The Russian government has increased export duties on gasoline and diesel fuel to 25 euros per ton. According to AK&M , duties on light distillates have been increased by 5 euros, and on medium distillates and diesel fuel by 10 euros. Resolution No. 597 “On amendments to the Government of the Russian Federation of March 2, 2000 No. 185” comes into force one month from the date of its official publication.

A group of hackers preparing to steal a large sum of money was neutralized by employees of the Volgograd FSB Directorate. Investigators learned that several young people were planning to hack into the computer network of one of the local banks and steal $2 million from its accounts. The burglars had carefully prepared - they had developed a competent scheme to “steal” money from the bank.

LUKOIL has submitted an application to the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Support for permission to purchase the stake in ONAKO put up for competition, said LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov.

One of the best artists of the Russian theater, Nikolai Lavrov, died in St. Petersburg at the age of 57. He graduated from LGITMiK (course of Zinovy ​​Korogodsky) and at first worked at the St. Petersburg Youth Theater. A. Bryantseva. However, the Maly Drama Theater created by Lev Dodin turned out to be the real theatrical home for Lavrov.

The fight for Kuznetsk Ferroalloys continues in the Kuzbass courts Yesterday, the Cassation Board of the Kemerovo Regional Court made a decision that seemingly calls into question the position of the MDM group at the Kuzbass plant "Kuznetsk Ferroalloys". The recent history of the struggle for this enterprise is as follows. A week ago, the Arbitration Court of the Kemerovo Region considered invalid the resolution of the plant’s shareholders’ meeting on the election of a new board of directors.

St. Petersburg special forces cannot leave for Chechnya The Oktyabrskaya Railway faced an acute shortage of carriages of all types. For this reason, it turned out to be impossible to withdraw from St. Petersburg both a shift of “special forces” for Chechnya and “Baltika” beer for the CIS countries. On Tuesday, the St.

Luzhkov decided to allow investors into the Moscow construction market only through competition There will no longer be a monopoly on investment in construction in Moscow. The city authorities intend to organize competitions for each plot of land. Preference will be given to those whose development conditions will be more favorable.

After the separation of Avaya from the American corporation Lucent, Moscow manager Igor Mann was appointed Director of Marketing for Avaya in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Yesterday, at the presentation of Avaya’s new marketing program for Russia, “All Inclusive-2,” he promised that its features would be transferred to the entire region, and marketing investments in our country could exceed 3% of the company’s local turnover. Alexander LEVINSKY

Russian and US intelligence agencies say they have solved the most notorious crimes of the perestroika era. Employees of the Russian special services have come closer to solving the two most notorious crimes of the late 80s and early 90s - the kidnapping of the famous French antique dealer Garik Basmadzhan and the murder of the still most famous Russian boxer Oleg Korotaev.

-- The profitability of construction in Moscow is now lower than five or six years ago. Do you think this is normal or should the profit be higher? - The profitability of construction is now what it should be. If construction is going well, it’s somewhere around 15-20%.

There will be no free salmon in Kamchatka The fishing season has begun in Kamchatka - schools of salmon are heading into the rivers of the peninsula to spawn. “Fish days” happen every even-numbered year, and all Kamchadals looked forward to them. But especially pensioners. Based on the experience of past years, they assumed that in August 2000 the capacity of local fish factories would not be enough to process salmon, and pink salmon would be distributed free of charge to everyone, as in 1998.

Two hundred Korean families met after half a century Yesterday, the 55th anniversary of the liberation of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese adversaries was marked by a historical event. North and South exchanged delegations of relatives swept away by the winds of the civil war, who made a direct flight from Pyongyang to Seoul and vice versa over the demilitarized zone. A North Korean Il-62 transported a hundred elderly people to Seoul yesterday, accompanied by 31 officials and 20 journalists.

Because it's forbidden to talk about them The activities of Dalenergo's External Relations Department (ERD) were suspended yesterday for an indefinite period. This order was issued by the new acting general director of the enterprise, Yuri Likhoida. As the press secretary of the enterprise, Alexander Gelbakh, told a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper, every single employee of the internal combustion engine has been sent on leave since August 15.

Informals start and win The draft new version of the law “On Privatization” will be considered at a government meeting in two weeks. Now the latest version of the bill is being agreed upon by the ministries, and until August 31, representatives of the Ministry of Property, from where the first drafts of the text came out at the beginning of the year, prefer to refrain from commenting. But some conclusions can already be drawn from the version of the project that went to the ministries.

Vagit Alekperov would like to see the commander of the Baltic Fleet as governor of the Kaliningrad region The wife of Baltic Fleet Commander Vladimir Egorov, Lyudmila, began her duties as First Lady of the Kaliningrad Region on Tuesday. It was she who became the “godmother” of the tanker NK LUKOIL “Kaliningrad”, launched yesterday into the Neva from the stocks of the St. Petersburg state enterprise “Admiralty Shipyards”.