It is claimed by Tehran, Moscow and Washington The Caspian summit, the need for which has been spoken about by oil workers and economists, environmentalists and lawyers for several years, will still take place. Next week, the presidents of the five Caspian states - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan - will meet in Ashgabat and openly talk about what to do with the Caspian Sea, which these five have not been able to divide for the second decade.

In the capital's derby "Lokomotiv" - "Dynamo" the railway workers won a landslide victory with a score of 3:0. And the hero of the meeting was striker Ruslan Pimenov, who scored two goals against the “blue and white” in this match. After the match, Ruslan Pimenov answered questions from a correspondent for the Vremya Novostei newspaper. -- In the previous round, Dynamo beat Rostselmash, scoring five unanswered goals. Did this leave an imprint on Lokomotiv’s preparations for the last meeting?

One of the world's largest commodity exchanges, the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT), announced the appointment of Charles Faulk, Chairman of NYBOT, as President of the company. Mr. Faulk will succeed Mark Fichtel, who held the post for more than two years and resigned unexpectedly last week. NYBOT is the parent company of Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange, Inc. (CSCE) and New York Cotton Exchange (NYCE). "TIME FOR NEWS"

Japanese football players are preparing for the upcoming World Cup, not only by hard training in their clubs. For example, the attack leader of the Japanese national team, Hidetoshi Nakata, who plays in the Italian Serie A for Parma, decided to open his own cafe in Tokyo to coincide with the World Cup. Nakata's goals are far from getting rich.

A unique copy of “Black Square” was finally sold at the Gelos auction There was no sensation. On April 13, 2002, “Black Square” by Kazimir Malevich, which belonged to the bankrupt Inkombank, was not sold. It was not even put up for auction at the Gelos auction house along with the so-called “main” part of the collection.

But there will be no direct transfers from the budget to the budget yet Commenting on the results of Friday’s meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union of Belarus and Russia, Alexander Lukashenko said that the parties managed to “find a compromise on all issues.” Of the four agreements providing for the unification of economic systems, three have been signed.

Comandante Hugo Chavez showed his opponents how much a pound of oil costs A new charismatic leader has emerged in Latin America - a worthy successor to Fidel Castro. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, overthrown on Thursday by a “military-industrial junta” with the tacit consent of the United States, has triumphantly returned to power. In 48 hours, the country changed three presidents, almost three dozen people died in street clashes, and hundreds were injured.

The film "Let's Make Love" was released in wide release In Denis Evstigneev’s “youth story” there is nothing that overseas teen comedies are famous for, to which the film “Let’s Make Love” should, in theory, be a long-awaited competitor. Here, no one engages in handjobs, releases thunderous farts, or uses bodily fluids instead of hair gel. There’s not even that much nudity: instead of volcanic teenage obscenity, “funny, touching and unexpected situations” rule the show on the screen.

At the end of last week, the Moscow City Court concluded a high-profile criminal epic about the abduction in 1999 of the son of Israeli businessman Joseph Sharon, for whose life the criminals demanded a ransom of $8 million. 13-year-old Adi Sharon was held hostage for nine months, and spent all this time in terrible conditions.

Berlin correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper Yuri ShPAKOV talks with Kurt Dieter GRILL, member of the German Bundestag from the CDU/CSU, chairman of the expert parliamentary commission “Long-term energy supply in the context of globalization and liberalization.” -- Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji visited Germany simultaneously.

Russian parties have strengthened their positions in power by resorting to the force of law. According to the amendment to the law on the general principles of organizing power in the regions, approved by the Duma at the end of last week, from now on half of the parliamentary seats in all regional parliaments will be reserved for parties. So far, the party principle of elections operates only at the federal level.

The European Commission does not understand what restrictions the president was talking about The energy dialogue between Russia and the EU has taken on a strange character - Moscow and Brussels see the same problems in completely different ways. Judging by the statements of Russian leaders, they are more concerned about the energy security of Europe than the careless Europeans themselves.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season . "St. Louis" -- "Detroit" -- 3:2 -- Larionov "D" (0+1), Datsyuk "D" (0+2), "Philadelphia" -- "Rangers" -- 2:1 , "San Jose" - "Los Angeles" - 3:1, "Washington" - "New Jersey" - 3:4 - Gonchar "V" (1+1) , "Montreal" - - "Buffalo" -- 0:3 -- Afinogenov "B" (0+1), "Ottawa" -- "Toronto" -- 2:5, "Boston" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 7:1 -- Samsonov "B" - (0+3), Morozov "P" (1+0), "Calgary" - "Vancouver" - 1:4.

Venezuela did not allow the US to enjoy cheap raw materials US hopes that emerged on Friday for an improvement in the situation with oil supplies thanks to pro-American generals coming to power in Venezuela were not destined to come true. On Friday, the price of oil began to decline (albeit by only 0.75%), but Hugo Chavez triumphantly returned to his previous duties on Sunday. He is expected to continue his policy of severely restricting the country's oil exports to maintain high prices.

The Foreign Ministry decided that the Catholic abbot was doing the wrong thing in Russia The reasons for the deprivation of the Russian visa of the Catholic priest Stefano Caprio, who is the rector of the parishes in Vladimir and Ivanovo, have not yet become clear. The other day, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided a comment to Vatican representatives in Moscow. But there was nothing concrete in the diplomats' official statement.