They will receive lifelong maintenance All judges with 20 years of professional experience should receive not an ordinary pension, but a solid lifelong salary. The Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that the money will be paid regardless of age and time of retirement or resignation. For example, a judge who retired at the age of 48 back in 1982 should receive the same salary as one who became a pensioner yesterday.

A female South American tapir named Debbie lives at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire. After her husband Sonny died, Debbie stopped eating and hid in the far corner of the enclosure, from which she did not leave for days. John Ray, who is responsible for the well-being of the tapirs, was seriously worried and tried in every way to distract Debbie from her worries and bring her to her senses. But, unfortunately, nothing helped.

And they ask for Azerbaijani guarantees The rapprochement between Baku and Tehran frightened tens of thousands of political emigrants who at one time found refuge in Azerbaijan from the persecution of the Shah's regime, and after the Islamic revolution - clerics. The recent visit to Baku by Iranian Interior Minister Abdulwahid Mousavi Lari was a cause for concern.

The new head of Rosenergoatom does not want to start with confrontation Oleg Saraev, who had just taken office as head of Rosenergoatom, told reporters yesterday that he had come to the concern for a long time. From March 1, he intends to de facto transform the concern into a Unified Generating Company (UGC): it will be Rosenergoatom that will sell electricity, and not its nuclear power plants. Therefore, Mr.

The President advises against making sudden movements The preparation of the presidential address to the Russian parliament has entered the final stage. Vladimir Putin began a series of meetings with Duma members, during which he listens carefully to parliamentarians and, according to eyewitnesses, willingly accepts all their sensible proposals. Yesterday in the evening he received first Vladimir Pekhtin, the leader of the most loyal faction - Unity, and then all its other members.

Guests from the Mariinsky Theater at the Imperial Russian Ballet This troupe was created eight years ago by Gediminas Taranda to provide backup dancers at the next anniversary evening of Maya Plisetskaya in Japan.

Belarus is memorable for sports fans Our ally Belarus attracted everyone's attention at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. True, the sports grounds turned out to be rich for Belarusian athletes not in medals, but in scandals, but of all kinds. Starting from the conflict over the formation of the Olympic delegation and ending with the deprivation of accreditation of the chief of the Olympic mission, Yaroslav Borichko. The reason for this decision by the IOC was Mr.

Our team may not have time to Russify They say they don’t come to someone else’s monastery with their own charter. This may be true, but at least this statement does not apply to the NHL. The main professional league of world hockey has arrived and made its home at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. There are many examples of this. Until now, the Olympic family had not wanted to share the glory under any circumstances and preferred to be alone in the spotlight. Today she had to move.

Bin Laden's "companions" are available in Afghanistan at a reasonable price The “civilized world,” embodied in the international anti-terrorist coalition, won a brilliant victory over the “medieval barbarism” represented by the Afghan Taliban movement. The world community, with a sense of accomplishment, switches to other tasks, for example, to searching for terrorist accomplices in other countries. Meanwhile, the “barbarism” in Afghanistan, in general, has not decreased.

The leadership of the University of the Australian city of Adelaide responded in a unique way to the growing interest in witchcraft and black magic caused by stories about Harry Potter - here a special course on the history of magic was introduced into the curriculum.

According to Reuters, yesterday official Tehran decided to expel from the country the Pashtun leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the former leaders of the Mujahideen who fought with Soviet troops, and the Prime Minister of Afghanistan. The expulsion of the Afghan was authorized by the Supreme National Security Council, headed by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.

Our correspondent is a witness in the murder case of Ahmad Shah Masood Recently, the Scotland Yard file cabinet was replenished with an important document - the fingerprints of a correspondent for the newspaper Vremya Novostey. At the invitation of this British intelligence service, well known to all fans of Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, I arrived in London as an official witness in the case of the murder of the legendary Afghan leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Russian oil workers intend to resist export cuts Russia's position in the global oil market is once again becoming the object of close attention. On March 15, the next summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will take place, where the cartel's policy for the second quarter will be discussed. In recent days, OPEC leaders (as well as when discussing plans for the first quarter) have never tired of repeating that the price of oil depends on the volume of Russian exports.

Volzhanka shareholders cannot understand who was present at the trial The struggle of shareholders around the Ulyanovsk confectionery factory “Volzhanka” continues. On February 6, the cassation court sent the case, on which the fate of the factory depends, for a new trial. The main question now causing disputes between international investment funds - the shareholders of the factory: were representatives of one of the plaintiffs - UFGIS Trading Limited - present at the first court hearing.

The dancers did not reach the hearts of Mormons It is as impossible for a non-professional to understand the technical nuances of ice dancing as it is for a laboratory assistant to determine the chemical composition of blood by eye. But this doesn’t matter, because the experts who laid down their lives on the ice explained that the complexity of the programs for all four leading duos was the same. The Frenchmen Marina Anisina and Gwendal Peizerat were the first to step on the ice.