local defense companies 51 4 min. ... Yesterday, details of a closed meeting of the working group on holding the Fifth International Exhibition of Military Equipment, Technologies and Armaments of the Ground Forces “VTTV-Omsk-2005” in June in Omsk became known. According to the representative of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Rosoboronexport" Vladimir Sosnin, the date for the exhibition has been determined; it will take place from June 7 to June 11, 2005.

Yesterday, the first congress of university graduates was held in the assembly hall of Moscow State University. On the eve of the 250th anniversary of Moscow State University, the congress participants decided to establish an international alumni association that would help their alma mater. According to the tradition of meetings with graduates, the rector of the university, Viktor Sadovnichy (pictured on the right), spoke about “material and lobbying” assistance from Moscow State University.

On December 3, Swedish radio and television distributed a statement from the management of the Swedish customs service that the Ministry of Defense of this country used the ferry Estonia, which sank in 1994, to transport weapons in agreement with customs officials.

and got rid of the unwanted director aviation industry Yesterday, the creation of another defense holding company was officially announced - OJSC Mil Helicopters Corporation. It united the bulk of the manufacturers of Mi helicopters and their components. The initiator of the creation of the holding was the Russian state intermediary in the field of arms trade, Rosoboronexport. The parent management company of the concern was its subsidiary Oboronprom.

Francois Ozon told Andrei Plakhov about how he thinks about his own and other people’s families. — Many of your films depict the modern family with deadly sarcasm. Does she look like the one who raised you? — While still in film school, I—I don’t know why—made a short film about a boy who killed his parents. My brother played the boy, and my father and mother played the parents. But seriously, my parents were middle-class intellectuals, teachers, taught biology and French.

Mikhail Kommersant-Trofimenkov 228 3 min. ... Event of the week - “Read my lips” (Sur mes levres, 2001) by Jacques Audiard (December 7, RTR, 0.30 *****). The author of the film is the son of the great comedian Michel Audiard, and the master of witty dialogue himself, having retrained as a director, turned out to be an extraordinary misanthrope, a virtuoso of not only black, but sometimes simply misanthropic humor, a singer of lies, thanks to which only his heroes can survive.

foreign investment As Kommersant has learned, on December 7, Lord John Brown, executive director of the BP group, will hold negotiations in Moscow with the chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexei Miller. Both companies are preparing a draft memorandum of joint activities for the meeting. The project options differ fundamentally in only one thing - the presence or absence of a clause on the development of the Kovyktinskoye field. Which of them will be signed will be decided during negotiations.

The creation of Carl Rossi was allowed to be supplemented with a residential complex 53 3 min. ... Yesterday, the winner of the competition for the best project of a storage facility and a residential complex, which is planned to complement the ensemble of the Ethnographic Museum, was announced.

From December 3 to 5, the All-Russian freestyle wrestling tournament will be held in Veliky Novgorod. On Friday, the grand opening of the traditional Novgorod the Great tournament will take place at the Novgorod Sports Palace, where the regional Wrestling Center is located. According to the terms of the tournament, masters and candidates for master of sports who are at least 17 years old can become participants. Applications for participation were submitted by teams from Moscow, St.

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Serge Lutens offers a new collection of fragrances: highly concentrated eau de parfum - a combination of the lightness of eau de parfum and the richness of the essence. The first creation from the new collection is the scent of white suede, Daim Blond (RUB 3,140). Notes of Tuscan iris, apricot kernel, Ceylon cardamom and fresh musk give the aroma spice, heliotrope - sweetness, hawthorn - lightness. The first men's fragrance from Yohji Yamamoto is Yohji Yamamoto Homme (RUB 1,460).

LastChangedOpen positionsVolume bidding Oil and energy Brent Blend, IPE ($/bar, 1000 bar) January 39.80 -2.51 59677 38531 February 40.40 -2.51 80017 29824 March 40.90 -2.11 26197 11493 April 40.70 -2.23 16722 6345 May 40.50 -2.26 9969 992 June 40.40 -2.13 15216 5285 West Texas crude, NYMEX ($/bar., 1000 bar.) January 43.25 -2.24 194536 14329 February 43.35 -2.35 74997 5329 March 43.40 -2.36 52166 1712 April 43.40 -2.19 35438 597 May 42.90 -2.4 19280 219 June 43.00 -1.99 34196 1287 Gasoil, IPE

Continental Market in Bournemouth (UK). Until December 5th. Bournemouth's pedestrian-only Town Square hosts a continental market every year before Easter and Christmas. Here you can, without leaving Britain, buy the best French cheeses, Italian and Spanish olives, olive oil, Belgian chocolate, German sausages and much more that will look very good on the festive table. Harvest Festival in Pomona (California, USA). Until December 5th.

19 2 minutes. ... Yesterday in Novosibirsk, General Director of Sibacadembank OJSC (SAB) Andrey Bekarev and senior banker of the financial institutions department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Nick Tessiman signed a cooperation agreement under which the EBRD will acquire a blocking stake in Sibacadembank. The EBRD intends to enter the capital of SAB for seven years.

Russians began to buy and sell more on the Internet Yesterday, the National Association of Electronic Commerce Participants (NAUET) released a report on Internet commerce for 11 months of 2004. According to NAUET, the turnover of e-commerce in Russia during this period amounted to $3.23, which is 3.5 times more than for the entire 2003. At the same time, already 61% of Russian companies use the Internet to sell their goods and services.