“Minister Okruashvili’s assertions that Russia transferred armored vehicles, multiple rocket launchers, and even more so MANPADS to South Ossetia are unfounded,” the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense told Kommersant yesterday. “All weapons available at the base in Akhalkalaki, including MANPADS "Strela-2M" are in special storage facilities.

Dmitry Dorofeev brought the Korean 0.02 seconds Standard bearer on skates silver Yesterday Dmitry Dorofeev won the first Russian speed skating award at the current Olympics. In the 500-meter race, our sprinter finished second behind American Joey Chick. Kommersant correspondent ALEXEY DOSPEKHOV reports from Turin. Russia achieved its last Olympic victories in speed skating in 1994. Not only were there no successes since Lillehammer, there was no chance of achieving them.

hunting incident On Sunday, the United States became aware of an incident that occurred the day before with Vice President Richard Cheney. While hunting in Texas, he accidentally wounded lawyer Harry Whittington.

The country's largest newspaper was left without a building 6K 7 min. ... fire As a result of a major fire that occurred yesterday in the building of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Press Publishing House" on Pravdy Street in Moscow, the editorial offices of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Parlamentskaya Gazeta, Tribune and Sovetskaya Rossiya were burned or flooded.

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Mahmoud Abbas outranks Hamas Yesterday, the Palestinian Authority parliament, a few hours before the expiration of its term of office, approved a number of initiatives that strengthen the position of the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. Taking advantage of the fact that the majority in the outgoing parliament belongs to the Fatah party controlled by him, Mr. Abbas passed through the legislative assembly a resolution on the creation of a constitutional court.

On February 14, at the Turin Olympics, Russian athlete Svetlana Zhurova won a gold medal in the 500 m speed skating race. Ms. Zhurova's result was 76.57 seconds. Chinese athletes Wang Manli and Ren Hui took second and third places. Their results are 76.78 seconds. and 76.87 sec. respectively.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova the Order of Honor “for her services in preparing and holding festive events dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War”; awarded Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Saltanov the Order of Honor “for services in the implementation of the foreign policy course of the Russian Federation and many years of conscientious

personnel Speaker of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic Igor Yaimov said yesterday that he was satisfied with the parliament’s decision last Saturday to confirm the positions of First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor Yuri Antaradonov and Gennady Sumin, whom the Altai parliament had previously refused to trust.

Dmitry Kommersant-Butrin special correspondent Of course, one can only sympathize with German Gref. Speaking last Friday at a meeting of the Competitiveness Commission with invective addressed to greenmailers, who belong not on the Forbes list of billionaires, but in prison, he did not want to say anything special. In any case, something that would then merit urgent justification on Vladimir Solovyov’s Sunday television broadcast.

On February 14, masked gunmen killed 11 members of a family, including a five-year-old boy, in the Shiite town of Balad, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Also among the dead was Sheikh Hussein Sarhan Khiyali, a local community leader and farm owner. According to Mr. Khiyali's 15-year-old son, who received bullet wounds, the militants surrounded a group of farmers, and after his father tried to get a gun, they all were shot, Reuters reports.

Inter RAO managers claim 15% of the state company motivation CJSC Inter RAO UES, the owner of the foreign property of RAO UES of Russia, intends to enter into an option agreement with its management to sell to it up to 15% of the company's shares, which are valued at $180 million. State representatives on the remuneration committee of the board of directors of RAO supported this idea , however, without specifying the size of the option.

Motor Show 2006 will be held at Crocus Expo exhibition activities Yesterday it became known that the Crocus Expo exhibition complex will become the venue for the international motor show this year instead of the Expo Center. The former organizers of the auto show, ASM Holding and ITE Group Plc, received the status of partners of the exhibition, and Crocus itself is the operator. The Expo Center believes that Crocus obtained the exhibition by offering dumping prices to participants.

NTEC and UNN share premises in the center of Nizhny Novgorod 44 3 min. ... As Kommersant learned, the Nizhny Novgorod Fuel and Energy Company (NTEC) demands from the Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky (NNGU), through the arbitration court, vacate the premises occupied by the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory museum in the NTEC building, and compensate more than 3 million rubles. for inappropriate use of space.

RGIA began moving to a new storage facility 83 2 minutes. ... The Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) has begun transporting its funds from the Senate and Synod buildings, where the Constitutional Court is soon to move, to a new storage facility on Zanevsky Prospekt. The special event started in high secrecy, and very modest security measures were taken. With details - ANNA PUSHKARSKAYA.