The St. Petersburg state enterprise "Russian Diesel", which is at the stage of bankruptcy proceedings, has completed settlements with creditors of the first and second stages. In particular, the workers were returned back wages for 1996-1997 (a total of 6.2 million rubles). But Vnesheconombank, which has two loans to the enterprise in the amount of $37 million on its balance sheet, was unlucky.

The Accounts Chamber inspects Slavneft The Accounts Chamber has begun an audit of the Russian-Belarusian oil and gas company Slavneft. Following this, as the chairman of the chamber Sergei Stepashin promised more than a month ago, will be an inspection of the Tyumen Oil Company. Many observers then associated these two revisions with the confrontation between TNK and Slavneft.

Russian tennis player reached the quarterfinals of the US Open for the first time It seems that a pleasant surprise for those Russian tennis fans who were expecting a successful performance at the US Open in women's singles primarily from Anna Kournikova was the entry into the top eight of 18-year-old Elena Dementieva. In the 1/8 finals match, the Russian woman snatched victory in a difficult match with American Liliya Osterloh.

Edinburgh Festival is finally over Here we live and think that it is only our evil state that does not provide money for culture, only our uncouth bosses create obstacles to bold undertakings, and only our public grumbles and grimaces at any reason. Nothing happened. Even in such a prosperous country as Great Britain, enthusiasts and devotees face inhuman difficulties and heroically overcome them. Among these dedicated people is undoubtedly Edinburgh Festival Director Brian McMaster.

Russian special services are preparing for a new high-profile forensic espionage scandal. As correspondents of the Vremya Novostei newspaper learned, the FSB investigative department recently completed an investigation into the case of one of the leading Russian analysts on military-political issues, deputy head of the department of military-technical research at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN) Igor Sutyagin.

Government asks World Bank to cancel SAL-3 loan The Russian government has asked the World Bank to cancel further lending under the Structural Adjustment Loan 3 (SAL-3) and to begin preparing a new agreement for the Bank to support structural reforms in Russia. Andrey Bugrov, executive director of the World Bank for Russia, told the Vremya Novostei newspaper about this.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court yesterday rejected the regional prosecutor's office's protest against the decision of the Central District Court of Krasnoyarsk, which released from custody the former chairman of the board of directors of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, Anatoly Bykov. Mr. Bykov was charged with laundering ill-gotten gains, involvement in murder and illegal trafficking in precious metals.

The investigation period in the criminal case initiated against the assistant to the head of the Media-Most holding, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Alexandrov, expired yesterday. At the same time, the Prosecutor General's Office decided to discontinue this case. According to the official version, the case was dropped “due to changes in the situation.” The case against Aleksandrov was initiated on July 6 of this year. On August 7, he was charged with illegal storage and transportation of ammunition.

The next stage of the Russian rally-raid championship will take place next weekend in Kalmykia. It was here that the organizers found everything that off-road competitions usually lack: a hilly plain, feather grass steppe, salt marshes and dunes. This year’s competition is also interesting because, perhaps for the first time, Russian manufacturers are participating in the races almost on equal terms with cool foreign cars.

The Ostankino Tower will not collapse, but it will not be restored soon either For a whole year, Muscovites will have to put up with poor image quality on their TV screens. “In less time it will not be possible to complete repair work on the Ostankino tower and begin installing electronic equipment,” Anvar Shamuzafarov, chairman of the Russian State Construction Committee, said at a press conference yesterday. The height of the Ostankino tower is 530 meters.

Runet advertisers are inflating their capitalization In anticipation of the rapid growth of the Runet advertising market and the arrival of new advertisers and investors, leading companies continue to unite. Yesterday, two strong players in the Russian Internet market - the advertising agency Manifesto and the media buying agency Internet Media House Russia (IMHO) - announced the creation of a strategic alliance.

For the first time in nine years, the Russian champions did not reach the Cup final The opening matches of the Russian Futsal Cup in St. Petersburg ended sensationally: the national champions from the capital “Dina” were unable to make it to the final stage of the competition. The club, which had never missed a cup final before, did not make it through the preliminary stage of the second most important domestic competition for the first time. In St.

The main course of the session is the 2001 budget The leadership of the lower house will hold the first Duma Council in the new autumn session tomorrow, and on Friday the rested and tanned deputies will gather for the first plenary meeting after the summer holidays. It is necessary to approve the calendar of legislative work until the end of the year, as well as the schedule for consideration of the draft budget for the next year. The 2001 budget will become the main issue of the autumn session.

The management of the Krasnoyarsk Railway has officially stated that it can no longer guarantee the safety of passengers who decide to use railway transport services. On Monday, Krasnoyarskenergo JSC cut off the power supply to a number of vital road facilities due to debts. As a result, according to a statement from railway workers, systems that ensure traffic safety are now operating at half their capacity.

The idea of ​​tying up the excess ruble supply by paying off the Ministry of Finance's debt to the Central Bank seems to be taking on real shape. As First Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Ulyukaev told Interfax, by the end of this year the Ministry of Finance will re-register about 110 billion rubles. debt to the Bank of Russia into new government securities. The Central Bank will be able to sell them on the market and thus sterilize the “cash overhang”. At the same time, according to Mr.