Chechnya believes the war is over Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov demanded that the authorities of the second largest city of Gudermes remove all traces reminiscent of the war by May 1.

Dmitry Kozak led the campaign of the Caucasian clergy against totalitarian sects Yesterday, the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District, Dmitry Kozak, discussed with the clergy the main threats to stability in the North Caucasus. According to the plenipotentiary, this is interethnic and interreligious strife, as well as...

Guus Hiddink confirmed that he will lead the Russian national team What has been talked about in football circles for almost two months has come true. 60-year-old Dutchman Guus Hiddink confirmed his upcoming appointment as head coach of the Russian national team. Thus, neither the British nor Inter Milan managed to cross the path of our national team. For the next four years, the Russians will be led by a foreign specialist.

Interros and Norilsk Nickel buy an American company producing mini-power plants Interros and MMC Norilsk Nickel, which is part of its structure, signed an agreement of intent to buy for $241 million a 35% stake in the American company Plug Power, which develops and produces equipment for hydrogen energy.

The World Judo Super Cup was held in Moscow in a bright and positive way. This feeling was formed from the beautiful fight and the remarkable result achieved by our athletes at the home tournament, from the new names of young Russians who appeared among the winners of such a major competition, and from the colorful design of the hall and the richness of the yellow-blue tatami.

Forecast for the coming days By the due date, deep snow melted in most areas of central Russia. Now the border of continuous snow cover runs along the latitude of Petrozavodsk, Vologda, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The flood is gaining momentum, moving further and further to the north. There will be no precipitation in the northwestern region, +5...+10оС. In the central region, near the blurred atmospheric front, there will be light rain in places, +8...+14C.

Watch from April 13 on Moscow screens "Scary Movie 4" (USA, 2006, David Zucker). The first two episodes of Scary Movie, directed by the Wayans brothers, were not so much parodies in which horror films were laughed at, but rather unbearable, almost physically pseudo-comedy obscenity.

The government postponed consideration of the three-year financial plan The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development have different hypotheses regarding priorities in the economy. As a result, where the chief economist sees growth, the chief financier sees a reduction in budget revenues. Further discrepancies in the approaches of the two departments emerged yesterday at a meeting of the budget commission chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.

Chita outlived many of his partners in Hollywood films A chimpanzee named Chita in the 30s of the last century became famous for being a companion of the famous Tarzan, and when the first films about the jungle hero faded into the realm of history and legend, for becoming the oldest chimpanzee on the planet. For this reason, Chita even got into the Guinness Book of Records.

Mosenergo can force RAO UES to sacrifice principles The management of Mosenergo (this brand is carried by Territorial Generating Company No. 3) yesterday summed up the results of the winter, which brought the capital to the brink of an energy crisis.

Americans accuse BP of violating the Clean Water Act The American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as it became known yesterday, has decided to hold the oil giant, British BP, accountable. A week ago, the department charged one of the world's largest oil conglomerates with negligence and irresponsible attitude towards nature.

A guidebook for prostitutes has been published in Germany At the insistence of the Ministry of the Interior, the controversial brochure “Women's Guide to Germany,” published by the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GOTS), an organization subordinate to the Federal Ministry for Assistance to Developing Countries, was removed from German stores.

Yesterday, the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers approved 58-year-old Yasuo Saito as its new ambassador to Russia. He will replace 65-year-old Issei Nomura, who was appointed chief administrator - grand master at the court of Crown Prince Naruhito. A career diplomat, Saito-san is an expert on the former Soviet Union, Western Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1971 after graduating from the University of Tokyo.

Honored military pilot recognized as a failed robber The Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov yesterday sentenced the former chief of staff of the Engels Air Division, retired colonel, 55-year-old Viktor Gubanov, to five years in a maximum security colony. According to investigators, he tried to hire a bandit to rob the former commander of the same division, Anatoly Zhikharev.

The crime series in Kyrgyzstan continues The well-known crime boss Ryspek Akmatbaev, who won the by-elections to the parliament of Kyrgyzstan on April 9 ( see Vremya Novostei, April 11), will not receive a parliamentary mandate in the near future. Yesterday, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Kyrgyzstan, Tuigunaly Abdraimov, announced at a specially convened press conference that Akmatbayev’s registration as a deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh was temporarily suspended. Mr.