Forecast for the coming days Two extremely dissimilar vortices collided over the center of the European part of Russia: a warm Mediterranean cyclone and a chilly Siberian anticyclone. Their confrontation led to heavy, prolonged snowfalls and blizzards against a backdrop of moderate frost. In a matter of days, winter compensated for the snow that had almost disappeared during the long thaw, and now the height of the snow cover in Moscow in some places is 35-37 cm.

Soon there will be more mobile phones in Moscow than people December sales of kits for connecting to a mobile network sometimes resembled the distribution of New Year's gifts. A new MTS subscriber on one of the tariffs for 49 rubles. I received a SIM card for connection, about 400 rubles. on your account and a lottery ticket with the opportunity to win free service for a year. "Bee Line" to each new subscriber for the same 50 rubles. charged 140 rubles.

The Federation Council cannot decide on communications and oil workers The Federation Council took a rather interesting position in the dispute over the Alfa Group telecommunications business. As Interfax reported recently, 30 senators in early December sent a request to the Accounts Chamber about the activities of Svyazinvest, which is 75% owned by the state: they assume that there were violations of the law when this company sold its non-core assets.

Interpol began searching for the company's shareholders through its website Interpol headquarters began searching for a number of the largest shareholders of YUKOS and businessmen associated with this company. At the end of last week, identification data and photographs of Vladimir Dubov and Mikhail Brudno, co-owners of Group Menatep, which owns 42% of YUKOS shares, appeared on the official website of the international search organization (www.interpol.com).

The renewed Russian national team is undefeated at the World Championships Today, the Russian men's handball team begins its performance at the second stage of the World Championship, which is taking place in Tunisia, with a match against France. Despite the fact that our national team is playing here with a radically updated lineup after its “bronze” success at the Olympics, the Russians were one of two teams that won all five matches at the preliminary stage.

Citizen Platon Elenin (born Boris Berezovsky) had the idea to move from London to Kyiv. On the one hand, citizen Elenin-Berezovsky hopes to be closer to his homeland, just in case. On the other hand, he believes that the new Ukrainian authorities will not hand him over to the old Russian ones. At the same time, even the theoretical possibility of fleeing persecution in Russia in Ukraine should greatly sadden the Russian authorities and force them to think about their own policies.

It will take several months to finalize the intergovernmental agreement on the procedure for repaying Syria's debt to Russia and submit it for ratification. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated yesterday by the Chairman of Vnesheconombank of Russia, Vladimir Dmitriev. He confirmed that the parties had verified the amount of the Syrian debt - $13.4 billion. Last week in Moscow, the presidents of Russia and Syria resolved the problem.

Iraq gained parliament and freedom without democracy Yesterday the strangest parliamentary elections in modern history took place. This is an election in Iraq, a country of 25 million people at war, where there are about 170 thousand foreign troops, of which 150 thousand are Americans. The local population calls foreigners nothing less than occupiers. “We will kill those who go to the polls,” the al-Qaeda Jihad in Iraq group, led by the one-legged Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, threatened the day before.

First impressions of the First Moscow Biennale The biennale of contemporary world art that opened in the capital is called “Dialectics of Hope.” In ancient times, the word “dialectic” (from dia-legein) acquired at least seven meanings. And the familiar syllogism “synthesis of opposites” is only the seventh in the chain.

Scientists have found that housework prevents the appearance of extra pounds All housewives, including Russian ones, now have an extra incentive to pay more attention to housework, and at the same time reconsider their attitude towards raising children.

Williams Jr. called the doctor and crushed Davenport The victory at the Australian Open brought Serena Williams 1208 points in the WTA rankings and allowed the black American to rise in the individual classification from seventh to second place. Williams Jr.'s opponent in the final match, her compatriot Lindsay Davenport, retained the title of world number one, but she probably had an extremely bad aftertaste from the decisive women's singles match in Melbourne.

The Russian ambassador never recognized the occupation of Latvia A significant event took place in Latvia. Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks, together with historian Heinrich Strodes, gave Russian Ambassador Viktor Kalyuzhny a tour of the Museum of Occupation on Friday. The Latvian political elite had been waiting for this for a long time and hoped that after this the Russian ambassador would definitely reconsider his attitude towards some historical events. However, Mr.

The German public fights neo-Nazis Police in the northern German port city of Kiel had to use batons and water cannons against participants in two opposing demonstrations. On Saturday, about 300 members of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NDPD) took to the streets of the city under neo-Nazi slogans.

Marat Safin finally won the Australian Open Marat Safin in the final of the Australian Open at the central arena of Melbourne Park defeated the host of the court Lleyton Hewitt with a score of 1:6, 6:3, 6:4, 6:4 and continued the unprecedented winning streak of Russian tennis players at tournaments in the series “ Grand Slam." If at the three previous competitions of this rank we were delighted exclusively by girls - Anastasia Myskina in Paris, Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon and Svetlana

The share of monolithic new buildings on the Moscow market is approaching three quarters Last year, monolithic new buildings began to displace panel ones - the ratio is 3:2 in favor of the former. This year, according to the analytical center “Real Estate Market Indicators”, the share of monolithic housing in houses under construction or announced for construction will be slightly more than 70%, and panel housing - only 28%.