State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision insists on canceling events with the participation of Asians Russian doctors, who for a long time calmly observed the spread of the atypical pneumonia virus throughout the world, suddenly succumbed to general panic.

Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. 1/8 finals. “San Antonio” – “Phoenix” – 84:76 (series score 1-1), “Indiana” – “Boston” – 89:77 (1-1), “Sacramento” – “Utah” " -- 108:95 (2-0) -- Kirilenko "Yu" (17 points + 6 rebounds + 3 blocked shots + 2 interceptions + 1 assist + 2 losses). It looks like Utah, like last year, will have to withdraw from the race after the first round of the playoffs.

Sludnov did not make it to the final of the Russian Championship The Russian swimming championship, which started on Monday at the Moscow Olympic sports complex, immediately brought several sensations. The author of the first was world champion Omsk Roman Sludnov. In the semi-finals of the 100-meter breaststroke, he showed only the fifth result - 1:04.07 and did not make it to the finals at this distance.

The traditional, already 107th Boston Marathon ended with an absolute triumph for Russian runners. Its winner was Svetlana Zakharova, who showed a result of 2 hours 25 minutes. 20 sec. Lyubov Denisova finished second, a minute and a half behind. Behind the Russians were the hosts of the marathon, the Americans, and the trendsetters in long and ultra-long distance running - the Kenyans.

The Orthodox Church is unhappy with Kasyanov’s hospitality Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said yesterday during his trip to Rybinsk that John Paul II could be invited to Russia. “Although this is not a government-level issue, we expect that in the near future we will be able to receive the Pope,” Mr. Kasyanov said.

The Vimpelcom company has completed the first stage of expanding the channel capacity between the switching centers of the Bee Line GSM network and the Rostelecom company in Moscow. According to VimpelCom, the number of connecting lines between networks has been increased by 50%, which will increase the capacity of communication channels and the level of successful connections when calling MGTS subscribers to federal Bee Line numbers.

The debate on tax reform has come to an end After painfully long discussions, sometimes turning into public fights, tax reform reached a government meeting. The final version turned out to be very modest. Nevertheless, the developers of the reform had no doubt about their today's triumph.

Yesterday, 44-year-old Raul Khadzhimba, previously first deputy prime minister and minister of defense, was appointed the new prime minister of Abkhazia. Within two weeks he must form a new government. Former Prime Minister Gennady Gagulia worked for four months. “The situation requires a more authoritative politician,” Astamur Tania, assistant to the President of Abkhazia, told the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

Supporters of Vladimir Yakovlev are being fired in the Leningrad region In the Leningrad region, four months before the gubernatorial elections, complete autocracy was established. The chairman of the regional legislative assembly (LA) Vitaly Klimov lost his position. His resignation logically continued the series of “political purges” carried out on the eve of the election race.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade believes that reforms can be carried out only in critical cases At today's government meeting, the updated scenario conditions for economic development for 2004-2006 prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development will be considered. A month ago, the government already discussed this issue, and then it was decided to “approve the document as a whole and send it for revision.” The MEDT finalized the scripts, but no significant changes were made.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov spent the entire day yesterday in one of the Yaroslavl regional centers, the city on the Volga River Rybinsk. However, this regional center is far from ordinary. Rybinsk is home to one of the country's largest factories for the production of aircraft engines for both civil aircraft and Su brand combat fighters. This is the Saturn research and production association, where the prime minister is a welcome guest.

7th International Art Fair "Art-Moscow 2003" During the press screening in the 8th hall of the Central House of Artists, where the main part of the exhibition of the Art Moscow fair was located, enthusiastic whispers from critics fluttered: “How fat! How delicious!” Indeed, the first impression from “Art-Moscow” is that the quality level of the goods offered has improved. Every gallery has stars.

The administration of the Volgograd region, after the accident at the LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft LLC plant in the Krasnoarmeysky district on April 17, transferred 200 thousand rubles to help the affected residents of Volgograd, most of whom were students of two schools who were poisoned by toxic emissions of propane-propylene-butane-butylene fraction . The funds were transferred to the accounts of hospital No.

The Prime Minister of Azerbaijan can receive treatment in peace Last night, Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasi-zadeh flew to the United States. As the Azerpress agency reported, the prime minister's visit was unplanned. Some observers in Baku linked the trip to the country's President Heydar Aliyev's two seizures a few hours earlier, which, according to the official version, occurred due to a sudden drop in blood pressure. According to these observers, Mr.

The RTS Stock Exchange sent a new regulation on information disclosure to the FCSM, which took into account the comments of the commission. The exchange's Board of Directors yesterday approved a new version of the regulation: it includes a methodology for dividing transactions into addressed and non-addressed. According to the head of the RTS press service, Zoya Konovkova, the document takes into account the requirements contained in the FCSM order received by the exchange on April 18.