"Dina" yields leadership to "Spartak" The fifth round of the Russian Football Championship became historic in its own way. For the first time in the last decade, the national championship standings are headed not by the capital’s Dina, but by another club. The multiple champion of Russia was supplanted from the leading position by Moscow's Spartak. “Dina” is going through hard times right now.

Traffic police inspectors will be able to carry out technical inspections of any car they like right on the roads. Order No. 1240 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which comes into force on February 20, provides a very significant list of grounds on which an inspector can brake any car he likes. And then either at stationary posts, or at police control posts, or at checkpoints, check its condition.

The Duma members intend to seriously adjust the norm of the law, which they have already approved, allowing governors to be elected for a third term. Gennady Seleznev promised this to Interfax yesterday. He said that the Duma Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy would soon propose the required amendment. Three weeks ago, the Duma extended the political life of most governors and presidents of the republics, essentially allowing them to remain in place until 2013.

The struggle for the state monopoly on sturgeon fishing and black caviar trade is heating up “A law providing for the introduction of a state monopoly on sturgeon fishing, as well as on the production and sale of black caviar, may be adopted as early as this year,” Deputy Chairman of the State Fisheries Committee Vladimir Izmailov told the Interfax agency yesterday.

At yesterday's hearing of the Moscow District Military Court in the case of the murder of journalist of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper Dmitry Kholodov, at the request of the defendants' lawyers, 12 additional witnesses were called. One of the defense witnesses, the former military instructor of a school located in Kaliningrad near Moscow, Colonel Vladimir Mikhailov, said that on the day of the journalist’s death, the accused Pavel Popovskikh and Konstantin Mirzayants were not in Moscow.

Not from a good life The French company Bull SA, which ranks third among European system integrators (companies that supply computer networks and software to solve customer problems), announced an aggressive offensive in Russia. The company's management decided to expand the company's activities in our country and invited a Russian manager to implement this plan. Competitors are skeptical about Bull's plans.

In two weeks, settlements with its investors will begin When SBS-Agro came under the control of the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions in 1999, few believed that ARCO would cope with this bank, which had become the focus of the conflicting political and financial interests of many powerful people.

The number of liberation armies in the Balkans is growing rapidly The most militant of the field commanders of the Liberation Army of Prešev, Bujanovac and Medvedzhi (OAPBM) is called “Comandante Lesi”. "Lesi" in Albanian means "Hairy". The commander is ready to fight for liberation from Serbian tyranny to the last bullet and to the last drop of blood. Last week, his unit received its first recoilless artillery piece.

The experimental state exam will have several difficulty levels Details of the education reform were announced yesterday at a press conference by Vladimir Filippov. “A unified state exam will be introduced in five or six regions,” said the Minister of Education. - Only those schoolchildren who are going to enter universities in their own regions this year will participate in it. The experiment will take place in Yakutia, Mari El, Mordovia, Chuvashia.

Foreigners first appeared in Russian military educational institutions shortly after the proclamation of Bulgarian independence in 1878. Officers of the newly created army learned the art of war both in their own country and in Russian schools and academies. Until 1883, Russian officers and generals occupied key positions in the military department in Bulgaria (up to the minister of war and heads of main departments).

Moscow and Washington reacted differently to Shevardnadze's statement of neutrality On the same day, Russian and American military forces landed in Tbilisi.

Pasha Tsvetomuzyka told reporters about Anatoly Bykov The notorious Krasnoyarsk businessman Vilor Struganov, who is also called Pasha Tsvetomuzika in his homeland, finally reached Moscow with his revelations of the former head of KrAZ Anatoly Bykov. Yesterday he gave a press conference in the capital, at which, firstly, he explained the relationship that connected him with the “aluminum baron” of the region, and secondly, he explained why he was doing all this. According to Mr.

Deputies downgraded the Bank of Russia Almost everything was taken from the Central Bank. If the amendments to the law on the Central Bank are adopted in the form in which they were approved by the Duma working group, then all that will remain of the great and terrible Central Bank is the loud definition - Central.

A high-ranking official of the administration of the Sverdlovsk region was recently detained during a joint operation by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes (GUBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the UBEP of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region.

Moscow is shedding its debt burden Moscow will repay the loan from Sberbank of Russia in the amount of 700 million rubles ahead of schedule. As Mikhail Kalinushkin, general director of the Moscow Financial Agency, told the Vremya Novostey newspaper yesterday, the loan issued a year ago was supposed to be repaid on February 15, but 714 million rubles were needed to repay the loan and pay interest. were credited ahead of schedule to the Bank of Moscow, which must transfer them to the lender.