Another day of the Champions League brought only draws The clubs of groups “A” and “B” demonstrated amazing peacefulness on the next match day of the Champions League. All four matches of the fifth round ended in a draw, and the players of eight teams together managed to score only four goals. At the same time, for Manchester United and Bayern, the settlement agreement turned into a pass to the next stage of the tournament.

OPEC will enforce export quotas more strictly There is nothing stopping the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from extending the current restrictions on oil production into the second quarter. Today's summit in Vienna will be more technical: the cartel's oil ministers will only try to tighten compliance with existing production quotas.

But it’s too early to put an end to the struggle between the mayor’s office and the Ministry of Property. The struggle between the federal and Moscow authorities for real estate in the capital, which officials of the opposing camps prefer not to advertise, threatens to erupt into a loud scandal. Each agreement (remember the recently adopted federal law on the delimitation of state ownership of land) on the division of capital property is given almost in blood.

Lately, I’ve been hearing more and more reproaches: before, theater critics, they say, didn’t hit the artist hard, but tried to delve into the idea, give practical advice, and point out mistakes. The current ones are so mad. No sensitivity. Sometimes people rehearse for several months, they go through so many nerves and waste so much energy. They want it to work out for the best. But I don’t care about criticism. He came, shit himself from all sides and was glad.

The purchase and sale of arable land is almost legalized The plot of turning land into a commodity, which has been developing for more than ten years, is approaching a denouement. The government has found a way to put agricultural land into circulation. It will be possible to buy and sell not only city land, a plot for a house or a summer cottage, which is already permitted by the Land Code.

The last stage of the World Cup this season is taking place in Oslo, Norway, which includes a ski sprint in its program. Its winners were Norwegian athletes - Olympic champion in the 10 km race Bente Skari and Jens Arne Svartedal. Based on the results of seven races, Skari became the owner of the small World Cup in sprint; for men, the representative of Norway, Trond Iversen, also won the trophy.

Local deputies propose tightening the rules for its advertising Perhaps today the State Duma will begin to discuss amendments to the law “On Advertising”. The issue was on the agenda for the House meeting on Wednesday, but it did not reach it. Perhaps this time too the deputies will get carried away by discussing the status of the Central Bank and will again forget about beer - the amendments to the law on advertising concern primarily this drink.

Alfa-Eco will sell Volga Less than a year had passed since Alfa-Eco acquired shares of the Volga paper mill from the Nizhny Newsprint Limited holding, when the company decided to sell them. This was stated yesterday by Deputy Managing Director of Volga Valery Grin at a meeting of heads of pulp and paper industry enterprises in the forest complex of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

From the world one by one - investment program for Gazprom The government decided to give a discount to Gazprom. Yesterday at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, an investment program for the gas industry for 2002 in the amount of 157 billion rubles was approved. Of these, 140.8 should come from Gazprom. However, only 125.8 billion rubles are available - these are the monopolist's internal funds plus external borrowings. The gap is 15 billion.

Slavneft and TNK found themselves on the same road again Slavneft and the Tyumen Oil Company (TNK), which a year and a half ago fought among themselves for control over Slavneft's subsidiaries, are now competing in the corporate bond market. The shares of both companies are not traded on the stock market, and this allows you to compare rivals based on bond quotes. Yesterday Slavneft successfully placed two-year securities in the amount of 2 billion rubles.

Regional pardon commissions are still harsh It seems that we have succeeded in finding a dozen worthy citizens in each subject of the Russian Federation to staff the regional pardon commissions: the new system of state mercy has actually begun to work. There are only three regions left in which local pardon commissions have not yet been formed, its head, Robert Tsivilev, announced yesterday at a meeting in the pardon department of the presidential administration.

Post-Soviet artist unions simulate active life The Moscow International Art Salon, opening today at the Central House of Artists, is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the formation of the CIS. The International Confederation of Artists' Unions was created at the same time as the Commonwealth. And her goals were similar: not to let established sociocultural ties and contacts die. The double anniversary turned out to be sad.

A special commission is investigating the events in Novye Atagi A special commission created by order of the Chairman of the Government of Chechnya, Stanislav Ilyasov, yesterday began its own investigation into the mysterious events in the village of Starye Atagi, which became the cause of mass unrest in Grozny. What happened in the village on March 7 is still not really clear.

The Americans convinced Russia to stop disarmament The Washington visit of Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov led to paradoxical results. At the end of the negotiations, during which the parties strenuously convinced each other of their exceptional peacefulness and the need for further reductions in strategic weapons, Mr.

It is proposed to pay properly for the “sixth button” 12 applicants will participate in the competition for the “sixth button”. The Ministry of Press, having completed its review of documents yesterday, rejected the application of the Party for the Social Protection of Citizens of the Federation. The reason for this was the applicant’s failure to pay the competition fee, as well as the lack of a mass media registration certificate and a number of other documents.