At the Moscow Interbank exchange rate on Friday - for the first time since August last year - secondary trading in state securities resumed. Bidding was carried out along the "old" (that is, released before August 17, 98th) bonds of federal loans-OFZ, which are repaid after December 31, 99th year. The "new" state papers issued in exchange for frozen on August 17 did not participate in the auction.

At the faculty of the London Empire-College, a diagnostic test has been developed, which allows you to identify an infectious variety of Kreitzfelda-Jacob disease. This incurable disease will bring to the occurrence of gene mutations in nerve cells, resulting in proteins with an abnormal structure, so -called prions. All pathologies caused by the action of such proteins are amazing at the brain - one of them gained wide fame under the name of the cow's rage.

The February number "New World" was prepared for printing . The magazine continues the publication of outlines of the exile of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The article by Nikolai Kurk "Destruction of psychotechnics" is devoted to the defeat of one of the areas of psychology in the USSR and Hitler Germany. In the same issue - a discussion about the use of "obscene" vocabulary in art works.

The Austrian Press Agency APA reported on Thursday that the sports minister of province Tyrole Fritz Astl announced the readiness of the Innsbruck's readiness to hold the 2002 Winter Olympics in the event that the International Olympic Committee decides to withdraw games from the American Salt Lake City.

- The financial crisis in Brazil. - The first year of pension reform in Kazakhstan. - Are citizens of Russia for the external debts of their state? Continuation of the topic. - The first weeks of the new European currency. - And also - an overview of publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: The financial crisis in Brazil has become the main event of the last week in the international economy.

Today is the second day of the trial in the US Senate on the impeachment of President Clinton. Yesterday, senators began to consider the arguments of the prosecutors - Republicans from the House of Representatives. The hearings lasted six - from 24 hours allotted by the prosecution. The House of Representatives considers Clinton guilty of giving false indications under the oath and obstruction of justice. Presidential lawyers will also be provided 24 hours to present the defense position.

In the Tyumen region , which takes fourth place in Russia in terms of incidence of tuberculosis, urgent measures have been approved to combat this disease. Annual preventive examinations are provided. The entire population of the region has been declared a “risk group” - recently, teachers, doctors and journalists have become increasingly meeting among customers of the tuberculosis dispensary.

Leading Sergey Seninsky - The financial crisis in Brazil. - The first year of pension reform in Kazakhstan. - Are citizens of Russia for the external debts of their state? Continuation of the topic. - The first weeks of the new European currency. - And also - an overview of publications of the next issue of the British weekly "Economist". Sergey Seninsky: The financial crisis in Brazil has become the main event of the last week in the international economy.