Viktor Alekseevich ZUBKOV was born on September 15, 1941. After graduating from the Leningrad Agricultural Institute (Faculty of Economics), he worked in agriculture in the Leningrad region, holding positions from department manager to general director of a state farm association. He was the chairman of the Priozersk City Executive Committee (Leningrad Region) and the head of the department of agriculture and food industry of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU.

Sergey Stepashin and Finland Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen will hold a meeting in Moscow on July 29. In addition to a bilateral meeting, the first at the level of prime ministers after the approval of the Stepashin government, tripartite negotiations with the participation of a member of the European Commission Hans Van Den Brook will also take place. The agenda includes issues of both bilateral Russian-Finnish relations and relations between Russia and the European Union.

With the help of a computer, a monkey can speak, and teenager become a millionaire; The death of the descendant of the Prophet brought the Jews and Arabs closer, and the descendants of the hippie turned out to be Piromans. New foreigner.

The commander of the peacekeeping forces in Kosovo Lieutenant General Michael Jackson rejected critical attacks today, according to which the murder of fourteen Serbian peasants occurred through the fault of peacekeepers who failed to create a safe atmosphere in the province. “We must remember in what condition Kosovo was in June 12, before drawing conclusions about how KFOR does his job,” the British general said in an interview with BB-Bi-4.

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and Chairman of the Central Council? The spiritual heritage? Alexey Podberezkin discussed today the issues of uniting the entire opposition into a single electoral bloc? Victory?, Interfax reports. The parties intend to discuss specific conditions and the procedure for unification in the coming days.

Dmitry Yakushkin announced that on Tuesday, July 27, Boris Yeltsin will hold a “number of working meetings”. True, with whom and where the head of state will meet, has not yet been reported. According to ITAR-TASS, the president is currently in the Gorki-9 residence near Moscow.

Yuri Luzhkov met with the new composition of the Moscow election commission and said that the main thing is that everything was honest - both the campaign and the elections themselves. He recalled that the last time in a number of districts there were deviations such as slandering competitors, falsification of signatures and nomination of criminals to deputies, and now this should not happen.

Japan has official anthem and flag; The Libyans match with Italians is torn off a fight; Albania asks America to pay for services - and other messages in the "abroad" .

Regional leaders decided that now, when the government is trying to enlist their support in the parliamentary elections, it is time to demand additional powers. Sverdlovsk Governor Rossel, promising at the Friday meeting of the Ural Economic Association to "pay attention to" to the candidates for deputies, proposed to delegate the subjects of the federation part of the powers of the ministries in order to more quickly respond to changes in the situation in the region.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia has completed the searches and seizures of documents in the company Trans -Regional Legal Alliance - “granddaughter” of the Swiss company Andava, which appears in the Aeroflot case. According to Interfax, sources in law enforcement agencies were seized, about three dozen folders of various documents regarding the relationship of the alliance with Aeroflot.

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The head of the Department of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties in St. Petersburg , Viktor Zubkov, was appointed deputy minister. Zubkov will oversee the North-Western region, including 12 subjects of the Federation. According to the freshly deputy deputy minister himself, in the near future, it may be a union of tax inspectorates of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, and an interdistrict inspection will be created, which will be engaged in large taxpayers.

Reuters reports the details of the Irkutsk aviation accident (Reuters' information in all details is very different from what Echo of Moscow and RIA Novosti have just transmitted). The IL-76 crew was not injured and all seven people managed to jump out of the plane crashing onto the arable land after takeoff, the representative of the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and the Ministry of Emergencies of the Irkutsk Region told the Reuters correspondent.

The leader of the Russian Democratic Party, Georgy Khatsenkov, in an interview with Details, stated that his party was never sold "and, for example, when Gaidar's government began to hold a course with which the party did not agree, he received an order to leave the government and left.

The details of the "attack" on Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo became known. As it turned out, at about an hour of the night, our paratroopers near the waterflower facilities near the Slatin airfield noticed three unknown people who may “just get lost”.