A real replacement for Akhmat Kadyrov has not yet been found A year after the death of Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov as a result of the terrorist attack on Victory Day at the Grozny Dynamo stadium, the investigation into this case has not been completed.

Our players made a successful start in Melbourne On the first day of the Australian Open, Russian representatives won all ten matches with their participation. Marat Safin, his sister Dinara and eight other girls advanced to the second round of the tournament - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova, Vera Zvonareva, Nadezhda Petrova, Vera Dushevina, Maria Kirilenko, Alina Zhidkova and Evgenia Linetskaya. There is a fly in the ointment in the barrel of honey.

Forecast for the coming days Cyclones continue to rise to the north of the European territory of Russia. Tomorrow the cyclone will reach Karelia through the northwestern region. Along its route, it will flood the northwestern region, Karelia and the Vologda region with rain, sometimes heavy. In the central region there are short-term rains in places, during the day +13...+19оС, and in the west of the region and lower.

Success in freestyle added to the collection of Russian victories Tomorrow another stage of the Biathlon World Cup will start in Anterselva (Italy), which will be extended over five days. Individual races will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, sprints on Friday and Saturday, and the competition will end with pursuit races. So far, our shooting skiers are the most successful of the Russian representatives of winter sports.

The cartel does not intend to rely on official production quotas OPEC once again confirmed its intention to abandon production quotas by countries included in the cartel. As the president of the organization, the Minister of Energy of Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmed Fahd al-Sabah, said yesterday, in May, OPEC oil production reached a 25-year high and is at the level of 30.3 million barrels per day, with the official quota of 27.5 million. According to Mr.

Miass has not been able to elect a mayor since May 2004 The year of anarchy will be celebrated on May 12 by residents of Miass (Chelyabinsk region). The mayor of the city, Vladimir Grigoriadi, was arrested last spring while receiving a bribe in the amount of 155 thousand rubles.

They want to send Tony Blair into early retirement British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was expected in Moscow for the celebrations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Victory, apologized at the last moment and did not come. He was prevented... by the victory of his own party. After the parliamentary elections on May 5, the British Labor Party again became the ruling party for the third time in a row, which happened for the first time in the history of the country.

"Kingdom of Heaven" on Moscow screens Over the past five years, director Ridley Scott has managed to do the following: he very dubiously filmed two good books (Hannibal by Thomas Harris and The Magnificent Con by Eric Garcia); recreated the catastrophic events of October 1993 in Somalia for the American armed forces (“Black Hawk Down”); commented on his own debut short film “The Boy and the Bicycle” as part of the anthology “Cinema 16” and became the director of the computer game “Godzilla: Save

The European aviation concern reported to shareholders on record financial performance European aerospace concern EADS announced record financial results achieved in the first quarter of this year ahead of its annual shareholders meeting in Amsterdam today. According to a statement issued by EADS's Amsterdam headquarters, in the first three months of this year, the group's revenues increased by 16% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 7 billion euros.

In Chechnya, May 9 was celebrated with another shootout The militants' plan to repeat the bloody events of May 9 last year failed. On the eve of the holiday, they tried to attack one of the villages in Chechnya, but the attack was repelled by federal forces. However, there is still no reliable information about the location of the attack, the composition of the militants and federals who took part in the clash, as well as the losses incurred.

The IMF proposes to legislate the right of Central Bank employees to reasoned judgments Having studied the results of the development of Russian banks in 2004, the adviser to the International Monetary Fund at the Central Bank, Arnaud de Villepois, called on the financial authorities to “complete the strengthening” of banking supervision by legislating the right of Central Bank employees to make a reasoned judgment when analyzing the situation in banks.

Baltika elected its president The largest brewing company in the CIS and Eastern Europe, Baltika, now has a president. As you know, at the end of last year the founder of the company, Taimuraz Bolloev, who led it for almost 15 years, left this business. Yesterday, Baltika announced that the board of directors has appointed Anton Artemyev as president, who has been serving as acting head of the company since December 2004.

The CEO and head of the board of directors of Frankfurt Deutsche Boerse were fired Another unsuccessful attempt by Frankfurt-based Deutsche Boerse to take over the London Stock Exchange (LSE) ended in high-profile layoffs. On Monday, at a meeting of the supervisory board of the largest trading platform in Germany, it was decided to dismiss the general director of the exchange, Werner Seifert, from his position.

“Walking Together” has a new guide The Walking Together movement has a new leader, replacing Vasily Yakemenko, who in mid-April was elected one of the five commissioners of the federal council of the new pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi. The new leader of the “Coming” is Pavel Tarakanov. The surname, of course, is not the most suitable for the leader of a political organization, however, apparently, “Walking Together” considered that the list of Mr.

The Nizhny Novgorod governor has little chance of remaining in office Any day now, the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Volga Federal District, Sergei Kiriyenko, is due to submit to the Presidential Administration a list of candidates for the post of Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region. The current head, Gennady Khodyrev, has virtually no chance of remaining in his post. Nevertheless, analysts do not rule out the presence of his name on the list.