The Russian computer market has overcome the crisis The number of personal computers (PCs) delivered to Russia last year reached the peak level of the prosperous year of 1997. The increase was 16% compared to 1999. International Data Corporation Russia, which since 1995 has been one of the main sources of data and forecasts on the information technology market, announced the preliminary results of the annual report “PC Market in Russia”.

Speculators are profiting from the crisis of their Russian neighbor The Russian stock market continues to follow Turkish events. Prices for domestic shares grew yesterday a little slower than they fell the day before, completely repeating the direction of movement of the Turkish stock market. At the end of the day, with fairly high turnover, generally characteristic of the last week, the RTS index rose by 4%.

Klebanov partially satisfied the aviators About a thousand aviators and aviation industry workers picketed the White House yesterday, demanding to save the domestic aviation industry from destruction. Eight picketers even entered the government residence and talked with Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov.

In the near future, deputies of the legislative assembly of the Sverdlovsk region will have to decide whether to put their colleague Anton Bakov on trial. Mr. Bakov is known in the Urals as a fan of all kinds of adventures and a passionate political gambler. Mr.

Political cloning has been mastered in Belarus For the second day now, the standing committee of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has been delving into the intricacies of Belarusian political life. The fact is that two Belarusian parliaments are vying for the right to represent the country in this prestigious organization - the opposition Supreme Council of the 13th convocation, which arose after the 1996 referendum, and the national assembly, whose deputies were elected in the fall of 2000.

The German company Lurgi Lifi Science GmbH will become the general contractor for the development and implementation of a feasibility study for investments in the construction of a new production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and its processed products at the Kaprolaktam plant (Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region). A protocol on this was signed by representatives of the German company, SIBUR and SIBUR-Neftekhim. The Germans are ready to invest about 60-70 million dollars in the new line.

TNK loses to Ugra Having considered the complaint of the Russian-Canadian joint venture Yugraneft Corporation, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy (MAP) recognized the Tyumen Oil Company as a violator of the Law on Competition. TNK refused to accept into its “pipe” highly watered raw materials from Yugraneft, which worsened the quality of TNK’s own oil.

Don authorities are going to spend budget money to purchase shares This year the administration of the Rostov region intends to test a completely new method of supporting private business. According to Deputy Regional Minister of Economy Larisa Pobedennaya, Don enterprises will be allocated direct investments from the budget in exchange for their shares or shares. In the law on the regional budget for 2001, this option for spending budget money is provided for in Article 42.

Moscow invites neighbors to take part in its game Viktor Kalyuzhny is dissatisfied with the results of the meeting of the five-party Special Working Group (ASWG) on the Caspian Sea at the level of deputy foreign ministers that ended in Tehran.

New film with Nicolas Cage on Moscow screens The imposing title of Bret Rattner’s film “The Family Man” would be ideal for a New Russian glossy magazine of the pre-crisis era - thick, sealed in cellophane, stuffed with advertising leaflets and coupons with discounts on exercise bikes. In principle, this is exactly what the movie turned out to be.

The image of a foreign officer in American cinema The declared unity of the army and the people is nowhere more clearly realized than in Hollywood films from foreign life. American mass culture is not inclined to isolate the image of a foreign officer from the general stereotype of the nation being studied. For the military, this would be flattering, if not for the geopolitical egocentrism of the land of the rising sun.

The problem with unclear tariffs bothered Vladimir Putin so much that he attempted to solve it once and for all. Unable to wait for complete government reform - the first consolidated proposals will not be presented to the president and prime minister until the end of March - Mr. Putin has instructed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, to explore the possibility of creating a single tariff body.

General Director of the Russian Agency for Management Systems (RASU) Vladimir Simonov and Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB) Andrey Kostin signed a cooperation agreement yesterday. The partners came to the decision to formalize their relationship as a result of two years of fruitful collaboration. Kostin said that VEB serves export contracts of various defense enterprises included in the RASU system for a total amount of $820 million.

The pension fund can breathe a sigh of relief: the State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On the implementation of the second part of the Tax Code” in a new version agreed with the presidential administration. Until this moment, the Pension Fund had plenty of reasons to be alarmed.

Bill Clinton was let down by his brother-in-law You need to marry not an orphan, but your only daughter—probably, this is precisely the life observation that Bill Clinton came to the other day. Hillary's brother, Florida lawyer Hugh Rodham, who once persuaded the former president to pardon two criminals (on the eve of his resignation, Bill Clinton, according to American tradition, could pardon anyone), did not do this for free - he received $400 thousand for his services.