Continuing the interview with the Zmeinka community, the theme of the Reform team, which took the most radical steps on the conclusion of Russia from the crisis in which it ended up to the line of 1991 - 1992, we publish an interview, taken by one of the active participants in this team, Alfred Koch , from the actual head of the first government of reforms - Egor Gaidar . The interview will also be published in the magazine "Bear".

Former Argentinean footballer Diego Maradon on Wednesday was urgently hospitalized in one of Buenos Aires, Reuters reports. The diagnosis is not known, but representatives of the hospital say that the deterioration of the health of the legendary football player is not connected with the drugs that he used in the past.

In the capital of Kazakhstan Astana, negotiations between the presidents of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Poland Lech Kachinsky ended, Radio “Freedom” reports. According to Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan is interested in expanding the Odessa - Brody oil pipeline project to Gdansk in Poland, in which, according to Nazarbayev, Russia should be taken by Russia.

Football star Diego Maradon is urgently hospitalized due to the fact that he ate too much, abused alcohol and smoked cigars. However, nothing threatens his life, reports AP . The 47-year-old Maradona is placed in the Guemes Clinic in the capital of Argentina. A few minutes later, two of his daughters entered the hospital.

Today Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council, which will be devoted to the space activities of Russia and the prospects for its development, RIA Novosti reports. It is expected that the meeting will discuss the issue of increasing the efficiency of the use of space developments in the interests of the country and each of its regions, as well as the most promising project in this area - the program of the global navigation satellite system (GLONASS).

Two Russian tourists were injured in an explosion of liquefied gas in the five -star Kaya hotel in the city of Belek on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, news agencies report. In the five -star Mediterranean hotel, a gas tank with liquefied gas exploded. The explosion occurred a few days after replacing a huge gas tank in the room. As a result of the explosion at the hotel in the Turkish resort Belyk, one kitchen worker died and 10 tourists were injured.

"If you touch the well -known issue of salary, then the solution methods resemble the inquisitorial. The Inquisition had a" humane "formulation:" Punish with possible meekness without shedding " - which meant" burning.

The American Senate approved the bill under which the military campaign in Iraq will be financed until March next year, the Air Force reports. After that, President Bush is invited to withdraw troops from Iraq. 51 votes against 47 senators decided to link the issue of withdrawing troops with the financing of the military in Iraq.

In Spain, 17 alleged members of the international group engaged in financial fraud using the Internet were detained, RIA Novosti reports. Among the detainees there are Russians and Ukrainians. Attackers rented large amounts of money on the Internet from the accounts of private individuals and organizations in different regions of the country and through intermediaries sent them to Chisinau.

In the second part of the conversation, Henry Semenovich Steinberg shared the story of the only one in the world Deposits of Mineral Renia. This valuable metal, necessary in both the space and in the automotive industry, is still buying abroad, while the existence of the Russian field of Renia has long been known The first persons of the state. But only attentive Roman Abramovich responded to The appeal of geophysicists ... Olga Orlova talked .

We publish a complete transcript of the lecture of the rector of the Russian Economic School, Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Financial Development, Doctor of Economic Sciences Sergey Guriev , read on March 22, 2006 in the Club - the literary cafe Bingua as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru project.

The United States is concerned about the scale of the Russian espionage activity, reports Ar . According to a senior US counterintelligence officer Joel Brenner, Russia restored the scale of espionage activities against the United States - to the level of the Cold War. Brenner is the head of the office of the head of the national counterintelligence. He expressed the general concern of Washington in connection with the buildup of efforts in this area.

In Beijing, a metro tunnel collapsed, which is built for the 2008 Olympics, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Reuters. There are six people under the rubble, but there are practically no chances to find them alive. “There are several layers of land and concrete above them, so the chances of surviving are almost zero,” a colleague of miners remaining underground said. The incident occurred last night - part of the exit from the metro station collapsed.

The speaker of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation Sergey Mironov insists on the need to resign the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov, RIA Novosti reports. Today, at a meeting with journalists, Fradkov said: "This must be done." He also noted that the story with a discussion of the possible resignation of Zurabov is similar to a soap opera, which is not an end, and it is simply not going to make a radical decision.

At the oldest Medvetsy stream mine in Norilsk, during the unloading, the dump truck fell from a hundred -meter height, RIA Novosti reports. The driver of the car died. According to preliminary data, the incident occurred due to the carelessness of the driver, who rose too close to the edge of the dump.