The Russians were unable to achieve an advantage over the Chileans The first game day of the Russia-Chile match in the 1/8 finals of the Davis Cup World Group did not bring an advantage to any of the opponents - 1:1. In the opening match, the leader of the visiting team - Olympic champion of Athens in doubles and bronze medalist of the Games in singles Fernando Gonzalez beat Mikhail Youzhny - 7:6 (7:4), 5:7, 6:3, 7:6 (7: 4).

Forecast for the coming days Cold weather remains in the European territory of Russia; in the center of the territory the average daily temperature for the beginning of the calendar spring is five to six degrees below the climate norm. However, some changes will still occur. The anticyclone is slowly retreating into the Urals, and the center of the European territory of Russia will be on its western outskirts, where the air is not as cold as it was the day before.

About Leonid Zorin's novel "Grand's Testament" Everyone now knows what “conjuncture” is. Not only now, but always, few people knew what “conjecture” was. Therefore, I repeat after the hero of Leonid Zorin’s short novel “The Testament of the Grand” (“Banner”, No. 2): conjecture is “the restoration of that part of the text that cannot be read.” Interpreting the outlandish word denoting his favorite pastime, the hero is absolutely right.

CLUBS “Pakawa It.” March 5 in “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00. 5ta Taherdeilin (Iceland). Folk. March 5 at “35 MM” , 22.00. "Alabama Tour'64". A rock and roll show born from the thesis work of students at the Academy of Theater Arts. The show takes place in 1964 - musicians travel around Alabama and give the first rock and roll concerts. The performance also features Los Aybolitos & Klivlend All Stars. March 5 at Keks , 23.00. March 8 in “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00.

Presidential ambitions of the former rector A man has appeared in Belarus who does not hide his presidential ambitions. This is the former rector of the Belarusian State University (BSU) Alexander Kozulin. Some political analysts have already seen Mr. Kozulin as a “Kremlin man” who could win Moscow's support in the presidential election. But Oleg Manaev, director of the Belarusian Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Research, doubts this.

Damascus and Beirut turn to Moscow for mediation Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will address members of parliament today with an emergency message. The Syrian Ministry of Information told Vremya Novostei only that the president's speech would be devoted to the situation around neighboring Lebanon. Officials refused to say whether the president would name the exact date for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon, which the world community is seeking from Damascus. Most likely, Mr.

Since the beginning of this year, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry has introduced new rules for visiting Transnistria for foreign diplomats accredited here. 24 hours before leaving for the region, they are instructed to notify the protocol department of the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs about this, providing the license plates of the vehicle and the route. The Foreign Ministry could not explain the reasons for the innovations to the Vremya Novostei correspondent.

Sergei Lavrov's visit to Japan is in doubt In the near future, Russian-Japanese political relations are apparently not destined to emerge from the state of stagnation in which they remain. This conclusion can be drawn from how, one after another, planned visits of Russian leaders to Tokyo are postponed or simply not carried out. The visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan, previously planned for the beginning of this year, has not yet materialized.

Georgians take up arms against Russia over Abkhazia The presidential elections in Abkhazia led to the fact that Georgian military officers and diplomats began to criticize Russia especially actively these days. It has reached the point that Georgia is threatening to raise the issue of withdrawing Russian peacekeepers from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone.

This week the official introduction of the head coach of the Russian artistic gymnastics team took place. As our newspaper reported back in December, it was Andrei Rodionenko. From 1972 to 1989, Rodionenko worked on the coaching staffs of the USSR men's and women's national teams, and then coached the national teams of Australia and Canada for 15 years. Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA talked with the new coach of Russian gymnasts, Andrei RODIONENKO.

A hacker from Los Angeles “downloaded” his investigator and the US-Russian agreement Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 21, was charged in Los Angeles District Court with computer hacking for allegedly illegally intercepting emails on T-Mobile's network for seven months. In principle, this case would not have stood out in any way from a number of similar trials in the United States, if not for a number of truly “Hollywood” accidents that accompanied its disclosure.

The struggle continues for the end point of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline In the Far East, a struggle is unfolding over the route of the oil pipeline, which is planned to be laid from Eastern Siberia to the Pacific coast. Politicians in coastal regions are advocating that the pipe end in the territory under their control.

In Germany it is allowed to destroy airliners hijacked by terrorists German President Horst Köhler signed the Air Safety Act. There have been heated discussions around the law, since it provides for the destruction in the air of aircraft hijacked by terrorists. Of course, in the event that the continuation of the flight does not leave passengers any chance of salvation and at the same time threatens the lives of other people.

On March 9, the VIII National Exhibition-Fair “Books of Russia” begins at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. Its main difference from the autumn MIBF is the special attention to the regions. The business program of the fair is mainly designed to promote and develop the book business in the Russian provinces.

The progress of the investigation into the murder of French financier Edouard Stern in Geneva is shrouded in secrecy. But already the first discovered circumstances push the investigation towards slippery versions of sexual perversions or tours of the “Russian mafia”. The financier's body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon in his bedroom by employees from his IRR holding. They were alarmed that he did not show up to his office in the morning, thereby disrupting business meetings.