The ranks of the favorites of the largest tennis tournament in the Masters series, taking place in Key Biscayne, look surprisingly slender and unshakable. As a rule, the main providers of sensations are men. However, this time the strongest tennis players started from the second round and unanimously stepped into the third.

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Russia and Europe are designing a fundamentally new rocket A group of Russian and Western European rocket companies signed a memorandum of cooperation in Moscow last Friday on the creation of a fundamentally new space engine. The new product will differ from all previously known samples in two features. Firstly, it should not run on kerosene or heptyl, like modern space engines, but on liquid methane with oxygen as an oxidizing agent.

MNVK cannot go bankrupt To start broadcasting on the sixth meter frequency, it is not enough to win the competition scheduled for March 27. Partial or full broadcasting on the “sixth button” can begin only after the completion of the liquidation procedure of the previous broadcasting license holder - the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MNVK) television company.

The President ordered Krasnoyarsk politicians to stop the war The visit of the Russian President to the Krasnoyarsk Territory can be considered one of his most productive trips to the regions of Russia. It seems that Vladimir Putin managed to force Krasnoyarsk politicians to abandon confrontation and begin to look for ways of reconciliation.

The Russians won in three types of the program The World Figure Skating Championships that ended in Nagano became a kind of rehabilitation for Irina Lobacheva, Ilya Averbukh and Irina Slutskaya for their failures in Salt Lake City. Let's remember that a month ago the Russian dance duo lacked just one judge's vote to get ahead of figure skaters from France Marina Anisina and Gwendal Peyser.

Gennady Seleznev is forced to abandon his ideals Gennady Seleznev is not going to leave the Communist Party in order to retain the post of speaker. “Belonging to one party or another cannot be a reason for the resignation of the Chairman of the State Duma,” said Mr. Seleznev, “this is simply ridiculous.” It is precisely his belonging to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation that his enemies from the pro-presidential “alliance of four” in the Duma accuse the speaker of.

SPS is going to take the Ministry of Agriculture under public control Vladimir Putin's right-wing policies are forcing liberal parties to look for unconventional ways to expand their influence before the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Mikhail Kasyanov is going to share profits with the regions The government is determined to continue tax reform. In a week, a single tax for small businesses will be discussed at a cabinet meeting. Mikhail Kasyanov said on Saturday that the government is extremely concerned that small businesses are practically not developing, and an overly cumbersome tax system is one of the main reasons for this.

There was practically no mention in the media about the exhibition of the classic of Russian photography Igor Palmin “Time Past Perfect”. The cozy halls of the branch of the Literary Museum on Trubnikovsky Lane are quiet and empty. Who needs piercing “close-ups” of cult characters of the 70s and 80s if they are not part of the fashionable Sviblov Photobiennale?

Viktor Stolpovskikh agreed to reimburse the fine to the Geneva prosecutor's office Pavel Borodin's decision to not pay attention to the actions of Swiss justice at all, apparently, is unlikely to save him from the imposed fine. According to the latest information, the Prosecutor General of Geneva Bernard Bertossa, as promised, is simply going to write off 300 thousand francs from the amount of the 5 million bail that was once paid for Borodin by the Russian side.

Russia will accept American chicken legs, and the United States will accept Russian steel According to officials from Moscow and Washington, two “unrelated” trade disputes between Russia and the United States can be simultaneously resolved in the near future. We are talking about access to the American market for Russian steel products, and to ours for chicken legs from the United States.

Baku special forces dispersed the opposition Last Saturday, internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan dispersed an unauthorized rally under the slogan “Karabakh, bread, work!” It was organized in the center of Baku by members of the United Opposition Movement (UNM). It includes 26 opposition parties and public organizations.

Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone left Moscow without a signed contract to hold the Grand Prix in our capital. It was expected that he and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov would legally formalize the need for the speedy construction of a track for automobile racing. In fact, the signing of the agreement, which seemed like a formality, did not take place for reasons known only to the participants in the negotiations.

Although defeating Saddam will give him little Many in Israel consider an imminent war with Iraq to be a done deal. There are many signs of an impending campaign, and one of them is Washington's unprecedented pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: the United States is seeking to enlist maximum support in the Arab world on the eve of military action against Saddam Hussein.