In Omsk, Baptist Christians were banned from showing “Jesus” In Omsk, a conflict is flaring up between the regional administration and the Russian Orthodox Church, on the one hand, and the Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists, on the other. Outraged by the massive propaganda of their competitors (Evangelical Christian Baptists), Orthodox circles, according to the Baptists, on April 29 insisted on a ban on the demonstration of the film “Jesus” organized by Baptist Christians.

Aeroflot prepared for the meeting Aeroflot's board of directors will most likely be expanded from 9 to 11 people in May. This recommendation to the shareholders meeting scheduled for May 25 was adopted on Saturday by the current board of directors of the airline. At its meeting, the board approved the draft of a new version of the charter, which must be approved by shareholders.

Radical communists will protest on May 1st on a crawl Russians will begin a long weekend tomorrow in the name of international workers' solidarity. Those who consider themselves workers will simply celebrate. Those who are professionally involved in protecting workers will first protest and then celebrate. There will be hundreds of thousands of defenders.

The strongest grandmasters in the world are awaiting unification The intrigue of the start of a widely engaged tournament in Prague is spread over two days. On Sunday, games took place in only half of Kasparov's tournament draw (the rest ended last night). Naturally, everyone's attention was drawn to the games of the main favorite. It must be said that the Brazilian Gilberto Milos caused Garry Kasparov a lot of trouble.

We are buying a new domestic car When buying a domestic car, the choice is not that great. 80% of buyers are forced to choose one of the three lines offered by the Volzhsky Automobile Plant. The rear-wheel drive “classic” is not much different from the “penny” that rolled off the assembly line 32 years ago. The main difference is quality; today's Zhigulis are an order of magnitude worse than their first predecessors.

The government is currently considering two options for the government to buy back a stake in Vneshtorgbank (VTB) from the Central Bank - 40% and 99.8% of shares, First Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Ulyukaev told Interfax. The Bank of Russia now owns 99.8% of VTB shares. According to him, “there is no final answer as to which one will be chosen,” but this issue will be completely resolved during May.

But glad to see him free Last Sunday could become a fateful day for the Middle East settlement. "Chairman Arafat is now free to move and lead freely," President George W. Bush said at his Texas ranch in Crawford.

In Omsk, for the first time in Russia, rotor-type wind power plants began to be produced, generating industrial electricity at wind speeds half as fast as traditional blade-type wind turbines. According to the project manager, designer of the Omsk aerospace association Polet, Vladimir Shevchenko, if the blade units begin to operate at an air mass speed of at least 5 m/s, then the Omsk rotor already operates at a speed of 2.5 m/s. The installation is designed for low-wind areas of Siberia.

“Gold” only goes to Alexey Nemov Having won silver in team exercises, Russian gymnasts could prepare with optimism to compete for medals in individual events. But the team spirit could not be transferred to personal competitions. On each apparatus in the eight finalists (with the exception of the crossbar), the name of only one representative of Russia was listed. It was necessary to act without insurance, and, alas, not everyone could cope with such a psychological burden.

Schumacher's advantage grows with every race “The race was not as boring for me as it might seem. This track is one of those that is pleasant to drive on. In addition, I had fun watching the fight for fifth place - the team advised me not to try to overtake Massa and Frentzen,” - this is how Michael Schumacher, who won the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, summed up his feelings after the finish. .

Marat Gelman teaches how to spy Marat Gelman Gallery presents Tatiana Antoshina’s project “The Voyeurism of Alice Guy, or About the Life of Young Men.” The title is tacky and sounds like an advertisement for a cool drag queen show. However, public taste, morals and morals do not receive any slap in the face at the exhibition. Antoshina’s project is made in the spirit of conceptualism of the 80s. Graceful and ascetic.

Confession of the prosecutor to the President of the Republic As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, yesterday the Federation Council received a report from Vladimir Ustinov on the state of the rule of law in Russia and on the work of the Prosecutor General’s Office in 2001.

On Sunday evening, employees of the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-Eastern District of Moscow detained a criminal who committed a massacre on Krasnodarskaya Street in the morning of the same day. There, a man with a knife was throwing himself at passers-by for no reason. As a result, three people died, and two more were sent to hospital in serious condition. The maniac managed to escape before the police arrived.

IBG NIKoil has not yet formalized the purchase of Avtobank, but has already placed its man in the chair of the bank’s deputy chairman. The current deputy chairman of the board of NIKoil, Yuri Voronin, will become the tenth deputy of Avtobank President Vladimir Ryskin. He will oversee client policy issues. Yesterday, the supervisory board of Avtobank sent his candidacy for approval to the Central Bank. As Mr.

For the first time since 1926, the list of peoples of the country will be expanded In the All-Russian Population Census, which will take place in October 2002, the question of nationality will not be the last. Since the previous census, conducted in 1989, the ethnic composition of Russians has changed significantly. This happened due to objective migration processes and due to subjective reasons - many of our compatriots today identify themselves somewhat differently than in Soviet times.