Kuchma fired the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Navy Leonid Kuchma fired the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian naval forces, Mikhail Yezhel. Military facilities have been looted, the living conditions of people are terrible, Kuchma stated during a visit to military facilities in the area of ​​Balaklava Bay in Crimea at the end of last week. “When guys who serve in the Navy guard a landfill, it’s shameful,” the president added.

Football. Italian Championship. 30th round. Bologna - Chievo - 1:1, Como - Modena - 0:0, Empoli - Udinese - 1:1, Juventus - Brescia -- 2:1, Piacenza -- Perugia -- 5:1, Regina -- Parma -- 0:0, Inter -- Lazio -- 1:1, Atalanta " - Torino - 2:2, Roma - Milan - 2:1. The leaders are: Juventus - 67 points, Inter - 59, Milan - 55. Juventus can already try on another Scudetto: Inter is unlikely to win back eight points in five rounds. Spanish Championship. 31st round.

Iraqi customs works for an idea There is no Iraqi state. This country has borders - but no border guards, there are consuls - but no visas. Those who enter Iraq from Jordan are greeted by a strange portrait of a man dressed in ceremonial Arab national costume. The portrait solemnly rises on two concrete supports above the Amman-Baghdad road. You can guess that this is the former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein - a year ago his portrait stood in this place.

Gazprom and the Ministry of Economic Development do not have time to fulfill Kasyanov’s instructions The international forum "Russian Gas 2003", which started yesterday at the Renaissance Moscow Hotel, showed that the positions of Gazprom and the Ministry of Economic Development have become even closer. Although, according to the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexander Ryazanov, the introduction of an agreed concept into the government is unlikely.

Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. Second round. "Ottawa" -- "Philadelphia" -- 0:2 (series score 1-1), "Vancouver" -- "Minnesota" -- 2:3 (1-1) -- Chubarov "V" (0+1 ). Minnesota ended the Canucks' four-game winning streak. In the second game on Sunday, Ottawa, as per tradition, after winning the first match, lost in the second.

What was the subject of caustic ridicule in England yesterday seems to be becoming a reality today. Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who surrendered to the Americans, is going to live in the UK “in conditions of increased comfort.” The British The Sun reported this with reference to secret documents from the government of Tony Blair.

Last week, German writer Ingo Schulze came to Russia. A presentation of his new book Simple Storys, published by Ad Marginem publishing house and translated by Tatyana Baskakova, took place in St. Petersburg. Schulze did not choose the northern capital for opportunistic reasons. The German writer has a long-standing and confused affair with Peter. In 1993, Schulze came here to work as a journalist and even published the newspaper “Hello, Petersburg” with German money.

The Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia yesterday approved the “Basic principles for the performance of transactions with securities by members of the board of directors and the board of directors...” of the energy holding and its subsidiaries (see yesterday’s issue of the Vremya Novostei newspaper) . A clause was added to the document, as council member David Hern said, stating that RAO managers do not have the right to disclose only “essential, materially significant” information.

Taganrog elects mayor again The second elections for the mayor of Taganrog in the last year are scheduled for June 29. The former mayor, Konstantin Semerikov, resigned by court decision, since he was elected by the local Duma, and not by popular vote. Now in June, all adult residents of Taganrog with a population of 200,000 are expected at the ballot box. The upcoming battle for the right to manage Chekhov's small homeland promises to be fierce.

Bayern clinched another championship title ahead of schedule Germany became the first Big Five country to have a champion. Ahead of schedule, four rounds before the finish, Bayern Munich became unattainable for its rivals and won the Bundesliga championship for the 18th time. Everything happened somehow casually. The Bavarians beat Wolfsburg away, which did not particularly resist. Borussia Dortmund relinquished their championship credentials in Munich after drawing with the local Lions.

But they are unlikely to be allowed in The National Bolshevik Party of Russia intends to receive official registration and take part in parliamentary elections. This was stated yesterday at the opening of the NBP congress in Moscow by Anatoly Tishin, the acting head of the party while the main leader of the National Bolsheviks, Eduard Limonov, is in prison. “This congress will go down in the history books!” - Mr. Tishin promised 156 delegates representing 52 regional branches of the party.

If I say that United Russia defines itself as a party of political centrism, this will not be enough to define our electorate. What is important is not the so-called positioning of the party, but its real activities. “United Russia” puts first priority not on writing thoughtful ideological documents, which in themselves do not achieve anything, but on solving the most important and difficult real problems facing the country. Traditional ideologies have little relevance in the modern world.

The Russian stopped fighting early in the final of the tournament in Barcelona In the final of a representative ATP tournament with a prize fund of 1 million euros on the clay court of a tennis stadium in Barcelona, ​​Spain, Russian Marat Safin failed to beat the favorite of the local public, number two seed Carlos Moya. Marat, having gained the upper hand in the first set, was forced to stop fighting in the fourth game with the score 7:5, 2:6, 2:6, 0:3.

The White House wants to know when SARS will become a threat to Russia The Russian government, having analyzed the situation in neighboring countries, seems to have already come to terms with the inevitability of the imminent appearance of SARS in Russia. Yesterday, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov held a regular meeting at the White House with ministers and heads of departments responsible for protecting public health.

Vladimir Bogdanov fights the invaders of Surgutneftegaz The purchase of Surgutneftegaz shares, which had decreased in the last few days, has resumed again. Yesterday afternoon, the price of Surgut shares in the RTS system increased by 16.42%, to 56 cents.