New bombs and missile defense systems will protect Americans from terrorism US authorities have raised the level of terrorist threat in the country from “yellow” (elevated) to “orange” (high). According to American intelligence agencies, new terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda militants are “imminent.” Washington and London have closed their embassies in Saudi Arabia indefinitely.

The situation in Iraq remains unstable. Yesterday news came that the national conference at which the government of Iraq was to be elected was being postponed to July instead of June.

Another restaurant exploded in Moscow One person was killed and eight were injured yesterday afternoon as a result of an explosion that occurred on the summer veranda of the Georgia restaurant in the Taganka area. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the explosion was again a faulty gas cylinder. In recent days, this is the second explosion in a restaurant in the capital (also a Georgian one), as a result of which people and buildings suffer.

Control over the distribution of investment contracts in Moscow housing construction will pass into the hands of Vladimir Resin, head of the Moscow construction complex, in no more than a month.

Prime Minister He reported that, according to preliminary estimates of the Russian government, for January-April 2003. GDP growth will be 6.6%. Along with the figure previously announced by the State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation for the growth of industrial production volumes for this period of 6.3%, these indicators indicate the continuation of positive trends in the development of the Russian economy as a whole.

The main accused in the Moscow drug cartel case was sent to court The criminal investigation into Vadim Petrov, who, judging by the charges brought against him, is considered by law enforcement agencies to be almost the main Russian drug lord, was recently completed and submitted for approval to the Prosecutor General's Office.

The new TV show "The Idiot" is obviously a success. It is watched and even discussed - at various levels. Bookstores are reporting an increase in sales of Dostoevsky's novel. The cultural public compares the new version both with the book and with the first film adaptation made by director Ivan Pyryev with Yuri Yakovlev in the title role (by the way, it would be nice to see it as an afterword on one of the competing channels).

Ural Great closed the gap with CSKA The match caused enormous excitement in Perm. The seven-thousand local Molot UDS was filled to capacity. For all forty minutes, the crowded stands fiercely supported their favorites, and they did not disappoint the expectations of the fans. Ural Great fans roared desperately with delight at every attack of their idols, and each attack by the Muscovites was greeted with a disapproving roar.

The railway workers, who keep talking about the lack of funds to solve the current problems of the industry (updating rolling stock, paying off debt), decided to show concern for the passenger. The department of German Gref, having considered that losses from passenger transportation reached the maximum value in 2002 - 54 billion rubles, proposed reducing them by increasing tariffs in 2004.

The price of oil reacts sharply to any news The global oil market is once again in a fever. Yesterday in the morning one could observe a slight increase in quotations, at lunch - their fall, and in the evening - rapid growth. This price behavior very clearly indicates that the market is now so “electrified” that any even insignificant news can cause a strong shock.

The famous financier, philanthropist and multi-billionaire George Soros said that he is going to get rid of dollar assets, heading for the purchase of other currencies. Now the interests of the most successful and scandalous stock speculator are the euro, gold, as well as “small dollars” - Australian, Canadian and New Zealand.

The prosecutor's office has put an end to the case of the Navashin millions The Office of the Prosecutor General for the Volga Federal District, as the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, recently closed a scandalous criminal case about fraud involving $30 million allocated by the Ministry of Finance to the Navashino Oka shipbuilding plant.

The government will consider the Energy Development Strategy until 2020 Today, the head of the Ministry of Energy, Igor Yusufov, will present his energy strategy until 2020 to his colleagues. It took three days and three years to write, and today no one can remember the number of options. To date, the strategy has been agreed upon by all ministries and departments, and there are no significant obstacles to its approval.

The high-profile story of the abduction of the half-month-old son of Nizhny Novgorod policeman Alexander Petushkov received an unexpected outcome. On Tuesday, all the special services of Nizhny Novgorod were sent to search for two kidnappers of a baby - a man and a woman. According to the wife of senior lieutenant Petushkov Galina, she herself opened the door to the criminals, who introduced themselves as employees of a children's clinic. The head of the family was not at home at that moment.

The Pang Brothers' "Eye" was released in Moscow The Pang brothers, Oxide and Danny, are natives of Hong Kong, who moved to Thailand and, not yet in their thirties, became the pride of national cinema there, its double face. It all started with brother Oxide’s film “Who’s Running?” -- a Twilight Zone-type story about a man who gets the latest newspaper a little earlier than everyone else.