Hockey. Russian Championship. Super Leagues . "Ak Bars" - CSKA - 3:2 (OT), SKA - "Dynamo" - 2:1, "Spartak" - "Lada" - 5:2, "Neftekhimik" - "Amur" -- 3:1, "Metallurg" Nk -- "Mechel" -- 1:1, "Sibir" -- "Metallurg" Mg -- 4:3, "Avangard" -- "Salavat Yulaev" -- 3:3 , Severstal - Molot-Prikamye - 3:2.

Monaco, once the strongest club in the French championship, is close to bankruptcy. The team of the wealthy principality ended last year with a budget deficit of 53 million euros and is now urgently looking for a buyer. Now Monaco is ready to sell a controlling stake for approximately this amount. Buyers were found immediately.

Departments Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov will pay a working visit to Tajikistan on March 12-13. The agenda of Ivanov’s negotiations with the leadership of the Republic of Tajikistan included current international problems and issues of Russian-Tajik cooperation in various fields. Igor Ivanov was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy and Philology from the Linguistic University.

Putin exceeded Shevardnadze's expectations on Abkhazia Yesterday, the details of the Sochi negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Georgia that took place at the end of last week became known, to which at the last moment, at the suggestion of Vladimir Putin, Abkhaz Prime Minister Gennady Gagulia was invited. The President of Abkhazia, Vladislav Ardzinba, according to Gagulia, “fell ill again” (the blood vessels of the brain are seriously affected).

On March 8, the former leader of the military-political organization “Mkhedrioni”, member of the State Council of Georgia and thief in law, 77-year-old Jabu IOSELIANI, was buried in the pantheon of public and government figures of Georgia. In the early 60s he was tried several times for criminal offenses.

17 of our tennis players will play at the Australian Open The first Grand Slam tournament of the coming tennis season, the Australian Open, kicks off today in Melbourne. Even before the start of the qualifying competitions, a new Russian record was set for competitions of this rank - the names of 16 Russian tennis players appeared in the main draws of the men's and women's singles.

Russian Andrei Nutrikhin took third place at a distance of 50 km at the next stage of the World Cup in cross-country skiing. This is his best result in his career at competitions of this level. The best time was shown by Estonian Andrius Veerpalu, while Norwegian Anders Eukland finished second. His compatriot Bente Skari, who missed a number of races at the recent World Championships “due to a cold,” is now back in excellent condition. Skari won both the 1.5 km sprint and the 30 km race.

Yesterday, the Palestinian Authority parliament approved the creation of the post of prime minister by a vote of 64 to 3. Previously, all power was concentrated in the hands of 73-year-old Yasser Arafat. The United States, Israel and the European Union persistently demanded from him democratic reforms and the transfer of part of his powers to the prime minister.

On Saturday, a serious emergency occurred in the Moscow metro. At about 13.00 at the Turgenevskaya station, 10 meters from the platform in the tunnel, a cable winding caught fire due to a short circuit. Acrid thick smoke poured out of the tunnel into the station, which immediately caused a commotion among passengers.

Basketball. Super League. Men. 15th round. "Khimki" - "Spartak" - 123:88, "Evraz" - UNICS - 62:101, CSKA - "CSK VVS-Samara" - 106:61, "Ural Great" - "Lokomotiv" "- 110:70, "Dynamo" - "Avtodor" - 89:68. Leading : CSKA - 29 points, Ural Great, UNICS - 28 each, Khimki - 24. The tour turned out to be the most uninteresting in the championship - in all matches the advantage of the winners over the opponent was overwhelming.

The Commodity Exchange Commission under the MAP chose the St. Petersburg exchange, which has a partnership agreement with the Moscow Stock Exchange and the RTS Stock Exchange, to conduct auctions for the sale of 10% of the total quota for imports of beef and pork into the Russian Federation in 2003. As stated in the MAP press release, “despite the fact that the St.

Sergei Chepikov runs to the envy of the young The first stage of the Biathlon World Cup in the new year reminded Russian fans of an intriguing and unpredictable sport that our team is famous not only for the success of women. Unlike the December starts, where the Russians did not go without awards in almost any race, in Oberhoff, Germany, which is not without reason called the citadel of German biathlon, our girls did not win awards in individual races. Let's not judge them harshly for this.

On March 9, on the anniversary of the birth of the symbol of the Ukrainian nation, poet and artist Taras Shevchenko, demonstrations organized by the opposition took place in almost a hundred cities of Ukraine.

Religion has not yet become the driving force behind Russian culinary experts On Monday, March 10, Lent began for Orthodox Christians. For seven weeks - until Easter, which this year falls on April 27 - believers will have to limit themselves in food. If you scrupulously follow religious norms of abstinence, then you will have to remove all food of animal origin from the menu - meat, milk, fish, eggs. Only purely vegetarian products are allowed - cereals, vegetables and mushrooms.

Leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus arrived yesterday in The Hague for negotiations with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The meeting is a frantic attempt to bring the fractured island together before it joins the European Union. Annan warned that in the event of another failure, the prospect of resolving the 30-year conflict would become unlikely. The UN settlement plan was redone three times, Annan issued ultimatums and moved deadlines each time.