“Spartak” was defeated by the outsider of the Spanish championship Yesterday in Cherkizovo, as part of the first match of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup "Spartak" - "Mallorca", Nevio Scala made his official debut as the head coach of the Moscow team. It’s difficult to consider the premiere of the famous Italian even tolerable. A defeat with a score of 0:3 is a humiliation that, let's be honest, the “red-whites” deserved.

The death of Boris Trajkovski is fraught with a crisis in the Balkans Yesterday, Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski died in a plane crash. The plane on which he was flying from Skopje to the Bosnian city of Mostar for an international conference on investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) crashed 50 km from the capital, Sarajevo. Nine people died - Trajkovski, six of his assistants and two pilots.

Customs sets a record Collect 1 trillion rubles. to the treasury this year and to enter the top five countries in terms of collections in 2008 - these are the ambitious plans of Russian customs. The leadership of the State Customs Committee announced them yesterday at the All-Russian meeting of the heads of customs authorities of the Russian Federation that opened in Moscow. The State Customs Committee assures that these plans are absolutely realistic.

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Forecast for the coming days In the last days of February, the weather in European Russia will remain warm, with precipitation in the form of sleet, and in the south, rain. This weather is caused by the southern transfer of air masses that established in the last week of the calendar winter. The incoming warm air collides with a colder air mass in the mid-latitudes, and this leads to an increase in frontal activity over central Russia, which is why there will be precipitation almost everywhere.

The mayor of Amursk has fooled the Khabarovsk authorities around his finger In the Khabarovsk Territory, a scandal is breaking out between the regional authorities and the mayor of the city of Amursk, Gennady Kuzminykh. Until last week, it seemed that the regional leadership managed to persuade the mayor to resign, but recently it became clear that the mayor, having essentially deceived Governor Viktor Ishaev, was not going to give up without a fight.

The metropolitan fashion for shaved heads is spreading across the country Today the Moscow City Court will have to impose punishment on those accused of organizing the Yasenevsky pogrom on April 21, 2001 - the first high-profile action of skinheads in the capital. In court, this case frankly fell apart, since the prosecutor's office failed to present convincing evidence.

Today, the president and owner of the Italian football club Roma, Franco Sensi, is due to announce the sale of a controlling stake in the club to the Russian oil company Nafta-Moscow. According to the Italian Gazzetta dello Sport, negotiations on the sale of the club have entered the final stage, and all that remains is to settle some formalities. Yesterday, trading in shares of the Roma-2000 company, which owns the football club, was suspended on the Milan Stock Exchange.

Europe is trying to ride a comet for the third time On Thursday, the European Space Agency (ESA) again failed to launch the Ariane 5 rocket into space with the Rosetta research probe on board. The launch was scheduled for 7 hours 36 minutes GMT (10:36 Moscow time), but just a few minutes before the engines were turned on, a command was received to cancel the launch.

A total of 22 people were killed yesterday as a result of two powerful domestic gas explosions that occurred almost simultaneously in the morning in Dagestan and Chita. In the first case, the boiler room of a secondary school in the village of Manaskent, Karabudakhkent district, blew up. In Chita, the explosion completely destroyed the café building, in which there were 36 people at that moment.

Residents of a farm in the Krasnodar region demand relocation Yesterday, residents of the Prorvensky village, Slavyansky district, Krasnodar Territory, demanded that Governor Alexander Tkachev urgently stop all gas production work that is being carried out in the immediate vicinity of their homes. In a letter to the governor, the farmers ask the authorities to move the gas wells to a distance determined by sanitary standards, or to provide them with new housing in a safe place.

There are more billionaires in Russia than in Japan The American magazine Forbes once again looked into the pockets of billionaires around the world. He has prepared the World's Richest 2004 list, which is expected to be published on Monday. However, due to an information leak, it is already known that for the tenth time it is headed by the founder and owner of the computer corporation, Bill Gates.

Yesterday in Moscow the creation of the Association of Shipping Companies of Russia (ASCR) was announced. It included the largest companies operating on the country's inland waterways: Volgotanker, Volga Shipping Company, North-Western Shipping Company (St. Petersburg), Moscow River Shipping Company, Azov-Don Shipping Company and Palmali (the last two are based in Rostov-on-Don) -Don).

Russian military personnel are not given visas to Georgia Russia has encountered unexpected difficulties at its military bases in Georgia. A VN source close to the command of the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia reported that Tbilisi is delaying the issuance of permission to carry out the planned rotation. For this reason, the bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki, as well as support units in the Georgian capital, were understaffed by about 300 troops.

Kalyuzhny extinguishes “Turkish passions” in Istanbul Negotiations between Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and the Russian leadership were still ongoing in Moscow, and the special representative of the Russian President for Caspian issues, Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny, had already gone to his home. It was here, in Turkey, that Mr. Kalyuzhny opened a new “battle front” for Russia’s energy interests.