Chechen women missing from the Grozny market were found in Beslan Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Nikolai Shepel announced yesterday that the investigative team had finally managed to establish the identities of two female suicide bombers who took part in the attack on a school in Beslan. They allegedly turned out to be Roza Nagaeva and Mairam Taburova.

Vladimir Plyushchev, who recently worked on the coaching staff of the Russian national hockey team, will coach the Severstal super league team next season. The decision on this was made by the board of founders of the club at its meeting. The management of Sverstal was dissatisfied with the results shown in the last championship - the team took only tenth place and did not make it to the playoffs.

Regular visits to Moscow by high-ranking Brussels representatives indicate that relations between Russia and the European Union (EU) are approaching a turning point. The beginning of a new stage of “genuine cooperation” could be the Agreement on “four common spaces”, which is planned to be signed at the summit on May 10 in Moscow.

In a week, Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to Israel. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that the visit will be “productive and constructive.” Israelis call the upcoming event historic, because this is the first visit of the Russian president to the Jewish state. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan SHALOM told a Vremya Novostey correspondent about what issues are planned to be discussed.

The leader of the Tajik Democratic Party disappeared in the Moscow region Korolev The Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan, Mahmadruzi Iskandarov, who was released on April 4 from a Moscow pre-trial detention center, was not in vain in believing that he was in danger. His lawyer Anna Stavitskaya told Vremya Novostey that on the night of April 16, Iskandarov disappeared under unclear circumstances.

The program of the VI International Chekhov Theater Festival has been announced The festival will begin on June 1 and end on July 30. Only in August will Moscow theatergoers, exhausted from an overabundance of impressions, be able to go to the dacha, to the sea or on a safari - any place will suit them, as long as there is no theater there. Valery Shadrin, general director of the Chekhov Festival, has prepared something incredible for this summer, comparable only to the 2003 Theater Olympics.

The Revival of the Russian Estate Foundation has more questions than answers Yesterday, RIA Novosti hosted a press conference of the national fund “Revival of the Russian Estate”.

Summer residents may once again intensify the reform of benefits At the beginning of the year, the government, including with the help of multibillion-dollar financial injections, managed to relieve the tension that arose in society as a result of mistakes in carrying out the reform of social benefits. Pensioners who protested against the abolition of free travel on public transport left the streets, and drug provision for beneficiaries was established.

Joseph Ratzinger became the 265th head of the Holy See It took only four rounds of voting for the Roman Catholic Church conclave to decide on the new head of the throne of St. Peter. Yesterday at 18:00 local time, white smoke rose from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where the cardinals met for two days, and the bells of all Roman churches began to ring. Chilean Cardinal Medina Estives walked onto the balcony of the façade of St.

Hundreds of Chinese and Kyrgyz are secretly registered in the apartments of Yekaterinburg residents The authorities of Yekaterinburg unexpectedly found out that some areas of the city in terms of the number of citizens registered per square meter can be included in the Guinness Book of Records. It turns out that thousands of immigrants from near and far abroad live next to the unaware townspeople.

President Signed the federal law “On Amendments to Article 85 of the Federal Law “On General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation”, adopted by the State Duma on April 8 and approved by the Federation Council on April 13.

New art books A.E. Kovalev. Mikhail Larionov in Russia. M., "Elysium". 2005 It would be a shame to complain about the inattention of scientists, gallerists, journalists, curators and patrons of the arts to one era. This era is the avant-garde of the 10-20s. And within it there are its own favorite periods. In the past and present years, the Moscow avant-garde has been in the lead, represented by masters who are in one way or another involved in the “Jack of Diamonds” association.

The Final Four of the Russian Cup starts in Moscow Today and tomorrow the capital's Dynamo Sports Palace will host the Final Four matches of the Russian Men's Basketball Cup. The quartet of the strongest teams in the draw included the same clubs that made it into the top four at the end of the Super League regular season. On Wednesday, CSKA and Khimki will play in the first semi-final, then the home team and Kazan UNICS will take to the court.

CLUBS Shibusashirazu (Japan). This orchestra is an extreme mixture of free jazz, progressive rock and butoh dance, followers of Pop Mechanics and Sun Ra Arkestra. The team opens the Sergei Kuryokhin Festival - one of the largest shows of alternative and avant-garde jazz music in Russia. By tradition, the second largest alternative festival - SKIF - has a more rock orientation and takes place in St. Petersburg.

The President wants to double the volume of housing construction by 2010 Vladimir Putin confirmed his commitment to ambitious plans. Yesterday, at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council, he set the government and leaders of the constituent entities of the Federation the task of doubling the volume of housing construction in Russia by 2010.