Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Carolina" -- "Toronto" -- 3:3 -- Mogilny "T" (1+1), Antropov "T" (0+1), "Ottawa" -- "Colorado" -- 2:2, " Montreal" -- "Washington" 3:4 (OT) -- Berezin "V" (1+1), "Detroit" -- "Minnesota" -- 4:0 -- Larionov "D" (1+2), Fedorov "D" (1+0), "Nashville" -- "Philadelphia" -- 1:1, "Chicago" -- "Islanders" -- 2:9 -- Radulov "Ch" (2+0), Yashin "A" (4+0), Kvasha "A" (1+2), "Vancouver" -- "Dallas" -- 3:4 -- Zubov "D" (1+0), "Los Angeles" - - Columbus - 1:2 (OT).

Electricity tariffs will be reduced only in four regions The Federal Energy Commission (FEC) has fulfilled its promise to reduce electricity tariffs in the most problematic regions.

The Moscow region club "Khimki", led by the head coach of the Russian men's basketball team Sergei Elevich, dropped out of the fight for the FIBA ​​Champions Cup, losing in the last round of Group "E" to the French "Strasbourg" on its site - 96:106. And yet, one representative of Russia will play in the quarterfinals. Kazan UNICS passed the tournament in Group A without a single defeat, defeating the Turkish PTT in the final home match - 94:72.

Today is the Moscow premiere of "Gangs of New York" Now, for the interested public, “Gangs of New York” is, first of all, the main loser of the Oscar ceremony that took place last Sunday. Ten nominations - and not a single award. Including in those nominations where victory seemed absolutely inevitable (only the lazy did not predict Daniel Day Lewis an acting award for his role as Bill the Butcher).

The second largest Russian cellular network, Bee Line GSM, owned by VimpelCom, will finally start operating in St. Petersburg in mid-April. Aleksey MISHCHENKO, first vice president of VimpelCom for regional development, spoke about this project and the company’s work in other Russian regions in an interview with Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Nadezhda KOSTYUK. -- What services is the St. Petersburg Bee Line GSM network ready to offer? -- We intend to offer in St.

Doctor Roshal asks to release the little Iraqis Russian doctors are ready to help Iraqi children. Chairman of the International Committee for Assistance to Children in Disasters and Wars, Leonid Roshal, announced this yesterday at a press conference. “We are indifferent to the nationality, religious affiliation and political views of our parents. We will go to save children,” said the man who recently rescued children from the hands of terrorists who seized the Dubrovka Theater Center.

The US wants to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq from someone else's pocket Yesterday's bombing of a market in a densely populated area of ​​Baghdad sparked outrage around the world. “As Russia and many other countries warned, the war directly affected the civilian population and civilian infrastructure of Iraq,” the Russian Foreign Ministry immediately responded.

The head of the FMC invites his colleagues to strengthen the fight against money laundering The ink had hardly dried on the recent presidential decrees on the reorganization of the security bloc, when a new proposal was already received to improve the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and at the same time the prosecutor’s office. It was expressed in Novosibirsk by First Deputy Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Financial Monitoring Committee (FMC) Viktor Zubkov.

The publishing house Ad Marginem publishes a collection of articles by Michel Houellebecq “The World as a Supermarket” Writer Michel Houellebecq is a true European star. The release of each of his three novels (“Expanding the Space of Struggle,” “Elementary Particles,” “Platform”) was accompanied by a public scandal, accusations in the press, and legal proceedings.

Pyongyang seeks to clarify relations with the United States North Korea has notified the United States that it will cease contacts between the two countries' liaison officers in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the Korean Peninsula. North Korea and the United States do not maintain diplomatic relations, but their representatives held regular meetings in the DMZ to discuss security issues. This was the only line of communication between the military departments of the two states.

Yesterday, the MasterCard payment system summed up the results of its first year of operation after merging with the Europay system, and also shared its plans for the next year. According to the head of the Russian representative office of MasterCard Andrey Korolev, the company's strategy in Russia involves the active introduction of microprocessor cards. The first transaction using such a MasterCard card will probably be carried out by Sberbank as early as April.

The second round of the playoffs begins today Before hockey fans had time to really recover from the dramatic collisions of the first round of the playoffs, a new test awaited them. Semi-finalist fights will begin today in Yaroslavl and Omsk, and the stakes at this stage of the gold rush are doubled by definition. By tradition, we analyze the balance of power and offer our forecast for the outcome of the series. "Lokomotiv" - "Lada".

An unprecedented robbery took place on Tuesday in the city of Novokuybyshevsk, Samara Region. In the evening, unknown persons, right outside the headquarters of the correctional labor colony located there, raided a car in which two employees of the colony were carrying salaries from the bank for their colleagues. According to preliminary data, four criminals armed with pistols stopped the Niva of the ITK cashier and opened fire on him and the accompanying person, wounding them in the hands.

The scandal in the world of figure skating due to innovations in judging, which was brewing on the sidelines during the Grand Prix stages, resulted in a noisy proceeding at the World Championships in Washington.

Iraqi Shiites did not support the US Reports of a “popular uprising” in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, received yesterday from Western news agencies, turned out to be an exaggeration. The hopes of the coalition of aggressors that the “fifth column” inside Iraq will come to the rescue are not being realized. Yesterday in the House of Commons of the British Parliament, Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that the anti-Saddam protests of the Shiite population were limited.