Yesterday, the mobile phones of three Italians stolen by Iraqi militants suddenly earned, RIA Novosti reports. As the relatives of the hostages told reporters, after a two -week silence, the devices suddenly began to react to calls from Italy. Salvator's mobile phone Stephio earned, beeps were heard in the tube, but no one answered the call.

The European Union promises to provide economic assistance to the Turkish community of Cyprus as a sign of gratitude for the support that the population of the northern part of the island provided the plan of the Cyprus association in a referendum conducted on Saturday, reports " Lenta.ru " with reference to the message of the British The Guardian.

Representatives of the Ministry of Justice of Russia handed over to relatives the body of the deceased recently in the prison hospital of the Chechen field commander Lichi Islamov, Yuri Kalinin, Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia, said on Monday.

The head of RAO "UES" Anatoly Chubais proposed to introduce targeted subsidies to the population to pay for electric and thermal energy. According to the Finmarket , funds for this can be found by levying a certain additional fee from rich enterprises. In theory, the head of energy holding, payers should be divided into two categories: subsidizing and subsidized.

The Russian diamond company Alrosa last year received a profit of 9.6632 billion rubles. According to Gazeta.Ru , the profit growth amounted to 49.3% - in 2002 the company helped out 6.474 billion rubles. The main products - diamonds - were sold in the amount of $ 1.6973 billion, diamonds - by $ 123.4 million. As noted in the company’s press release, the increase was obtained by increasing demand in the market and increasing prices for diamond raw materials.

RAO "UES of Russia" plans to participate in the acquisition of Polish energy acts, Anatoly Chubais said on Saturday. What specific enterprises could be discussed, the head of the holding did not clarify. “There are such stages of transactions in business when it is wrong to talk about what we want to do. We have a basic principle - specialized foreign assets. We are not going to purchase snacks,” Chubais emphasized.

The last year and the first quarter of 2004 became a record for the growth rate of internal prices for metal and rental, which made them almost inaccessible to Russian metalworkers and machine -building. Thus, in the economic space of Russia, another mince of slow action worked. If earlier such mines were the oil and gas industry, now metallurgists were added to them.

Grigory Gritsenko The last year and the first quarter of 2004 became a record for the growth rate of internal prices for metal and rental, which made them almost inaccessible to Russian metalworkers and machine -building. The first alarm was the alarm to pipe factories: the increase in pipe prices made finished products unacceptable in cost for the main customers - Gazprom and Transneft.

The Arab television channel Al-Arabia showed a new film with three Italian hostages. On it, extremists confirmed their intention to kill hostages over the next five days if the Italian contingent in Iraq will not leave the country, Reuters reports. The group, who called itself “green brigades”, said that the hostages would be released if the demonstrations were held in Italy in protest against the government’s policy in Iraq, the Al -Arabia report said.

The dollar started the new week quite vigorously, adding 3 kopecks on Monday and rising to the level of 29 rubles for the first time since the beginning of January. Today's trading on ETS TOM opened with a quote of 28.99 rubles. and in the morning they were in the range of 28.97-29.025 rubles. with not very high activity of market participants, the total turnover of the ETS amounted to about $150 million.

On Monday, the North Korean authorities rejected the proposal of help from South Korea. This was reported by Reuters with reference to Yonhap. North Korea proposed negotiations on this issue. Recall that the authorities of South Korea, developing the relations of reconciliation and cooperation with the DPRK, immediately after the disaster announced their readiness to help Pyongyang and expressed the hope that the tragedy would not cause interruptions in the dialogue between the two countries.

Ilya Valkhin The things surrounding us become noticeable only after loss, during museumification or as a result of a conscious detached study - in the mirror, for example. Gifts of people's people, objects with history are valuable by virtue of this story, but not as a thing itself. Not the most expensive in store value, but the most valuable in emotions that they cause, they are the first to be taken out during the fire, because they are irreparable.

“Al-Qaeda” took responsibility for the explosion in the oil terminal in the city of Basra. This is stated in the statement of one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda, Abu Musab al-Zarkavi, who was widespread on Monday on the website of the terrorist group, reports Reuters.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin : - met with members of the Cabinet of Ministers. During the meeting, the president instructed the government’s leadership in the most thorough way to prepare bills on the delimitation of powers between the federal center and the regions. * * * The Government during this week will consider the "Big Pacific on the Division of Powers" between the Federal Center and the Regions, said Deputy Prime Minister A.

Vitaly Leibin Anatoly Chubais joined the polemic about Russia and its liberalism (non-liberalism) on Saturday. As an actual background for the polemic, the Duma’s decision to increase the tax on mining and export of oil (the theme of “social justice”) and the introduction of the Presidential Advisor from the FSB in the Russian Union of Auto -Stracks (the theme of “Management” including in the private sector) arrived.