Place in ranking in 2005 (in 2004) A person Occupation% of respondents, including person to Russian elite in 2005 year (in 2004 year)* eleven) Putin Vladimir President of the Russian Federation 60 (61.77) 2 (2) Pugacheva Alla Singer 27.4 (26.5) 3 (8) Mikhalkov Nikita** Film director, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation 16.1 (10.17) 4 (4) Luzhkov Yuri Mayor of Moscow 15 (15.26) 5 (3) Shoigu Sergei Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation 13.2 (18.1) 6 (6)

From today, a market economy has been introduced in Ukraine international trade Today the decision of the Council of Ministers of the European Union to assign Ukraine the status of a market economy country within the framework of EU anti-dumping legislation comes into force. Thus, next year Ukraine has a real chance to win anti-dumping investigations by the European Union and even achieve a review of the amount of protective duties and quotas currently in force on the export of its goods.

personnel As it became known yesterday, the post of chairman of the Central Bank of Italy will be taken by the deputy chairman of the London division of the American investment bank Goldman Sachs, Mario Draghi. The government decree appointing Mario Draghi was signed yesterday by Italian President Carlo Azeglio, along with the banking reform law.

war 4K 6 min. ... Kommersant special correspondent OLGA ALLENOVA visited Kabardino-Balkaria twice. The first time was to write about what brought the republic to the brink of war. The second time she went to Nalchik a week later, when the war began. Today she talks about these two trips. I arrived in Nalchik in the second half of September. Local journalists said that there really were a lot of Wahhabis who had divorced and the authorities were no longer able to deal with them.

Russian vodka is sold at a loss expansion As Kommersant has learned, the second largest Russian vodka producer, Veda, has entered into a contract with the largest Ukrainian manufacturer of similar products, Soyuz-Victan, for distribution in Ukraine. "Veda" has already supplied the first batch of vodka in the mid-price segment "Russian Size" to the Ukrainian market. Yesterday the company announced that it intends to gain about 5% of the market within three to five years.

president and successor 13K 8 min. ... At the end of the summer, Kommersant special correspondent ANDREY KOLESNIKOV flew from Barnaul to Moscow on the “main plane” of the Russian president and talked with Vladimir Putin about what not only journalists, but also his inner circle still hesitate to ask the president about. I was at the funeral of the Altai governor Mikhail Evdokimov. Several journalists from the Kremlin pool flew to Barnaul.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko 1K 1 min. ... dismissed Valery Chornozub from the post of deputy chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Service. Newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine" No. 119 dated December 30, 2005, p. 2

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri Yekhanurov confirmed plans to purchase 40 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas in 2006, speaking on December 30 on the Era radio station. According to the prime minister, in the first quarter of 2006, Ukraine should receive 11.35 billion cubic meters of gas from Turkmenistan, in the second and third - 8.65 billion each, and in the fourth - 11.35 billion cubic meters, an ITAR-TASS correspondent reports.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov said that the country has money to buy gas, RIA Novosti reports. “We have money,” the Ukrainian prime minister said on December 30 live on the private Ukrainian radio station Era. He believes that the problem is not money. “The issue is civilized relations between two economic entities,” the prime minister noted.

Repayment termCoupon (% from nom.) Last (% of nominal)YTM (% year.) Redemption Coupon (% from nom.) Last (% of nominal)YTM (% year.) US ($) Japan (JPY) 3 months 03/30/06 — 99.027 3,941 04/07/06 — 99,999 0.002 6 months 06/29/06 — 97,887 4.329 06/12/06 — 99.995 0.010 1 year — — — — 20.03.07 2.6 102.98 0.120 2 years 30.11.07 4.25 99,742 4,390 20.03.08 1.9 103.42 0.335 5 years 12/15/10 4.375 100,156 4,339 03/21/11 1.4 102.41 0.915 10 years 11/15/15 4.5 100,938 4,381 12/20/15 1.5 99.87 1.515 30 years

The failed leadership of Mikhail Kasyanov in the Democratic Party On December 17, a congress of the Democratic Party of Russia (DPR) was held in Moscow, at which Mikhail Kasyanov intended to become the leader of the party. After this, the DPR, according to experts, should have become the basis for the participation of the ex-prime minister in the presidential elections.

What was 2005 like for you? Mikhail Fradkov, Chairman of the Russian Government: “We managed to draw attention to the existing problems of organizing the work of the government, although it took time to formulate the tasks in program documents and put everything into a single system. As a result, a set of cabinet tasks emerged for the near future.

eurostandard The main sporting event of 2005 was the UEFA Cup final held on May 18, in which the Russian club won the European football cup. There has never been such success in the history of Russian football. On May 18, by the way, it was Portuguese time. According to Moscow it was already the night of the 19th. At exactly midnight - the match started at 22.45 Moscow time - Alexey Berezutsky headed the ball into the Lisbon Sporting net, equalizing the score in the UEFA Cup final.

Premiere of "9th Company" In September, the premiere of the film "9th Company" directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk took place (produced by the STS TV channel, studio "1+1", Art Pictures and the production company "Slovo"). The film's budget was about $9 million. Already in the first weekend of release, the film collected $6.7 million, and in three weeks - $21 million, surpassing "The Turkish Gambit" in the box office ranking and becoming the absolute leader in the domestic box office.

The Federation Council has coped with its constitutional responsibilities in the past year, said the chairman of the upper house of parliament, Sergei Mironov, on December 30 in an interview with an ITAR-TASS correspondent.