Lev Roitman: After the still mysterious operation, as a result of which Abdullah Ojalan, the leader of the militarized "Kurdistan Workers' Party" (in Germany, is prohibited as extremist), was delivered from Kenya to the island of Imrals in the Marmary Sea, the Turkish Prime Minister Bualent Ezhevit stated that the arrest of Ojalan was a decision of the Kurdish problem. This, of course, is not so.

Kurdistan: Not a single terror ... Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: After the still mysterious operation, as a result of which Abdullah Ojalan, the leader of the militarized "Kurdistan Workers' Party" (in Germany, is prohibited as extremist), was delivered from Kenya to the island of Imrals in the Marmary Sea, the Turkish Prime Minister Bualent Ezhevit stated that the arrest of Ojalan was a decision of the Kurdish problem. This, of course, is not so.

The American Academy of Music Country awarded its annual awards. The winner was Feite Hill, who won six prizes, of which one was awarded for her duet with her husband Tim McGrow. Among Faith Hill's performances, her album “Fidelity” was noted, the video clip “Kiss” and, in general, the vocal activity of the past year. The winners of the National Book Prize are named in New York . A collection of stories "The Love of a Dobrustious Woman" by Alisa Manro received the first prize for fiction.

Tennis . In Indian-Wells, California, a large tournament with the participation of all the strongest players in male and female single groups is held. Women on Monday played the first matches of the third round. American Monica Selesh, the third racket of the world lost to Henriett Nagyova from Slovakia - 2: 6, 4: 6.

Russian President Yeltsin called the Minister of Internal Affairs Stepashin for a report on the situation around the abduction on March 5 in the formidable representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya General Spiguin. According to the press secretary of Yeltsin - Yakushkin, after the report the president "will decide on further actions." Stepashin said on Sunday that Russia would not leave the general abduction by unpunished.

The best means of treating stagnant heart failure is not bed rest, but physical load. This conclusion is made on the basis of clinical studies conducted by Italian and American doctors. Classes of physiotherapy exercises for 14 months significantly improved the well-being and psychological condition of the patients and saved many of them not only from a hospital bed, but even from death. Dr.

Author of the program Alexander Genis Alexander Genis: The design of the first cars slavishly repeated the outlines of the carriage, right down to completely useless details, like some kind of radiator. Now, these antediluvian mechanical monsters make us smile condescendingly. Meanwhile, today's technology will seem just as funny to our descendants. Let's say the computer still too obediently resembles the outlines of a typewriter with a screen. And so it is in everything.

On Monday, mourning events were held in Kabardino-Balkaria dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the mass deportation of Balkars to Central Asia. On March 8, 44 years from the North Caucasus, about 38 thousand Balkars were deported, while a third of the deported were women, and more than half of the children. By 48, 13 thousand Balkars died in exile. Only in March 57, the repressed people were allowed to return to their lands.

The company "Rostelecom" announced an increase in on March 10 of tariffs for international telephone services - an average of 22 percent. A minute of a telephone conversation with a subscriber in Ukraine, in Moldova or Belarus will cost a Moscow subscriber 7 rubles 50 kopecks. For the Baltic countries, the tariff will amount to 11 rubles 70 kopecks per minute of the conversation. For Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan - 11 rubles 25 kopecks.