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On May 14, the first military echelon with military personnel of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo, subject to reduction, was sent from the Serbian city of Leskovac to Russia. Representatives of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces reported that the train will deliver about 100 military personnel and several dozen units of military equipment to Russia, ITAR-TASS reports.

Slavneft made the choice everyone expected 86 3 min. ... business and government At yesterday's meeting of shareholders of OAO Slavneft, as Kommersant predicted, company vice-president Yuri Sukhanov was elected its president. The meeting took place despite the fact that its holding was prohibited by one of the district courts of Ufa following a complaint from a minority shareholder of the company. Mr. Sukhanov himself did not appear at the meeting.

On May 14, it became known that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was going to visit Seoul and meet with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Paek Nam-sung told the ITAR-TASS agency about this. Prior to this, the only summit between two Korean leaders took place in June 2000 in Pyongyang. The head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry will arrive in Russia on a visit on May 20-23.

On the evening of May 14, specialists from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations flew from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to Moscow. They were never able to locate the body of the eighth worker, who was allegedly on the roof of the collapsed assembly and testing complex. Rescue work at the scene was completed earlier that day by the decision of the chairman of the state commission to investigate the causes of the accident at the cosmodrome, Ilya Klebanov.

Sergey Kommersant-Strokan 20 1 min. ... reviewer Today, almost no one remembers that Cuba played a fatal role in the political fate of Jimmy Carter. In 1980, at the end of his presidential term, Carter decided to allow tens of thousands of Cuban emigrants into the United States. The American ships that entered the port of Mariel did not take away from the Island of Liberty the flower of the Cuban nation.

On May 14, the VII International Exhibition of Architecture and Design "Arch-Moscow" opened in the Central House of Artists in Moscow. More than 100 design and architectural firms from different cities of Russia, as well as Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, France and Sweden take part in it. The exhibition presents objects of urban planning, restoration and reconstruction, residential and public buildings, as well as the best examples of design and interior design.

The government and the State Duma intend to form a joint position on the legislative package 28 1 min. ... The government and the State Duma intend to form a joint position on a package of bills aimed at compensating for the abolition of the one percent tax on road users from January 1, 2003. Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin announced this yesterday at the end of a meeting of four centrist Duma factions.

Since May 24, all telephones in the parliament and the office of the President of Macedonia have been switched off for non-payment. Telephone bills have not been paid since July 2001. The government's debt amounts to €224,000. Currently, only a few so-called “red” lines operate in parliament, which are used for the most important closed government conversations, although bills for using these have not been paid numbers.

The Siberia Airlines plane with tail number RA-85619 began to bear the name of Yulia Fomina. The ceremony to name the airliner after the deceased flight attendant took place on May 14 at the capital's Vnukovo airport. On March 15, 2001, this aircraft, then owned by Vnukovo Airlines, was flying on the Istanbul-Moscow route. After taking off from Istanbul airport, the plane was hijacked by terrorists.

On May 13, the Spanish Supreme Court convicted 17 activists of the extremist Basque group ETA. The convicts received large prison sentences for participating in the terrorist activities of the separatist group. One of them, Inaki Bilbao, was sentenced to a record prison term for Spanish justice - 101 years, despite the fact that, according to country law, the maximum term of imprisonment cannot exceed 30 years.

On May 14, Colonel Yuri Budanov's lawyers stated that their client could be released from custody as early as May 2002, and that the stigma of a rapist and murderer would finally be removed from him. Let us recall that on May 14, during a court hearing, medical experts concluded that at the time of the murder of the Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva, Colonel Yuri Budanov was in an insane state.

to the "Theater Meeting" 35 3 min. ... festival theater Berlin hosts the annual theater festival Theatertreffen - "Theater Meeting" - bringing together ten of the best performances from German-speaking countries in the German capital. This year it mainly features performances by young directors. The masters were offended and decided to organize an alternative festival. From Berlin - ROMAN DOLZHANSKY. Theatertreffen is something like the German “Golden Mask”, but only for drama theaters.

32 2 minutes. ... During the May holidays, the price of shares of JSC Lenenergo fell significantly. Brokers attribute this not only to the decreased activity of the stock market, but also to the fact that RAO UES of Russia cannot decide on the option of restructuring its subsidiary. The price of transactions with ordinary shares of Lenenergo on the RTS stock exchange fell to $0.36, which is already 30% less than the March maximum for these securities.

On May 13, the Argentine government, for the first time since the default on December 23, 2002, received a loan from an international financial organization - the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The country's President Eduardo Duhalde signed an agreement with the head of the IDB, Enrique Iglesias, to provide a loan in the amount of $700 million, ITAR-TASS reports. On the same day, Argentina managed to repay its next payment to the World Bank on time.