Wimbledon matches have resumed Yesterday, after a day and a half pause caused by rainy weather, matches resumed at Wimbledon. Last Wednesday was the thirtieth day in the entire history of the tournament, which dates back to 1877, when not a single match was played in a whole day. The organizers suffered enormous losses due to this.

Three people were killed yesterday in an explosion on a bus in Istanbul, seven were injured. Two more people, one of them a policeman, were wounded near an Istanbul hotel while inspecting a package that turned out to be an explosive device. Three people, including two police officers, were wounded near the Hilton Hotel in Ankara. They also examined the suspicious package at the entrance. The Turkish Marxist-Leninist Communist Party claimed responsibility. US President George W.

The relationship between Russia and NATO was best described by the Irish group U2, calling one of their songs Far Away (So Close) - “Far (and so close).” More precisely, it would be “It seems close, but is actually quite far away.” The Alliance summit opening on Monday in Istanbul will only confirm this. Once again, the Russian President is not going to meet him. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will go.

Tomorrow the congress of the Union of Right Forces will be held in Moscow. The party, which is in a deep crisis after its failure in the December Duma elections, will have to decide on the most important issues: what its course and face will be in an environment of “political stability,” which is unlikely to change in the coming years.

The lion's share of the insurance market was made up of schemes, captives and compulsory insurance Last year, domestic insurance companies in Russia were mainly engaged in compulsory and captive insurance, as well as non-insurance financial activities. They dealt very little with open or competitive insurance. These are the conclusions of a study conducted by the Public Relations Committee of the All-Russian Union of Insurers (VSU) based on data for 2003.

The price of a vote cast for Putin is 75 kopecks Russia's Central Election Commission released on Thursday the final financial report on expenses for the March 14 presidential elections. It turned out that the CEC saved 1.7 billion rubles for the federal budget, and the popularity of the candidates is disproportionate to their expenses. 2 billion 564 million 729 thousand rubles were spent from the budget on the preparation and conduct of the presidential elections in Russia. (about $75 million).

FSFM is still not a regulator At yesterday's government meeting, the regulations on the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) were approved. However, the epic with the formation of a new regulator is still not completed.

Vladimir Putin promised to maintain benefits for the military The President of Russia demonstrated yesterday the scale of the state's plans in the military field.

Candidate to the Gazprom board of directors Boris Fedorov, who has been on a trip to Europe and the United States all week, told minority shareholders that he expects an announcement on the liberalization of the Gazprom share market immediately after the shareholders meeting. One of the participants in Mr.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that at the third round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue in Beijing, “there were signs of progress in terms of finding a compromise.” Yesterday, a two-hour meeting between North Korean and American diplomats took place in the Chinese capital. The head of the DPRK delegation, Kim Kye Gwan, announced Pyongyang's readiness to freeze its plutonium nuclear program and open it to international inspections.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to find out who is actually building houses in Russia Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation yesterday seized documents from the Federal Agency for Construction and Housing and Communal Services (formerly Gosstroy). Earlier, operatives also visited the Federal Licensing Center (FLC) of Gosstroy.

Film fans tried to protect their museum Most likely, the Cinema Museum will have to leave the Cinema Center building. This seems impossible for everyone who is accustomed to its halls, passages, stairs, and scary elevator, but this is reality.

The Czechs sacked Rudi Feller Germany head coach Rudi Völler has submitted his resignation. The reason is quite prosaic - the German national team, having lost 1:2 to the Czech national team in the last match, did not survive in the “group of death”, losing to the Czech Republic and Holland in the quarterfinals. Feller's resignation was seen as a surprise. The coach had a contract until 2006, in which Germany should host the World Cup.

Andrey Kruglov spoke about Gazprom’s finances At the last management briefing before today's meeting of Gazprom shareholders, the financial and economic policy of the monopoly and the results of its implementation were presented yesterday. The company's main financiers - deputy chairman of the board Andrei Kruglov and Elena Vasilyeva - came to a meeting with journalists and investment analysts with a “support group”, which included two deputies of Mr. Kruglov, one of Ms.

Tomorrow the Russian should become the first number of the NHL draft The annual 2004 NHL Draft ceremony will take place this coming weekend at the RBC Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. On these days, thirty league clubs will select young players in strict accordance with a predetermined order. Rounds one through three will take place on Saturday, and the remaining six on Sunday. Among the 161 field hockey players from Europe, 44 Russians were admitted to the draft.