523 3 min. ... Astrological forecast Friday, March 10 Today it is better not to spend money. You should not enter into contracts involving large sums of money. The moon is in Taurus today, so all matters related to finance will be difficult to progress. Friday is absolutely not suitable for starting new business or negotiating. As you may have guessed, this is a very bad time for shopping. Refrain from shopping, so as not to shed tears of remorse later.

523 2 minutes. ... Iridium will go silent in a week If no one buys the company Global satellite communications operator Iridium LLC may stop servicing subscribers around the world from 20.00 Moscow time on March 17. The main shareholder of Iridium LLC, Motorola, officially warned the company’s clients about this. "Iridium LLC today has the cash to continue operations until March 17, 2000.

907 2 minutes. ... Gone with the Snow Tourists suffered due to their own carelessness Five mountain tourists were caught in an avalanche in the Khibiny Mountains (Murmansk region). One of them died - his head was torn off, the rest were miraculously rescued from under the thick snow. Currently, there are about 20 tourist groups of 5 to 12 people in the potentially dangerous area of ​​the Khibiny Mountains. Each of them could be in the path of new avalanches at any moment.

415 2 minutes. ... Khasbulatov is waiting for a delegation from space Representatives of the Chechen clergy proposed and... O. Russian President Putin appoints ex-speaker of the Supreme Council of Russia Ruslan Khasbulatov as head of Chechnya. Khasbulatov was skeptical about the proposal. “If Moscow wanted to stop the war, they would have asked me about it long ago,” he told Kommersant.

420 1 min. ... US government bonds as of 9.03.00 Issue 3 months T-Bill Redemption 06/08/00 Coupon (% nominal) - Last. (% nominal) 98.57 YTM (% annual) 5.831 6 months T-Bill 07.09.00 — 97.06 6,068 1 year T-Bill 01.03.01 — 94.23 6,168 2 years T-Note 02/28/02 6.5 100.03 6,481 5 years T-Note 11/15/04 5.875 97.31 6,548 10 years T-Note 02/15/10 6.5 101.22 6,332 30 years of T-Bond 15.05.30 6.25 101.78 6,119 Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 40 dated March 10, 2000, p. 7

1K 2 minutes. ... The Nizhny Novgorod plant does not surrender to the Ural Yesterday, the general director of Ural Machine-Building Plants OJSC (UMZ) Kakha Bendukidze held a press conference and spoke about the conflict between UMP and the Nizhny Novgorod governor Ivan Sklyarov over control of the Krasnoye Sormovo plant. According to Bendukidze, the regional administration infringes on his rights as a shareholder and he is going to seek the truth in court.

1K 2 minutes. ... The Yak-40 was a reliable car The passenger Yak-40 that crashed at Sheremetyevo airport yesterday is one of the legendary Soviet aircraft. Being the absolute record holder for the number of jet passenger aircraft produced by the aviation industry (1011 copies), the Yak-40 has never suffered a disaster due to technical malfunctions. The Yak-40 is the first passenger aircraft of the Design Bureau named after. Yakovlev (now Yak Aviation Corporation).

905 1 min. ... What does Babitsky’s report threaten Russia with? Andrei Babitsky’s speech at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which will be held on April 3-7 in Strasbourg, could cause irreparable damage to Russia’s international image. But there is no successful way out of the situation in which the Russian authorities find themselves through their own fault.

812 1 min. ... OGSZ market Series Maturity date Coupon maturity date Coupon Purchase* 27 20.05.00 20.05.00 50 117.15 28 17.06.00 17.06.00 50 114.05 29 15.07.00 15.07.00 25 99.54 *Quotes from the Moscow Bank of Sberbank of Russia, taking into account accumulated interest as of March 9, 2000 for individuals. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 40 dated March 10, 2000, p. 7

715 2 minutes. ... America has lost half of its candidates After Super Tuesday on March 7, the main candidates for US President have been determined. This is Vice President Al Gore from the Democrats and Governor of Texas George W. Bush from the Republicans. Their rivals - former Democratic Senator Bill Bradley and Republican Senator John McCain - admitted defeat and intend to withdraw from the race.

863 2 minutes. ... The Alliance will not split On the eve of his flight to Kyiv, the head of the Alliance, Ziya Bazhaev, sorted out the trash that had accumulated in his office. According to his colleagues, he carried out such a thorough cleaning only once - when his entire team was preparing to leave the SIDANCO oil company two years ago. Now Bazhaev has left Alliance forever. However, the company will not cease to exist. OJSC "Alliance Group" was created in April 1998.

735 1 min. ... It's a pity --- we could have agreed The producer of the series “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” ALEXANDER KAPITS, answered the questions of Kommersant correspondent KIRA DOLININA. — Is the new ORT series a continuation of your series? — “Deadly force” on ORT has nothing to do with us. There is no transition from channel to channel. This is a typical second hand, if not plagiarism.

5K 2 minutes. ... A balanced approach to slavery American insurance companies demonstrate Aetna, the largest life and health insurance corporation in the United States, has announced its intention to make a public apology and pay compensation for profits made from insuring slaves in America in the mid-19th century. For the first time, an American company is ready to admit that it was complicit in the enslavement of blacks. The initiator of the events was 34-year-old lawyer Deirdre Farmer-Pelman.

893 1 min. ... Disaster at Sheremetyevo-1 Bazhaev was expected in Kazakhstan, Borovik was flying to Kyiv Ziya Bazhaev, as part of the Ukrainian government delegation, was supposed to hold negotiations in Astana today with the leaders of the oil and gas complex of Kazakhstan. He flew to Kyiv to meet with Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and discuss the details of the upcoming negotiations.

664 1 min. ... DIRECT SPEECH Will you open closed mutual funds? Maria Churaeva, General Director of the management company "Pioneer First": “We are very seriously thinking about opening such a fund, but this will be possible only after the State Duma has finally approved the law “On Investment Funds.” Such funds have almost all the features of a joint stock fund, but at the same time they have significant tax breaks, since, being mutual funds, they are not legal entities.