The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation dropped the criminal case last week against former State Duma deputy, head of the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the Yabloko movement Viktor Gitin. The now former defendant himself announced this on Friday. As it turned out, the corresponding resolution was signed on January 24. It is noteworthy that the case was dismissed under Art. 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR - for lack of corpus delicti.

The second round of tariff war between railway workers and MAP Today the government is expecting a battle between the giants - the Ministry of Railways and the Antimonopoly Agency (MAP). At the commission on tariff policy, the MAP and other ministries will try to take away from the Ministry of Railways control over benefits for the transportation of export-import cargo within Russia. The Vremya Novostei newspaper has at its disposal drafts of two government resolutions.

In search of an ideology for the 21st century When we try to sum up the results of the past century, usually, due to the properties of our memory, it is the latest events that appear as the most significant. But with a calmer analysis, it becomes clear that not only the last ten years, but the entire past century has absorbed the process of transformation of Russian society - the transition from a traditionalist system to a modern market and industrial one.

Vladimir Putin and NTV will meet face to face Today at 12.30 a meeting between President Putin and 10 NTV journalists is due to take place in the Kremlin. Television cameras will be allowed into the hall for protocol filming. In addition to the president, according to our information, his press secretary Alexei Gromov and deputy should be present at the meeting. Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov.

Now the plant produces ice screws and frying pans The first Russian aircraft plant, founded at the end of the 19th century, where designer Ivan Sikorsky built his famous Ilya Muromets airplanes 80 years ago, ceased to exist de jure. In fact, the Leningrad Northern Plant stopped producing flight equipment back in the mid-90s.

The conflict between Interros and NLMK is escalating The owners of the holding company Interros announced the start of large-scale actions against the management of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. The resolution of the conflict, which has been ongoing since the spring of last year, was entrusted to the vice-president of the holding and the head of BaltONEXIMbank, Yuri Rydnik. At a meeting with journalists, Mr.

The law on political parties, which has not yet been adopted, has already given a powerful impetus to party building. At the end of last week, the two organizations determined their status. The Entrepreneurship Development movement, which has existed for three years, wanted to become a “political roof” for all small and medium-sized businessmen in Russia and decided that it was time to turn into a party.

This year there will be no transition to other currencies when calculating customs duties. In 2001, customs authorities will continue to collect payments in euros. This was announced by the head of the State Customs Committee Mikhail Vanin, who held a press conference on Friday dedicated to International Customs Day. “I believe that for this year, given the strengthening of the euro, the issue of switching to calculating customs duties in other currencies is closed,” he said.

Bread will rise in price or deteriorate By May, either bread prices will rise or its quality will decrease. Now grain prices are rising sharply. Analysts believe that the situation on the Russian market and the latest steps by the Ministry of Railways are in the hands of Kazakh grain growers. “A kind of spring has emerged, and it will soon be released,” Alexander Yukish, president of the Grain Union of Russia, admitted to the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

At the end of last week, the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office transferred to court a case against a group whose leadership is charged with a deputy of the city's legislative assembly, Yuri Shutov. A total of 21 people will appear in court. The case materials amounted to 65 volumes, accompanied by about a hundred audio and video tapes. According to the investigation, Shutov’s gang committed 25 serious and especially serious crimes, including eight contract killings.

There is so much gasoline in Russia that we have to reduce oil production The increase in oil production, which the government was so proud of, led to a crisis in the oil industry. It turned out that no one needed the extra oil. Oil refineries are refusing to buy raw materials due to overproduction of gasoline, prices for which are falling across the country.

Based on the results of inspections of Gazprom and Slavneft, the Accounts Chamber noted only minor flaws in the work of these companies - unsatisfactory work of state representatives in the first and overestimation of the president's rights in the second. According to Accounts Chamber auditor Mikhail Beskhmelnitsyn, the activities of state representatives at Gazprom “should be clearly regulated and there should be strict demand from state representatives.

PACE believed us: there is almost peace in Chechnya, the courts are working there, the troops are about to be reduced by four, and almost all power will be transferred to finally completed civilian structures - the Kadyrov administration and the new Ilyasov government, along with half a billion dollars in budget funds for restoration. Negotiations with the enemy are no longer necessary. There seems to be no enemy.

On Friday, the press service of the Financial and Industrial Federation released a statement from the chairman of its board of directors, Alexander Smolensky, who “created a subsidiary bank of SBS-Agro in Holland - the Amsterdam Bank of Commerce.” It notes that the fate of this bank affects the interests of Russian depositors and foreign creditors, and therefore “should not be determined uncontrollably either by ARCO officials or by other authorities.” According to Mr.

An attempt was made on the life of the chairman of the board of Metropol Bank, 43-year-old Aidar Katyuzhansky, in Moscow on Friday evening on Leningradsky Prospekt near the CSKA sports complex. At about nine o'clock in the evening, when the banker, accompanied by a bodyguard, was getting into his BMW car, a VAZ-2106 car standing nearby exploded. As a result, Aidar Katyuzhansky and his guard Igor Kotarev received various injuries and burns of the face and hands of the 1st and 2nd degrees.