37 2 minutes. ... Now come together A treatise on the Russian dueling tradition has been published Certain cultural and political circumstances of recent times have prompted us to use the word “honor” quite often. "The Book of the Russian Duel" - a popular monograph published by the St. Petersburg "Ivan Limbach Publishing House" - makes it possible to clearly see that there is nothing in common between today's understanding of honor and the one that was, say, in Pushkin's times.

8 6 min. ... Quotes of shares of mutual investment funds as of 03/10/99 Management company, fund Minimum investment amount (rub.) Share value (rub.)* Net assets (thousand rubles) Change.

61 4 min. ... Missile systems have been moved to combat positions Despite the fact that at yesterday's government meeting no decision was made to strike terrorist bases in Chechnya (see the material on page 1 for more details), the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs is ready to move from words to deeds. Yesterday, several Tochka-U missile launchers were sent to the border with Chechnya, intended for carrying out “precision strikes”.

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18 2 minutes. ... Deputies called censorship morality State Duma deputies adopted the law “On the Supreme Council for the Protection of the Morality of Television and Radio Broadcasting in the Russian Federation.” In this original way, the Duma decided to fight for political influence on electronic media.

51 4 min. ... Big projects of St. Petersburg We have written a lot about the architecture of Moscow, which combines art, money and power. What's happening in other cities? Kommersant decided to publish a series of reviews of modern architecture of Russian cities, starting with the second most important city in Russia - St. Petersburg. The chief architect of St. Petersburg, OLEG KHARCHENKO, agreed to answer questions from our correspondent GRIGORY REVZIN.

226 3 min. ... Alexey Yagudin: Tarasova and I have joint creativity Alexei Yagudin is called a figure skater without flaws. He combines the most difficult jumps with originality of programs, which can often be compared to a small performance. But Yagudin surprises not only on the ice. Last summer, the world and European champion surprised everyone by unexpectedly leaving coach Alexei Mishin, with whom he had worked for many years and achieved all his successes, to the famous Tatyana Tarasova.

18 3 min. ... Stock market under prosecutorial supervision For the first time, the Prosecutor General's Office openly intervened in a professional conflict on the securities market. As Kommersant learned, she lodged a protest against the FCSM regulations regulating the procedure for issuing licenses to market participants and collecting license fees. This could lead to a weakening of the Federal Commission's influence on the market.

58 2 minutes. ... Romano-Germanic bazaar Russian films for the Cannes Film Festival Goskino hosted an information screening of Alexander Sokurov’s film “Moloch” about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, which will become one of the main competitors at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Russia, although it has ceased to be a zone of special interests for Kann, has a chance to return there in an unexpected capacity.

349 1 min. ... What should a president be like? The portrait of an ideal president, according to Russians, looks like this: he should be a man of active age, that is, forty to fifty years old. He must be Russian, have a higher economic education, that is, study for a full five years either at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, or at the Finance Academy, or at the Plekhanov Academy of National Economy.

39 1 min. ... Cannes candidates (films with a predominant or significant Russian participation) 1. "Moloch". Sokurov’s film has already been reserved a place of honor in the competition. This will be the first foreign screening after the April premieres of the film in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Language: German. 2. "The Siberian Barber". Mikhalkov's supergiant will be shown as a European premiere - according to our data, with a probability of 85 percent out of competition.

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52 2 minutes. ... The President will put an end to it The meeting on the situation in Chechnya, which Yevgeny Primakov chaired yesterday on the instructions of the president, did not support the military option for resolving the conflict. In fact, it made no decision at all. The president will have to accept it. “We will not lead to the resumption of hostilities in Chechnya. This will not happen,” this is how Primakov concluded yesterday’s two-hour meeting.

56 2 minutes. ... Oil in exchange for patronage Recently, the supervisory board of the Central Fuel Company (CTK), owned by the Moscow government, approved the idea of ​​​​exchanging 13% of the shares of the Central Fuel Company for part of the assets of NK LUKOIL. Another 13% of the Moscow company's shares are planned to be exchanged for Tatneft assets. As a result, Central Fuel will finally have oil production capacity.

4K 2 minutes. ... They promised $2 million for the dead Abdulatipov The Russian Federal Security Service prevented an assassination attempt on the Minister of National Policy Affairs Ramazan Abdulatipov. Yesterday, FSB director Valentin Putin reported this to Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. The customers (their names have not yet been disclosed) ordered the elimination of Abdulatipov to one of the Chechen criminal groups. For this, the bandits were promised $2 million.