All recipes for accelerating growth in Russia come down to the need to transfer funds from raw materials industries to the processing industry. It is clear that when only industries that are somehow connected with exports or with the primary processing of customer-supplied raw materials grow, a breakthrough in growth rates cannot be expected.

The Federal Securities Commission has demanded that stock market participants submit their reports for the third quarter in a new way - in the form of an electronic questionnaire. Professional participants say that due to technical difficulties they will not be able to submit it on time, but the commission is confident that everyone will be able to do it on time.

In the article "Marta" to invest $50 million in Spar" (No. 187 of 15. 10. 2002, p. B7) the owner of the franchise for the Spar trademark is incorrectly indicated - it is owned by the company Spar Retail. The holding company "Marta" is a subfranchisor of Spar. The editors apologize.

Secondly, they shed balm on the numerous wounds of the creative intelligentsia and representatives of the domestic bohemia. It is necessary, finally, to understand why the musketeer Athos loved Chambertin so much and why it should be drunk old. And then - an approach to the historical layers of the French monarchy, so beloved by us from books and films.

Federal Law of October 30, 2002 N 132-FZ "On Amending Article 1 of the Federal Law "On the Protection of the Rights of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs in the Conduct of State Control (Supervision)". Relationships related to monitoring the protection of state secrets are excluded from the scope of application of the law. The law comes into force on the day of its official publication. Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 29, 2002 N 1507-r.

On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin called on parliamentarians to increase spending on combating terrorism. On Wednesday, the Federation Council responded and proposed to allocate an additional 3 billion rubles ($89 million at the budget rate of 33.7 rubles per dollar) for anti-terrorism. The probability of the Duma approving the Senate amendment to the 2003 budget is 100%. The reasons for Putin's "request" are clear to everyone.

"When people hate someone, they should definitely find out why. When people love someone, they should definitely find out why," taught the ancient sociologist Confucius. The advice is reasonable. After all, it is quite possible that they love for the wrong reasons, and hate without any reasonable reason. Demographers and sociologists understand how important the ratio of explicit and implicit moments of thinking and behavior patterns in a country is.

Namesakes quarreled in Kuzbass - OAO Sokolovskoye is trying to bankrupt an investment company with the same name through the courts, which, according to the plaintiff, illegally uses the equipment of the OAO and extracts coal for $40 million. The debt for this equipment served as the reason for introducing external management at OAO Sokolovskoye, which was previously managed by the founders of the investment company. By order of the government No.

Being an Internet columnist for an economic newspaper, it is a shame not to know that there are a large number of sites that act as online brokers. I didn't know. More precisely, I heard about them, but somehow never encountered them. Apparently, life spent away from the stock exchanges and an absolute reluctance to play on them do not contribute to this. And the resources themselves were in no hurry to come to hand and become the heroes of this column.

REDMOND. The latest version of the Microsoft Office suite is designed to run only on the two latest versions of Microsoft's operating system, Windows 2000 and XP. Microsoft says the compatibility limitation is due to the developers' desire to ensure high reliability and security. The new version of Office, currently in beta testing, is expected to hit the shelves in mid-2003. The compatibility limitation will allow Microsoft to significantly reduce its development and testing costs.

LONDON - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have signed a memorandum of understanding, taking a major step toward developing common accounting standards. The agreement reached between the IASB and FASB stipulates that the main differences between the two standards should be identified and formulated in 2003, and these differences should be eliminated by 2005.

On the article “A failure that the whole country learned about” (No. 197 of 10/29/2002, p. A7). I would like to point out one important factor, which was nevertheless ignored in the material. The shortcomings in the positioning of the product "Derzhava" seem to be a rather fundamental point.

Yesterday, the all-Russian mobile operator VimpelCom announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in Beeline-Samara. For $500,000, VimpelCom bought an additional 1% of the Samara operator's shares to the 50% it already had. The Beeline GSM network will start operating in Samara next week. OJSC Beeline-Samara was established in 1994. Until recently, 50% of the company's shares belonged to VimpelCom, the other half to Samara shareholders, in particular JSC Mercury-Samara.

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has acquired Wireless Information Technologies (BIT), which holds GSM-900 licenses in four remote regions of Russia: Sakhalin Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and the republics of Tuva and Kalmykia. The parties to the deal do not hide the fact that BIT was initially a "paper" company created for subsequent resale to a strong operator. A symbolic sum of $900,000 was paid for BIT by MTS standards.

The Central Election Commission and the Ministry of Press and Information Technologies (MPTR) are once again arguing over who should control the media during elections. The CEC is promoting a bill that would allow courts, at the instigation of territorial election commissions or dissatisfied candidates, to shut down media outlets that "incorrectly" cover election campaigns. Media industry representatives say it is better to leave things as they are.