Vladivostok customs officers did not allow a shipment of radioactive metal to be taken out of Russia. The motor ship Lider, which was carrying a cargo of radioactive scrap metal, was detained in the port of Vladivostok. The motor ship Lider under the Cambodian flag was supposed to go to one of the ports of South Korea, RBC reports.

eleven 1 min. ... Morning fix ($/troy oz.) Afternoon fix ($/troy oz.) Chg. (%) Buy/Sell ($/troy oz.) Gold 388.05 389.7 +0.49 395.45 / 396.15 Silver — 5.075 +0.30 5.27 / 5.29 Platinum 760 760 -0.13 757 / 762 Palladium 196 192 -2.54 192 / 197 Rhodium — — — 460 / 530 According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 207 dated November 13, 2003, p. 18

fight against drug trafficking 92 3 min. ... Yesterday, a meeting on combating drug trafficking was held at the residence of the plenipotentiary representative in the Urals Federal District. Its participants developed another action plan and assessed the work of the Drug-Free City Foundation. Details in the material of NIKOLAY YABLONSKY.

financial statements 135 4 min. ... Recently, the sluggish process of Russia's transition to international financial reporting standards (IFRS), which threatened to drag on for years, suddenly turned into an acute form. The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) became a troublemaker. He established the National Organization for Financial Accounting and Reporting Standards in order to accelerate the transition of domestic enterprises to IFRS, regardless of the state.

On November 13, a sharp increase in gold prices was recorded on world markets - almost $400 was given on the exchanges for a troy ounce of the precious metal. This week, the rise in gold prices was provoked by a terrorist attack in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, as well as another attack by militants in Iraq, as a result of which Italian soldiers were killed, reports the online publication NEWSRU.com . Traders on the gold market are monitoring the situation in Iraq especially closely.

Assistant to the President of Russia Sergei Yastrzhembsky expressed the displeasure of the Russian side in connection with the failure of the British justice to extradite Aslan Maskhadov's emissary Akhmed Zakayev to Russia. “British justice has a very strange and, frankly speaking, selective idea of ​​justice,” said Sergei Yastrzhembsky, ITAR-TASS reports.

They are interfering with the construction of a shopping center 95 3 min. ... conflict As Kommersant has learned, a property conflict has flared up in Moscow between the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Kremlevsky, established by the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, and a dental clinic renting premises in the building of the Middle Trading Rows on Red Square.

with Gabriel Marquez 141 2 minutes. ... The premiere will take place at the Novosibirsk Globus Theater on November 19, which was born on the creative initiative of director Semyon Verkhgradsky (former chief director of the Old House Theater) and Honored Artist of Russia Olga Stebunova. She will perform on the small stage the one-woman show “One Hundred Years of Solitude” based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez, which no theater in Russia has dared to do before.

On November 13, the head of the Financial Monitoring Committee (FMC), Viktor Zubkov (pictured), said that in July 2004, a draft national strategy for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism will be ready. The head of the FMC, also known as “financial intelligence,” explained that in the near future an interdepartmental working group formed in accordance with President Putin’s order of October 28, 2003 will begin work on the concept of a national strategy. According to Mr.

On November 13, a roof collapse occurred at the Abashevskaya mine, resulting in the death of one of miners. The rest of the miners were not injured. According to RBC , rescuers have already gone underground to raise the body of the deceased. Currently, the mine continues to operate.

The fight against corruption can begin with the prosecutor's office projects The Prosecutor General's Office may not survive the administrative reform aimed, in particular, at combating corruption. According to Kommersant's information, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Kozak, proposed, as part of the administrative reform, to make the Prosecutor General's Office part of the executive branch of government, including it in the Ministry of Justice.

museums In ancient times, the Egyptians, and then the Greeks and Romans, used incense and perfumed oils in religious rites and rituals. At the same time, our most ancient ancestors began to use cosmetics. Rich Egyptian women, in order to emphasize their social status, covered their faces with whitewash and painted their lips with a mixture of red ocher and fat.

Moody's announced yesterday the completion of the transaction to acquire a 20% stake 24 1 min. ... Moody's announced yesterday the completion of a transaction to acquire a 20% stake in the Interfax rating agency. Let us remember that the deal itself was announced back in July 2002.

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On November 13, in Armenia, the pilot of the Russian Mig-29 fighter, which crashed on November 12, was found dead, ITAR-TASS reports citing the press secretary of the Armenian Ministry of Defense. First class pilot Major Konstantin Kardash died. A search team discovered his body near the village of Jajur in northwestern Armenia. It was previously reported that among the discovered wreckage of the fallen fighter, the pilot’s seat, which can be ejected in emergency situations, was not found.