The Russians accompanied their rivals to the medals The last discipline in which Russia could claim a medal on Tuesday was 1,500-meter speed skating. However, Russian runners were unable to compete with the Italian medalists Enrico Fabris and the Americans Shaney Davis and Chad Hedrick, who won gold, silver and bronze, respectively. We mainly counted on Evgeniy Lalenkov. Let these hopes were not connected with a gold medal.

In Chelyabinsk they began to pass sentences on the “grandfathers” from the tank school On Monday, the Chelyabinsk Military Garrison Court began considering a whole series of criminal cases of hazing, initiated by the military prosecutor's office as part of the investigation into the incident involving conscript Andrei Sychev, which thundered throughout the country. On New Year's holidays, in the support company of the Chelyabinsk Tank School, old-timers began beating new recruits.

Celebrated her 20th birthday at the Yermolova House-Museum This is not an article, not even a note: it is an attempt. Everything was good and correct. Music played, sometimes delightful, there was enough snacks for everyone, people who interrupted someone else's speech out of turn turned out to be graceful. The owner of the Yermolova House-Museum, Raisa Ostrovskaya, who organized this holiday-concert-banquet, had every reason to be happy: the evening was a success.

Another restructuring is underway in the domestic shipbuilding industry A scandal has broken out in the noble family of Russian shipbuilders. The stumbling block was the upcoming restructuring of the industry - the seventh in the last ten years. To develop the concept of reform, an interdepartmental commission was created on the basis of the Ministry of Industry and Energy. However, the document itself is being developed by the Federal Agency for Industry and its shipbuilding department.

Thousands of officers of the Baltic Fleet are promised to build separate housing in 2006 In the near future, the westernmost Russian region will receive 1.5 billion rubles. for the construction of housing for military personnel. The corresponding decision was made at a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which Kaliningrad Governor Georgy Boos also took part. Let us remind you that this region is among the priority subjects of the Russian Federation along with Moscow, St.

Valery Shantsev wants to deprive the Nizhny Novgorod mayor's office of the right to land allotment In the near future, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Rosprirodnadzor will conduct an unscheduled comprehensive inspection of compliance with the requirements of environmental legislation in Nizhny Novgorod.

Olympic champions Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov retire from sports Russian figure skaters Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov won the Olympic gold medal in ice dancing. The silver medalists of the Games were Americans Tanif Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, and the bronze medalists were Ukrainians Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov. The Russian dance duet brought our Olympic team the third medal of the highest standard at the figure skating tournament in Turin.

Moscow and RAO UES are preparing for blackouts in 2007 Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who last Saturday for the first time managed to find a common language with Anatoly Chubais, hurried to record the agreements reached on paper before the head of RAO UES of Russia changed his mind.

Ukrainian pipe makers have reduced shipments of pipes to Russia For the first time, information that pipe factories from Ukraine were reducing supplies was heard in May last year. Specialized metallurgical publications then casually reported: Ukrainian pipe makers shipped 190 thousand tons of pipes to consumers, which is as much as 15% lower than last year.

With western and southwestern flows that have established themselves at high altitudes, warm and humid air continues to flow into most of European Russia. In the next 24 hours, atmospheric fronts will bring new portions of warm and humid air to the central regions. On February 22-23, in the central region near a slow-moving warm atmospheric front with snow and sleet, fog and ice will not be excluded in places. At night -1...-7оС, during the day -4...+2оС.

A joint Kazakh-Russian enterprise for railway equipment will be created in Kazakhstan in the very near future. Similar agreements, as reported by the media, were reached during a meeting held recently in Astana under the leadership of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Danial Akhmetov. The Russian side in this joint venture will be represented by Transmashholding CJSC, one of the country's leading machine-building associations.

Valery Zorkin remained head of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin became the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation for the third time. As predicted by the Vremya Novostei newspaper, on Tuesday the majority of judges of the Constitutional Court voted for his election to a new three-year term. In the first - rating - round of voting, Mr. Zorkin received the largest number of votes (16). He was competed by judges Nikolai Bondar and Boris Ebzeev with nine votes.

The Germans promise to deal with the “technical theft” of the Celestial Empire at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg German politicians have accused China of “technical theft” and are going to raise the issue during the next G8 meeting in Russia. This was stated by the head of the Bavarian Christian Social Union, Edmund Stoiber. We are talking about perhaps the most prestigious modern German project - the Transrapid high-speed magnetic levitation train.

At the second category BTA tournament with a prize fund of $1 million in Dubai (UAE), the Russians passed the first round barrier. Yesterday, Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated the German Martina Müller, who got into the main draw through qualification - 6:2, 6:0, Maria Kirilenko defeated her compatriot Nadezhda Petrova - 6:4, 6:1. The day before, in a three-set match, Anastasia Myskina snatched victory from the 2005 Australian Open champion in doubles, Chinese Zheng Jie - 6:3, 6:7 (7:9), 6:1.

John Nelson gave Moscow Mozart The Year of Mozart is in full swing, and the music of the great Austrian is heard in Moscow more than once or twice a week. Of course, in the Mother See we have “Mozart in the din of birds,” as the poet said, but still Moscow is not a Mozartian city in its essence. But in this concert, Mozart’s music sounded in a completely special way, not in a Moscow way, and at some moments the audience even thought that they had been transported to the depths of Europe.