His department will oversee the PSA German Gref put the finishing touches on Mikhail Kasyanov. Yesterday, the Prime Minister signed a regulation on the delimitation of powers of federal executive authorities in the field of preparation, conclusion and implementation of the PSA. In accordance with this document, Mr. Gref’s department becomes the main one for the division of products.

EBRD bought Nizhny Novgorod bank The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which after the crisis sharply reduced even its programs for lending to small and medium-sized businesses in Russia, finally decided to “buy” a blocking stake in the Russian regional bank, with which it has been cooperating for seven years. Today in Nizhny Novgorod an investment agreement will be signed between the EBRD and NBD Bank (formerly Nizhny Novgorod Banking House).

They will fight for the post of governor of Evenkia Elections in Evenkia will take place on April 8, but the balance of power in the election campaign finally became clear when the current governor of the district, Alexander Bokovikov, refused to participate in the elections at the end of last week. Of the 11 candidates who want to govern the district, which is home to just over 15 thousand voters, only two are considered to have a real chance.

The Republic intends to make the mineral resources its property Yakutia is trying to declare its subsoil resources, which according to Russian law belong to the state, as republican property. Blame it on diamonds. The local authorities were prompted to take an essentially unconstitutional step by the desire to bargain with the center regarding control over the proceeds of the ALROSA company, which mines precious stones in Yakutia.

Washington joined the Congolese settlement The new president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the son of former head of state Laurent Kabila, who was killed under unclear circumstances, having barely established himself in his new position, went overseas to the United States.

Regional confectioners united Three large regional confectionery factories - "Confi", "Volzhanka" and "Zarya" - from today will produce products under the single brand "SladCo". At a press conference held yesterday, the president of the new company, Valeryan Khubulava, said that in three years the SladCo confectionery association intends to gain 8-10% of the market and become the second largest company in terms of sales both in Moscow and in the regions.

There will no longer be borders between the Kaliningrad enclave and Russia On Tuesday, an official representative of the Ministry of Transport confirmed that Russia is starting to implement a program of “transit-free communication” with the Kaliningrad enclave. Before the end of this year, the Ministry of Transport plans to organize direct ferry service “between St.

Tuesday night turned out to be unusually tense for the units of the capital's fire garrison. In just a few hours, three large fires occurred in different areas of Moscow. The first signal came at 2.39 from the guard of the Holy Trinity Church at the Saltykov Bridge on Samokatnaya Street in Lefortovo. The church was built in 1819. Its walls are made of brick, but all the ceilings and cladding are wooden. The fire broke out in the temple premises, where reconstruction was underway.

At the World Alpine Skiing Championships, which is taking place these days in St. Anton, Austria, the men's combination competition has ended. In the first discipline - slalom - the day before the Norwegian Kjetil-Andre Omodt became the first. He didn’t falter in the downhill either, once again racing down the track faster than anyone else. The victory in the combination was the Norwegian skier's third in a row at the world championships.

Mussorgsky's opera was sung again in Hamburg, this time in Russian The beginning of the new millennium at the Hamburg State Opera was marked by the premiere of one of the few Russian operas admitted to the ranks of masterpieces of world significance and still promising for those who are trying to unravel the mystery of the Russian soul. According to the Hamburg count, this is already the seventh version of “Boris Godunov”. Unlike all the previous ones, it is in the original language.

The head of the Interros holding company, Vladimir Potanin, announced at a press conference yesterday about the merger of the power engineering plants controlled by the holding into the Power Machines concern. The concern included the Leningrad Machine-Building Plant, St. Petersburg Elektrosila and the Turbine Blade Plant, as well as the Kaluga Turbine Plant.

Magdalena Forsberg turned out to be the most accurate in the 15-kilometer race At the Biathlon World Championships in Pokljuka, Slovenia, our celebrities - Ishmuratova, Kukleva, Chernousova - did not compete in the individual 15-kilometer race. The suspicions that arose about a crisis in the national team were dispelled by the senior coach of the Russian national team, Alexander Kurakin. The intense schedule of the championship (athletes start five times in eight days) is not for everyone.

The American Cezanne was brought to the Pushkin Museum. In exchange for our Rembrandt Yesterday at the Pushkin Museum named after A.S. Pushkin opened the exhibition “Portrait of Madame Cezanne in Blue,” painted, respectively, by her husband Paul Cezanne. The painting was brought from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, with which the Pushkin Museum recently signed a long-term agreement of friendship and cooperation.

Today he will reveal the formula for a happy old age Today, Vladimir Putin should announce how pension reform will be carried out - one of the most important and complex problems that the Russian government has been trying to approach for a whole decade.

Features of party building in a presidential republic Laws on political parties will be considered by the Duma today. In addition to the presidential bill, four alternative projects are being submitted to the chamber's court - Oleg Shein (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), independent Duma member Vladimir Ryzhkov, Yabloko member Alexander Shishlov and members of the Union of Rightist Forces Viktor Pokhmelkin and Sergei Yushenkov. No one doubts the success of the presidential project.