until July 1, 2003, then the insurers and the Ministry of Finance agreed to take inspection from January 1, 2004, the newspaper News Time reports today. This is two and a half times less than the cost of the base policy (1980 rubles).

Sunday's final television broadcast coincided with a meeting of the heads of Great Britain, Spain and the United States in the Azores - the fate of Iraq and the Middle East as a whole was being decided. During the broadcast, inclusions were made from Portugal, correspondents talked about what was happening. Ahead of the rest, as always, was RTR, whose correspondent made the unexpected assumption that the assault on Iraq would begin today.

In Dagestan and Bashkiria, elections were held last weekend. In both republics, the elections are recognized as held. In Bashkiria, they voted for deputies at the State Assembly of the Republic, everything went calmly. Observers of surprises do not predict, most likely, as before, the State Assembly will form mainly supporters of the Bashkir President Murtaza Rakhimov. You can’t call the elections in Dagestan calmly, like the situation in the republic.

As in a number of other Russian cities, a conflict between local authorities and power engineers is flared up in Voronezh. If boiler houses are de -energized in the Far East, then Voronezhenergo turned off about twenty high -rise buildings from heat last weekend. Representatives of the company explain such a step by the fact that non -payers live in these houses. So that the residents do not connect to the heat again, in Voronezhenergo they decided to make pipes.

The price of April futures for WTI oil on the New York commodity exchange increased by 4.4%on Monday morning, and amounted to $ 36.95 per barrel, Bloomberg reports. Then the quotation slightly decreased to 36.62 dollars. Such a leap was waiting for the US ultimatum to Iraq. The increased probability of soon the beginning of hostilities in the Persian Gulf zone causes concern for the market participants due to possible interruptions in the supply of raw materials from this region.

The main theme of today's press was the war with Iraq , until the start of which, it seems, a few hours or days remain. The newspaper "News Time" was one of the first to notify readers about the results of the Sunday American-British-Spanish summit in the Azores. After the military ultimatum Iraq failed to get security from the Council, the leaders of the three countries decided to act without looking back at the international organization, V says publication.

Today, the Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark said that, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the outbreak of the so-called “atypical pneumonia” threatens to develop into a terrible pandemic. As terrible as an epidemic of the Spanish influenza, which struck almost all the countries of the world in 1918. WHO has already officially announced the occurrence of a new type of disease. Until recently, the disease affected people mainly in Asia.