Forecast for the coming days In the next 24 hours in the central regions, another cyclone will add more snow, in some places heavy snow with sleet, blizzards, the weather will be windy, snow drifts are possible on the roads, while the frosts will weaken, and the average daily air temperature in Moscow will approach normal, on Friday afternoon about zero.

Russia and Georgia are preparing to resume negotiations in Moscow on March 23-24 on the withdrawal of military bases. Will NATO troops appear in Georgia instead of Russian troops? Georgian State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration Georgiy BARAMIDZE answers the questions of Vremya Novostei correspondent in Tbilisi Mikhail VIGNANSKY.

George Bush's character is connected to the World Bank only by his predatory name On Wednesday, George W. Bush officially nominated US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank. Which caused a shock among the public, since Mr. Wolfowitz does not at all seem like a person suitable for this position. The Deputy Minister of Defense is a political scientist by training, taught international relations at universities, and during the presidency of George H. W.

In America, the price of oil reached $57.5 per barrel The decision of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries - OPEC - to increase production quotas by 500 thousand barrels per day (up to 27.5 million) did not calm the market. Yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange, quotes set a new record, reaching $57.5 per barrel. In London, the cost of raw materials rose to $55.55 per barrel.

The reasons for the death of the An-24 are still unknown About a hundred specialists from the prosecutor's office, the FSB, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Transport and the Interstate Aviation Committee yesterday began inspecting the crash site of the An-24 plane, which crashed on Wednesday afternoon while flying from Ufa to the village of Varandey in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO).

The new law “On Subsoil” may leave the Russian oil industry without investment The new law on subsoil is, in fact, another step towards the centralization of not only state property, but also power. Which, in fact, neither the authors of this bill nor other members of the cabinet of ministers hide. They rather see the fact that subsoil will now be recognized as exclusively federal property as the main advantage of the new edition of the law “On Subsoil”.

Sverdlovsk deputies decided to edit the regional coat of arms Golden griffins and sables with their tails always raised should become new symbols of the Sverdlovsk region. The regional legislative assembly began to correct the Sverdlovsk coat of arms, which turned out to not comply with heraldic requirements. The fact that the region's coat of arms had serious flaws was known ten years ago, when it was just being adopted.

At the request of Vremya Novostei correspondents, politicians, political scientists and representatives of the business community commented on the motives for the assassination attempt on Anatoly Chubais and the consequences of this crime for the country.

Memoirs of Yuri Zorich “The Magic of Russian Ballet. On stage and behind the scenes, Balle Rus was published by the Perm publishing house Zvezda. Zorich is one of those Russian artists who grew up, studied and worked abroad, one of those who in the 20th century for our citizens did not exist at all. He was born in 1917 in Moscow; his mother immediately took him and his brother to Kovno (Kaunas), where Zorich took his first dance lessons at the local theater.

The group gets rid of the freight forwarding company The East Line group of companies continues to get rid of assets not directly related to its main business - managing Domodedovo Airport. At the same time, the group is not interested in acquiring control over any other airports. This was stated yesterday at a press conference by Dmitry Kamenshchik, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the East Line Group.

Carvalho and Vagner Love led CSKA to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup Yesterday, in the return match of the 1/8 UEFA Cup, the capital's CSKA in Krasnodar beat the Serbian Partizan with a score of 2:0 and advanced to the next round of the second most important European tournament. The hero of the match was Brazilian midfielder Daniel Carvalho, who scored the first goal and earned a penalty, which was converted by his compatriot Vagner Love.

How prices are rising and what businesses are afraid of The bill “On the Protection of Competition,” submitted by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to the government, was initially perceived as a step related primarily to the oil industry. This is not surprising if we recall the previous statements and publications accusing oil companies of price fixing. Soon, however, large business structures in other sectors of the economy began to show serious concern about this bill.

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After three days of negotiations, 13 Palestinian factions and groups agreed to extend indefinitely the truce announced on February 8 by the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. “As long as the Palestinian factions remain armed, one can hardly expect that the calm will last,” the Israeli government commented rather coolly on the results of the meeting.

Diplomatic ambulance gathered in Minsk Today in Minsk at a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers (CMFA) the issue of reforming the Commonwealth will be considered. The ministers will discuss the initiative of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who proposed in September last year to reduce the administrative apparatus of the CIS in order to make it more efficient.