Journalists are increasingly dying in the Iraq war The sides at war in Iraq seem to be doing everything they can to make life less of a hassle for reporters covering the fighting. Yesterday, the Iraqi Ministry of Information, without explanation, demanded that a prominent correspondent for the Qatari television channel Al-Jazeera leave Baghdad. We are talking about journalist Taysir Alluni. He is a Syrian living in Qatar and became famous for his work in Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban.

Argentines fear Safin and believe in their native walls Today, the teams of Argentina and Russia will take to the open court of the River Plate tennis stadium in Buenos Aires to find out who is the strongest in the quarterfinal pair of the Davis Cup in a three-day confrontation. Our team, led by Shamil Tarpishchev, is represented by Marat Safin, Mikhail Yuzhny, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Nikolay Davydenko.

An expert with the Central Bank of the Russian Federation was brutally beaten by unknown criminals on Wednesday morning in the capital's Mitino microdistrict. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, bandits waylaid a 33-year-old woman near her house on General Beloborodov Street as she was heading to work.

First Monday, April 7 6.00 Good morning 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 2.00 News 9.15 "It will only understand the lonely." Comedy 11.10, 16.25, 23.55 Factory of stars - 2 11.40 The investigation leads Kolobkov 12.15 What? Where? When? 13.40 Smak 14.00 Traveling naturalist 14.30 "Heroin grandfather". Dock.

The Ministry of Press accused the MTV channel of censorship, which did not happen The Ministry of Press of Russia stood up for the viewers of the music channel MTV. In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry directly accused the channel of censoring video clips reminiscent of events in the Middle East.

In the Union of Theater Workers, the exhibition of Viktor Bazhenov is opening The regular readers of our newspaper could notice: if there is no time to read the theater review in the “Culture” strip, you look at the picture. And the picture is so intricate that you yourself will not notice, as you will begin to read the review. And you will not regret it.

The President of Rosneft demands satisfaction from Scotland Yard The day after the failed visit of Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov to London, the head of the oil company held a press conference at which he spoke about his impressions of communicating with representatives of Scotland Yard. Despite the fact that the program of Mr.

A criminal case has been opened against a Vremya Novostei journalist in Turkmenistan. Turkmen authorities have added columnist for the Vremya Novostei newspaper Arkady Dubnov to the list of participants in the assassination attempt on the “great leader of the Turkmen people,” the permanent president of the republic, Saparmurat Niyazov.

Occupation forces in Iraq have been intensively bombing the positions of the elite Iraqi Republican Guard south of Baghdad these days. The operation in the Persian Gulf is clearly stalled. Although it seemed that the Pentagon had figured out everything - from the reserves of military arsenals to the enemy’s human reserves. So what's up? The US relied on previous experience The current plan was based on the events of 12 years ago - Operation Desert Storm.

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“Cube 2: Hyperkub” (Cube 2: Hypercube). Canada, 2002, director Anzhey Sokul. The first “cube”, staged in 1997 in Canada Vincenzo Natalie (and also available on licensed cassettes), was an artifact extremely mysterious. Six people (named after the famous prison of the world, among which even Radishchevskaya Kazan fell into) came to their senses in a strange mechanism, Cuba, consisting of innumerable myriads of the same cubes-rooms.

Academicians propose to finance only innovations from the budget Vladimir Putin yesterday discussed the problems of domestic science with Minister Ilya Klebanov. The President and the head of the Ministry of Industry and Science agreed that things in this area are gradually improving. This year, a third more funds have been allocated from the federal budget than last year (about 40 billion rubles). As Mr.

Kadyrov and Babich have personnel differences It seems that a government scandal has brewed in Chechnya just over two months before the constitutional referendum . The head of the Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, appointed a new finance minister yesterday - this position is now occupied by former deputy minister Eli Isaev. His now former boss Sergei Abramov has been relieved of his post due to a transfer to another job. It is still unclear what caused this reshuffle and where exactly Mr.

The Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance failed to fulfill the budget The January publication of preliminary results of the 2002 budget did not bring any special sensations. As expected, the Ministry of Finance was unable to spend as much as needed, and the Ministry of Taxes was unable to collect. Although in the end the budget for income was still fulfilled, but for expenses it was not.

The state defense order will be increased by a third Yesterday, at a meeting with members of the government, Vladimir Putin called on ministers to accept the state defense order as soon as possible. The government intends to consider the draft state defense order of 2003 at a meeting on January 16. The document was drawn up within the Ministry of Economic Development and agreed upon with all interested departments.