President By his order, he assigned the duties of Secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation to Presidential Aide Alexander Abramov. Appointed a number of heads of presidential departments.

The criminal case of two police officers who twice beat a young married couple was transferred to the court of the Sovetsky district of Novosibirsk. One of the accused - a police major, the head of the duty shift of the 12th police station - illegally locked the previously beaten husband and wife in a cell for administrative violators for the night. The second is a senior operational worker, about whom the victims came to the ill-fated department to complain.

Tomorrow a new international organization will be created in Moscow The upcoming meeting in Moscow tomorrow of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan means that the problems associated with the development of a new legal status of the Caspian Sea have gone beyond the mandate of the Special Working Group (SWG) at the level of the deputy foreign ministers of the five.

Ten years after the death of Curt Cobain, the cause of his death remains an open question. On April 8, 1994, all television channels and radio stations reported sensational news: the body of Curt Cobain, singer of the famous rock band Nirvana, had been discovered. A week earlier, on April 1, it became known that Kert had escaped from a rehabilitation center in Marina Del Rey, California, where he was undergoing treatment for drug addiction.

Artist Evdokimov becomes governor The elections for governor of the Altai Territory that took place yesterday ended unexpectedly. Although many predicted a fight in the second round between the current head of the region, Alexander Surikov, and the famous pop artist Mikhail Evdokimov, few expected that the second would overtake the first. By the time the issue was signed, approximately 90% of the ballots had been counted. The leader, albeit with a slight margin, was Mr. Evdokimov.

The new head coach of CSKA, Portuguese Arthur Jorge, is a fairly well-known figure in the football world, not to mention the fact that at the moment he is the most titled specialist in the entire post-Soviet space. Jorge's teams have gold in the championships of Portugal and France, and the national cups of these countries, as well as the highest achievement in the career of any club coach in Europe - the Champions Cup, won by him with Porto in 1987.

Cinema and music have once again been combined The somewhat confusing idea of ​​the event was that first they showed sublime European cinema (short films by famous directors), and then people from different groups played sublime Russian music composed for a party after the screening.

Russia and NATO are changing the status of forces The expected “cooling” in relations between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance will not happen after the next NATO expansion. This became clear yesterday, on the day of the 55th anniversary of the creation of NATO, after unexpected and essentially sensational statements by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.

German border guards are being replaced with video cameras “Your pupil, please!” - this phrase will soon become commonplace during border checks. In Germany, the pilot phase of the project “Automated Border Control with Biometric Support” has just ended. 4 thousand frequently flying abroad and back passengers from the largest German airport in Frankfurt am Main agreed to take part in it.

Amkar proves that money is not the main thing At the start of each Russian championship, a troublemaker appears. As a rule, the surprise team is a guest from the first division. Last year it was Rubin, and even earlier - Anzhi, Shinnik and Sokol. This time Amkar surprises everyone.

A new player has appeared on the Russian motorcycle market. Today in Kaliningrad the official opening of the second assembly plant will take place. As you know, in 1994, on the basis of the vacated capacities of military-industrial complex enterprises, Avtotor CJSC was formed, on whose assembly line today the American Hummer-2, South Korean KIA and Bavarian BMW fifth and seventh series are assembled.

The Prime Minister himself will develop “technical specifications” for the government After his abrupt withdrawal from Brussels politics, Mikhail Fradkov began to actively delve into Moscow politics. The life of a prime minister is obligatory, and the corresponding style is already visible in his speeches and actions. If in the first days of his tenure as head of government, Mr.

Chirac, Schröder and Putin were extremely frank At the end of last week, President Vladimir Putin met for the first time since winning the elections with two Western leaders, who, and this is not a coincidence, were the leaders of the most friendly European powers to Russia - Germany and France. According to Putin, Russia has “practically identical” positions on most international problems with Germany and France.

Forecast for the coming days In most of the European territory of Russia, the background atmospheric pressure is lowered, and the weather will be formed under the influence of a cyclone “spinned up” to high altitudes, whose surface center from the Middle Volga is heading to the east of the central region, and the atmospheric fronts from it will reach the very south of Russia.

Maskhadov's guard was saved from gangrene Over the weekend, the security service of the President of Chechnya and the regional anti-terrorist headquarters of the feds joyfully commented on the voluntary surrender of another close confidant of the head of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov. On Friday, the surrendered man, introduced as the head of the Maskhadosv security guard, Shaa Turlaev, was taken to a hospital in the city of Gudermes in serious condition.