707 1 min. ... Tuesday, January 25 TV channel "NTV plus football" 12.00, 18.00, 21.05 Free kick 12.15 English Championship. Manchester United - Arsenal 14.00 Spanish Championship. "Deportivo" - "Betis" 15.45 Tales from the Western Stand 16.00 FIFA Gala Performance. The best football player in the world in 1999.

2K 1 min. ... Australian Open Men. Third circle. Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) - Adrian Voina (Romania) 6:2, 7:5, 6:3. Magnus Norman (Sweden, 12) - Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) 6:4, 6:4, 7:6 (10:8). Christophe Rochus (Belgium) - Maxim Mirny (Belarus) 3:6, 6:4, 6:3, 7:6 (7:2). Evgeny Kafelnikov (Russia, 2) - Stefan Koubek (Austria) 6:3, 6:3, 6:4. Nicholas Kiefer (Germany, 4) - Karim Alami (Morocco) 6:3, 6:4, 6:2. Fourth circle. Pete Sampras (USA, 3) - Slava Dosedel (Czech Republic) 6:1, 6:2, 3:6, 6:1.

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590 3 min. ... Let's get to work, comrade deputies! Why is the government rushing the Duma The Duma scandals surrounding the division of portfolios will gradually subside, and the Duma will finally begin its direct responsibilities - lawmaking. The government is most interested in this. The budget is bursting at the seams, the government needs money. And without the Duma adopting the laws the government needs, it will be very difficult to get the necessary money into the budget.

2K 1 min. ... Cash market of precious metals 01/24/00 Morning fix ($/troy oz.) Afternoon fix ($/troy oz.) Chg. (%) Buy/Sell ($/troy oz.) Gold 287.45 287.2 -0.19 286.3 / 287.1 Silver — 5.21 +0.58 5.21 / 5.24 Platinum 450 455 +2.94 450 / 455.45 Palladium 460 465 +2.42 464 / 469 Rhodium — — — 1350 / 1450 Bank of England fixings. According to Kitco Inc. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 9 dated January 25, 2000, p. 6

2K 2 minutes. ... The "press" smelled of oil LUKOIL acquired a controlling stake in Russia's largest newspaper publishing complex, Press. This is LUKOIL's second "printing" acquisition after the purchase of shares in the Izvestia publishing house. Now the country's main newspaper printing houses are concentrated in the hands of oil workers.

5K 1 min. ... Loan rates as of January 24, 2000 (% per annum) Term (days) MIBOR (RUB) LIBOR ($) LIBOR (yen) LIBOR (euro) 1 13.60 — — — 7 20.00 5.65953 0.0725 3.09813 14 22.00 — — — 21 23.00 — — — thirty 24.00 5.81875 0.0875 3.12938 60 27.00 5.92 0.1125 3.21063 90 33.00 6.04 0.13375 3.31875 180 — 6.22 0.1675 3.53 270 — 6.43 0.21375 3.74 360 — 6,645 0.24875 3.9325 According to the Bank of Russia, Bloomberg agency. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 9 dated January 25, 2000, p. 6

95 4 min. ... The Past and the Duma Deputies offended by the division of posts claim that such disgrace has never happened in the history of the Duma. This really didn't happen. Nevertheless, both previous Dumas began with scandals and conspiracies. Duma #1 On January 11, 1994, the State Duma of the first convocation met for its first plenary session.

3K 1 min. ... Cleanup of Vneshtorgbank Yuri Ponomarev, appointed in September to the position of Chairman of Vneshtorgbank, continues to form a new team of top managers. Yesterday, the two deputy chairmen who left the bank last year were joined by the deputy chairman of the VTB board, Sergei Kolotukhin, who submitted his resignation letter.

2K 2 minutes. ... Andrey Bal: the main thing is that there is work Today, Spartak Moscow is playing its third match at the Commonwealth Football Cup. His opponent is Zalgiris Kaunas. Yesterday, Kommersant correspondent ALEXEY ZHUK spoke with the Lithuanians' mentor, the famous former Dynamo Kyiv defender ANDREY BAL. — “Zalgiris” was considered the main rival of “Spartak” in the group tournament, but lost in the first match to the Moldavian “Zimbru”. What's happened?

2K 1 min. ... The CIS extended its hand The official amount of debts of the CIS countries to Russia is estimated at $4 billion. But even a far from complete calculation of the known data shows that it is underestimated by at least half. However, it is quite possible that by the end of the summit the debts will “dissolve.” Kazakhstan recently received a forgiveness of $240 million for Russian electricity almost without a doubt.

1K 1 min. ... Japanese accounting Over the weekend, the country's top financial officials - Central Bank Governor Viktor Gerashchenko and First Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov - spoke about Russia's successes to finance ministers and heads of G7 central banks at a meeting in Tokyo (for more details, see page 2). Thus, according to the Minister of Finance, as of January 1, 2000, Russia fulfilled all the indicators and parameters of the program agreed with the IMF.

3K 2 minutes. ... The heads of the CIS elected the President of Russia The main intrigue of yesterday's negotiations between the CIS presidents who arrived at the summit in Moscow was the selection of a candidate for the post of chairman of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth (CHS).

500 2 minutes. ... Second tariff front "Dalenergo" asks for help from the government An extraordinary meeting of the board of directors of JSC Dalenergo is scheduled to take place today in Moscow. It will approve the company's appeal to Vladimir Putin with a proposal to create and send to the region a commission on issues of increasing electricity tariffs. Now, due to low electricity prices, according to energy experts, Primorye is on the verge of an energy catastrophe.

3K 2 minutes. ... Armchair murder In Veliky Novgorod, the general director of OJSC Industrial Company Splav, deputy of the Novgorod Regional Duma, Evgeniy Shulman, was killed in his office. The motive for the crime is not yet known. Shulman's corpse was discovered on the floor of his office at about eight in the morning on Monday by his deputy for economics, Vladimir Fedorov.