Office "Kommersant" for 03.12.03

Vladimir Zhirinovsky can get "freedom of speech"

He apologized to NTV for a fight

Towards the election

Yesterday, the NTV television company received an official apology from the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who on November 21, on the air of the Freedom of Speech program, made offensive statements to the representative of the Rodina Bloc, General Georgy Shpak, and after completing the current show, made a fight in the studio. Mr. Zhirinovsky assigned his responsibility for what happened to his guard and asked the channel to restore the party as a participant in paid television battles as part of the Freedom of Speech on December 5. NTV will most likely forgive the leader of the LDPR and allow him to participate in the debate.

Victor Cherepkov does not want to in Tambov

He withdrew his candidacy from the election of the head of the region

Governor's elections

Yesterday, the Tambov regional election commission abolished the registration of a candidate for governors of the Tambov region of the State Duma deputy Viktor Cherepkov at his own request. The deputy decided to focus on the elections to the State Duma in his native Vladivostok. The refusal of Mr. Cherepkov makes the victory of the current governor Oleg Betin almost inevitable in the election of the head of the region, which will be held simultaneously with the Duma on December 7.

The founder of MMM received a deadline for a fake passport

The case of Mavrodi

Yesterday, the Khamovnican Court of Moscow announced the verdict to the creator of the financial pyramid MMM Sergey Mavrodi in the case of falsification of the passport. Since the defendant pleaded guilty of this crime, he received a relatively short time - one year and a month. For a much longer time he is threatened with the main fraud case.

The traffic cop took an alarm for hiding the terrorist

investigation

Yesterday, the Investigative Department of the Prosecutor General in the North Caucasus referred to the court the case of the senior lieutenant of the police Aslan Katiev. According to investigators, he helped terrorists who prepared explosions in Moscow and Mozdok.

Knight of a distorted image

The minister defended the president from the school curriculum

censorship

Yesterday, Minister of Education Vladimir Filippov signed a decree on the withdrawal of the head of the ministry from the textbook "Domestic History of the 20th Century" Igor Dolutsky, which entails the exclusion of a book from the federal list of literature for the school curriculum. The minister outraged the interpretation of the role of President Vladimir Putin in the history of Russia proposed by the author.

Crimes will be considered from two sides

In the police and the State Statistics Committee

Accounting and control

As it became known to Kommersant, a joint seminar of representatives of the Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Statistics Committee, at which the prospects for transferring the functions of registering crimes to the territorial statistics authorities were discussed in Moscow. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the existing police statistics do not reflect the real state of affairs in the fight against crime. To get more objective data, the prosecutor's office intends to attract professional statistics to the aid of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Igor Ivanov went for criticism of the OSCE

diplomacy

Yesterday in Maastricht (the Netherlands), a two -day meeting of the Council of Foreign Affairs of the OSCE ended. If the first day of the meeting was under the sign of sharp criticism of Russia, then on the second day they criticized Moscow.

Armenian terrorists received the maximum term - a life's opinion

sentence

Yesterday in Yerevan, the verdict was announced to the executors of the attack in October 1999 in the parliament of Armenia. Six terrorists are sentenced to life imprisonment. Another received 14 years in prison. The accused managed to avoid the shooting only due to the fact that in April this year the death penalty was canceled in Armenia.

Corporate America has become more conscious

study

Last Monday, the audit company KPMG published the Fraud Survey 2003 report, according to which the number of cases of fraud in American companies in 2003 has increased significantly compared to 1998. However, the authors of the report explain this not by the actual increase in the number of fraud, but rather an increase in the consciousness of companies, which began to more often declare violations that had taken place.

The struggle for the green serpent

Advertisers persuade MAP not to get into the bottle

Advertising market

This year, the growth of the advertising market for the first time in the last three to four years has slowed noticeably. The disadvantage of "advertising" money is increasingly forcing advertising distributors to contact a semi -legal advertising of strong alcohol. Periodically, advertising of vodka brands appears on television, in outdoor advertising, regularly in print media. And the efforts of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy (MAP) to suppress such advertising are faced with new creative decisions of advertisers.

Ballerina gave the first performance

Anastasia Volochkova returned to the big

In accordance with the decision of the Tver Court of Moscow, Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova was restored at the Bolshoi Theater. The first working day with the ballerina was spent by Alexei Karakhan and photojournalist Vasily Shaposhnikov.