Is it comfortable to sit on three chairs? Having lost to Torpedo, the Spartak players again forced people to talk about the future of their head coach. No, Oleg Romantsev’s qualifications are beyond doubt. However, the question of whether it is possible to combine three high posts without compromising the interests of the club and national team is again relevant.

For Indian Navy Today at the Baltic Shipyard the stage of installation work begins on the frigate “Tabar” (“Axe”), which is being built in St. Petersburg by order of the Indian Navy. On Friday, the ship was ceremoniously launched into the water, and now the frigate’s hull, moored to the outfitting wall of the plant, is to be filled with “stuffing” that will turn it into one of the most advanced warships of its class in the world.

Last Saturday, a meeting of shareholders of the Yaroslavl Motor Plant (Avtodiesel) took place. Based on its results, the Sibal investment and industrial group, which is actively buying up machine-building enterprises, can add a few more points to its asset.

A strong explosion occurred on Sunday night near the Russian Compound in Jerusalem, just as the nearby District Court building was considering extending the pre-trial detention of nine suspects in the Versailles Hall collapse case. A car bomb exploded, parked next to the Trinity Cathedral and the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, where the headquarters of the Jerusalem police is located. Police chief Micky Levy categorically rejected the connection between the court hearing and the explosion.

The regiment of laurel bearers has arrived On Saturday, the Alfred Tepfer Foundation awarded the Pushkin Prize to Yuz Aleshkovsky. The name of the new laureate was announced back in February. Then it became known that from now on the prize would be awarded not annually, but once every two years.

A huge scandal is brewing in FIFA related to the name of Joseph Blatter. The FIFA president is accused of misusing funds owed to the organization. We are talking about the “lost” 75 million Swiss francs. According to The Financial Times, the facts came to light after the bankruptcy of the Swiss sports marketing firm ISMM, which accumulated funds from the sale of rights to television broadcasts of football matches.

This week, Viktor Chernomyrdin, who has just been appointed Russian Ambassador to Ukraine, will arrive at his new job. The long-time owner of the Moscow White House is plunging into the thick of the political struggle that has been shaking the neighboring state for six months now. Tomorrow is its next round - the Verkhovna Rada will vote on the candidacy of Anatoly Kinakh, whom Leonid Kuchma proposed for the post of prime minister instead of the resigned Viktor Yushchenko.

Japan remembers national pride In the month since Junichiro Koizumi became the new Prime Minister of Japan, the attitude of the people of the Land of the Rising Sun towards the government has changed. According to the latest polls, the head of the cabinet is leading in the popularity ratings. The result is impressive, especially considering that his predecessor and fellow Liberal Democratic Party member Yoshiro Mori was supported by no more than 9% of voters.

Russian right-wingers may not drink, eat or sleep The merger that Russian liberals had been talking about for eight months has happened. A single party was born on Sunday night. The newborn “Union of Right Forces” included nine right-wing parties and movements. By origin the party is liberal (in its circle it is bourgeois). The leaders of the organizations dissolved for her sake found a place in the federal political council, which will lead the party between congresses.

The attempt of three Russian climbers to conquer Everest ended in tragedy. At the beginning of last week, three athletes from a Siberian expedition working in the Himalayas, in agreement with the Nepalese authorities, planned to storm the highest peak in the world. The group, the names of whose participants are still unknown, successfully completed the first stage, and then began climbing the peak.

NHL. Stanley Cup. Final. “Colorado” – “New Jersey” – 5:0 (series score – 1:0) In the first match of the Stanley Cup final series, which will last until four victories of one of the teams, Colorado defeated New Jersey. And again, the leading roles were played by the Avalanche leaders, goalkeeper Patrick Roy, who stopped 25 shots, and forward Joe Sakic, who had two goals and an assist. Andrey VDOVIN

Oil workers and the government are fighting for parliamentary souls While most of the State Duma deputies will take a break from lawmaking, communicating with voters in the districts, members of the budget committee will day and night prepare the front of legislative work for their colleagues.

Deputy General Director of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant Andrey PETROSYAN told Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Olga ANTONOVA about the problems of Russian metallurgists in foreign markets. -- Last week the second European Metallurgy Congress took place. What are its results? — This congress was interesting, in particular, because our steel trade agreement with the EU, concluded back in 1997, expires this year.

There has been an unexpected turn in the growing case of declaring NOSTA (Orsko-Khalilovsky Iron and Steel Works, Orenburg Region) bankrupt. Immediately after the Orenburg Arbitration Court received a corresponding application from the St. Petersburg company Universal Metal, the company tried to pay off the debt. However, he failed. The Universal Metal current account in the St. Petersburg branch of Avtobank, specified in the lawsuit, was closed.

Alutech's plans are growing by leaps and bounds The government of the Leningrad region allowed the American company Alutech to begin construction of an aluminum smelter. Discussions on the project continued for a whole year, and during this time Alutech's ambitions almost tripled.