The German Chancellor won an intermediate victory Last Friday, Chancellor Schröder won an important victory in the Bundestag. Deputies from the ruling red-green coalition, which has a minimal majority in the lower house of parliament, presented a united front during the vote on the fate of the reform package, supporting the government’s proposals. Schröder himself did not quite believe in the possibility of such solidarity.

On Saturday, the US Senate and House of Representatives voted to allocate $87 billion to the White House to finance military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president has requested $66 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year and more than $20 billion for economic recovery and political stabilization in Iraq.

Director Yuri Eremin's streak of failure continues There is no reason to talk about “The Shadow” by Evgeny Schwartz, released at the Academic Youth Theater (directed by Yuri Eremin, set by Valery Fomin) in detail, especially with enthusiasm. It’s a strange thing: already at the premiere performance, one could feel some kind of internal fatigue of the play - as if it had been going on for several seasons and the actors had become tired of it.

Sheremetyevo is being put up for competition in its entirety The government decided to place management of the entire Sheremetyevo airport complex into one hand, including the yet-to-be-built third terminal.

The birthday of the B2 club was celebrated with a performance by the Latvian band Brainstorm Brainstorm is one of the few groups from the countries of the former USSR that managed to achieve popularity not only in Eastern Europe, but also in Western Europe. In 1989, in the small Latvian city of Jelgava, five school friends aged about fourteen created a group (then it was called “Blue Ink”, or modestly - “Five Best Guys in Latvia”).

Kirill RAZLOGOV, director of the Institute of Cultural Studies: - An artist is not an independent person. He tends to lean towards those who currently have some power. Artists have always been with the tsar, with landowners, with rich people, with the Communist Party of the USSR. They have never been independent, except in isolated cases related to show business. They have always been economically and politically dependent on others.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced a teacher at the Chelyabinsk Institute of Railways to four years in a maximum security colony for repeatedly accepting a bribe. At the trial, the prosecutor's office managed to prove that the teacher, while lecturing students on higher mathematics, at the same time offered them to buy books of his poems at symbolic prices from 10 to 50 rubles.

The Vatican recognizes Mother Teresa as blessed On Sunday, Pope John Paul II marked the 25th anniversary of his pontificate by beatifying the most famous Catholic of the 20th century, Mother Teresa. This was solemnly announced to the 400 thousand believers who gathered yesterday in Rome on the huge square in front of St. Peter's Basilica.

The first losses among candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow The Moscow City Election Commission has completed accepting documents from candidates for the post of mayor of the capital. The application deadline closed yesterday at midnight. In addition to the current mayor of the city, Yuri Luzhkov, thirteen more people have announced their intention to fight for the mayor’s seat.

The largest real estate exhibition in Russia, Domexpo, concluded its work at Gostiny Dvor yesterday. The main event of the ninth exhibition was the “Mortgage Street” project.

Thanks to a 46% increase in tariffs, gas sales in Russia are no longer unprofitable Gazprom's first quarterly reporting according to international standards was published on Friday, although it was promised to be released a week ago. The reason for the delay was the flu, which decimated the top managers of the concern.

With his help, Boris Gryzlov promised to find gangsters and terrorists The police and the mayor of the Moscow region town of Korolev on Saturday presented the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Boris Gryzlov with two new high-tech “law enforcement” systems. One of them is connected to a satellite navigation complex and allows you to quickly manage patrol units in the whole city.

The name of the pop and opera singer Nikolai BASKOV is in fourth place on the list of the electoral bloc of the Party of the Revival of Russia and the Party of Life. - Nikolai, why did you join the Party of the Revival of Russia, and even decided to go with it to the Duma? - Firstly, because I have known the leader of this party, Gennady Nikolaevich Seleznev, for a very long time.

The new ISS crew will live on old supplies Somewhat overshadowed by the flight into space of the first Chinese taikunaut, the launch from Baikonur of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-3 went off like clockwork on Saturday. Already today, the Soyuz will deliver a new crew to the International Space Station - Russian Alexander Kaleri and American astronaut Michael Fowell. They will have to work side by side for 200 days.

Evgeny Gomelsky lost to his older brother The central match of the Russian basketball championship among men's super league teams last weekend was the meeting of the two most popular capital clubs - CSKA and Dynamo. As expected, the current champions of the country, the army team, celebrated their victory in the Moscow derby, but their advantage was not very impressive - 92:88.