The Omsk plant plans to supply airfield equipment worth $30 million to Egypt The Omsk production association "Irtysh" entered into a contract for the repair of drive stations previously supplied to Egypt for military airfields. Plant director Alexander Datskov told a Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent that this contract will be followed by new efforts to promote the company's products on the Egyptian market.

A new power structure has been approved in the Samara region On September 26, the Samara Provincial Duma approved the draft law “On the structure of the administration of the Samara region.” It radically changes the status of the Samara governor Konstantin Titov and the vice-governors who oversaw individual departments. As a result of the innovations, Mr.

The US suspended a key participant in the Middle East settlement American observers predict that the deprivation of US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk's secret clearance will not disrupt, but will only complicate the Clinton administration's attempts to become the “midwife” of the Middle East settlement.

Russians Maria Kiseleva and Olga Brusnikina yesterday added another gold medal to the treasury of our Olympic team: in the duet competition in synchronized swimming. Olga ERMOLINA, a special correspondent for the Vremya Novostey newspaper, reports from the Olympic Aquatic Center. The doping scandal, in which Kiseleva was involved literally on the eve of the Games, could have prevented the world’s best couple from participating in the Olympics.

Russia intends to hold a series of negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization by the end of the year. According to Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Medvedkov, “until the end of the year, meetings with interested parties will be held almost every month.” Thus, negotiations with the EU are planned for early October, a meeting with representatives of Canada is planned for October 31 - November 1, and with Japan in October-November.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is headed by Vladimir Naumov. Since the beginning of 1999, he headed the presidential security service, and under him this department became notorious. It was then that Lukashenko’s opponents began to disappear in the republic. One of the opposition leaders Gennady Karpenko died a mysterious death, former Interior Ministry chief Yuri Zakharenko and famous politician Viktor Gonchar disappeared.

Kyiv claims that Washington has finally become disillusioned with Kuchma Observers who are following the development of the tense political situation in Ukraine predict a quick outcome. For several months now, the pro-Western government of Viktor Yushchenko, which enjoys the support of Washington, has been waging a “cold war” against local pressure groups.

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Wrestling champions thanked those who stayed home Our Greco-Roman wrestlers won two golds out of four possible yesterday. Luck turned away from the other two Russians on the first day of the competition. Games debutant Alexey Shevtsov lost to the Korean Kon Yong Gun in the first round, and multiple world champion Gogi Koguashvili lost to the American Garrett Luoni.

KMB Bank received another “mother” loan Yesterday, an agreement was signed between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Small Business Lending Bank (KMB-Bank) to provide the latter with a credit line in the amount of $30 million. As with the previous loan issued by KMB last year, the current 30 million is loaned to the bank for a period of five years at the rate of Libor + 2.5%. The funds will be used to develop the EBRD program for lending to small businesses.

The Meshchansky Intermunicipal Court of the capital intends today to complete the investigation into the criminal case initiated against employees of the Centaur Investment Center Oleg Gavrilin and Andrey Bezlepkin. They are accused of illegally accessing Reuters information. The case was opened in November last year by the Meshchansky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office.

Opponents of globalization transferred officials from cars to taxis The plane on which the Russian delegation was due to leave Prague - the site of the annual meeting of shareholders of the IMF and the World Bank - was delayed for several hours, and Russian officials were forced to take the metro to leave the Prague Congress Center. This was due to mass protests organized by opponents of globalization near the Prague Congress Center.

The Arbitration Court of the Voronezh Region approved on Monday the terms of the settlement agreement for the creditors of Voronezh Bank, reports the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions, which manages the bank. The novation of the bank's old obligations into new ones will begin five days after the terms of the agreement are approved. Citizens whose deposits do not exceed 5 thousand rubles will receive one-time payments in the amount of the entire deposit amount.

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Investigators from the Ministry of Internal Affairs threaten to come to another Moscow “construction site of the century” The leadership of the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs continues to storm the positions of Moscow officials, who, according to police officers, are too sluggish in their fight against corruption in their ranks.