Gazzaev's team looks better without foreign players Yesterday, the Russian team won first place in the “tournament of four” in Cyprus, beating the Romanian national team in the final - 4:2. And the third place in the tournament was taken by the Slovak team, beating the Cypriots - 3:1. Before the final meeting, the head coach of the Russian team, Valery Gazzaev, faced a number of problems.

GRU officers are on trial in Baku Today in Baku, a noisy trial begins in the court for serious crimes. In the dock are intelligence officers from the Russian GRU. For the first time in the last five years, the Azerbaijani Themis is prosecuting under such a serious article of the Criminal Code as treason.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Sovetsk, Kaliningrad region, opened a criminal case against officials of the local administration, through whose fault most of the city was without heat for almost two weeks. Investigators classified the incident as negligence. Due to the lack of fuel in Sovetsk, from January 29 to February 8, heat supply was cut off to 725 residential buildings, which resulted in the cancellation of classes in seven schools and the closure of kindergartens.

On Saturday, the deadline given to Georgia by the UN Security Council to determine the fate of Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia, whose mandate expired on December 31 last year, expires. How will events develop? Prime Minister of Abkhazia Gennady GAGULIA answers questions from the correspondent of the newspaper “Vremya Novostei” in Tbilisi, Mikhail VIGNANSKY. —What are Abkhazia’s expectations regarding the issue of extending the mandate of Russian peacekeepers?

At the ATP tournament with a prize fund of 500,000 euros in Marseille, Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov lost to Belgian Olivier Rochus in the first round - 6:7 (5:7), 4:6. Our other tennis player Nikolai Davidenko, at a competition in San Jose (USA) with a total bonus fund of $380,000, defeated the owner of the court, Jeff Morrison - 6:3, 2:6, 7:6 (7:1). Late last night in the second round, Nikolai met with American Robbie Ginepri.

New film with Leonardo DiCaprio on Moscow screens In the movie Catch Me If You Can, Steven Spielberg told the story of a real person. A former fraudster turned "one of the world's most respected experts" in exposing forgeries, Frank Abagnale Jr. published a memoir of his adventurous youth in 1980. He actually ran away from home and managed to forge checks for $4 million, posing as a pilot, a doctor, a lawyer, or James Bond.

Installation by Vadim Zakharov at the NCCA Vadim Zakharov had almost more exhibitions abroad than at home. The artist developed in specific domestic conditions. He worked within the APT-ART movement. Since the early 1980s, Aptart artists have exhibited only in apartments and considered this not a sad necessity, but something of a position. Zakharov was also a member of KLAV (Club of Avant-garde Artists).

Not every missile will fly from Pyongyang to Alaska The DPRK's menacing statement about possible missile launches towards the United States is nothing more than a bluff, says Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, adviser to the PIR Center. To create a weapon, in particular a missile with a range of 7 thousand km, which the DPRK claims to have, it is necessary to carry out a full cycle of tests - about ten launches. The North Koreans have not conducted a single test of their Taepodong-2.

Monday, February 17 FIRST Prevention on the channel until 12.00 12.00, 15.00, 18.00 News 12.15 “POOR SASHA.” Comedy 14.00 Travels of a naturalist 14.30 “Fashionable burglary.” Doc. detective 15.20 Dog show 16.05 Wildlife 17.00 Big wash 18.25 Joke after joke 19.00 Wait for me 20.00 Who wants to become a millionaire? 21.00 Time 21.40 The last hero - 3 22.45 Independent investigation 23.30 Night “Time” 0.00 New day. Formula of power 0.30 At football 1.00 Apology 2.05 "UNSTOPPABLE".

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Columbus” – “San Jose” – 1:0, “Pittsburgh” – “Ottawa” – 0:3, “Florida” – “Rangers” – 1:3 – Kovalev “R” ( 1+0), "Atlanta" - "Washington" - 1:5 - Vyach. Kozlov "A" (1+0), "Chicago" -- "Toronto" -- 1:3, "Phoenix" -- "New Jersey" -- 0:3, "Minnesota" -- "Philadelphia" -- 2:0, “Anaheim” – “Calgary” – 4:3 (OT) – Saprykin (1+1). Alexey Kovalev scored a goal in his debut match for the Rangers. True, the Russian hit an already empty goal.

Abkhazia is ready to protect its fleet and Russian dachas Georgia stated that all ships heading to Abkhazia, in order to avoid the transit of weapons, militants, drugs, and contraband, will have to undergo inspection in Poti and only then receive permission to continue their course.

The mayor of Magadan, it seems, will move to the governor's chair Next Sunday the second round of elections for the governor of the Magadan region will take place. The mayor of Magadan Nikolai Karpenko, who received 37.5% of the votes in the first round, and the acting governor of the region Nikolai Dudov, who received 26% of voters on February 2, will compete with each other.

Gazprom intensified the implementation of Order No. 129 The board of directors of Gazprom once again risks being exposed to ridicule.

At the 2004 European Championship the golden goal rule will be abolished. Previously, if the main time of the match ended in a draw, the teams played two more halves of 15 minutes each. However, if a goal was scored in extra time, the match was immediately abandoned. Now the teams that missed the “golden goal” will be given the opportunity to win back before the end of the extra period. Andrey VDOVIN

The traffic police seeks to cancel the simple form of power of attorney The State Traffic Inspectorate, together with the criminal police, wants to deprive motorists of the simplest and most common way to transfer their car to their wife, friend or, for example, neighbor.