REM KOOLHAAS answered questions from Kommersant correspondent ALEXEY TARKHANOV by phone from Barcelona. — What is happening with your General Staff project? — I started work when the Russian architects were already designing, and, let me clarify, I did not have and have no desire to take their place. — But your projects are exhibited side by side. Isn't this a competition? - No.

15 1 min. ... Yesterday, the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Vadim Bulavinov, put an end to the “age of coal” in fifteen minutes, that is, he closed the last city coal boiler house and opened a gas boiler house instead. The workers of the old boiler room and their superiors, who were waiting for the mayor, complained about the dirty area around the boiler room and argued that Vadim Bulavinov would dirty his shoes and would definitely force them to clean up.

rock concert Ex-Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant presented his new solo album "Mighty Rearranger" at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg. The condition of the rock legend's lungs and vocal cords was assessed by BORIS BARABANOV. Robert Plant allocated three days in his schedule to St. Petersburg and not a single hour to Moscow. This is the logistics of the Russian touring business today. It is more profitable to bring artists only to St.

Yesterday, at the first meeting of the Amur Regional Council of the fourth convocation, elected on March 27, deputies elected one of the leaders of the pro-governor bloc “We are for the development of the Amur Region”, Oleg Turkov, as chairman of the parliament. It is interesting that his candidacy was proposed by a member of United Russia (the party in power received 16.2% of the votes, losing 1% to the pro-governor bloc) Mikhail Korneev.

Apartment scammers left pensioners without apartments 161 1 min. ... The Main Investigation Department (GID) of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate has completed the investigation into the case of Dmitry Osik’s group, whose members are accused of a series of apartment frauds. In addition to the “realtors” themselves, one of the notaries of the Tosno district is involved in the case, who, according to investigators, was in collusion with the attackers.

preventing alternative operators from developing the market 20 3 min. ... Yesterday, the office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (UFAS) for the Nizhny Novgorod region refused to satisfy the complaint of VolgaTelecom OJSC and left unchanged the decision to bring the company to administrative liability in the form of a fine. Fine in the amount of 400 thousand rubles.

Publishers have become a new target for the authorities business and government Yesterday, the Department of Economic Security of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that one of the largest publishing groups in Russia, AST, is suspected of false entrepreneurship and tax evasion - according to police officers, AST has underpaid the state by about $100 million since 2000. Moreover, a criminal case has already been filed against AST.

The head of the Labinsk woodworking plant is wanted 129 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the prosecutor's office of Labinsk (Krasnodar Territory) put Igor Beron, general director of Labinsk Woodworking Plant OJSC, on the wanted list. A criminal case was opened against him for long-term non-payment of salaries to employees. Mr. Beron, who owes creditors and workers of the enterprise about 9 million rubles, has not appeared at the plant since January.

On Thursday, April 14, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, after talks in Washington, announced the two countries' intention to develop “strategic dialogue” and cooperation in the fields of defense, space and energy. "It is important that the US-India relationship continues to strengthen as we recognize India's growing importance as a global factor," Condoleezza Rice said.

Eurobond market of developing countries 04.14.05 (at 21.00) CountryDate redemption Coupon (% of nom.)Volume release ($ million)Demand (% from nom.) Suggestion (% of nom.)Chang. (% of nominal)YTM (% year.)Spread (b.p.)* Argentina 04.12.05 eleven 1000 26 33 — 309.60 35072 03/15/10 11,375 1000 27,625 32.125 — 48.92 5144 01.02.

but decided to reconsider the terms of its lease 20 1 min. ... Yesterday, Russian Deputy Minister of Transport Sergei Aristov announced the start of navigation between Russia and Finland along the Saimaa Canal. As Kommersant has already written, the start of navigation on April 6 was disrupted due to the unpreparedness of the Russian border checkpoint. Now everything is ready for navigation, however, now Mr.

Morning fixing ($/troy oz.)Daily fixing ($/troy oz.)Meas. (%)Buy / sell ($/troy oz.) Gold 427.2 423.45 -0.95 423 / 423.75 Silver — 7.105 -0.77 7.02 / 7.05 Platinum 861 863 +0.23 860 / 864 Palladium 196.5 197.5 +0.51 196 / 199 Rhodium — — — 1450 / 1550

Nikita Mikhalkov outplayed Oleg Menshikov in “State Councilor” movie premiere The VIP premiere at Pushkinsky of “State Councilor” by Philip Yankovsky based on the novel of the same name by Boris Akunin is another high-profile event in Russian cinema, which now releases a new high-budget product almost every week. The newest one was tested by ANDREY Ъ-PLAHOV.

Quotas for its import turned out to be a political matter ferrous metallurgy Yesterday, the US government's International Trade Commission (ITC) voted to extend quotas for the import of hot-rolled steel from Russia as part of an anti-dumping investigation into its supplies. Russian metallurgists believe that there is no reason to extend the restrictions - there remains a shortage of rolled steel on the US market.

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced the draft federal law “On Amendments to the Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation on Elections and Referendums and Other Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” for consideration by the State Duma (see page 3). Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov issued an order to allocate 180 million rubles. ministries and departments taking part in the experiment to reform the budget process.