Late on Monday, a plane from Milan landed in Belgorod, taking the Champions League winners on a charter flight to the hometown. Italy was left behind, shocked by the ease with which Lokomotiv-Belogorye defeated their strongest club, Modena. The authoritative La Gazzetta dello Sport wrote after the match: “The time has come to radically reconsider our volleyball economy.

The concern overestimated its capabilities in the sale of oil and condensate The Gazprom Board of Directors yesterday “took note of information on measures to create a centralized system for the sale of oil, liquid hydrocarbons and refined products.” This means that the concern has not achieved support in gaining access to the export of oil and condensate. As a result, the proceeds from their sales will be much lower than planned in the company's budget.

At the Masters Series tournament with a prize fund of $3.25 million in Miami (USA), American Andre Agassi, who remained the main favorite of the competition after the departure of the first racket of the world, Australian Lleyton Hewitt, defeated Finn Jarrko Nieminen in the third round match - 6:2 , 6:0. Agassi's next opponent is Mark Philippoussis (Australia).

Two very different films with similar plots are being released in Moscow. The Russian youth comedy “Don’t Even Think” will be shown in a large number of cinemas and will be accompanied by an aggressive advertising campaign. Bakhtiyor Khudoynazarov’s film “Chic” will be shown for only three days in one of the halls of the “Formula Kino” multiplex.

These days the world is protesting against the actions of the occupying forces in Iraq. However, in Russia anti-war demonstrations are much weaker. The Vremya Novostey newspaper asked a prominent specialist in the history of the international peace movement, Doctor of Historical Sciences Leonid ISTYAGIN, to talk about the reasons for this, and at the same time generally describe the modern world from the point of view of pacifism.

Helmut Newton in MDF The title of Helmut Newton's exhibition - "Retrospective" - ​​despite the amorphous wording, is quite correct. Before us are luxurious prints, the best works of Newton from different years, from the sixties to the zeros. Against his father's wishes and the obstacles of fate, Helmut Newton became a fashion photographer.

Possible killers of Serbian prime minister arrested Serbian police have arrested two suspects in the murder of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic. This is the deputy commander of the Red Berets army special forces, Zvezdan Jovanovic, nicknamed Zeki, and his colleague Sasha Pejakovic. The head of the Berets, Dusan Maricic, was previously dismissed for connections with the criminal group Zemun Clan.

The first steps of administrative reform were not as successful as its authors would have liked. One of the key tasks - identifying redundant and duplicating functions of ministries and departments - could not be quickly resolved. The Ministry of Economic Development presented a document with an analysis of such “intersections” to the head of the cabinet, Mikhail Kasyanov. The prime minister, however, was dissatisfied with the analysis (which, by the way, is a voluminous work of 200 pages).

At the World Figure Skating Championships in Washington, Russian athletes, who are the favorites, performed well in the qualifications. Evgeni Plushenko led his qualifying group, receiving the best marks. Also among the 30 strongest skaters who will continue to fight for medals are Ilya Klimkin and Stanislav Timchenko. After the short program, the Russian couple Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin are in the lead. Our second duet Maria Petrova - Alexey Tikhonov takes third place.

As a result of an accident on the main pipeline, residents of 30 apartment buildings in Krasnoyarsk have been forced to live without cold water for two days, while hundreds of tons of water have flooded the entire surrounding area. Two hospitals and a large garage were seriously damaged. Fortunately, he was saved, but the water hopelessly spoiled the supplies of medicines and medicines of the medical unit of the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant (Krasmash).

Energy workers forced residents of the capital of Kamchatka to toughen up On Tuesday, March 25, a third of the capital of Kamchatka, which is more than 200 apartment buildings, were left without hot water. On this day, OJSC Kamchatskenergo tightened the regime of restrictions on heat supply to municipal utility enterprises of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Senators want to help industry The thirst for reform seems to be covering ever wider sections of the Russian political-oligarchic elite. First, the RSPP decided to help the state develop reforms, now the Federation Council, and specifically the Committee on Industrial Policy, wants to teach the cabinet of ministers how to deregulate the Russian economy.

Tatyana Paramonova calls on the Ministry of Finance to speed up the training of specialists in banking audit For the first time, the Bank of Russia introduced commercial credit organizations to its program for adapting the banking sector to international financial reporting standards (IFRS, or IAS).

Americans complain about Iraqi resistance A week of difficult fighting in southern Iraq has forced the Americans to seek a plausible explanation for why they have not yet been able to take control of a single major enemy population center. Yesterday everything became clear - the Iraqis are “fighting dishonestly.” The Pentagon came up with this explanation.

The Iraqi massacre added to the popularity of the pacifist chancellor As the war in Iraq rages on, the German federal government continues to test the bonds of the North Atlantic Alliance. German pacifists, however, believe that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's words are at odds with his actions. Yes, Germany is not participating in the aggression against Iraq. However, the government allows unimpeded flight of American-British military aircraft over German territory.