18 Russians selected for inspections in Iraq Today a man on whom the fate of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein depends is coming to Moscow. This is Swede Hans Blix, who heads the UN Commission for Monitoring, Verification and Inspection in Iraq UNMOVIC. Its inspectors must visit Iraq to find out whether prohibited weapons remain there. If he is not there, then there is no reason to punish Saddam. And if Blix’s report is negative, then new bombings are inevitable.

The world premiere of the French film “Next to Heaven” at the 35 MM cinema Three years ago, Toni Marshall made a subtle, beautiful, witty, talented film, “Venus Beauty Salon.” However, now it’s hard to believe, because completely different epithets are suitable for her latest film, “Near Heaven”: clumsy, pale, boring, mediocre.

Football. German Championship. 9th round. "Nuremberg" - "Stuttgart" - 1:2, "Bochum" - "Wolfsburg" - 4:2, "Hamburg" - "Borussia" M - 1:0, "Borussia" D - " Arminia - 0:0, Hannover - Werder - 4:4, Bayer - Kaiserslautern - 1:0, Energi - Hertha - 0:2, "Munich 1860" - "Schalke" - 3:0, "Hansa" - "Bayern" - 0:1. Leading: Bayern - 22 points, Werder, Borussia (D) - 17 points.

The prosecutor's office does not want to obey the Ministry of Justice The government representative in the Supreme, Constitutional and Supreme Arbitration Court, Mikhail Barshchevsky, on Monday resumed the discussion about the subordination of the Russian prosecutor's office to the Ministry of Justice. “Whether the Ministry of Justice should be subordinated to the prosecutor’s office or the prosecutor’s office to the Ministry of Justice is actually a question of technology,” says Mr.

The promotion of Russian popular music to the West has passed into the hands of professionals The album of the famous duet “Tatu” was released on the American market. The release is an English-language version of the debut album “Two Hundred on the Counter”. It's nice that the single All The Things She Said (in its homeland - “I'm crazy”) entered the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart of the Billboard weekly.

David Junk's opponent was our compatriot - director of artists and repertoire of the Russian branch of EMI (Gala Records company) Sergei KUZNETSOV. — A decade and a half has passed since our country became open to the world. All the world's labels operate in Russia, why doesn't anything change? - If only because it is not enough just to be on the Western market, you also need to achieve certain successes, that is, become popular.

The currency adjusted the schedule of government meetings Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov decided not to hold a government meeting next Thursday.

An exhibition of a Vitebsk artist opened at the Moscow Arts Center Chagall has not been in Russia for a long time. Paintings from his Russian period are almost constantly shown in Western exhibitions. They bring good income to their current owners - Russian museums, but are almost inaccessible to spectators. Pictures from another, foreign period are shown even less often here. The last major exhibition at the Pushkin Museum took place exactly fifteen years ago.

The Ministry of Finance is introducing new special reporting on shareholder composition for insurance companies. Insurers must submit these reports starting in 2003, said Olga Fedoseeva, deputy head of the insurance supervision department of the Ministry of Finance.

So far the Russians have only had time to count Preliminary data from the All-Russian Census published yesterday showed that in the 13 years that have passed since the last census of citizens, the population of Russia has remained almost the same. In any case, according to the head of the population census and demographic statistics department of the State Statistics Committee, Irina Zbarskaya, more than 143.3 million people live in Russia today, which is comparable to the figures of the RSFSR.

CLUBS Trio by Evgeny Borets. The famous Moscow keyboard player, a regular participant in Alex Rostotsky's Jazz-Bass Theater today at Le Club . On October 25, the presentation of Alex Rostotsky’s CD Splashes will take place there, and on the 26th one of the best Russian blues groups Crossroadz will perform at the club. 20.00. Mervent. Celtic folk rock. "Vermel" , 22.00. “Vlad Valov presents...” Famous hip-hopper from Bad Balance. Beefeater Republic , 10 p.m.

The Ministry of Property has prepared a law on nationalization The Ministry of Property Relations submitted to the government yesterday its version of the bill “On Nationalization”. But you shouldn’t be afraid of people in leather jackets with revolvers.

The German pharmaceutical company Bionorica AG presented in Moscow a photo gallery of works that will be used in its new advertising campaign, scheduled to launch at the end of the year. The new advertising campaign was specially developed for the Russian market, and the main task of the photographers was to show the Russian woman in various life situations.

In the USA, they are looking for the best shooter at an elite school in France There are surprises in the case of the mysterious American sniper who has killed nine and wounded three on the outskirts of Washington since October 2. Yesterday, American police detained the driver of a van matching the description of the car in which the sniper fled the scene of one of the crimes. However, until yesterday evening, the police had not made a statement about whether the detainee was the real criminal.

The head of Kalmykia could not win the first time The presidential elections in Kalmykia were recognized as valid: almost 67% of voters went to the polling stations. According to preliminary data, the second stage of voting will take place two weeks after the first - on Sunday, November 3. To win in the first round, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov lacked “as much as” 2.7%.