104 1 min. ... Hurricane The roof was blown off the Kazan Opera House Last weekend, a hurricane hit Tataria. Strong winds tore off the roofs of two thousand buildings and knocked down six power transmission towers. Due to broken wires, more than 500 settlements were left without electricity. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Tatarstan, the disaster caused damage to the republic of 26 million rubles.

85 2 minutes. ... Table of contents 4 CONTEXT 6 QUESTION OF THE WEEK What are you calling for? 8 STORY OF THE WEEK Thunder on the Embankment Who is interested in weakening the new government? 12 Man of his word Unauthorized biography of Yevgeny Primakov 16 Hero of the occasion Birthdays at the highest level 18 FRIENDSHIP OF PEOPLES Criminal trades Why did hostages begin to be released in Chechnya?

3K 4 min. ... Stanislav Zhuk died The life of Stanislav Zhuk continues in his students In the 70s and 80s there was not a person who was not proud of the successes of our skaters. There was no spectator who was not shocked by the tears of Irina Rodnina, who won her third Olympic gold. And there was no other coach who could do so much in such a popular sport. 140 medals at the World, European and Olympic Games, of which 70 are gold - this is the track record of Stanislav Zhuk’s students.

69 6 min. ... Shokhin "The era of oligarchs is over. The era of oligarchs has begun" This is the main conclusion from the government program, which was made by former Deputy Prime Minister ALEXANDER SHOKHIN in a conversation with Kommersant special correspondent GLEB PYANYKH. The text is better, but not the program — Not a single program of any Russian government has been implemented in recent years.

thirty 2 minutes. ... Commentary on the program IMF predicts bankruptcy of the Bank of Russia The IMF mission left Moscow a day earlier than planned. This is how Primakov’s program was assessed. Kommersant special correspondent GLEB PYANYKH managed to get acquainted with the memo from the Washington guests, which assessed the government program. Excerpts from it are given below.

thirty 2 minutes. ... Federal Council for Culture The Ministry of Culture hopes only for anniversaries Pushkin will not be left without state support On Sunday, a “big event in the life of Russian culture” took place in Moscow. Thus, according to RIA Novosti, Minister of Culture Vladimir Egorov evaluates the ordinary (and, according to the minister’s assistant, boring) 13th meeting of the Federal Council for Culture and Arts of Russia.

178 2 minutes. ... Aushev opens a new capital City of the Sun on a potato field Ruslan Aushev built a new capital for the Ingush The presidents of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, and Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, raised the flag on Saturday over the new Ingush capital, Magas, which means “sun” in Russian. After St. Petersburg, this is the second capital in Russian history built from scratch.

68 2 minutes. ... Aushev Ruslan Aushev: if the Ingush don’t build a palace for themselves, what kind of Ingush will it be? On the eve of the opening of the new capital of Ingushetia, RUSLAN AUSHEV gave an interview to Kommersant correspondent ALLA BARAHOVA. — Why did the Ingush need a new capital? - This is a political question. After the conflict, we were accused that Ingushetia has territorial claims to North Ossetia. In December 1993, we solved this problem in Nalchik.

580 3 min. ... Secrets of spycraft Major General Nikolai G., who served in the GRU for more than 30 years, shared with Kommersant correspondent Evgeny Fedorov the secrets of the work of military strategic intelligence. — Is information usually bought, stolen, or simply passed on through friendship? — About 80% of the information we are interested in is obtained from open sources.

1K 10 min. ... Criminal trades The outcome of the intra-Chechen conflict, which has escalated so much in recent weeks, is in fact being determined not in Grozny, but in Moscow, where two Russian heavyweight politicians have entered the fray - Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and CIS Executive Secretary Boris Berezovsky.

72 2 minutes. ... Deciding the fate of Rosneft Rosneft will be left without Purneftegaz At least until January The Russian authorities failed to hush up the scandal with the sale of JSC Purneftegaz, the main subsidiary of the state-owned company Rosneft, for debts. Yesterday, the Moscow Arbitration Court postponed the consideration of the claim to invalidate the transaction until November 25. This means that if Rosneft manages to return its subsidiary, it will certainly not be this year.

53 2 minutes. ... Tennis. Kafelnikov in the Eurocard final Krajicek breaks Kafelnikov with 21 aces Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Stuttgart, Germany, at the prestigious Eurocard Open tournament of the Mercedes Super 9 series, in which all ten of the strongest tennis players in the world took part, reached the final, but there he lost to the Dutchman Richard Krajicek. The outcome of the decisive match did not surprise anyone, despite the fact that Kafelnikov was ranked higher than the Dutchman.

33 4 min. ... Bank statements The Bank of Russia is offered to protect depositors The Federal Public-State Fund for the Protection of the Rights of Depositors and Shareholders proposed that the Bank of Russia consider the issue of including the Central Bank of the Russian Federation among the founders of the fund. The request was stated by fund manager Evgeniy Kovrov in his letter addressed to the Chairman of the Central Bank Viktor Gerashchenko.

8 1 min. ... World stock indices Indices of leading stock exchanges as of October 30 (points) (at the close of trading) DJIA 8592.10 (+97.07) FTSE-100 5438.4 (+79.9) CAC-40 3522.93 (+39.5) DAX-30 4671.12 (+121.79) Nikkei-225* 13952.75 (+388.24) *As of November 2. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 205 dated 03.11.1998, page 7

48 3 min. ... Vedomosti The secret of eternal youth has been discovered in Kyiv Every year the traditional International Film Festival "Molodist" is held in Kyiv. It does not compete with larger events in cinematic life and does not claim a place in “Group A”. However, Molodist is the only film festival that has survived from Soviet times on its former territory. Except for Moskovsky, who, however, can also envy the stability of his Ukrainian brother.