Forecast for the coming days In the west and center of European Russia, the past weekend was rainy. The reason for this was cyclones and associated atmospheric fronts. And at the beginning of the week, the European territory of Russia remains under the influence of cyclones. The active Atlantic will deliver them to the northwest one after another. And more southern regions will be in the path of the Mediterranean vortexes.

Prodi and Berlusconi on the political scales The first preliminary results of the general elections in Italy on Sunday and Monday indicated victory for Romano Prodi's supporters. Initially, it was reported that the opposition center-left Union bloc led by Prodi won about five percent of the votes from the center-right coalition House of Freedoms led by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A play based on “Dead Souls” was staged at the Oleg Tabakov Theater It happened. Mindaugas Karbauskis, who seemed to have hung the Memento mori sign over the entrance to his theater house a long time ago, staged a cheerful, light, partly even frivolous performance. It turned out that a cheerful mood suits the director very well.

Juventud won the European Cup final against Khimki The “Final Four” of the European Cup held in Kyiv finally removed all questions in the discussion regarding which of the national championships in the Old World is the strongest. In the decisive match of the tournament, Juventud from the Spanish city of Badalona, ​​which ranks fourth in the championship of its country, defeated Khimki with a difference of 25 points - 88:63.

Marat Safin's refusal to defend last year's title of winner of the Australian Open caused a negative reaction even from the captain of the Russian national team, Shamil Tarpishchev, who traditionally protects players. Safin has not been playing tennis for six months due to a knee injury, which seemed to have been successfully operated on and which, according to purely medical logic, should have already healed. But it seems that this is not a matter of medical problems.

Officials were closed the doors to Europe Yesterday, the European Union introduced visa restrictions for senior Belarusian officials. The list of “banned persons” is headed by the president of the countries, Alexander Lukashenko. In addition to him, 30 more civil servants were blacklisted.

Mikhail Shvydkoy supported the privatization of architectural monuments The decision of the Constitutional Court, which closed the case last Thursday regarding the delimitation of ownership of architectural monuments between the center and the regions, does not at all mean the end of a long-standing dispute between the Moscow and federal authorities over the ownership of thousands of buildings in the historical center of the capital.

Last year was the most successful for Russian professional boxers. Roman Karmazin became the IBF world champion in junior middleweight, and Nikolai Valuev won the WBA heavyweight champion belt. Oleg Maskaev, Dmitry Kirillov and Valery Brudov achieved the status of official contenders for the titles. The once-thrown cry “the Russians are coming” is already seriously alarming the entire world of professional boxing. Moreover, this first wave of champions is already followed by the next one.

“KP” and “AiF” found a willing but expensive defender The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and the weekly Argumenty i Fakty unexpectedly lost their faces in America. Russian publications have not only lost their trademarks, but also have limited access to their accounts in the United States.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season.

The next Commonwealth Cup is gaining momentum The 14th Commonwealth and Baltic Champions Cup started in Moscow. The previous one, with the resignation of Vyacheslav Koloskov from the post of President of the RFU, could well have been the last. The former head of the Russian Football Union has always been considered a confidant of FIFA President Sepp Blatter for contacts with federations of the CIS countries.

Cuba bought Russian aircraft Leasing company "Ilyushin Finance Co." (IFK) yesterday signed a contract with the Cuban state airline Cubana de Aviacion for the supply of five Russian-made aircraft. To participate in the signing, the head of the Federal Agency for Industry (FAP) of Russia, Boris Aleshin, who also holds the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of IFC, flew to Havana, where the ceremony took place.

Jewelers are looking for alternative precious metals The price of gold on the London Stock Exchange yesterday almost reached $600 per troy ounce; investment analysts expect this record today. Such a rapid rise in price of the precious metal (by 40% over the past year) forces its consumers to look for an alternative.

The President demanded to remove business from customs Vladimir Putin is increasingly demanding radical action from the government. Recently, he scolded the Cabinet of Ministers for the slow pace of development of the domestic timber processing industry, explaining in the most intelligible form that it could not be delayed any longer. “Will we be chewing snot for years?” - the head of state asked then. Yesterday, Mr.

The island of freedom and the Cuban emigrant colony in the United States, hostile to the Castro regime, share surprisingly common interests. If one morning you take the latest issues of the newspapers Granma (the organ and ideological mouthpiece of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba) and Nuevo Heraldo (the voice of emigrants published in Spanish in Florida), then the main political news of the day in both respected publications, as a rule, will coincide.