20 3 min. ... Astrological forecast Thursday, January 21 Quite a pleasant day. Today Mercury is very well aspected, and our regular readers will understand that on such days any activity related to trade is successful. A good time for managers and intermediaries. You can negotiate with business partners - most likely you will be able to reach an agreement. This is a great time for politicians of all ranks.

33 1 min. ... Result Hockey NHL. Tampa Bay - Buffalo 2:1. "Rangers" - "Ottawa" 1:2 (Yashin ("Ottawa") made an assist). “Nashville” – “Vancouver” 4:1 (Krivokrasov (Nashville) scored the puck; Yachmenev (Nashville) made an assist). "Calgary" - "Detroit" 3:1. "Phoenix" - "St. Louis" 4:2. “Los Angeles” – “Colorado” 4:5 (Kamensky (Colorado) scored the puck; Gusarov (Colorado) made an assist). Basketball Saporta Cup. 1/16 finals. Return match. UNICS (Kazan) - "Ventspils" (Lithuania) 74:79 (37:42).

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22 2 minutes. ... A tax hole will be built in the center of the capital Moscow City will become an offshore zone The capital's government, which assured that the Moscow City business center would be built in 2001, overestimated its strength. Now there is no money to implement this project, and City threatens to become the first failed project of Yuri Luzhkov. The mayor's office cannot afford this on the eve of the elections.

191 2 minutes. ... The great Chicago is no more Yesterday, the NBA management announced that the signing of a collective agreement between the players' union and the club owners was postponed. This does not mean that the lockout will last or that the season will not take place at all - just minor differences have not yet been resolved. But one thing is already obvious: the favorite of recent years, the Chicago Bulls club, will turn into a middle peasant or even an outsider.

21 3 min. ... Dead banks against unreasonable taxes Gleb Kommersant-Baranov For a long time it was believed that some realities of Russian life remained unchanged for centuries - “fools and roads”, “the severity of laws, which is compensated by the optionality of their implementation”... However, with the advent of the new government, centuries-old traditions began to rapidly become obsolete.

15 1 min. ... Read in Kommersant weekly magazines "Money" January 20 What joys the coming year will bring us remains to be seen. But the main problem that we will have to solve in the next three hundred plus days is already known. On the night from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, a huge number of computers and, in general, any electronic devices equipped with a timer will fail. How this threatens Russia and the whole world, says the weekly Kommersant DENGI. Newspaper "Kommersant" No.

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36 1 min. ... Russia's bankruptcy is postponed Yesterday, the London Club of Creditors decided not to declare an immediate default on Russia's foreign debt. Creditors intend to continue negotiations with the Russian government on debt restructuring. The London Club of Creditors unites commercial structures that provided loans to the USSR. Currently, Russia's debt to the club amounts to $32.3 billion (including interest). The debt is in the form of Vnesheconombank bonds.

44 2 minutes. ... Cashless dollar competitor The fourth week of life has begun for the new European currency, the euro. The flight is normal. The euro still lives in its own virtual world - neither Russians nor Europeans have seen this currency and will not see it until 2002.

50 1 min. ... Main news First resignation in Primakov's government page 7 The mausoleum is closed page 2 "This was done against my will" The new head of the NDR faction, Vladimir Ryzhkov, gave an exclusive interview to Kommersant.

14 1 min. ... Indices of leading stock exchanges as of January 20 (points) (at the close of trading) DJIA* 9355.22 (+14.67) FTSE-100 6105.60 (+78.00) CAC-40 4190.01 (+74.02) DAX-30 5143.06 (+69.91) Nikkei-225 14028.05 (+257.61) *As of January 19.

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89 2 minutes. ... Nina Gavrylyuk, Nagano ski relay champion — Have you received the full amount due to you for the gold medal? — I can’t say specifically now, because I received $5 thousand in cash back in Nagano. They promised to pay us the rest of the money in Russia. We opened accounts with the RBRR. Our money was transferred there. I managed to transfer some of it from there to Inkombank. And with that I calmed down.