Russian tennis player Igor Andreev achieved the best achievement in his career, having very successfully performed at the ATP International Series tournament with a prize fund of 550 thousand euros in Gstaad (Switzerland).

Game transfers have confused the standings The Russian Football Championship smoothly crossed the equator. True, the 16th round of the Russian championship turned out to be rather scanty. Due to the participation of Spartak and Shinnik in the Intertoto tournament, two matches of the domestic championship were again postponed. Moreover, it is not at all clear why both clubs postponed their matches of the current round.

According to old models Roy Haynes. Fountain Of Youth (Dreyfus Jazz) Drummer Roy Haynes is nearly eighty years old and one of the few living classics from the glorious era of bebop. But the musician’s energy is the envy of the young, and resting on his laurels is not at all for Roy. His new album with the ironic title Fountain Of Youth presents frankly young, hot jazz, confident and subtle music-making.

The Russians played in Argentina at sub-zero temperatures As expected, the away quarterfinal match of the Fed Cup against Argentina was very difficult for the Russian women's tennis team. Despite the absence of the leader of the home team, world No. 11 Paola Suarez, who was unable to enter the clay court of the stadium in Buenos Aires due to injury, after two Saturday singles matches the match was alarmingly tied - 1:1.

An explosion in the Moscow metro occurred on February 6, 2004 at 8.32 on the stretch between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations. According to investigators, the terrorist, who was in the second carriage of the train, detonated an explosive device whose power ranged from two to five kilograms of TNT. According to official data, 40 people died as a result of the explosion, 134 sought medical help.

Science, business and museum found each other at a new St. Petersburg exhibition Everyone is already a little tired of the topic of “Russian Cézanneism” (the art of artists who are followers of Paul Cézanne’s painting system, in which, according to researcher Gleb Pospelov, “stroke by stroke - the movement of painting reveals the unity of the flesh of nature, the very energy of its formation”).

A spokesman for the headquarters of US forces in Iraq reported yesterday that four Marines had been killed. A patrol jeep carrying Marines was attacked near the city of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad. Since April, Sunni Fallujah has been the scene of ongoing armed clashes between Americans and rebels, despite the transfer of all power by the United States to the interim government of Iraq on June 28. US Marines also blocked the city of Al-Samarra, 120 km north of the capital.

Vladimir Putin meets with the Foreign Ministry Today, President Vladimir Putin will speak at the Foreign Ministry at a meeting of Russian ambassadors and permanent representatives on foreign policy support for reforms in Russia. The event will be attended by 130 employees of the diplomatic department, they will be joined by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, members of the government and the presidential administration, representatives of law enforcement agencies, businessmen and scientists.

The pilots of the Tu-22M3 missile carrier had no chance to eject Yesterday, the investigation continued into the crash of the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber (sometimes called a missile carrier), which crashed on Friday night near the village of Soltsy, Novgorod Region. During the landing approach, seven kilometers from the runway, the plane suddenly began to roll sharply to the left, at high speed with a roll of approximately 90 degrees, fell onto the road and exploded.

The state has a scheme for repaying YUKOS debt Last Friday, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, despite earlier statements about his non-involvement in the YUKOS case, actually drew up a scheme according to which the company would pay off its debt to the state for 2000.

For pupils of the Ust-Izhora center for infected children, attention is more valuable than financial assistance Sometimes they are taken for walks in city parks and taken to holiday homes by the sea. And if someone asks the teachers what kind of kids these are, they answer by rote: pupils of a private orphanage. It’s quite easy to believe these words - all the boys are wearing beautiful imported overalls, the girls are dressed in frilly dresses with frills and good shoes.

ALROSA may not gain control of Celtic Resources Protracted negotiations on the exchange of assets between the monopolist in the field of Russian diamond mining ALROSA and the Irish Celtic Resources Holdings, which owns gold deposits in Russia and Kazakhstan, may end in the coming days. A source close to the negotiations told Interfax about this last Friday. He claims that as a result, the diamond monopoly's subsidiary, ALROSA Investment Group, will become the owner of 30% of the Irish company.

Forecast for the coming days Last weekend in the middle zone turned out to be warm like summer, and the rains weren’t particularly bothersome. This weather was given to us by an anticyclone that “made its way” from the west. But he will not be able to stay over the central regions for long. Cyclones are approaching from the west again, and on the approaches to the Moscow meridian they turn sharply to the north.

The conflict around Tskhinvali is developing into a Russian-Georgian conflict The conflict in South Ossetia has already brought first blood. Thank God, so far these are only wounded and no casualties have been reported. Another thing is more dangerous - the conflict threatens to develop into an interstate one.

Departments Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko does not exclude the possibility of reducing the total number of Russian universities in the future. “The number of universities in Russia has sharply increased, it would be good if they corresponded to the level that was in the USSR,” said Andrei Fursenko. “The issue of the quality of higher education is one of the most pressing,” he noted.