Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Head of Government Mikhail Fradkov. The socio-economic situation in the country was discussed at the meeting; met with the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Education and Sports Vyacheslav Fetisov. Mr. Fetisov reported that Russia has developed a federal target program for the development of mass sports, designed for 2006-2015. According to him, the program provides for the construction of more than 4 thousand sports facilities.

566 7 min. ... On December 15, Azerbaijan saw off its former president Heydar Aliyev on his last journey. Many current presidents, one temporarily inactive and one future one, came to say goodbye to him. Vladimir Putin did not manage to present the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called to the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev. The Russian president carried this order with him for quite a long time, hoping to visit Baku: first on the way to Malaysia, then on the way to Thailand.

Mahmoud Abbas head of the Palestinian Authority “Now that the Israelis’ withdrawal from the Gaza Strip has been completed, it will become easier for us to solve this problem (restoring order— Kommersant ). I am confident that by the elections on January 25, the situation will be largely under control.” This statement was made by the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in an interview published last Monday by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. According to Mr.

556 3 min. ... On September 22, at the Bolshoi Theater, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev opened the Week of Kyrgyz Culture in Moscow. I watched this dramatic episode in the history of two peoples from the ground. The Kyrgyz intellectual and political elite received the news of the celebrations at the Bolshoi Theater with great enthusiasm. The hall was full of her. – What, Samarbyubyu will perform?

The company preferred the domestic market to the European one 94 3 min. ... Yesterday, the administration of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug received a letter from the EEC Commission (European Economic Community), allowing the Yamal Oleni MP to export products to European markets.

FAS achieved the return of ten gas stations to their previous owners 29 3 min. ... As Kommersant learned, the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga District declared the purchase of ten gas filling complexes by Ulyanovsknefteprodukt CJSC (a subsidiary of Yukos Oil Company) illegal. Now the participants in the transaction, the amount of which amounted to more than $6 million, must carry out bilateral restitution (return to their original position).

But he is poorly elected towards the elections On Monday evening, a discussion was held on the German television channel ARD, in which the heads of the largest parties in Germany, running in the parliamentary elections on September 18, took part.

298 5 minutes. ... On January 26, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin, as a result of which the interlocutors found out that the national interests of the United States and Russia still differ in some ways. American Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, flew to Moscow the night before from Tbilisi, from the magnificent inauguration of Mikheil Saakashvili.

The State Property Fund will service its paper shares only in state banks government regulation Yesterday, the State Property Fund decided that all its securities would be serviced in two state banks - Ukreximbank and Oschadbank. According to market participants, the state thus wants to protect itself from opposition from private custodians of securities in the event of disputes with the authorities.

Anniversary Yesterday marked exactly one year since Vladimir Putin announced a large-scale government reform, within the framework of which popular gubernatorial elections were abolished, the State Duma was elected exclusively by party lists, and a public chamber was established.

363 4 min. ... On December 10, in the Catherine Hall of the Kremlin, human rights activists together with security forces celebrated Human Rights Day. The alignment of the main forces before the meeting became clear to me about fifteen minutes before the start of the meeting. Members of the Human Rights Commission sat at a large round table in the Catherine Hall at a distance of a meter from each other and were silent, intently looking at the tall blue and white dome with yellow stars.

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In the September FIFA rankings, the Russian team dropped one line. Our players lost to the Nigerian national team and took 30th place with 669 points. Also, the US team lost one place in the ranking, the England team dropped down four positions and dropped out of the top ten. Progress was noted among the teams of Sweden, France, and Liechtenstein. The top three rankings include the teams of Brazil (839 points), Holland (785) and Argentina (778).

media market As Kommersant has learned, Promsvyazcapital Management Company, which manages the non-banking assets of Promsvyazbank, has bought shares from the minority shareholders of the Argumenty i Fakty Publishing House and is completing a deal to increase its stake in the Media-Press printing house to 95%. Promsvyazkapital calls getting rid of minority shareholders in controlled companies its usual practice.

straight from the courtroom 24 1 min. ... Yesterday, a convict escaped from the federal court of the Vasileostrovsky district, having received a court sentence of 4 years in a maximum security colony. Actually, he didn’t even run away, but calmly left. With details - MAXIM KIRILLOV. As Alexander Razzhivin, press secretary of the St.