Stock reports as of February 16, 19:35 Index Change Dow Jones 10815.50 - 0.69% NASDAQ 2441.29 - 4.37% PTC 180.11 - 3.55% Russian stock market After two days of strong growth, Russian markets sharply fell down. Against the background of record volumes of transactions for 2001 - 37 million dollars, shares of the majority of Russian blue chips fell in price by 4-5%. The RTS composite index fell by 3.55% and amounted to 180.11 points.

February 18, 21:00 I greet everyone who is watching our NTV channel at this moment. The next episode of the “Itogi” program is on air. In the studio Evgeny Kiselev. On May 7 last year, speaking at the inauguration in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin said that in Russia the president is responsible for everything. Critics warned Putin: the desire to control everything and everyone could end with the president being responsible for the heating breakthrough and the operation of the boiler room.

Correspondent: The winter beauty of the West Siberian plain was hidden by the night and thick curtains. It seems that for the first time since the Civil War, the head of state convenes night meetings in an armored train. Literny walked rapidly - in 12 hours it was necessary to cover 1400 km. We talked about tariffs and how important it is for the state to know what monopolies are doing. Vladimir Putin: Unfortunately, we don’t have this. Neither the Ministry of Railways, nor RAO UES, nor Gazprom.

Correspondent: Refugees from Chechnya call the federal highway Rostov - Baku nothing more than the road of life. At the checkpoints Kavkaz-1 and Kavkaz-2, located on the Chechen-Ingush border, more than 600 people are registered every day. Families of internally displaced persons are not going home to Chechnya, but are returning to the tent camps from which they left quite recently.

Correspondent: With serfdom, Russia existed for almost 300 years, without it - exactly 140. Theorists say that this last, anniversary figure for us, from the point of view of history, is not so great. Moreover, the statement is easily proven by the fact that almost a century and a half after the abolition of serfdom, the monument erected on this occasion can still be reached only with a very strong desire and only like this - on skis.

Correspondent: In order to get a comprehensive understanding of the financial and economic activities of Pavel Borodin, it is not necessary to travel to Switzerland. Ten kilometers from Moscow along the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway is the famous Kremlin sanatorium "Sosny".

Correspondent: National defense comes first. Despite the terrible earthquake that occurred just a few hundred kilometers from Mumbai, the international naval holiday in this port was not cancelled. Over the past 10 years, the Indian Navy has almost doubled its power, including through supplies from Russia. Three warships from Vladivostok reached Mumbai to remind that the once mighty Russian fleet still exists and is even capable of making long journeys.

Correspondent: The arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko, the current prisoner of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kiev, became this week one of the key moments in the development of the political crisis in Ukraine. At rallies now, in addition to the slogans “ohansba” and “get away, Kuchma,” a new call has appeared: “Freedom for Yulia, freedom for Ukraine.” This is exactly how it has now become customary to call former Deputy Prime Minister Tymoshenko by name.

Correspondent: The government fulfilled the instructions given to it by President Putin on time - to resolve the pressing problem of external debts by mid-February. Unfortunately, it decided according to the most pessimistic scenario. The West did not listen to the arguments that paying debts to the Paris Club according to the so-called original schedule could undermine the positive beginning in the Russian economy, and insisted on its own.