Our young talents are lost on the way to the top of hockey Our team is the world champion in hockey! A fairly forgotten phrase is relevant again, as in the era of the almost endless victorious march of players with the abbreviation “USSR” on their chests. Only now the country’s “gold reserve” is replenished not by the main team, but by juniors and young people.

The Duma denied foreigners the right to acquire Russian citizenship in exchange for investments Only three deputies voted yesterday for a bill on granting Russian citizenship in a simplified manner to people who have invested money in the Russian economy.

Corrie Sanders intends to defeat his second brother Late Saturday evening, Ukrainian heavyweight Vitali Klitschko will step into the ring at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It was in this hall last summer that he suffered a very controversial defeat from Briton Lennox Lewis and was unable to take possession of the most prestigious championship belt in the world of professional boxing according to the WBC organization.

Japanese automaker Mitsubishi may soon become a division of the German-American automobile concern DaimlerChrysler. The Japanese news agency Kyodo Tsushin reported this on Tuesday. The concern now owns 37.5% of the shares of the Japanese company. DaimlerChrysler management has raised the issue of purchasing a controlling stake in Mitsubishi more than once, but so far it has not been possible to agree on the terms.

From April 24 to 26, the anniversary tour of the Voronezh Chamber Theater will take place at the Theater Center “On Strastnoy”. Founded by director Mikhail Bychkov ten years ago, the theater is now considered one of the most interesting in the province. However, this team, which has existed for about as long as the new Russia itself, faces daily difficulties that, unfortunately, are typical of our time.

The mayor's office again blames Mosenergo for the incident in the metro. Yesterday's accident in the capital's metro, when due to a power surge during rush hour traffic was stopped on the section of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line from Belyaevo to Oktyabrskaya, gave the capital's authorities a new reason for reproaches against Mosenergo OJSC.

Yerevan and Baku are preparing to resume direct dialogue Today, the new American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) on Nagorno-Karabakh, Stephen Mann, arrives in Baku. Before that, he visited Yerevan, where he met with President Robert Kocharyan and held consultations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ashot Ghulyan.

The population keeps money in real estate The price boom in the capital's real estate market has also begun to worry the Moscow authorities, whose activities in the real estate and construction markets are becoming increasingly interested in the antimonopoly service.

The government is preparing to discuss questions instead of answers Today the government intends to devote its meeting (it will take place on Wednesday, and not on Thursday, as usual) to privatization and pension reform. If you believe the information from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, privatization was completed “on the money” last year. Moreover, we exceeded the plan almost twice. Instead of 51 billion rubles. 91.3 billion were transferred to the treasury.

NASA refuses to increase the duration of orbital missions The US National Aerospace Agency yesterday seriously complicated the lives of its Russian colleagues who were planning to patch up the space industry budget through commercial projects. NASA leaders said they are not currently ready to change the work schedule on the ISS from six-month missions to year-long missions in orbit.

Kim Jong Il asks China for help Pyongyang hermit Kim Jong Il arrived on a visit to China. Since Monday, the Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Chairman of the State Defense Committee of North Korea has been visiting Beijing. The purpose of the trip is clear - the North Korean leader needs economic assistance and political support from his giant neighbor.

Nikolay Davydenko in Monaco went further than Ferrero himself Today at the ATP Masters Series tournament in Monte Carlo with a prize fund of 2 million 425 thousand euros, second round matches will be held. Two of our tennis players - Nikolay Davydenko and Marat Safin - successfully passed the first round hurdle.

Cult musician David Sylvian created a real sensation at the Moscow Youth Palace Who would have thought that the former vocalist of the neo-romantic group Japan, whose solo work has a pronounced experimental character, would sell out the MDM? Nevertheless, month-long lively conversations about “Sylvain coming” made the work more effective than any sophisticated PR. Which, by the way, didn’t exist at all.

One government is not enough for the prime minister Yesterday, Mikhail Fradkov transformed the Government Entrepreneurship Council into the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship and personally headed the new body. Under the Kasyanov government, the Entrepreneurship Council was used as a club for meetings between top cabinet officials and representatives of big business. Who will participate in the work of the Competitiveness Council under the Fradkov government remains a mystery.

The case of Khabarovsk doctors turns from criminal to economic The authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory seem to be trying to hush up a loud scandal that erupted after the details of a criminal case were made public on the facts of illegal human organ transplants in the 1st and 2nd regional hospitals.