Georgy Yartsev's experiments at the California Governor's Stadium The Russian national team played its last serious test match before traveling to the European Championship. At the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium, Georgy Yartsev's team played a draw with the Austrian team - 0:0. With this, the public preparation of our national team is almost complete. It remains only on June 2 to hold an entertaining match with the team of foreign players playing in the Russian championship.

Luzhkov demolishes the infamous hotel Yuri Luzhkov yesterday ordered the demolition of the Sport Hotel on Leninsky Prospekt in the capital in order to erect a multifunctional hotel, business, shopping and entertainment complex in its place. A source in the Moscow government reported this to Interfax. Obviously, in this way the mayor decided to put an end to the conflict regarding the ownership of the hotel complex between its owners and the federal center, which is challenging the privatization.

Siberia is preparing for a flood again The threat of another spring flood once again looms over several Siberian regions. Moreover, this time an emergency flood situation also occurred in the homeland of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu - in the Republic of Tuva. For several days in a row, the water level in the Yenisei rose, which already overflowed its banks on Monday morning.

How can we settle the Arabs? After successful democratic changes in Eastern Europe and the collapse of a number of dictatorships in Asia and Latin America, the Middle East in the broad sense of this geographical concept became the object of close attention. Why exactly did the Middle Eastern soil turn out to be so favorable for international terrorist activities, hiding behind a religious cover? How can we settle the Arabs?

The Ukrainian government banned the export of fuel and convinced oil companies to reduce prices Due to the sharp increase in gasoline prices in Ukraine - by 30-50% over the past two weeks - the government has taken unprecedented measures. Yesterday, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree to stop the export of petroleum products from the country for a week. The government hopes that in this way it will be able to “saturate” the market and prices will fall.

The President launched social reforms Today Vladimir Putin will deliver his annual address to the Federal Assembly. The Kremlin emphasizes that this is the first message during the new presidential term, and therefore the head of state intends to “push the time frame” and present a plan for the strategic future. “We are faced with tasks that cannot be covered by one presidential term, but can be solved in a broader historical perspective,” says one of the authors of the message.

Composers attack the Rossiya channel with lawsuits Famous domestic musicians seem to be intent on ruining the Rossiya TV channel. Following David Tukhmanov, who wanted to sue television workers for 10 million rubles, Yuri Antonov also started litigation. True, his claim is a little more modest - “only” 7 million. The claims are practically the same: both show business figures are dissatisfied with the television versions of their concerts in the State Kremlin Palace.

Egyptian President to discuss Bush's plan in Moscow Tomorrow, Hosni Mubarak, the president of the 68 million-strong Egypt, the leading country in the Arab world, will arrive in the Russian capital. Mubarak is going to negotiations with Vladimir Putin, and they already met in Moscow on April 27, 2001, at a difficult time for the Arabs. The rather scandalous summit of the League of Arab States (LAS) ended in Tunisia on Sunday. Arab disagreements focus on George W.

Practical Deschamps and theoretician Mourinho will compete for victory in the Champions League Fifty football players from Monaco and Porto, Danish referee Kim Milton Nielsen with two assistants, UEFA officials and 61 thousand fans will gather today in the German city of Gelsenkirchen to take part in and witness the final match of the Champions League. Each of them has no reason to be in a bad mood on the eve of the most prestigious club trophy in Europe.

They want to clone the party in power based on ideological principles Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Oleg Morozov, in a conversation with journalists yesterday, did not rule out the separation of the so-called “left wing” from the party.

Clément and Santoro played for 6 hours and 35 minutes Yesterday's match between Arnaud Clement and Fabrice Santoro in the first round of the French Open will go down in the history of world tennis for a long time, if not forever. In the meeting between two compatriots, a new world record was set for the duration of the fight - 6 hours 35 minutes. The match began on Monday and was interrupted with the score 5:5 in the deciding set due to darkness.

Herbie Hancock performed at the House of Music as part of the Boheme Jazz festival This year, the Boheme Jazz festival, one of the main events in the country's jazz life, turned out to be short - two days, two participants. Short, but extremely significant for the jazz history of our country: pianist Herbie Hancock opened the festival, and singer Cassandra Wilson closed it.

Eight people were injured yesterday morning in Moscow as a result of a mysterious incident that occurred on the Zvenigorod highway. Opposite house No. 10, at about ten o'clock in the morning, an explosive device tied to a lamppost went off. As a result, eight bystanders received minor shrapnel wounds, mainly from flying concrete chips. Fortunately, their injuries were not serious, and within a few hours all the victims were released from the hospital home after first aid was provided.

Forecast for the coming days Active southern atmospheric fronts flowing into its southern outskirts will give new strength to the aging cyclone over the Baltic. They will replenish the cyclone with moist air, and the center of the combined cyclone will be near Moscow; in the following days, following its high-altitude currents, the cyclone will head north. Today in many areas of European Russia it will be rainy and cold. In the central regions, the rains, according to forecasters, may be heavy.

President Met with Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov.