The oligarchs buy oligarchs buy food assets. Potanin, Abramovich, Khodorkovsky fight for the most liquid enterprises of the Russian food market, the volume of which by 2007 will be about $ 100 billion. It is possible that in the near future we will be able to witness the battle of Lukoil and Interros for some retail chain of stores, or, for example, Yukos and Sibneft for a pig-breeding complex or a large meat processing plant.

The Siberians prepared a coup with a loud trial began in Omsk. For calls for the overthrow of power and preparation “for a violent change in the constitutional system”, the senior lieutenant in retired Andrei Mandrik turned out to be in the dock. He put on a fighting detachment from the peasants, with whom he was going to go to the combat march to Moscow. The former officer wanted to restore "social justice", violated during the liberalization of the Russian economy.

The premiere in the Bolshoi today at the Bolshoi Theater of the Premiere of one of the most popular ballets of the 20th century. After the premiere of the ballet "Vain Precaution" in 1960 on the stage of Covent Garden, the production of Frederick Aston was repeated in different countries. Alexander Marshall Grant, the first performer of the Alena party in the ballet ashton, and choreologist Emilio Martins, were transferred to the Bolshoi Theater.

The guilty of the escape found in the escape of 14 convicts from the colony in the Ulyanovsk region is guilty of the leadership of the correctional institution - the Board of the Ministry of Justice came to such conclusions. 7 chiefs were dismissed, the same amount of penalties were received. This was announced by the head of the Main Directorate of Punishment Vitaly Yalunin. “The escape became possible due to a negligent attitude to its official duties of the leaders of the colony.

The killer doctors received on the night of January 28-29 in the Polish city of Lod, seven people were detained, who go through the so-called case of killer doctors. Three of the seven arrested - the doctors themselves, who will be charged with deliberate murder of patients.

The Kurgan received 200 years of prison on Tuesday in the Moscow City Court announced the verdict in the case of the Kurgan organized criminal group. 11 people, led by authority Andrei Koligov, were found guilty of murders, banditry, abductions of people and received a total of about 200 years in prison. Murder car One of the most bloody groups in the history of criminal Moscow appeared in 1994.

In Ecuador, Boeing disappeared on Monday the Ecuador plane, on board of which there were 83 passengers and 9 crew members, disappeared from the radar screens. Contact with Boeing was lost in the airspace of Colombia after the pilot requested a landing in the Ecuador city of Tulkan, located near the border. The fact is that the planes of this flight of Tama Airlines are enveloping a mountain ridge, flying into the territory of Columbia.

For pensioners and state employees, the Russian office on Tuesday approved the action plan for the implementation of the medium-term government program for 2002-2004. As it turned out, "at the forefront" the office puts the implementation of the decisions already made and the further reform. Mikhail Kasyanov promised that there would be no problems with pensions, and there would be even more money for paying salaries. Their share in regional budgets will grow from 25% to 31.5%.

Foreigners bankrupt the defense industry Russian intelligence agencies took control of the situation at the Stupinsky Fiberglass Plant OJSC - a unique enterprise of the military -industrial complex. The trend was clearly manifested here when foreign firms, introducing into defense enterprises as investors and shareholders, lead them to bankruptcy.

The government is going to get rid of the State Bank Mikhail Kasyanov voiced new details of the upcoming privatization of the "beloved daughter" of the Central Bank - Vneshotorgbank. At the first stage, the government will buy 40% VTB. And it will finally lose control of the bank no earlier than 2007. However, VTB is only the beginning. The state is going to hold a full -scale revision of its participation in the banking sector.

70 years “GAZ-AA, and 70 years ago on January 29, 1932, the first one and a half-ton truck GAZ-AA, the ancestor of all gas brand cars, came off the assembly line of the Gorky Automobile Plant. For almost three decades, GAZ-AA trucks have served in all sectors of the national economy. They could be found literally in any corner of the country. The driver lovingly called them "one and a half." The "one and a half" was the main transport in the blockade Leningrad.

The Internet bankruptcy American company Global Crossing, a high -speed provider, announced its bankruptcy. It became the fourth largest in the history of the United States after the bankruptcies of Enron, Texaco and Financial Corporation of America. In business circles, the financial situation of the company was actively discussed for several months, and in the meantime its shares were depreciated.

The Mi-8 no one shot down a criminal case under the article "Terrorism" was instituted on the fact of the disaster in the Chechnya of the Mi-8 helicopter, on the board of which there were high-ranking employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The special commission began to study the on -board recorders of a crashed machine. However, now there is almost no doubt that no one had fired a helicopter - the explosion occurred inside the machine.

On Monday, the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Dagestan on Monday demonstrated to journalists, seized from a cache in an abandoned house in one of the summer villages near the Dagestan capital the night before.

The laureates of the Triumph-2001 Prize are announced the decade of the Triumph Prize and the awarding ceremony of the laureates were held at the Maly Theater. The scene was steadily filled: jury members, all awarded in ten years, owners of youth incentive awards and, finally, the 2001 winners. Each awarded in addition to applause and compliments received $ 50,000. The evening opened with memories. Bouquets on stage, nostalgic music, a huge chandelier in purple rays.