514 2 minutes. ... Plesetsk will become New Baikonur Yesterday in Plesetsk they considered the draft Federal Target Program for the development of this cosmodrome. This is a program of enormous importance. Its implementation will allow Russia to gain guaranteed access to space and, in the future, to abandon the Baikonur Cosmodrome it currently leases from Kazakhstan. With details - IVAN Y-SAFRONOV.

654 1 min. ... US government bonds 02/18/00 Issue Redemption Coupon Last Yield 3 months T-Bill 18.05.00 — 98.61 5.75 6 months T-Bill 17.08.00 — 97.11 6.00 1 year T-Bill 01.02.01 — 94.30 6.24 2 years T-Note 01/31/02 6.375 99.14 6.68 5 years T-Note 11/15/04 5.875 96.19 6.72 10 years T-Note 02/15/10 6.5 99.25 6.53 30 years of T-Bond 15.05.30 6.125 100.29 6.18 According to Bloomberg. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 28 dated 02.19.2000, p. 5

767 2 minutes. ... VEDOMOSTI Gray Friday Yesterday, the American stock market was shocked by a sharp drop in quotations - by the middle of the trading day, the main stock indices Dow Jones and NASDAQ fell by more than 2%. For developed markets, such a decline is very painful. Suffice it to say that inflation in the United States does not exceed 2% per year, so it is understandable why American investors are so upset when they lose the same 2% - but in one day.

709 1 min. ... Spring has ended in China Tonight at midnight, the streets of China and Chinatowns around the world will be decorated with lanterns made of colored paper with a burning candle inside. This is how the last, fifteenth, day of the Spring Festival is traditionally celebrated - a day that has several names: Lantern Festival, Family Unity Festival and Yuanxiao Festival.

694 1 min. ... The sergeant blew up the general by mistake Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in North Ossetia and Ingushetia, Major General Vitaly Fedoshchenko and seven other people were in the hospital after the explosion that occurred yesterday in Vladikavkaz. As it turned out, the general and the people accompanying him were blown up not by a saboteur, but by a riot policeman.

2K 1 min. ... Farit Gazizullin: “I don’t understand Kalyuzhny’s offense” — The conflict between the Ministry of State Property and the Ministry of Fuel and Energy flared up due to the fact that you did not consult with Viktor Kalyuzhny when you appointed your first deputy, Yuri Medvedev, as chairman of the board of directors of Slavneft. This is true? — The Ministry of State Property did everything according to the law, so Viktor Kalyuzhny’s offense is not entirely clear to me.

642 1 min. ... David Bowie will become a father This week it became known that David Bowie and his wife, supermodel Iman, are expecting a new addition to their family in August. 53-year-old Bowie and his wife, who is over forty, were delighted with the news of their unborn child. They decided not to overload themselves with work in the coming months in order to devote themselves entirely to preparing for the upcoming event.

689 3 min. ... Criminal of all Chechnya Maskhadov was finally assigned an article If anyone had any illusions regarding Aslan Maskhadov, then yesterday the main directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office in the North Caucasus dispelled them. From the “legally elected president of Ichkeria,” Maskhadov turned into a simple Russian criminal.

569 2 minutes. ... Global self-promotion Yesterday at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), the Director General of the International Advertising Association (IPA), Norman Weil, spoke to reporters. He noted with disappointment that in Russia the economic benefits of advertising are not recognized. Hoping to change the situation, Vail provided the Russian branch of the MPA with promotional materials proving the importance of this business.

653 2 minutes. ... Georgia does not recognize Chechens The head of the headquarters of the Georgian border troops, Korneliy Salia, categorically denied yesterday’s statement by the director of the Russian Federal Border Guard Service, Konstantin Totsky, that up to a thousand Chechen militants had accumulated on the Chechen section of the Russian-Georgian border on the Georgian side.

543 1 min. ... Drug dealer sent home Yesterday, a Spanish citizen was extradited from Russia for the first time. Konrad Broto, detained in Moscow, was on the international wanted list for six years for smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Europe. In 1994, Spanish police detained a drug trafficking group led by Manuel Velasco, also known as the Nazi. Its participants were engaged in smuggling cocaine from Latin America to Europe, including Russia.

2K 2 minutes. ... Homosexuality exposed The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office completed the investigation and transferred the case of Dmitry Isaev to court. A 45-year-old psychiatrist at the V.M. Bekhterev Research Institute is accused of issuing medical certificates with a fictitious diagnosis of “true homosexuality” to conscripts for five years in exchange for bribes. Homosexuality as a disease belongs to the category of mental disorders.

876 3 min. ... The fraudster became a victim of the oligarchs A fraudster, Valery Pavlenko, who scammed several banks out of $10 million and hid from investigators and creditors for six years, was detained in Moscow. Pavlenko claims that the then heads of the banks he deceived were also involved in these frauds, but he is afraid to name names, citing the fact that his accomplices have now “become oligarchs.” Pavlenko owned a gas station in Odintsovo, near Moscow, which brought a meager profit.

1K 1 min. ... Quotes of shares included in the Kommersant index as of 02/18/00 Index 233.669 Change. (%) -0.38 Issuer Calc. meaning ($) Change (%) Volume (pcs.) GAS 39.5 -1.86 — LUKOIL 11.06 -1.60 72000 RAO "Gazprom" 0.3281 -0.76 9620910 RAO "UES" 0.1385 -2.12 35211000 Russia" "Rostelecom" 2.375 +3.26 326000 Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 28 dated 02.19.2000, p. 5

582 2 minutes. ... No one is looking for Babitsky Chechen militants, who, according to Andrei Babitsky's friends, now have the journalist, may demand a ransom for his release. The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Rushailo, is confident that it will not come to this and Babitsky will soon show up in Turkey. Radio Liberty does not believe the minister, because Rushailo’s subordinates refused to put Andrei on the wanted list as a missing person.