The Federal Tax Police Service of Russia announced the beginning of an investigation against the management of the 10th bus depot in Moscow, which, according to operatives, exported more than $6 million of budget funds abroad.

Putin vs. Primakov-2 Is Vladimir Putin capable and intends to carry out liberal reforms in the economy and build a rule of law state with equality of all before the law? President of the Liberal Mission Foundation Yevgeny YASIN reflects on this in his report “New Era, Old Anxieties: A Liberal’s View of the Development of Russia.” The Vremya Novostey newspaper publishes a fragment of this report. Admittedly, positive trends in the economy are still based mainly on market factors.

Old ones become new governors Last weekend, the next round of gubernatorial elections was held in five regions at once - Kostroma, Kurgan, Bryansk and Vladimir regions, as well as in the Khabarovsk Territory. In most cases, regional power has not changed - in four subjects of the federation, the previous governors remained in their places.

The concern does not want to build Mill-5000 in Nizhny Tagil Last Saturday, Deputy Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Vladimir Bugrin said at a press conference that Gazprom JSC is not going to participate in the construction of “any pipe rolling mills.” The basis for such a categorical statement was the confirmation received by the leadership of the Chelyabinsk region from Gazprom that the concern does not intend to finance in any form the construction of a plant for the production of

The Spanish authorities did not hesitate to send Vladimir Gusinsky to prison again The head of the Media-Most holding, Vladimir Gusinsky, had to live in a prison cell again over the past holidays - now in Spain. Early on Tuesday morning, he was escorted there by police, who faithfully carried out the instructions of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, which issued an arrest warrant for the disgraced oligarch a month ago.

The Presidium of the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of Valery Radchikov One of the most high-profile cases of recent years - the explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery in the capital in November 1996 - was continued yesterday.

To the 175th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Nicholas the First There are still twelve days until the “real” anniversary of the uprising on Senate Square, but it is better to forget about changing the calendar: the phrase “December fourteenth” carries too powerful a symbolic charge. It seems like everyone knows something about this day. In “Fallen Leaves” Rozanov grumbled: “And they write and write the history of this buffoonery. And memoirs, and all sorts of peacock feathers.

To paraphrase a famous Leninist phrase, the formula for Russian prosperity could be presented as “economic growth plus electrification.” To bring the Russian economy to the planned 5-5.5% growth, it will be necessary to significantly increase the production and extraction of all energy resources - oil, gas, coal... But the country will have the greatest need for electricity.

The Severstal company acquired a stake in CJSC Izhora Pipe Plant (ITZ). The deal was recently registered by the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy and Support of Entrepreneurship of the Russian Federation; its price was not disclosed. The metallurgical holding needed to purchase ITZ in order to enter a new market - the market for large-diameter pipes. As is known, the consumer of these products is the Gazprom concern.

LUKOIL announced the acquisition of a 72% stake in the American company Getty Petroleum Marketing, which owns 1,300 gas stations in the eastern states of the United States on a long-term lease basis. The purchase price is just over $50 million. Attempts by the American company United Refining to block Getty's deal with LUKOIL through the courts failed.

Andrey Kuzyaev became the head of all oil production projects carried out by the largest oil company LUKOIL abroad. The LUKOIL board appointed him general director of the offshore company LUKOIL-Overseas, which owns LUKOIL's shares in oil production enterprises in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iraq and Egypt, as well as shares in joint ventures operating in Russia. The total cost of these projects exceeds a billion dollars. At the same time, Mr.

Eternal question Almost a year ago, Vladimir Putin won his biggest political victory so far - in the Duma elections, almost a quarter of Russian voters cast their votes for the Unity bloc, which he supported as a citizen. With this success, Prime Minister Putin's claims to become Boris Yeltsin's successor were confirmed de facto. And it was then that the question of who you are, Mr. Putin, became extremely relevant. This is how he remains to this day.

The Central Bank of Russia revoked Kuzbassotsbank's (KSB) banking license "due to the bank's failure to comply with the requirements of federal laws governing banking activities, as well as regulations of the Bank of Russia." Now, as the main office of the Central Bank in the Kemerovo region admitted, KSB is facing bankruptcy. In the fall of 1998, KSB entered into an agreement with the Central Bank to transfer its obligations to depositors to Sberbank. By 204.5 million rubles.

Moscow hotels will not be handed over to the wrong hands The privatization of hotels in Moscow is progressing, albeit slowly. Yesterday, the Moscow City Duma considered in the first reading the resolution “On the list of objects of privatization of state and municipal property for the period until December 31, 2001”, which, among other objects, indicated five hotels - “Belgrade”, “Beijing”, “Volga”, “ Leningradskaya" and "Golden Ear".

The Prosecutor General's Office dropped the investigation against Kremlin officials The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced the termination of the so-called “Mabetex case” - one of the most scandalous investigations in recent years, the main defendants of which were the former presidential manager, now Secretary of State of the Union of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin and members of the family of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin.