I remember when the president was talking to the people live on air, conscientious citizens did not bother the guarantor with stupid questions about Chechnya. Only one pensioner from Yakutsk, the mother of a soldier killed in Chechnya, asked to improve her living conditions and move her from a Canadian house to a Soviet house, simple and understandable. We do not remind the authorities about Chechnya, not wanting to irritate them over trifles.

It has long been known that with the help of the Internet you can visit countries you have never been to and perhaps will hardly visit, or, say, see an exhibition you have long dreamed of visiting. Today's site combines these two cases. Artist Rami Meiri does not exhibit his paintings in local museums, but is nevertheless known throughout Israel. The thing is that he does not paint on canvas, but on... city walls.

NEW YORK - Massachusetts Financial Services, the oldest mutual fund manager in the United States, has reached a settlement with regulators in a mutual fund fraud case. MFS, the 11th-largest fund manager in the country with $140 billion in assets, allowed investors to make short trades in 11 of its funds, which was prohibited by its investment disclosure statements.

Covisint will be acquired by Compuware. DETROIT - Compuware Corp. is set to buy online trading platform Covisint from its founders General Motors, Ford Motor, DaimlerChrysler, Renault and Nissan Motor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in the late 1990s, Covisint was once one of the most ambitious e-commerce projects, but over the past year and a half its business has shrunk, with staff laying off. In 2002, the company became an independent company.

Yuri Luzhkov decided not to limit himself to demolishing the Moskva and Intourist hotels and thought about a larger project. The capital's government intends to dismantle the Rossiya Hotel, one of the largest in the world. Experts call the project economically justified, and Rossiya employees hope that the hotel will be saved. "Rossiya", located in the very center of Moscow, was put into operation in January 1967. The hotel consists of four 12-story buildings oriented to the cardinal points.

The result of a two-day discussion of the dollar's fate by the finance ministers of the G7 countries was a statement of "neither ours nor yours." The ministers spoke out against the unrestrained growth of the euro, as the Europeans insisted on, but rejected the idea of ​​interventions to support the dollar, as the United States demanded. If this does curb the dollar's decline, it will not be for long. The G7 meeting was eagerly awaited.

Having been laid off, Galina Vladimirovich from Novovoronezh decided to open a food kiosk. She drew up a business plan and realized that she needed $3,000 to start. Banks offered a loan either secured by an apartment or by four guarantors with high official salaries. But Galina Vladimirovich did not have such acquaintances, and she did not want to risk her apartment. Mutual support fund. Banking legislation sets strict requirements for potential borrowers.

Telecommunications corporation Vodafone Group, the largest mobile operator in Europe, is seriously considering the possibility of buying the American mobile operator AT&T Wireless. The deadline for submitting bids for a deal with this operator expires on February 13. Vodafone currently owns 45% of another American operator, Verizon Wireless, with the remaining 55% owned by Verizon Communications.

The Meshchansky District Court found YUKOS co-owner Vasily Shakhnovsky guilty of tax evasion. The former president of YUKOS-Moscow LLC was sentenced to one year in prison, but was released from punishment "due to a change in the situation." Shakhnovsky was accused of receiving compensation for his work at YUKOS and Rosprom in 1998-2000 in the form of payment for fictitious consulting services to the Isle of Man-based firm Status Service Ltd.

In January 2004, the construction of Maryino, which began 10 years ago, in February 1994, was completed. Having commissioned the last three buildings in the 12th microdistrict, the builders (ZAO Mosstroymekhanizatsiya-5) are leaving the last largest area of ​​mass residential development within the boundaries of Moscow.

The Anglo-Dutch Corus Group may again try to shed its aluminium business to focus solely on steel production. In November 2002, the company already tried to sell it to France's Pechiney, but the deal fell through due to opposition from the supervisory board and trade unions. The Anglo-Dutch Corus Group is the sixth largest steel producer in the world. The company produces about 20 million tons of steel products annually.

Legprombank, whose shareholders have been waging a continuous war among themselves since the autumn of 2001, has lost its license. A few days before its revocation, the court reinstated the rights of the bank's owners, who were excluded from the founders in 2001. Now they claim that their opponents deliberately drove the bank into bankruptcy, and everyone will have to answer to the creditors. On Friday, the Central Bank decided to revoke Legprombank's license effective February 9, 2004.

In 2003, compared to the previous two years, the number of refusals to provide property tax deductions significantly decreased. Tax officials became more loyal, and taxpayers - more educated. However, the nuances of the procedure for returning money for transactions made on the housing market are still far from known to everyone.

In the article "Svyazinvest" will be checked with bias" (No. 18 from 4.02. 2004, p. B1) the subtitle should read "46 senators asked the Accounts Chamber to conduct additional work with the holding company". In the article “Rating on the Eve of Liquidation” (No. 20 from 6.02. 2004, p.

Seven people became presidential candidates, and the Central Election Commission did not refuse to register any of those who submitted signatures in their support. Observers and candidates explain the unexpected loyalty of the Central Election Commission by the Kremlin's desire to ensure a high voter turnout and maintain the appearance of a democratic procedure for electing the president.