212 3 min. ... Chechen militants started a war with Russia Maskhadov supported them Four groups of Chechen terrorists, trained at the sabotage school of field commander Khattab, were tasked with carrying out a series of terrorist attacks in major Russian cities. “The explosion in the central market of Vladikavkaz is just the beginning,” says the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, “in the near future, similar actions may be carried out in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd and other cities.

85 8 min. ... Spartak is not a champion The approach of the Russian football championship, like the good old days, causes a nagging itch in the pit of the stomach among knowledgeable fans. The championship doesn’t just “promise to be more interesting than ever” and so on – it really promises to be interesting. Spartak's monopoly is coming to an end. Bet on blue Our championship is totalitarian: there is only one champion - Spartak.

23 2 minutes. ... Ukraine had to beat the world champions In addition to the meeting in Yerevan, 16 more qualifying matches for the European Championship took place on Saturday, two of them between Russia’s rivals in the 4th group. In Paris, the national teams of France and Ukraine played a draw, and the Andorran players lost to the Icelanders at home. Is it beneficial for the Russian national team that the match in Paris ended in a draw?

29 1 min. ... A blank was launched into space from Sea Launch On Sunday, the first launch of the Zenit-3SL launch vehicle with the American DemoSat satellite was successfully carried out from the Odyssey ocean platform, part of the Sea Launch floating cosmodrome, in the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean (near Christmas Island). The latter was a 4.5-ton mockup of the Hughes Galaxy-11 communications spacecraft made from steel pipes.

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15 1 min. ... Read in Kommersant weekly magazines "Power" March 30 Everyone lost from NATO attacks on Yugoslavia. Only one person can consider himself a winner: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Because he belongs to the type of rulers who have learned to turn the country’s defeats into their victories. Read about how this is done in the latest issue of the weekly. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 51 dated March 30, 1999, p. 1

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1K 5 minutes. ... How to defeat NATO NATO attacked Yugoslavia with all its might. The forces of the parties are not comparable. Nevertheless, the Serbs have a good chance of winning this war. After the first raids on Yugoslavia, the American pilots returning to their bases were in excellent spirits. Nobody offered them the expected resistance, the Yugoslav air defense system was practically inactive - not only did no one fire at the planes, but they didn’t even “light up” them on radar.

232 2 minutes. ... Who will the president send? Today at 11 am Boris Yeltsin will address the Federation Council with his annual message. But today readers of Kommersant can familiarize themselves with some of the main ideas of this document. With details - NATALIA Kommersant-TIMAKOVA. Amendments to the text of the message were made by the president until the last minute.

23 1 min. ... 700 kg of drugs were burned in Omsk Last Friday, a large batch of drugs seized from criminals was destroyed in Omsk. By 11 o'clock in the morning, the territory of the ornamental nursery located in the center of the city was blocked by police officers armed with machine guns. After some time, operatives drove a truck filled with bags of drugs to the nursery. The police poured the contents of the bags into a large iron barrel, then poured gasoline into it and set it on fire.

98 5 minutes. ... Vedomosti Massive clash of military personnel in the North Caucasus In the Mozdok region of North Ossetia, a clash occurred between military units of the North Caucasus Military District. At 6.45, when morning exercises were being carried out, 60 soldiers of the internal troops of one of the district units, armed with sticks and rods, attacked 25 servicemen of the Mozdok regiment of the 58th Army and a military aviation unit of Moscow subordination.

26 1 min. ... Restoration of banks will begin in Kuzbass Next up is Tolyatti Last weekend, ARCO General Director Alexander Turbanov held negotiations with the first banks applying for the agency’s help - Kemerovo Kuzbassprombank and Kuzbassotsbank. On their basis, a support bank of Kuzbass will be created. The Kemerovo region was named among the regions with which ARCO will begin working first, back in early March.

48 3 min. ... Bank statements The National Reserve Bank was sued The French bank Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole intends to recover $110.9 million from the National Reserve Bank (NRB) under forward contracts. On Thursday, Credit Agricole`s Indoseuz International Finance BV (part of the Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole) filed a corresponding lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court.

38 2 minutes. ... Russian skaters took all the gold This has never happened in the history of figure skating. All four gold medals at the next World Championship went to representatives of one team - the Russian one! At the end of last week, dancers Anzhelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov, as well as Maria Butyrskaya, who had previously become champions in Helsinki, singles Alexei Yagudin and the pair Elena Berezhnaya - Anton Sikharulidze.

63 1 min. ... Read in Kommersant weekly: "Money" March 31 They say it right: a crisis is not only a danger, but also new opportunities. Some banks took advantage of the opportunities provided by the crisis in Russia and began to grow before our eyes. The weekly Kommersant DENGI has identified these “new stars” and publishes a list of them in its special issue, where everything is about banks. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 51 dated March 30, 1999, p. 1