The Government Council of Iraq agreed to adopt the temporary constitution of the country, the press secretary of the Government Council said. According to him, the Provisional Constitution will be officially adopted on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

The unfading veteran of the Soviet ironic verse (“Two rams drowned in the morning on the river in the morning”) Sergey Mikhalkov, the author of the three hymns, in the first of which he glorified the two -man leader, in the second - one Lenin, and in the third, God continues to actively revive the best cultural and monotheistic traditions of the past.

Being the editor -in -chief of the satirical film magazine “Fitil”, who scourged the vices of domestic reality from 1962 to 1993, Sergei Mikhalkov turned to the government and to the deputies of both chambers with a request to resume this project.

The Chechen field commander Ruslan Gelaev was destroyed in the mountains of Dagestan. This was confirmed in the territorial department of the "Makhachkala" of the North Caucasus Regional Border Service of the FSB. According to the representative of the Office, Gelaev was destroyed on Saturday by a border outfit in the Dagestan mountains on the Avaro-Chinese road leading to Georgia, RIA Novosti reports.

Today, the Iraqi Temporary Managing Council, having discarded all disagreements aside, adopted the “Basic Law”, reports the Financial Times , which will serve as a temporary constitution until June 30, when the United States should transfer the sovereignty of the reign of the people of Iraq. “Today, early in the morning, the Government Council unanimously approved the text of the administrative law of the transition period after a week of intensive discussions,” the Council said.

Even before the appearance of the new head of the office, we received a remarkable process in public opinion. I don’t dare to say - in view of the lack of data - about society as a whole, but I invite you to evaluate what process is in the expert community, where political scientists, observers, etc. gathered. On the same pages, this process was called “ fortune telling ”. We clarify - not the fortune -telling that involves a random choice from the variety of options.

In Los Angeles, the ceremony of the Oscars, the most prestigious world award in the field of cinema, began. The 76th award ceremony, which takes place in the Kodak Hall in Hollywood, was opened by the introductory word of Sean Connery. The main contender for Oscars in the nomination “Best Film of 2003” is the final part of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy - “The Return of the King”.

From today, a visa regime began to operate between Russia and Romania, Interfax reports. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, 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.

In the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, an early vote on the election of the President of Russia is taking place. According to Monday Secretary of the District Electoral Commission, Ekaterina Guzhavina, early voting is carried out in the most remote and inaccessible areas of the peninsula - in the villages of Potapovo, the Khanai Lake, Volochanka and Ust -Wan, in which there are fishing brigades of deer, fishermen and geologists.

In Los Angeles, the 76th Oscar presentation ceremony ended. The most prestigious cinematic ceremony in the world was held in the Kodak Hall in Hollywood. The best film, as expected, was called “ The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King ”. According to a public opinion poll conducted by ABC television company on the eve of the event, most of the respondents - 42% of Americans believed that this film deserves the main award.

Representatives of medium and small businesses have questions for Mikhail Fradkov, related to his stay as head of the tax police, in an interview with Polit.ru, the president of the All -Russian Public Organization of Small and Medium Enterprises of Rossiya Sergey Borisov said. “Probably, the president had good reason for the appointment of Mikhail Fradkov.

After Vladimir Putin's proposal to appoint Mikhail Fradkov as Prime Minister, Russian stock quotes fell by an average of 2.5%. Sources in investment companies reported this to RIA Novosti.

By the morning of Tuesday, a foundation pit will be buried, formed as a result of the liquidation of the pipeline accident near house No. 35 on Serpukhovskaya Street, the leadership of the Moscow City Complex of Moscow said. Now there are work on replacing a 12-meter pipe section. The dimensions of the pit are 14 by 14 meters. A thousand cubic meters of sand, RIA Novosti were brought to the scene.

This week, a surprising amount of time was devoted to the national question. In Posner’s “ Times ” (Channel One), the idea of ​​getting rid of the national subjects of the Russian Federation, in the sense of stopping forming a federation along ethnic lines, was discussed for a whole hour. As has recently happened in “Times,” when the national question is discussed, people are invited who are not allowed into a decent home.

The main domestic event on March 1 can be the announcement of the new Prime Minister: President Putin will hold the next consultations with the leadership of the parliamentary majority, devoted to the appointment of a new person to the post of head of government. The former government was suddenly resigned on February 24, since then political scientists and journalists are wondering who will now be seated in the chair of Mikhail Kasyanov.