This is exactly how specialists from the Center for the Development of New Technologies in Dorsten, located near Essen, speak about the prospects for mass production of fuel cells for domestic and industrial needs. Almost ten years have passed since the first experiments on this new technology began at the center’s test bench.

The scenario for the election of the head of Dagestan has already been written Elections for the head of the republic will be held in Dagestan tomorrow. According to the local constitution, he will be the Chairman of the State Council, elected by the Constitutional Assembly (CA). The Constitutional Court includes 121 permanent deputies and 121 representatives from localities, elected from the same electoral districts.

The south of Russia was washed away by rains The number of victims of the most destructive flood in Russian history over the last half century, which has engulfed almost the entire Southern District of the country since Thursday, may be in the hundreds.

Ted Turner insulted Israel The editor-in-chief of the news department of the American television channel CNN, Eason Jordan, is trying to resolve in Israel the consequences of Ted Turner's statement that outraged official Tel Aviv and many Israelis. On Tuesday, the founder of CNN, in an interview with the English Guardian, actually put on the same level the actions of the Israeli army against the Palestinians and the attacks of Palestinian suicide bombers against the Israelis.

Financial intelligence expands its powers The Financial Monitoring Committee (FMC) has prepared a bill on introducing amendments and additions to the law “On combating legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime.” The project has passed interdepartmental approval and has already been submitted to the Duma by the President. If the deputies agree with the changes being made, the CPM will seriously expand its powers.

The happiest day of Dae Han Min Kook Reaching the semi-finals of the World Cup was an outstanding achievement for the South Korean team. Therefore, it is not unusual that the celebrations on this occasion in the cities of this country turned out to be more stormy and lengthy than ever. And they began immediately after Hiddink’s team snatched victory from the Spaniards in the penalty shootout.

How to create a domestic gas market in Russia In search of opportunities to increase economic growth, Russian authorities have turned their attention to the gas industry. The point is not only that experts and investors in Russia and abroad unanimously say that the absence of a gas market is hindering economic development. This idea has already become an axiom for the Russian elite.

Billboard wrote about the Tatu group The informational reason for publishing an article in an influential American weekly was the presentation of platinum awards to European artists by the International Federation of Phonogram Producers (IFPI), including local releases. According to IFPI, the debut album “Tatu” sold over one million copies.

“St. Petersburg is still inferior ... to other European capitals. In it, gas lighting is still used only as an exception, and not as a rule, while in Berlin, Vienna, London and Paris only the most remote and sparsely populated quarters do not yet take advantage of this lighting, but are content with a dim and flickering light oil lanterns.

At the XII International Competition named after. Tchaikovsky's first piano prize went to a woman for the first time Three weeks of agitation, music, athletic wrestling, fortune telling on coffee grounds, unexpected sell-outs already in the first rounds, a passionate desire for sensations, subtle art and simply meaningful playing ended with an award ceremony and a concert for the laureates (read about the concert in the next issue).

Europeans reach a compromise on immigration We managed to avoid the temptation to build a “Fortress Europe”, where entry to “outsiders” is closed. This, according to the leaders of 15 European Union countries, is the result of the summit that ended on Saturday in Seville, the main topic of which was the problem of illegal immigration. At the same time, the European elite is aware that this problem will remain the central issue on the EU agenda for years to come.

Investment programs of natural monopolies for 2003 will be greatly reduced Natural monopolies - Gazprom, RAO UES of Russia and the Ministry of Railways - submitted drafts of their investment plans for 2003 to the government. However, they are “so raw,” says Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Sharonov, that when deciding on the maximum increase in tariffs, they were not even taken into account.

The Russian army is preparing for military operations in the east of the country The “big war” that was supposed to be declared on Monday in Siberia and the Far East has been postponed until next weekend. Nature intervened in the plans of the Russian generals: Vladimir Putin ordered the Chief of the General Staff, Anatoly Kvashnin, to temporarily postpone all matters and personally coordinate the actions of the military in the natural disaster zone in southern Russia.

Harvey Keitel will come to us Tomorrow morning one of the most anticipated guests of the film festival, American actor Harvey Keitel, will arrive in Moscow. A former Marine and salesman in a women's shoe store, who became one of the best and most talented actors in world cinema. A man with an unforgettable face, at the age of fifty-six he was one of the hundred world sex symbols of all times.

Nizhny Novgorod alternative musicians have been sent home Hopes for resuming the experiment on introducing an alternative civil service in a separate region have finally dissipated. Last Friday, all 20 young people who tried to repay their debt to their homeland by working as orderlies in the First City Hospital of Nizhny Novgorod did not show up for duty. Thus, the municipal squad of alternative workers, created last fall on the initiative of Nizhny Novgorod Mayor Yuri Lebedev, ceased to exist.