According to the Interfax agency, the capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed an order to extend the status of authorized banks of the Moscow government for one and a half years for Alfa Bank, the banks Aspect, Vozrozhdenie, Moscow-City, the Moscow Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and First Investment. Avtobank, MInB, Moscow Bank of Sberbank, Mosstroyekonombank and Zelak-bank confirmed their status back in July.

There is a joke about Mirzoev's style: a performance is going on, the hall is packed, like on Zhitinkin, the audience is wildly happy, laughing and applauding, and then one spectator says to another: "Yes... This art is not for everyone..." Oddly enough, but it was the disguise of an intellectual, avant-garde theater that helped Vladimir Mirzoev become one of the most successful commercial directors.

A large trade and exhibition complex, "Lyublinskoye Pole," is opening in Lyublino. The Moscow government calls it the first object of a huge wholesale and retail center, which they had been planning to build on an area of ​​46.4 hectares for three years. However, as Vedomosti has found out, today's event is in no way connected with the grandiose project of the Moscow authorities, and the wholesale and retail center still does not even have an investor.

Autumn is a hot time for confectionery factories and wholesalers who want children to receive their gifts at the New Year trees. The market for New Year's sweet gifts, the capacity of which experts estimate at no less than $65 million, exists only three weeks a year, but during these hot days, suppliers of sweets earn from 10% to 100%. By the beginning of November, the market for New Year's gifts - specially packaged confectionery - is already quite active.

There are many more jokes of this sort in the play. For example, Irina Grineva washes the floor, only to slip and fall. And in another episode, two actors are diligently sniffing sweat. Is it funny? What do you mean, ordinary hackwork? Or maybe this is a provocative move: to make a standard bad variety show?

The Ministry of Communications has proposed a concept for an automated system, the "State Population Register," which envisages the introduction of a lifelong personal code for each citizen. Information will be collected on 17 items that have not yet been disclosed. There are similar databases in the USA, England and some other countries. Without knowing exactly all 17 positions, it is difficult to say to what extent their practice coincides with the proposals of the Ministry of Communications.

Trading began yesterday on the newly created Vienna stock exchange NEWEX, and Russian companies, which make up half of its listing, immediately became leaders. Based on the results of the first day of trading, we can talk about the external similarity between NEWEX and the Russian Trading System. On the Vienna Stock Exchange, the trading volume was about $14.3 million, while yesterday the RTS traded $12.7 million. The names of the most actively traded companies also sound similar.

Many regions of the North-West District are planning to re-enter the market with their securities. Their ratings do not allow one to hope for normal conditions for the placement of obligations. But budget deficits leave these regions no other choice. The Northwestern Federal District includes 11 subjects: the Republics of Karelia and Komi, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov Regions, the city of St. Petersburg, and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The country needs a unified policy, including economic policy, and it should be implemented by people who have the authority to do so. Every schoolchild knows that politics is based on economics, and the basis of economics, in turn, is production. If there is no production of goods, then there is no economy. Therefore, the country must have a unified economic policy.

On the second try, LUKOIL's long-time dream of having its own gas stations in the United States has come true. Yesterday, early in the morning Moscow time, a deal was made in New York, as a result of which the Russian company became the owner of the sales company Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. For the first time, the logo of a Russian company will be in front of millions of Americans every day. However, LUKOIL is unlikely to be able to quickly profit from the project.

The IMF and the World Bank have realized that the Russian banking system "cannot be measured with a common yardstick." As Michael Fuchs, the head of the World Bank's financial sector programs in Moscow, told AFI yesterday, international officials have not seen any positive changes in the banking sector over the past two years. Moreover, after numerous visits to Russia, foreigners have realized that it is "wrong" to expect quick results in bank reform.

Gazprom partially succeeded in blocking the decisions of the shareholders' meeting of the Hungarian chemical plant TVK, which were aimed against it. The opponent of the Russian company was the Hungarian oil and gas concern MOL, which owns about 33% of TVK shares. At the initiative of MOL, the meeting was supposed to allow the board of directors of the chemical plant to issue additional issues once a year.

04 November 2000, 00:00 $30 per consultation Sergey Zharkov The Moscow Registration Committee now has an official intermediary who undertakes to relieve home sellers and buyers from the need to communicate with officials of this department.

FRANKFURT - Picture Frankfurt. A small, neat square, like many in this ancient city. A fascinated shopper heads toward the stall with the sign "Kartoffel Schmidt," where Silke Fischer sells select potatoes, when suddenly something completely unimaginable appears in his path. He takes a step back and sees a strange structure in front of him. It is a 3.5-meter-tall pole, wrapped in wrapping paper and covered in old chewing gum in the most incredible shades - from bright pink to dirty gray.

BEIJING - Despite its strategic partnership with China, Russia ranks only 11th among its trading partners, with a 1.66% share. Eight intergovernmental documents were signed during Mikhail Kasyanov's visit to Beijing, but not a single major project moved forward, despite the efforts of the Russian delegation. Both sides took a tough stance during the talks.