Yevgeny Yakovlev, head of Power Machines OJSC, has been appointed Acting Director General of OAO United Machine-Building Plants (OMZ), writes Kommersant . Pavel Skitovich, deputy general director of Power Machines, became the managing director of OMZ. Kakha Bendukidze, who headed OMZ until recently, formally went on vacation and will leave the company in early April.

A commission of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation consisting of 10 people arrived in Chukotka, headed by the head of the inspectorate of the chamber, Sergey Klimantov, RBC reports with reference to Vostok-Media. The purpose of the visit is a scheduled audit of the implementation of the budget of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug for 2003 and the past period of 2004. The commission will work in the district for a month.

The UK is still not ready to join the euro zone, Treasurer Gordon Brown said on Wednesday, ruling out the possibility of introducing a single European currency in the current parliament. It is reported by Reuters. Presenting his annual budget preparation speech, Brown said there was no need to revise his five conditions for Britain's entry into the euro area, but added that next year he would take a closer look at how much progress the current budget had made.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia accuses a certain Major General Netkachev of training armed formations in Adzharia, RIA Novosti reports. According to Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Baramidze, General Netkachev arrived in Adzharia at the invitation of Aslan Abashidze. "We know that General Netkachev is busy preparing illegal armed formations on the territory of Adjara.

Yuri Netkachev, who is accused by the Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia of training armed formations in Adzharia, is not listed in any of the Russian state institutions. This was reported by telephone to RIA Novosti at the Russian embassy in Tbilisi. According to the representative of the diplomatic mission, Netkachev did not come into contact with the Russian military in Georgia or with the Russian embassy in Tbilisi.

Cloudy, relatively warm weather with precipitation will continue in Moscow until the end of this week. This was reported to Interfax by the Director General of the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region Alexei Lyakhov. On Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the air temperature in the city at night will fluctuate from minus 1 to plus 1 degrees, and in the daytime the air will warm up from 1 to 3 degrees Celsius.

In the concert hall of the Kostroma Regional Philharmonic the competition "Super-mother-in-law - 2004" was held for the first time, reports REGNUM. Only six contestants aged from fifty to eighty years claimed the honorary title. In five competitions, the participants had to remake old fairy tales in a new way, dance, impromptu get out of the situation “the drunken son-in-law came”, played out by the theater artist. Galina Lebedeva, a pensioner and a former tractor driver, won.

There is a danger of collapse of the wall of the 4th entrance of the house 120 along the street of Soviet cosmonauts in Arkhangshelsk. According to REGNUM news agency, next to the blockage there are three theodonites, these are devices that fix the level of the slope of the wall of the 4th entrance. The danger of the collapse of the wall of the 4th entrance, although small, exists. The wall is deformed and it is necessary to monitor its condition so that it does not fall on the rescuers.

Four members of the board of Alfa-Bank were dismissed as part of a program to reorganize the management structure and reduce costs, Reuters reports, citing an anonymous source in the bank. Deputy chairmen of the board Pavel Gorbatsevich and Marina Savelyeva, head of the retail business block Maciej Lebkowski and director for credit products development, head of the credit products block Igor Sogin are leaving.

An anti-personnel mine was found in the building of the Krasnoyarsk Arbitration Court on Wednesday, the operational duty officer of the regional headquarters of civil defense and emergency situations told RIA Novosti. All people in the building were urgently evacuated, and the area cordoned off.

The court managed to bring the singer and actress Courtney Love to tears, according to AFP. On the merits, Love's attorney, Michael Rosenstein, managed to get another postponement of the trial in order to prepare witnesses. The next meeting is scheduled for April 15th. Love arrived in court two hours late and clearly felt great.

All draft administrative documents for the placement of construction projects in Moscow will be submitted to the government only after a decision taken exclusively by the first deputy mayor in the Moscow government, head of the Complex for Architecture, Construction, Development and Reconstruction of the City. According to RIA Novosti, such an order was signed by Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. Currently, the complex is headed by Vladimir Resin.

At the trial of the pedophile Marc Dutroux, the investigator who led the entire case, Jacques Langlois, entered into an argument with the lawyer of the victims, AP reports. Lawyers for Leticia Deleuze, who managed to survive the kidnapping, accused Langlois of not attaching importance to their client's testimony.

At the site of an explosion in a residential building in Arkhangelsk, investigators from the prosecutor's office found a part of a gas pipe with a screwed cap, ITAR-TASS was told in the regional prosecutor's office. "This is an important piece of evidence that fully confirms the main version - about external influence that caused the gas leak and explosion," the prosecutor's office spokesman said. The same department did not confirm this information to a RIA Novosti correspondent.

A 60-year-old resident of Karlsruhe decided to fight for the fresh breath of his Rottweiler and brushed his teeth with a brush. According to Ananova.com, he is now in the hospital and the doctors say that he is very lucky that he survived. He managed to survive only because he pretended to be dead and completely relaxed when the dog tormented him vindictively. When the dog went to his booth, his owner managed to call an ambulance.