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9 1 min. ... Trading on Russian currency exchanges Trading on Russian currency exchanges 01/19/98 Exchange Rate (RUB/$) Sales volume ($ million) Rate (RUB/DM) Sales volume (DM million) MICEX 6,026 32.76 3,297 2.95 SPVB 6.025 4.15 3,340 0.15 SICEX 6,029 0.97 — — URVB 6.025 4.15 — — ATMVB 6.025 1.30 — — NVSE 6,022 0.28 — — RMVB 5,990 0.12 — — MICEX - Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, SPEB - St.

649 7 min. ... Drop your weapon Russian peace initiative IN JANUARY START-2 TREATY TURNED FIVE YEARS OLD. AND ALTHOUGH IT HAS STILL NOT BEEN RATIFIED BY RUSSIA, RUSSIAN STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCES ARE MELTING BEFORE THEIR EYES. BY 2010 EVERYONE WILL GROW. No step back For five years now, the Russian parliament has been unable to ratify the START II treaty, which provides for the reduction of the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States to 3-3.5 thousand warheads by 2003.

3K 6 min. ... Master of Chechnya The threat of hospitals in the prime minister's chair Last week there was a soft palace coup in Chechnya. In fact, Shamil Basayev became the head of the republic. On January 15, the first day of the new government, he gave an interview to the special correspondent of the weekly Kommersant-Vlast, Vladislav Dorofeev.

Kommersant newspaper 01/20/1998, 00:00 Share prices of Russian issuers Share prices of Russian issuers (based on trading results on the RTS on January 19, 1998 at 6:00 p.m.) Issuer Maximum purchase price ($) Minimum sale price ($) Last transaction price ($) Change per day, % Volume of transactions (pieces) Amount of dividends (RUB per share) Minimum rate for 52 weeks ($) Maximum rate for 52 weeks ($) "Bashkirenergo"* 0.4250 0.4490 — — — 20 0.2750 0.9500 "Bashkirenergo" pr.

570 2 minutes. ... Table of contents 4 context 6 question of the week Who was Vladimir Ulyanov? 8 story of the week Seventh Day Economists 13 KREMLIN OBSERVER Alexander Livshits: we don’t need this kind of hockey in the economy! 16 authorities OWNER OF CHECHNYA The threat of hospitals in the prime minister's chair 18 ENEMY VOICES "Is Basayev a prime minister?

39 2 minutes. ... A check fund wants to be a mutual fund. LUKOIL Fund ran ahead of the locomotive As Kommersant has learned, this week documents should be prepared on the liquidation of the LUKOIL Fund check investment fund and the creation of two mutual investment funds on its basis. This is the first time such a transformation has been conceived. However, it will most likely not be possible due to the lack of a regulatory framework. The initiative of the LUKOIL Fund is quite understandable.

122 3 min. ... Oil workers are merging For two Yukos and Sibneft merged Yesterday in Moscow, the heads of the Yukos and Sibneft companies signed a memorandum on combining the production capacities and management structures of the two holdings. The fruit of this union - the YUKSI company - will become the owner of the world's largest proven oil reserves and will take first place in the Russian oil table of ranks.

14 1 min. ... Trading futures contracts on GKOs Quotes of futures contracts for GKOs (based on trading results on MICEX on January 19, 1998) Contract Execution date Minimum price (% of par value) Maximum price (% of par value) Closing price (% of par value) Transaction volume (RUB million) Open positions (RUB million) 80120 01/20/98 — — 75.13* — 2,284 80317 03/17/98 75.45 75.45 75.45 0.075 3,290 80616 06/16/98 — — 79.68* — 0.000 80915 09.15.98 — — 85.74* — 0.000 *Estimated price.

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912 7 min. ... Science and death The Great Mummification On January 21, the corpse of Vladimir Lenin turns seventy-four years old. All this time, his house on Red Square was a feeding trough for self-interested scientists. Many years ago, in the era of planned unprofitable socialism, a biophysicist friend told me about the amazing luck that befell his colleagues at an academic institute. Some military-industrial department wanted to know how radiation affects the life expectancy of mammals.

28 2 minutes. ... The EBRD gave money for a car Russia received money for FIAT The EBRD approved the allocation of funds for JSC Nizhegorodmotors The Council of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approved the investment of $240 million in the Russian-Italian project for the production of FIAT cars in Nizhny Novgorod. It is expected that the first Fiats produced in Nizhny Novgorod will appear this year.

77 3 min. ... ISS Russia could fly out of space If she is excluded from the ISS project On Saturday at the State Research and Production Space Center named after. Khrunichev there was a presentation of the functional cargo block (FGB) for the International Space Station (ISS). It was built with money from Boeing ($190 million) and Lockheed Martin ($25 million). On June 30, the Russian Proton-K launch vehicle should launch it into low-Earth orbit.

248 2 minutes. ... Clinton interrogation President Clinton testified on camera On Saturday, President Clinton met for the second time in his life with Paula Corbin Jones, who accuses him of sexual harassment. This time - in court. Clinton became the first defendant president in US history.

447 6 min. ... NOTARY MARKET War for signature rights The Moscow Department of Justice went to court, demanding to suspend the activities of its competitor, the Moscow City Notary Chamber. State notaries are behind the administration, private notaries are behind the chamber. And as Kommersant found out, both of them are outside the law. According to the most conservative estimates, in Moscow alone the annual turnover of the notary services market is now about a billion dollars.