The new candidate for an alliance with the Germans was Wasserstein, Perella & Co. Germany's Dresdner Bank AG is in talks to buy North American investment bank Wasserstein, Perella & Co. Although negotiations have been going on for about two months, it is premature to talk about the deal as having taken place.

Marquis Pierre de Coubertin never dreamed of Today the opening ceremony of the last Olympics of the outgoing twentieth century will take place in Sydney.

Working negotiations between a NATO expert group and Russian diplomats on the restoration of the Alliance information bureau, closed after the outbreak of the Yugoslav war, are being resumed in Moscow. The chief of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Igor Ivanov, gave his consent in principle to this back in June in Florence. Negotiations went on all summer, but the issues of the status and quantitative composition of the representative office, as well as its tax immunity, were never resolved.

Seeing that hundreds of millions of people live in conditions of extreme poverty in today's world, we strive to find means to dramatically reduce poverty, but we ask two constant questions: what are the causes of poverty and what can be done to help people cope with poverty? To better understand the causes of change among the poor, I lived for eight months in the village of Palanpur in northwestern India.

Friday, September 15 Grand opening of the XXVII Olympic Games . Sydney, Australia. Television broadcast on the RTR channel, beginning at 11.30 and 20.50. Today there are no competitions at the Games. Even the football players and women who started on Wednesday and Thursday took a break.

From rising oil prices Foreign exchange markets are usually the first to respond to the onset of a fuel and energy crisis. Exchange rates are predicted, as a rule, based on an analysis of the payment and trade balances. It is clear that in the current situation, imports from European countries and the United States are growing strongly due to expensive fuel raw materials. While exports of final products remain stable. This imbalance will continue until inflation corrects it.

On Wednesday, the Main Investigation Department of the Samara Regional Internal Affairs Directorate opened a criminal case into the deliberate bankruptcy of the Shar corporation, once the largest manufacturer of bearings in the region. This decision threatens to change the industry. The possibility of a redistribution was first discussed in the summer of 2000 at the instigation of the head of the Department of Tax Administration for the Samara Region, Alexander Bakhmurov.

The younger brother of Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov, Viktor, admitted his guilt in organizing the assassination attempt on the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev. This was reported by the defendant’s lawyer Lyudmila Artamonova. Viktor Tikhonov was detained in Novosibirsk on August 7, and on August 15 he was charged under the same articles as Tikhonov Sr. Now all investigative actions against the ex-champion have been stopped due to a sharp deterioration in his health.

The terrorist attack in Mytishchi was prevented by employees of the Moscow region RUBOP. On Wednesday, operatives detained 26-year-old Chechen Isa Verigov, who had arrived from Grozny, at a bus stop. When the police approached him, the young man began to get nervous. He refused to show the contents of his bag and confusedly told the detectives that he had come to go to college, but had failed his exams and was now late for the Moscow-Nazran train.

The cause of the explosion in the underground passage on Pushkin Square in Moscow was a gang war. At least, operatives from the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are inclined towards this version. According to the head of the GUBEP Valery Guryev, the explosion became the “last argument” in the dispute over the right to control the retail outlets located in the passage.

In the meantime, capital is quietly being consumed Next week Rosselkhozbank (RSHB) will begin serving its first clients. So far, however, only in the Moscow office (the bank has not yet received permission from the Central Bank to open the 25 declared branches - see Vremya Novostey of September 14 ). However, one cannot expect that the bank will begin active operations this year.

The President of Ukraine had not Benex, but Warex The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada reacted in its own way yesterday to the results of another study of the level of global corruption, which is conducted every year by the international organization Transparency International.

The UN General Assembly, whose meeting opened this week in New York, is the most representative club in the world. Here, high-ranking diplomats can discuss the most important issues of international relations in personal communication. Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Elena SUPONINA asked Russia's permanent representative to the UN Sergei LAVROV about what worries Russian diplomacy most of all.

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Governor of the Leningrad Region Valery Serdyukov yesterday told reporters about the state of affairs with the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS) construction project. Referring to the decision of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the governor said that the construction would be financed exclusively through targeted investment allocations included in Transneft’s tariffs for pumping raw materials through main pipelines.