The role of women in Russian politics has not yet been properly assessed or studied. On the one hand, a female leader is still perceived as something out of the ordinary. It would seem that there are almost no women in command positions in government bodies.

Those responsible for the crisis in the financing of state defense orders have not yet been found The Russian leadership was finally forced to publicly admit how difficult the situation has become in recent months with regard to the financing of the domestic military-industrial complex.

Bailiffs prohibited the Federation Council from accepting him as a senator Alfred Koch is not allowed to quietly become a senator. The Bailiff Service of the Leningrad Region sent a resolution to the Federation Council prohibiting the upper house of parliament from approving a businessman as a member. The initiator of the “anti-Kokhov” campaign was the deputy of the Legislative Assembly (LA) of the Leningrad region Oleg Petrov, who heads the commission on the legality of the regional parliament.

Americans and Taliban are ready to kill each other until their last breath Rumors about the demise of the Taliban and a new Afghan war turned out to be premature. For a week now, American special forces and the Afghan government troops supporting them have been unable to capture the fortified area of ​​Amra, located 30 kilometers from Gardez, the administrative center of Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan.

Seven people, including two children, died, 16 people received burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, 159 were left homeless as a result of a fire that yesterday almost completely destroyed a 48-apartment pre-revolutionary residential building on Bolshaya Raznochinnaya Street on the Petrograd side of St. Petersburg.

Five world records within 29 days plus a brilliant victory at the European Winter Championships are more than convincing arguments for the 21-year-old Moscow pole vaulter Svetlana FEOFANOVA in the dispute with the heroes of the Olympics that ended in Salt Lake City for the title of the best Russian athlete of the 2002 winter season .

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a new version of the law “On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)”, thereby supporting the government and personally the Minister of Economic Development German Gref. However, even before the vote it was clear that this would happen. The new law, according to Mr. Gref, is necessary, if only because it is simply impossible to live by the old law. In this, all the deputies completely agreed with him.

The process has begun - the game in Linares is becoming tougher. The first two rounds of the second round were equal in effectiveness to the entire first round. Kasparov himself started the game, leaving the lead by as much as 2 points after the victory over Vallejo. And, being free in the second round, I could more objectively assess the upcoming change. And there was something to see! Ponomarev rushed after him.

Ballet by Alexei Ratmansky at the Mariinsky Theater For more than fifty years, choreographers staged “Cinderella” as best they could. Prokofiev composed it in 1944, a year later the ballet appeared at the Bolshoi Theater choreographed by Rostislav Zakharov, and six months later at the Mariinsky (then Kirovsky), composed by Konstantin Sergeev. Then “Cinderella” began to flicker in provincial theaters. But not a single Soviet director dared to listen to the music and believe it.

The representative office of Visa Internation in Russia announced the launch of a special website in RuNet for plastic card users. According to the representative office, in 2001 the number of Visa cards in Russia increased by 86% and amounted to more than 2 million. The number of transactions increased by 80%, card turnover by 136%, and the number of issuers also increased significantly.

Mikhail Kasyanov asks for visa-free travel for Kaliningrad residents The introduction by Poland and Lithuania of a strict visa regime for citizens of Russia and Ukraine from July 1, 2003 is a resolved issue. This was stated yesterday by Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller after negotiations with his colleagues from Russia and Lithuania. “Poland will implement policies arising from the policies of the European Union,” Mr. Miller said harshly.

RAO UES of Russia lost in court Yesterday, the Moscow Arbitration Court considered two lawsuits filed by RAO UES of Russia concerning the calculation and collection of subscription fees for electricity transmission services. RAO lost both.

Nestle is fighting the smuggling of its products An unprecedented operation in the capital's retail chain was carried out yesterday by employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes (GUBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Almost simultaneously, detectives raided more than 40 warehouses and stores, including such well-known ones as Ramstore and Seventh Continent.

A good group of presidential candidates is being selected in Karelia. Three candidates have so far been officially notified of their intention to run for the post of head of the republic (elections are scheduled for April 28): the current head of the republic Sergei Katanandov, State Duma deputy (SPS faction) Arthur Myaki and cosmonaut Sergei Avdeev. In total, by March 27, when the deadline for submitting documents ends, the number of candidates may increase to ten.

There are young talents not only in Spartak After the brilliant debut of Marat Izmailov last season, special attention is paid to young football players. And then, this off-season, the capital’s Spartak surprised everyone with its selection. Many young football players joined the team, including Dmitry Sychev, Alexander Danishevsky, and Andrey Streltsov, who had already made a name for themselves.