The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs promised to give death to Islamic militants On Monday evening, the Hilton Hotel and part of its surrounding buildings were evacuated in central Berlin. Fortunately, no explosive device was found, but on the same day the Hamburg weekly Der Spiegel published an interview with the Social Democratic Minister of the Interior Otto Schili, where Mr. Schili declared the “right of preventive self-defense” of society against terrorists planning massacres.

The fight for the post of leader of the Agrarian Party can turn it into a branch of United Russia The conflict within the leadership of the Agrarian Party of Russia (APR) has reached its climax. Today, at their congress, farmers can elect a new leader to replace Mikhail Lapshin, whom the opposition part of the party has been trying to dismiss for the last year and a half.

John Zorn will play at MDM on April 29 Despite persistent rumors that have circulated for many years that the main avant-garde artist of America and Europe, John Zorn, once vowed never to come to Russia, he will perform on April 29 at the Moscow Youth Palace. In the Electric Masada program, he will be played by a team of the world musical avant-garde, each member of which is famous, perhaps not as famous as the founder of the Radical Jewish Music movement, but also not a miss.

Rubin Kazan midfielder Denis Boyarintsev is one of those players who were given the opportunity by Russian national team coach Georgy Yartsev to prove their need for the national team before going to the European Championship in Portugal. And today, during a friendly match with Norway, Denis BOYARINTSEV will try not to miss the chance given to him.

Russia and the EU have avoided the crisis, but solutions to the problems are still ahead The bargaining that Russia conducted with the European Union in connection with the entry of ten new member countries into the community ended yesterday in Luxembourg without sensations. And without significant breakthroughs.

Samara basketball players became national champions for the first time Russian women's basketball has a new national champion. For the first time, this title was won by girls from the Samara club VBM-SSAU. In the super final series, they defeated three times another team with the name UMMC “encrypted” in the form of another unpronounceable abbreviation - 88:76, 67:65 in Yekaterinburg and 67:66 on the banks of the Volga.

Magnificent celebrations on the occasion of joining the European Union will take place on May 1 in ten European countries. In Lithuania, folk festivities will last two days. The Vremya Novostey newspaper asked Vice-Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs Vitenis ANDRIUKAITIS about how joining the EU will affect Lithuania's relations with Russia. -- The long-awaited entry into the EU is already in our pocket, but there are problems.

Transvaal Park will not open on May 1 after all The Prefecture of the South-Western District has banned the resumption of work at Transvaal Park, contrary to the plans of the owners of the complex. In the very place where debris removal continues through the wall to this day, it was planned to open a fitness center, bowling alley, restaurant and disco on May 1st.

Barayev's assistants will grow old in prison The Moscow City Court yesterday sentenced four Chechens accused of organizing an explosion at a McDonald's restaurant and complicity in the hostage-taking at the Nord-Ost musical in the fall of 2002. Alikhan Mezhiev (by the way, a former champion of Russia and Europe in freestyle wrestling), his brother Akhyad, Aslan Murdalov and Khampasha Sobraliev were sentenced respectively to 22, 20, 18 and 15 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony.

Forecast for the coming days Typically, the exit of a southern cyclone into mid-latitudes is accompanied by heavy precipitation and the removal of very warm air. This time nature made its own adjustments to the established rules. The cyclone from Ukraine passed to the southeast of the Moscow region, and from the north Arctic air was drawn into its circulation, and instead of rain, precipitation fell on the Moscow region, mainly in the form of wet snow.

The number of suicides in the Russian army is high. But in civilian life there are still four times more of them Since the beginning of the year, 78 servicemen, including 24 officers, have committed suicide in the Russian army. This is two-thirds of the number of military personnel who committed suicide over the entire last year. Such sad statistics were distributed yesterday by the Interfax news agency, citing an anonymous source in the Ministry of Defense.

Viktor Gerashchenko will return oil money to the Motherland State Duma deputy and former head of the Central Bank Viktor Gerashchenko confirmed yesterday that he had been given an offer to join the board of directors of YUKOS. Obviously, the prospect of this proposal is to become the chairman of the council, i.e. follow the path of the current president of the company, Semyon Kukes, who, according to Russian law, is obliged to resign as head of the board of directors.

Yuri Luzhkov has nowhere to put his children The demographic explosion threatening Moscow has caused serious concern among the capital's authorities. If the current trend continues, the city's educational institutions will soon no longer cope with the influx of students. According to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the federal authorities are to blame for this, having auctioned off departmental preschool institutions.

Gennady Fadeev decided to resurrect Sokol-250 Railway workers continue to rave about the idea of ​​high-speed communication between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Yesterday, Russian Railways President Gennady Fadeev unexpectedly told news agencies that the Sokol-250 project would still live, despite the fact that more than a year ago he personally put an end to it. Then, having taken the chair of the Minister of Railways, Mr.

Today, the ROC will host a reporting and election conference of the Russian Swimming Federation, at which a new president will be elected. So far, two candidates are vying for this post: the current head of the federation, vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee Gennady Aleshin and four-time Olympic champion, IOC member swimmer Alexander Popov. On the one hand, there is nothing unusual in the upcoming event.