The head of the Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, Lieutenant General Vladimir Fedorov, personally took to the streets of the capital yesterday during an operation carried out by his service to seize special signals illegally used by drivers - flashing lights and sirens. According to the traffic police press service, inspectors set up ambushes on “illegal motorists” on Leninsky, Leningradsky, Kutuzovsky Avenues and Taganskaya Square in the capital. Mr.

The most conscientious parents in Moscow have already begun to prepare for September. In the capital, enrollment of children in schools officially began in April. The Moscow Education Committee promises to conduct the admissions campaign this year more strictly and fairly. As the head of the MKO Lyubov Kezina recently promised, from this year it is strictly forbidden to conduct interviews with children in the form of exams, tests or tests.

Yuri Luzhkov asks to return the employment service to Moscow The Moscow authorities intend to appeal to the president and government with a request to return the employment service to the city subordination. As you know, in 2001 the capital's employment fund was abolished, and the services of the corresponding department changed subordination and began to be financed from the federal budget.

There are less than two months left before the start of the World Cup, and the official agreement between Russian television channels and the Kirch media company, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast World Cup 2002 matches, has not yet been signed.

What a joy, my previous column in the newspaper Vremya Novostey (dedicated to the results of the census of the best Russian poets in the Russian Journal) caused a slight ripple of literary polemics. Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, the author of the census idea, reproached me - however, surrounding the reproach with polite reservations - of “poetic racism” and adherence to “true values.” That's how strict it is. And just because I doubted: two hundred and forty of the best is not too much?

Gazprom is getting closer to the consumer The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, in an interview with Interfax tried to explain why in the future Vladimir Putin will not ask him “where is the money” from gas exports. Last November in Novy Urengoy, the president pointed out that due to the huge number of intermediaries, Gazprom exports gas at a price two to three times lower than the market price. Mr.

On April 1, Gazprom completed the buyback of 32% of the shares of the Purgaz mining company from the Itera Group of Companies, the concern’s press service reported yesterday. The option was exercised in accordance with the share purchase agreement dated February 10, 1999. Itera was returned the par value of the shares, as well as about 5.8 billion rubles that the company invested in the development of the Gubkinskoye gas field.

Yesterday the West was reminded of its energy dependence on the Muslim world. At an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur, the Iraqi delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, called for the weapon of the Islamic world, oil, to be used against Israel and those who support it (read: the United States).

I was and remain an ardent supporter of the fact that we must in every possible way support the desire of parents to pay for the education of their children. Because contribution to education is a symbol of parents’ motivation, a symbol of the fact that the value of education in the country, despite all the differences, is really increasing. Back in 1992-1993, as Deputy Minister of Education, I prepared a decree regarding private schools.

There is a whiff of elections on Okhotny Ryad Pro-presidential factions began active preparations for the elections of the next Duma by strengthening their hardware positions in the current Duma. It is difficult to explain with anything other than pre-election preparations the reshaping of internal powers that will take place today at the instigation of the Duma majority - the “alliance of four” led by the Unity faction.

According to intelligence services, Russians joined the ranks of the Taliban out of conviction The list of Russians who fought in Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban and are now in custody at the American Guantanamo Bay base was announced yesterday by representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office for the Southern Federal District. These are 30-year-old resident of Tatarstan Almaz Sharipov, 40-year-old Ufa resident Ravil Gumarov and 20-year-old native of Kabardino-Balkaria Rasul Kudaev.

Anna Belova faces resignation Today's board of the Ministry of Railways should consider the first stage of structural reform, as well as “personnel policy issues.” The industry reform was announced a long time ago, but no real steps have been taken in this direction yet. So “personnel issues” will most likely come down to a search for those to blame.

Governors and legislators will no longer be able to remove an objectionable mayor or deprive district and city deputies of their deputy status without sufficient grounds.

Aviators and aircraft manufacturers have not agreed on the future of Russian aircraft A representative round table on the problems of domestic aviation, organized yesterday by Expert magazine, revealed a wide range of opinions about the prospects of this industry and formulated fundamentally different recipes for its salvation. However, the struggle of opposing views revolved around one traditional axis: import duties on imported aircraft.

Now with NATO and EU Today, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov arrives in Morocco, this is the second point of his Mediterranean tour. Yesterday, this country unexpectedly found itself in the spotlight after leaks appeared in the American press that the United States had allegedly agreed with Rabat to provide asylum to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The Middle East settlement was one of the main topics of yesterday's negotiations between Mr.