In Angola, Vladivostok fishermen were saved only by maritime solidarity The “African” epic of the Vladivostok crews of five ships owned by OJSC Dalmoreproduct has ended. On Monday, the fishing flotilla, consisting of the food industry mother ship and four trawlers, headed for its home port after a two-year stay in Angola. Most of the crews were actually illegally transported to Primorye by plane a month and a half ago.

In the heat of enthusiasm caused by the mastery of the peaceful atom, several decades ago Moscow was filled with objects of increased danger. Today their service life is coming to an end. The comprehensive program for ensuring radiation safety of the population of Moscow for 2001-2003, which was discussed yesterday at a meeting of the capital's government, is designed to somehow solve this problem.

A large channel for the smuggling of Moldovan cognac and wines to Moscow was recently blocked by employees of the operational search bureau of the RUBOP for the Eastern District of the capital. The supply of alcoholic beverages was carried out by CST JSC (center for modern technologies). Refrigerated cars with alcohol arrived at Lyublino and Perovo stations. As a rule, from two to four wagons completely filled with boxes arrived there per week.

She will pay them off in two years Yesterday Tatneft signed a formal agreement to restructure its debts to a pool of foreign and Russian banks, the largest of which are Credit Suisse and Chase Manhattan Bank. Bank Zenit acted as a financial consultant for the oil workers, whose chairman of the board, Alexey Sokolov, is a member of the board of directors of Tatneft.

Owners of country cottages face massive expropriation of land The threat of forced demolition of already rebuilt country houses hangs over thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of Russian owners of summer cottages. Having launched a targeted campaign in recent months to check transactions concluded in the field of land use, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have already announced the discovery of massive abuses.

Conversbank plans to take over 80% of Minatom's financial flows Yesterday Andrey Melnichenko made his first appearance as acting Chairman of the Board of Converse Bank, who is also the head of MDM Bank. Let us remind you that getting rid of the prefix “acting.” Mr. Melnichenko will be able to attend the meeting of Converse shareholders, scheduled for December 15. There is every reason to assume that his confirmation in the new position will still take place: Mr.

The government has decided on its defense contract debts that have accumulated over the past 5-6 years. At yesterday's meeting of the government commission on military-industrial issues, it was decided to transfer all accounts payable to the military-industrial complex as of January 1, 2000 to state internal debt. The amount of debt recognized by the state is 32.5 billion rubles. Of this, 5 billion rubles will be repaid from additional budget revenues of the current year.

“MENATEP has completed payments to creditors of the first, second and third stages,” said the bank’s bankruptcy manager, Alexey Trofimov. First-priority creditors received more than 1.3 billion rubles. In the future, this figure may increase slightly, since individuals have the right to submit their claims before the end of the bankruptcy procedure. According to Mr. Trofimov, preparations are now underway for payments to creditors of the 4th stage (requirements for mandatory payments).

Or is he just pretending The board of directors of Irkutskenergo yesterday decided to sell the company's 12.88% stake in RUSIA Petroleum.

And guests from Italy - in classical dance Almost simultaneously with the Kremlin Tennis Cup, another major sporting event of international scale took place in Moscow: the Russian Open Sports Dance Championship - Russian Open-2000 - was held at the CSKA universal sports complex.

A “brilliant killer” escaped from the most famous Czech prison The Czech fortress of Myrov was built in the first half of the 19th century, and since then Austro-Hungarian prisoners, Gestapo prisoners, and socialist “prisoners of conscience” have languished in its casemates. In 1990, post-communist authorities established a special department in Mirov for criminals sentenced to life imprisonment. They say that it is impossible to escape from this prison.

Vladimir Putin encourages Western investors, but officials scare them Matchmaking of investors is still included in the mandatory set of events during foreign voyages of our country's leaders. In Paris, President Vladimir Putin personally acted as matchmaker. And judging by the reaction of French business circles, it’s quite good.

Fidel Castro has found a loyal follower Fidel Castro's first state visit to Venezuela since 1959 ended with the signing of an energy cooperation agreement that was extremely beneficial for Cuba. Venezuela, the world's third largest oil exporter, will supply 53 thousand barrels of oil daily on preferential terms. In addition to a one-year deferment of payments, a 15-year debt repayment period at 2% per annum, Cuba will be able to repay up to 25% of the cost of oil in goods and services.

The October 18 issue of the Vremya Novostey newspaper published the article “Small is Better.” It discussed some problems of Moscow construction, primarily the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater. The management of Mospromstroy (the construction company conducting work on the Bolshoi) expressed a desire to refute some of the provisions of the article and share information about what is happening today around this object that attracts increased public attention.

The chief human rights activist wrote a letter to the chief power engineer Federal Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov believes that the so-called rolling blackouts, which leave many cities and towns in Russia without power for hours, should be stopped immediately. He wrote about this in his letter to the Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais.