543 1 min. ... Growth forecast According to preliminary forecasts of specialists from the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, industrial production in Russia in the first quarter of 2000 will increase by 9.5% compared to the corresponding period in 1999. The production volume is projected at 650 billion rubles, while in the first quarter of 1999, products worth 594 billion rubles were produced. Almost all sectors of the economy are expected to maintain their previous growth rates.

483 2 minutes. ... Statistics know everything For example, that Russians want their spouses to be faithful to them. A survey conducted by the ROMIR center indicates that our citizens have the same understanding of family happiness. It turns out that 70.9% of respondents are convinced that marital fidelity is very important for a happy marriage, another 24.5% of Russians consider it “quite important.” Only 3.5% of respondents hold the opposite opinion.

847 1 min. ... Khristenko will not stay in government Vladimir Putin has said more than once that there will be no drastic changes in his cabinet until March 26. Most likely, this forecast will come true, but rearrangement is different. Nobody is firing Viktor Khristenko yet, but he has already become the object of reshuffles - his powers are melting away before our eyes. Signs of impending retirement have long been known to connoisseurs of hardware life.

744 1 min. ... Bet in game "The world" will be saved Finally, a way has been found to continue the operation of the Russian space station Mir. Last week, the management of RSC Energia signed an agreement on the transfer of Mir to MirCorp. MirCorp, headquartered in Amsterdam, was created precisely in order to attract the funds necessary to maintain the station in working condition (for this, $40 million must be found by the end of the year).

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454 5 minutes. ... VEDOMOSTI The population has started exchanging web notes The Ministry of Finance received the first applications for the novation of domestic foreign currency loan bonds of the 3rd tranche (OVVZ-III) from individuals. Deputy Minister of Finance Vadim Volkov told the agency about this. According to him, to date, about 30 investors have submitted applications to exchange expired OVVZ bonds for new bonds.

406 1 min. ... There is enough forest for everyone In Russia, the trend towards improving the main indicators of forest condition continues. This conclusion was made by the expanded board of the Federal Forestry Service in December last year. In 1999, annual accounting of the forest fund was introduced (previously, the inter-accounting period was five years).

339 5 minutes. ... First racket It is believed that one of the most nerve-wracking professions in the world is that of a coach. If an athlete splashes out emotions during competitions, then the mentor has to sit, endure and accumulate emotions in himself. But a student, even if he is the president of Russia, can always be shown in his place. And this president for Shamil Tarpishchev turned out to be Boris Yeltsin. I met Boris Yeltsin basically by accident. It happened in Jurmala in 1988.

602 1 min. ... Energy poles of the CIS While some CIS countries - those that have energy resources - are going to draw up general energy balances, others - that do not have energy resources and cannot pay for them - are forced to save.

533 3 min. ... Result Hockey Championship of Russia. Super League. Preliminary stage. CSKA-"Metallurg" (Novokuznetsk) 3:4. "Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod)--"Torpedo" (Yaroslavl) 0:2. "Neftekhimik" (Nizhnekamsk)--"White Tiger" (Kazan) 2:10. "Salavat Yulaev" (Ufa)--"Metallurg" (Magnitogorsk) 6:5. "Lipetsk" - "Dynamo" (Moscow) 0:3. SKA (St. Petersburg)--"Severstal" (Cherepovets) 2:3. "Dynamo-Energy" (Ekaterinburg)--"Molot-Prykamye" (Perm) 2:2. "Crystal" (Electrostal)--"Amur" (Khabarovsk) 3:4.

Ukraine gave Russia its last Nuclear bombers have returned to their homeland Late on Monday evening, two Ukrainian Tu-160 supersonic strategic bombers landing from the Priluki military airfield landed at the Russian airbase in Engels with a half-hour interval. This was the end to the seven-year epic with Russia’s acquisition of 11 long-range nuclear bombers from Ukraine, on whose territory they remained after the collapse of the USSR.

354 4 min. ... Auction YOU ARE OWED Presidential Laureates Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the Russian Presidential Prize in the field of literature and art for 1999. The winners of the presidential award this time were actor Alexei Batalov, singer Isabella Yuryeva (posthumously), writers Boris Vasiliev, Sergei Zalygin and Alexander Volodin, architect Yuri Gnedovsky, composer Andrei Petrov, sculptor Adelaide Pologova, designer Evgeny Rosenblum and art critic Evsei Rotenberg.

2K 2 minutes. ... Seven-flowered at a crossroads The first international theater festival "Rainbow" is ending in St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg Theater for Young Spectators named after Bryantsev decided to gather various children's theaters from several countries for a week, show their performances and at the same time decide what to do with the legacy of the once thriving Soviet youth theater movement.

755 4 min. ... What to read with Mikhail Kommersant-Novikov “From Ilyich to Ilyich without a heart attack or paralysis” - this is what they said about Mikoyan in late Soviet times. Such was the attitude of an unbiased layman towards a communist leader of a non-cannibalistic type. Now, if you discover even a shred of interest in the details of past Kremlin life, you have the opportunity to read Anastas Mikoyan’s voluminous, uncut memoirs “It Was So.” They are not the first, they are not the last.

659 1 min. ... Indices of leading stock exchanges as of February 21 (points) (at the close of trading) DJIA* 10219.52 (-295.05) FTSE-100 6081.6 (-83.4) CAC-40 5967.28 (-95.44) DAX-30 7590.53 (+16.75) Nikkei-225** 19390.58 (-153.17) *As of February 18. On Monday, US stock exchanges and markets were closed due to the celebration of President's Day. **As of February 22. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 30 dated February 23, 2000, page 1