The volume of the gross domestic product of Russia in 1998 decreased by 4.6 percent and amounted to 2684.5 billion rubles, the Ministry of Finance of Russia said on Monday. If we recount at the current exchange rate, then the volume of Russia's GDP over the past year amounted to $ 107 billion, which is about 10 percent less than in Greece or Finland, half as much as Swedish GDP and three and a half times less than the volume of Netherlands.

Today in the release: Murmansk residents do not want to quarrel with Norway because of Yugoslavia: the Pskov voters no longer believe the LDPR; Krasnoyarsk police against the Azerbaijani Mafia; Drug fighters in the city of Vyatka themselves fell under the investigation; Saratov oil - Chronicle of "Black Review"; Penza capitalist Victor Yurin is preparing for the spring Seva; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: teachers are striking, students walk; Tyumen: the struggle for banks goes into the stage of

By the end of this year, another indexation of pensions will be carried out in Russia , Valentina Matvienko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said on Friday. Since May, the minimum pension in Russia will be 304 rubles. According to Valentina Matvienko - more than 40 million Russians, that is, 30 percent of the population, live behind the poverty line. To date, the debt for the payment of children's benefits is 27 billion rubles.

American astronomers discovered a planetary system at the star Ipsilon Andromeda, remote from the ground at a distance of forty -four light years . The analysis of the star’s aberrations made it possible to establish that it has at least three satellites who are gas giants like Jupiter. Scientists admit that the andromeda system can also include the planets of the earth type, which are extremely difficult to detect due to their relatively small mass.

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Kosovo crisis in an Islamic mirror Leading Lev Roitman Lev Roitman: A letter from St. Petersburg, writes Lyubov Alekseevna Kudryavtseva: “We, like throughout Russia, on radio, television and print, have one-sided information, not a single word about the huge unspeakable grief of innocent children and the elderly of the Kosovo Albanians, but only hide the heat of hatred for the Albanians.

A collective letter of cultural figures against the impeachment of President Yeltsin was sent to the State Duma . Under the letter - 81 signature, including Dmitry Likhachev, Daniil Granin, Grigory Baklanov, Bella Akhmadulina, Armen Dzhigarkanyan, Mikhail Ulyanov, Kirill Lavrov, Marina Neelova, Eldar Ryazanov, Andrei Makarevich and others. The St. Petersburg creative intelligentsia is outraged by the appointment to the city department of the former KGB Colonel Pavel Koshelev .

Today's issue: Murmansk residents do not want to quarrel with Norway over Yugoslavia: Pskov voters no longer trust the LDPR; Krasnoyarsk police against the Azerbaijani mafia; Anti-drug fighters in the city of Vyatka themselves came under investigation; Saratov oil - a chronicle of the "black redistribution"; Penza capitalist Viktor Yurin is preparing for spring sowing; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: teachers go on strike, students walk; Tyumen: the struggle for banks is moving into the stage of armed

Lev Roitman: A letter from St. Petersburg, writes Lyubov Alekseevna Kudryavtseva: “We, like throughout Russia, on radio, television and print, have one-sided information, not a single word about the huge unspeakable grief of innocent children and the elderly of the Kosovo Albanians, but only hide the heat of hatred for the Albanians.

The mass outcome of the Albanians from Kosovo resumed. According to humanitarian organizations, last night from 4 to 5 thousand refugees crossed the Albanian border in the Morini area. OSCE representatives reported that over the past day 10 thousand people arrived from Kosovo to the Albanian city of Kuks, less than one hundred thousand people are expected to arrive in Macedonia - not expected to arrive - according to estimates by representatives of the UN.