On March 22-26, 2002, VTsIOM (All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion) conducted a survey of 1,600 Russians using a sample representative of the adult population of the federation. Answers to some of the questions of this study are given in percentages along with data from previous similar surveys by VTsIOM. The statistical error of such surveys is within 4%.

"Alfa-Eco" attacks Bidash along the entire front Over the past week, shares of the Taganrog plant "Krasny Kotelshchik" - Russia's largest manufacturer of boiler equipment for power plants - have increased in price by 50%. According to one version, the rise in quotations is associated with the expression of interest in the plant of the Alfa-Eco company.

How the BBC resisted censorship During the conflict with Argentina, Britain, the birthplace of the ideas of democracy and freedom, demonstrated to the whole world: democracy is one thing, but war is something completely different.

A surge of anti-Semitism amid the election campaign “If the authorities of the French Republic do not take measures to protect their fellow citizens of Jewish origin, the latter will be forced to regard the current situation in the country as the threshold of a new Kristallnacht,” the Central Consistory, which unites all French Jews, said in a communiqué yesterday.

The fitness industry is experiencing another boom According to the most conservative estimates, the turnover of the fitness industry in Moscow is $200 million a year. About five new fitness clubs open in the capital every year. Fitness centers will be actively built in the capital for many years to come, not to mention the regions where this market is not developed at all and is of particular interest to investors. The fitness business is one of the youngest in Russia.

The delimitation of the Russian-Kazakh border is being completed Last Friday, a protocol was signed in Omsk on the delimitation of the Russian-Kazakh border in the Omsk section, according to which an agreement was reached to change the border line here. This was announced by the head of the Omsk border detachment, Sergei Shakalov.

The results of the Ukrainian elections suit both Kuchma and his opponents The long-awaited elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which during the stormy campaign were heralded either as a dress rehearsal for the presidential marathon or as determining the future course of the country, ended in a draw. Both supporters of President Kuchma and his opponents have reasons to be pleased.

Portfolios are being divided again in the Duma Big changes are coming to Okhotny Ryad. Perhaps in the very near future the Duma nomenclature will be seriously updated. Yesterday, six parliamentary associations - the pro-Kremlin four (Unity, People's Deputy, OVR and Regions of Russia), as well as the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko - held their first working meeting, the main topic of which was the revision of the agreement concluded at the dawn of the work of the Third Duma package agreement.

An extremely unpleasant incident occurred yesterday morning in Chechnya with the head of the republic’s administration, Akhmad Kadyrov. When he was driving from his home village of Tsentoroi to work in Grozny, his motorcade was stopped by federal forces at a checkpoint at the entrance to the city. According to Mr.

The Orthodox faith will help the Ural unemployed It will now be easier for believing employers and job seekers in Yekaterinburg to find each other. Last week, the country's first Orthodox recruitment agency opened there. According to Alexey Korin, director of the consulting firm Liss and Co., on the basis of which the confessional labor exchange was opened, employers are attracted by the responsibility, decency, and high morality of a believer.

The United Russia party is in great demand. The Ministry of Justice of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, according to Interfax, received two packages of documents for registration of the republican branch of United Russia. Party branches were created literally in two days. First, on March 23, members of the republican branches of the Unity party, the Fatherland movement and the All Russia organization gathered in Cherkessk.

Anji almost defeated the champion In two Sunday matches of the Russian championship, the teams scored ten goals, turning the fifth round into one of the most productive in the 2002 season. Few doubted that Spartak, enraged by the defeat in the previous round from Lokomotiv, would win back at Anzhi. Moreover, the composition of the Dagestan club, which was not very strong in the off-season, made it possible to classify Anzhi as a team that will fight for survival.

A Chinese poacher who sneaked into Primorye to collect tree frogs was detained on Sunday by border guards from the Khasan border detachment. When the squad noticed him, the foreigner himself rushed at the fighters, deftly wielding a stick. In response, the border guards opened warning fire in the air, but this did not stop the intruder: the Chinese stubbornly tried to hit one of the soldiers with a stick. In the end, the Chinese were shot in the leg, after which they managed to calm him down.

Victims complain about the law that reduced their pension The Constitutional Court today will consider a request from a group of Chernobyl survivors about the constitutionality of the package of laws adopted on February 12, 2001 concerning the social protection of citizens affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Belgrade is trying to fulfill another American ultimatum On April 1, Belgrade was no laughing matter. The US ultimatum, which made the further allocation of economic assistance to Yugoslavia dependent on the cooperation of the FRY authorities with the Hague Tribunal, has expired. And although the Serbian authorities yesterday issued an arrest warrant for four suspects of war crimes, it is unknown whether Washington will be satisfied with this.