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36 1 min. ... Serial computer killer caught For "Melissa" he faces 40 years in prison During a large-scale operation carried out by the FBI and New Jersey State Police with technical support from specialists from America Online, David L. Smith, the creator of the Melissa virus, which a week ago affected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, was detained. Smith is charged with mischief to a public utility, theft of computer services and malicious conspiracy.

39 2 minutes. ... LUKOIL privatizes Ukrainian refineries LUKOIL announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the Odessa Oil Refinery. Russia's largest oil company has too much oil that it cannot process at its Russian facilities. Since all oil refining has long been distributed in Russia, LUKOIL has to look for capacity abroad. The Odessa Refinery is designed to process 3.8 million tons of oil per year (according to this indicator, it ranks fourth in Ukraine).

1K 8 min. ... This is not a royal song In the Tsar's Pavilion on Khodynka Field, for the first time since 1917, the former Russian anthem “God Save the Tsar!”, which turned 165 years old this year, was officially performed. Of course, it was not the relatively round date that prompted cultural figures to perform Russia’s monarchical hit in chorus. They just have nothing to sing as citizens.

77 2 minutes. ... "In 20 days there will be no Albanians left in Kosovo" If Moscow does not persuade Belgrade and NATO Today, Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev takes over the baton from Yevgeny Primakov, who failed to stop NATO bombing last week. On instructions from the prime minister, he is leaving for negotiations with Milosevic. At the same time, Moscow is preparing another visit, a sensational one, of the leader of the Kosovo Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova, to Russia.

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22 1 min. ... Imperial doesn't want to be second large bankrupt bank Yesterday, Imperial seemed to have lost its last chance to regain the right to be called a bank: an appeal against the court's decision, which recognized the revocation of its license as lawful, was rejected. On April 14, the arbitration court must declare Imperial bankrupt. But the next appeal, already prepared by the bank, will obviously delay this process again.

56 2 minutes. ... A bunch of grenades were thrown to the general On Friday evening in Karachay-Cherkessia, an attempt was made on the life of the former commander-in-chief of the Russian ground forces, Army General Vladimir Semenov. On the way of his motorcade, a bunch of grenades were blown up. No one was injured in the explosion. The general connects the attack with the April elections for the head of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, where he is one of 15 candidates.

43 1 min. ... TODAY: Boris Yeltsin and Yevgeny Primakov will receive the head of the Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev will travel to Yugoslavia to study the situation on the ground A mission of experts from the International Monetary Fund will arrive in Moscow READ TOMORROW'S ISSUE OF KOMMERSANT Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 56 dated 04/06/1999, page 1

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2K 7 min. ... Goodbye Lukashenko! Alexander Lukashenko does not have long to be president of Belarus. On May 16, presidential elections will be held in the republic. Lukashenko is not on the list of candidates. Last week, the Belarusian Central Election Commission presented certificates to two presidential candidates. More precisely, their representatives, because the candidates themselves were not and could not be at the ceremony.

83 3 min. ... The best role of President Shaimiev Golden Masks awarded at the Bolshoi Theater Last night the ceremony of presenting the national theater award "Golden Mask" took place at the Bolshoi Theater. Everything looked like an ordinary Bolshoi performance: speculators were briskly selling tickets at the entrance, and the evening opened with a ballet performance of the overture from the opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila,” staged by Vladimir Vasilyev especially for such celebrations.

781 6 min. ... Advice for an Outsider The Secretary of the Security Council is now called Vladimir Putin. He is already the eighth person to hold this position. The President, it seems, still hasn’t decided why he needs the Security Council at all. Appointment by contradiction The seventh Secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Bordyuzha, was dismissed on March 19. According to the official version, this happened after Boris Yeltsin removed him from the post of head of his administration.

124 3 min. ... Birthdays April 4 is the anniversary of the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "Science and Life" Rada Adzhubey Rada Adzhubey, the daughter of Nikita Khrushchev and the widow of Alexei Adzhubey, was born in Kyiv, graduated from the faculties of journalism and biology at Moscow State University, and works for the journal Science and Life.

20 1 min. ... Prisoners beat a sentry to death Last Saturday, two private internal troops escaped from the guardhouse of the capital's public order police regiment. The guard guarding them was killed. One of the fugitives was caught in hot pursuit. Privates of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Evgeny Bulygin and Konstantin Nizovsky have been sitting in the guardhouse since March 23.