The owner of IPG (International Procurement Group Inc.), Alexander Kogan, indicated that he carried out the transaction in close contact with the Russian Ministry of Finance, with which he had already worked to resolve the dispute over Russia’s debt to the Japanese investment bank Nomura. According to him, his company also resolved the problem between the Russian government and Bank of America after the default.

Around Russia Fulton report? March 9, 2006 Alexander Golts In Russia, as they could, the 60th anniversary of the Fulton speech of the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who, as you know, laid the foundation for the Cold War. In an article published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov entrusted the guilt for the confrontation to the West for several decades. Soviet policy in the 40s was, it turns out, a defensive and predictable character.

The Supreme Court of Lithuania rejected the cassation appeal of the administration of the Kaliningrad region in the case regarding the fate of the regional representative office in Vilnius. On November 3, 2005, the Lithuanian Court of Appeal allowed the collection of debt from the Kaliningrad region on the territory of Lithuania.

Alexander Lukashenko at first glance behaves very strangely. All sociological services will prophesy him victory in the presidential election, and he took up fishing for political saboteurs from among opposition and foreign diplomats. It would seem that the Old Man is clearly overcurrent the stick, fearing the "color" revolution in her country. Maybe he is disturbed by vain phobias and an election search for agents - rather, from the field of psychiatry than real politics?

Head of Government Mikhail Fradkov informed the ministers of the economic bloc that the president was not satisfied with the high level of inflation in the first three months of 2006, and threatened them with resignation. Failure to implement decisions made by federal ministers regarding the planned inflation parameters will be considered as their “incompetence and inadequacy for their position,” Fradkov said at a government meeting on Thursday.

The order of Vladimir Putin invites the Russian government to develop a mechanism for the participation of Russian entrepreneurs in financing the activities of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Reportedly, we are talking about “voluntary financing by the largest business structures in Russia.” But the concept of goodwill here is nothing more than a figure of speech.

Private Andrei Sychev's condition has improved significantly. In other words, it became closer to satisfactory. This was stated on Thursday by the chief surgeon of the Main Military Clinical Hospital named after Burdenko, Mikhail Lysenko. According to him, there are no more signs of blood poisoning in the victim of hazing. “Andrey is already sitting on the bed on his own, talking a lot with doctors and relatives,” the doctor said. But doctors still refrain from making long-term forecasts.

SPG proposes that the celebration of the anniversary of the Kremlin museums be considered the first step towards restoring the historical appearance of the Kremlin. At one time, the Bolsheviks destroyed the Chudov and Ascension monasteries, and the restoration of these shrines, they say, will become an important milestone in the revival of the country. That’s great: as someone from the Presidential Administration has committed a fine, he goes straight to the monastery!

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court recognized as legal the guilty verdict in the case of the former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev and the former general director of Volna JSC Andrei Krainov. Lawyer Heinrich Padva announced this on Thursday. According to him, the court, having refused to satisfy the defense's supervisory complaint, did not provide a single argument regarding this complaint in its response.