The successful completion of negotiations with the United States regarding Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization is a matter of weeks, not months. This optimistic forecast was made yesterday by the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, after negotiations with First Deputy Secretary of Commerce David Sampson.

Russian regions went to Cannes to meet investors Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref has changed the tactics of luring foreign investors to Russian open spaces. Now, it seems, he has adopted the well-known principle “if the mountain does not come to Mohammed...”. If earlier the work was carried out with those who had already reached Moscow, now the minister decided to go out to meet investors himself.

Marat Safin beat Nikolai Davydenko again At the men's Masters tournament in the American city of Indian Wells, Marat Safin beat his national teammate Nikolai Davydenko for the second time this season - 7:6 (7:5), 3:6, 6:4. The previous meeting between the two tennis players took place in February at a competition in Dubai and was the first for Marat after a six-month pause in active performances due to treatment of a knee injury.

The bill on toll highways has once again reached the government level The Ministry of Transport has sent to the government a draft federal law “On Toll Roads” for the second time. Deputy Minister of Transport Sergei Aristov spoke about this yesterday at the All-Russian scientific and practical conference dedicated to the activities and long-term tasks of the Federal Road Agency. Before breaking the news, Mr.

"Ruslan and Lyudmila" at the New Opera Glinka's opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila” is the talk of Russian opera history. Not only was the text for it composed by just anyone, moreover, often after the appearance of the music, not only is its action slow and anti-theatrical, not only is...

Russian athletes made a triumphant start to the Paralympics Two weeks after the closure of the XX Olympic Winter Games, the province of Piedmont is in no hurry to say goodbye to big sport. The Olympic flame is re-lit over Turin. The flame of the Winter Paralympics - competitions that have been held after the main Games for more than thirty years. The Latin prefix “para” can be translated into Russian as “together”.

Google is required to provide statistics on access to Internet sites The US authorities, after loudly accusing IT corporations of being loyal to the “anti-democratic regime” of China, have started a new trial. The Internet company Google has once again found itself in the spotlight, only now it has been accused of disloyalty to the American authorities. This happened after Google refused to provide government representatives with information about the most popular and popular Internet sites.

On Moscow screens there is a new domestic cartoon “Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych” In anticipation of the spring school holidays, films “for family viewing” are released. That is, ones that you can take children to and adults won’t get bored with. On this occasion, the Melnitsa studio and the STV film company released another comedy from the Merry Adventures of Three Heroes series. After Alyosha Popovich and his opponent Zmey Tugarin, it was the turn of Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych.

Deputy Secretary of the Iranian Security Council Ali Hosseini-Tash left Moscow for Tehran yesterday after negotiations with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov on the Iranian nuclear issue. They were carried out in “closed mode”. Judging by the statement of the Iranian Embassy in Russia that the parties “agreed to continue consultations,” there is no serious breakthrough. The parties again discussed Russia's proposal to create a joint venture to enrich uranium for Iranian energy.

In Dublin they decided to throw antique laws into the dustbin of history Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced an impending sweep of the country's legislation. Over the coming months, the entire list of current laws will be carefully checked: the main task of lawyers will be to detect outdated or downright idiotic acts. According to Mr.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Indiana" - "Orlando" - 97:83, "Milwaukee" - "Atlanta" - 88:87, "New York" - "Denver" - 96:108, "Houston" - " New Jersey - 77:90, Clippers - Minnesota - 95:87. Houston's Chinese center Yao Ming scored more than two dozen points for the 11th match in a row. This time, his contribution to the team’s treasury turned out to be almost the same as that of all the other Rocket basketball players combined - 36 points.

G8 energy ministers will meet in the name of humanity Tomorrow the first meeting of G8 energy ministers will take place in Moscow as part of the official preparation program for the annual summit. According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy, Viktor Khristenko, it is planned to discuss four main blocks of issues.

Israelis carry out pre-election arrest of Palestinian prisoners Yesterday, after a ten-hour siege, all Palestinians trapped in the Palestinian prison in the West Bank city of Jericho surrendered to Israeli troops. Among them are Ahmad Saadat and four of his associates from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They are accused of organizing the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in ​​2001. The Israelis also captured another prisoner accused of weapons smuggling.

The Prime Minister will fight with ministers and with rising consumer prices Today there will be a government meeting that ministers simply cannot miss. We will talk about the fight against inflation and how each member of the cabinet distinguished himself on this front. Vladimir Putin spoke last week about the need for a more serious fight against rising prices for consumer goods - he pointed out that the government is not coping with the implementation of its own measures to curb inflation.

CLUBS Concert “Diversity of Many Things”. A women's multimedia project within the framework of the City of Women festival, uniting writers and performers of new academic music. Works by Anna Ikramova, Yana Aksenova, Marina Shmotova, Tatyana Mikheeva and Iraida Yusupova will be performed by Svetlana Boychenko (soprano), Monika Khaba (piano), Iraida Yusupova (piano), Vyacheslav Poprugin (piano), saxophonists Andrey Kravchenko , Leonid Drutin, Boris Puryzhinsky , as well as Yana Aksenova (video).