The experiment to sell land in Zelenograd failed The sale of Moscow land into private ownership, the secret dream of the capital's authorities, is postponed indefinitely and is becoming more and more elusive. Yesterday at a meeting of the city government, officials admitted that the experiment in selling plots in Zelenograd (an administrative district of the capital) had failed. Therefore, it is unlikely to be repeated in the near future in other areas of the city.

Tourists fell into the arms of Rusavia If the sign that you will spend the New Year the way you celebrate it is true, it threatens to be scandalous in Russian tourism. The New Year's epic, which ruined the mood of thousands of people who were planning to relax by the blue sea, will most likely end in dizzying lawsuits against the Rusavia company and organizational conclusions from the Ministry of Transport.

The holidays are over - the ruble has strengthened The beginning of the working year forced not only citizens to sober up and calm down, but also the exchange rate of the national currency. Yesterday, as during previous trading on January 5, the ruble exchange rate against the dollar continued to grow. At the single trading session of the MICEX, the ruble rose by 4.65 kopecks, reaching the level of 28.3876 rubles/dollar.

The management of the car plant is preparing for a change of owner JSC AvtoVAZ sold one of its largest subsidiaries - Tolyatti AvtoVAZagregat. Its new owners were the Togliatti group of companies Lada-Inter-Service and the Moscow JSC Rusinkor. The press service of AvtoVAZagregat reported this recently. AvtoVAZagregat, which produces car seats for VAZ cars, is of strategic importance for the car plant: by the end of 2000, it was supposed to remain the only supplier of this component.

In December 2000, Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves grew by only 0.1% (in November - by 6.9%). December was the only month last year in which there was a decrease in this indicator. However, according to the information of the Central Bank on its website on the Internet, at the end of the month the volume of reserves reached another historical maximum for all years of reforms - $27.9 billion.

The assembly of French cars in Moscow has not started Car production at the Russian-French joint venture Avtoframos in Moscow is still ongoing. The assembly of cars was stopped last summer, it was planned to resume it in the fall and winter. But after completing the installation of the assembly line in the new building, the company did not begin assembling the Clio Simbol and Megane models.

Krasnoyarsk deputies intend to sue RAO UES of Russia Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory intend to return large blocks of shares of RAO UES of Russia and JSC Krasnoyarskenergo to regional ownership. At the first meeting of the permanent commission on property of the regional legislative assembly in 2001, a corresponding draft resolution was prepared.

The leadership of the federal district does not believe in this “The United Machine-Building Plants Uralmash-Izhora, owned by Kakha Bendukidze, received control over the Krasnoe Sormovo plant. However, the legality of the deal that took place in December raised serious doubts among the leadership of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Moscow Oil Company (MNK) on December 30 approved the strategy for the transition to a single share of the MNK of its subsidiaries - the Central Fuel Company (CTK) and oil producing enterprises in Western Siberia. The MNC is being created on a parity basis by the Moscow government and the British Sibir Energy.

World oil prices began to rise For several days in a row, world oil prices fell, which greatly worried Russian oil workers. Yesterday, prices finally began to rise slightly on the London and New York stock exchanges. Yesterday, by noon, the price of a barrel of brent on IPE reached $24.68 (an increase of $0.25), and light sweet on the NYMEX reached $27.52 (an increase of $0.2).

Moscow airline has given up the right to fly At the beginning of next week, Vnukovo Airlines will cede part of its routes to Novosibirsk Sibir Airlines. Perhaps this will be the first step towards establishing a strategic partnership between the two airlines. True, so far the future partners have no idea how far their cooperation can go.

By purchasing Pemos, Henkel will become a leader in the Russian detergent market The German corporation Henkel acquired from Alfa Bank a 51% stake in JSC Pemos (Perm), one of the largest enterprises in Russia producing synthetic detergents. Senior Vice President of the bank Tigran Agadzhanov reported this to the Vremya Novostei newspaper.