As one might expect, Sunday's warm-up is excluded from the new plan for the Grand Prix of the Formula 1 World Championship. This logically followed from the FIA's decision, which obliged the cars to start with the amount of fuel that would remain in the tanks after Saturday's qualifying.

In one of the most closed cities in Russia, Zheleznogorsk, located near Krasnoyarsk, a Shakespearean tragedy occurred. On the territory of the Minatom mining and chemical plant, a jealous husband killed his wife, wounded a man who tried to stop him, and then committed suicide. That day, Mr. Fedorchuk, as usual, picked up his wife at the plant by car. Having said goodbye to her colleagues, the woman got into the car and drove away.

Tutoring began to move from universities to schools The Ministry of Education is once again trying to bring “educational” money out of the shadows. Recently, this department allowed all schools in the country to open paid courses in general education subjects and preparation for higher education.

Ten years (minus two days) ago, on February 23, 1993, the first issue of the Segodnya newspaper was published. I worked in this daily newspaper, general political and business, until November 1, 1996, when the last issue, made by the original team according to the established layout, was signed for printing. On all pages of the first notebook of this issue, the initial letters (“lanterns”) formed a short, capacious word - BYE.

Ukrainians will protect America “from terror”; Americans are evacuating from Iraq The United States is intensifying its political and military offensive against Iraq. Yesterday, such an important member of the anti-Iraq coalition as Ukraine also showed decisiveness. The Security Council of Ukraine supported the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense to send a separate battalion of radiation, chemical and bacteriological protection to the Middle East.

There is another state of emergency in the Russian army. On Thursday night, in one of the military units of the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) near Krasnoyarsk, a conscript soldier, while on guard duty, shot four colleagues and then committed suicide. What caused the tragedy was still a complete mystery yesterday.

Bente Skari took aim at Elena Vyalbe's achievement Held yesterday, on the third day of competition at the World Ski Championships in the Italian Val di Fiemme, the women's 10-kilometer classic style race, with its results, almost exactly repeated the balance of power at the 15-kilometer distance two days earlier. Once again the gold medal was won by the Norwegian Bente Skari, and the silver again by the Estonian skier Kristina Šmigun.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Toronto” – “Detroit” – 84:89, “New Orleans” – “Washington” – 87:75, “Denver” – “Minnesota” – 77:85, “Phoenix” – “ Houston - 89:107, Utah - Lakers - 87:93 - Kirilenko "U" (4 points + 4 rebounds + 4 blocked shots) , Chicago - Philadelphia - 82: 110, Portland - Golden State - 125:98, Seattle - New York - 103:94, Clippers - Milwaukee - 110:94.

Kuchma and Lukashenko will talk with Putin about the CIS Tomorrow begins a two-day visit to Moscow by Alexander Lukashenko and Leonid Kuchma. The leaders of Belarus and Ukraine are going to discuss with Vladimir Putin issues of developing cooperation within the CIS. Apparently, the reconciliation that occurred during the January meeting between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk has not yet become complete.

The court of the Novosibirsk garrison yesterday sentenced the head of the disciplinary battalion of the Novosibirsk garrison, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Belenko, to 5 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of murder committed in 1999 during a business trip in Chechnya.

The Russian Aluminum company (the second largest aluminum producer in the world and the first aluminum producer in Russia) is optimizing the management system. The executive bodies of the company's enterprises have begun the process of transferring their powers to a specially created structure - the Rusal Management Company. The decision to create it was made by the board of directors in December last year and approved by the shareholders of Rusal and MAP.

Yuri Koshelev, a player of the Russian national team and the local rugby club “Yenisei-STM”, died in a hospital in Krasnoyarsk at the age of 25. The preliminary version of the cause of death is heart failure. The powerful rugby player had been in hospital for ten days after going to the doctors with signs of general malaise.

The Primorye prosecutor's office opened a criminal case for abuse of power against the head of the administration of the city of Lesozavodsk, Nikolai Vorobyov. Last August, he issued a decree obliging all passengers and car owners traveling to China through the Markovo border checkpoint to pay 18 rubles for “city development.” In the fall, the district prosecutor's office appealed Mr. Vorobyov's decision through the court, and it was cancelled.

The concern presented its concept of gas reform Gazprom heeded the government's calls to participate in the discussion on the development of market relations in the industry. Yesterday, the deputy chairman of the board of the concern, Alexander Ryazanov, at a joint meeting of the inter-factional association “Energy of Russia” and the Duma Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications, voiced the proposals of gas workers.

The government yesterday approved in general the draft program for the socio-economic development of Russia until 2005, developed by the Ministry of Economic Development. The head of the ministry, German Gref, is confident that if it can be implemented, the GDP growth rate in 2007-2015 will be 7-8% per year. However, such growth can only be achieved if the structure of the economy changes and the manufacturing industries develop faster.