The beginning of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations - also Israelis are being urged to prepare for war. Speaking on radio, Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said: “We need to tell people the truth: there will be new terrorist attacks that we must resist.

The administration and special services of the Krasnodar region announced yesterday through local media a reward of one million rubles for assistance in apprehending six dangerous criminals who escaped from custody in Krasnodar on March 1. A large-scale operation to detain them continues, but the search for them, according to information from the regional police department, has not yet brought any results.

The Accounts Chamber and the Ministry of Finance are fighting for financial control The struggle over the concept of financial control, which has unfolded in recent months between the Accounts Chamber and the Ministry of Finance, has entered a new stage. Yesterday, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin met with President Vladimir Putin and, according to official reports, discussed with him his department’s proposals on the Budget Code related to strengthening financial control.

The President and the Duma approached the military’s money By the May holidays, Russian officers and contract soldiers will know for certain what kind of salary they will begin to be paid in the summer. Vladimir Putin signed a decree yesterday in which he instructed the government to prepare relevant proposals by May 1. The government is required to establish a correspondence between the types of military positions and ranks, on the one hand, and civil service positions, on the other.

But the Krasnoyarsk governor still doesn’t want to give it up The Norilsk Mining Company is behind the territorial conflict between the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Taimyr, says Alexander Lebed. The Krasnoyarsk Governor-General made this statement yesterday during a two-hour press conference, the longest during his tenure as head of the regional administration. It was about another attempt by the authorities of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug to reassign the richest Norilsk industrial region.

Yesterday, the Belarusian prosecutor's office refused to change the preventive measure for the former director of the Minsk Tractor Plant, Mikhail Leonov. He was detained on the night of January 8 on the Minsk-Moscow train on charges of abuse of power and negligence. We are talking, in particular, about the conclusion of an unprofitable contract with the Russian company Rivertech, as a result of which MTZ suffered damage in the amount of 120 thousand dollars.

Bucharest does not want to quarrel with Moscow over “brothers across the Prut” Officials in Moscow, where the difficulties of pro-Russian President Vladimir Voronin are taken to heart, have made it clear more than once that the actions of the Moldovan opposition are supported and stimulated from the outside. The specific location of this “outside” is not a mystery: Iurie Rosca’s supporters march under Romanian flags and consider themselves Romanians.

Deputy Head of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Valery SHUIKOV has just returned from devastated Afghanistan. He told the special correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper Elena SUPONINA about Russia’s plans in this country. -- Will Russia increase its presence in Afghanistan? - Now there are about 200 Russians there, 90 of them are from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the rest are diplomats, security.

The Duma is ready to consider all priority bills before the summer holidays, as long as the president and the government introduce them on time. Yesterday, Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev addressed the Kremlin and the White House with this wish when he gathered representatives of federal authorities for a meeting to discuss legislative plans. The plans for the spring session include 624 bills, 116 of which are to be discussed as a priority. Mr.

The Mariinsky Theater tour on the Bolshoi stage actually opened the Golden Mask festival Critics of opera and drama theaters try not to violate the boundaries that separate closely related art forms. Their resemblance is deceptive, and, being in adjacent territory, it is very easy to get into a galosh.

There will be more Russian oil in the world again The OPEC leadership leaves the Russian capital with nothing diplomatic. Yesterday, at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, OPEC President Rilvanu Lukman and Secretary General of this organization Ali Rodriguez proposed to our country to extend restrictions on oil exports until the end of the second quarter.

Gregor Gysi is waiting for money and women in the government Three months after the elections, a government was finally formed in the German capital. The state of Berlin will be governed by a coalition of social democrats and former communists from the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), returning to power for the first time since 1990. The most prominent senator (as land ministers are called here) will, without a doubt, be the spiritual father of the PDS, Gregor Gysi.

Hockey. Russian Championship . "Amur" - "Molot-Prikamye" - 1:1, "Spartak" - "Neftekhimik" - 0:1, "Dynamo" - "Torpedo" - 2:4, "Severstal" - " Avangard - 4:2, Wings of the Soviets - Mechel - 3:1, Metallurg - CSKA - 4:3, Salavat Yulaev - SKA - 2:4, Lada " - "Metallurg" - 5:0, "Ak Bars" - "Lokomotiv" - 3:1. Leading : 1. Lokomotiv - 114 points. 2. "Avangard" - 94. 3. "Ak Bars" - 92. Outsiders : ...15. SKA -- 40. 16. "Hammer" -- 37. 17. CSKA -- 36. 18. "Torpedo" -- 35.

A crocodile approximately 1 meter 20 centimeters long was stolen from an aquarium in the office of the capital branch of Mezhregiongaz LLC on Sadovnicheskaya Street. As reported by the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, this happened on Sunday between 9.00 and 13.00. Company representatives estimated the damage at 45 thousand rubles. INTERFAX Two orangutans look out of their cage before returning to their homeland in the protected Meratos Forest on the Indonesian island of Borneo.

Russians spend not much less on health than the state spends on healthcare The most secret sector of the Russian economy is paid medicine. Although the private sector of medical services has long become a reality in Russia, the size of this market, by and large, remains a secret for Goskomstat, tax authorities, and the authorities in general. Unlike, say, the pharmaceutical market, which, according to preliminary results for 2001, grew to $2.4 billion.