Criminal The Russian FSB department for the Nizhny Novgorod region opened a criminal case yesterday against the East Line airline. As the press service of the regional FSB Directorate reported to the Nizhny Novgorod Telegraph Agency, the company is suspected of a crime under part one of Article 188 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (smuggling). The episode that the security officers are investigating happened more than three months ago.

Donskoy Tabak is experiencing an overproduction crisis For the first time in recent years, the Rostov tobacco factory stopped. Employees of one of Russia's largest manufacturers of cigarettes and cigarettes (which controls 12% of the market) were sent on forced leave until January 15. The reason for this was overproduction and a severe sales crisis - the Donskoy Tabak warehouses were overstocked with finished products.

Microsoft will give its competitors a “strategy” and “shooter” game Microsoft (MS) CEO Bill Gates wants to play for profit. At the same time, he intends to force the whole world to pay for his games. At the Computer Electronics Show in Los Angeles, he solemnly tore the covers off a prototype of the XBox (“secret box”) game console coming to market in the fall, which MS will henceforth develop together with the famous plastic construction company Lego.

Its pulse is determined by the US economy Although the first full-fledged working week on the stock markets this year began with a slight increase in quotations, no one has yet undertaken to predict the long-term prospects. As before, what traders miss most is “stability in the world.” The Russian market has long been dependent on Western money. And it is simply impossible to predict the course of events in the world's main markets.

There is only enough money for private investors The meeting of creditors of Kuzbassprombank (KPB) spoke in favor of declaring the bank bankrupt. It was recommended that the bankruptcy trustee appoint the current temporary manager of the bank, Valery Togulev. The corresponding petitions will be sent to the arbitration court and considered on January 24. The history of Kuzbassprombank's insolvency stretches back to May 1998.

Minsk streamlines settlements with Russian residents While the Ministry of Justice of Belarus declared the agreement on the introduction of a single currency to be contrary to the constitution of the republic, the National Bank of Belarus continues to streamline relations between Russian and Belarusian participants in foreign economic activity. Moreover, liberalizing them to a greater extent, without forgetting, however, to keep an eye on the situation.

Tomorrow, the Vyborg Shipyard will lay down the CS-50 drilling platform for oil exploration and production on the continental shelf. It was designed by the engineering company Moss Maritime (Norway). The platform should be handed over to the customer in March 2002. True, it has not yet been decided whether the Vyborg Shipyard will build it on a turnkey basis or just the hull, which will be completed with special equipment at Norwegian shipyards.

The Moscow Endocrine Plant does not want another director Today the Moscow City Court will decide whether the former director, Evgeniy Sharokhin, will remain at the Moscow Endocrine Plant (MEZ) or, despite the protests of the labor collective who came out to a rally yesterday in support of Sharokhin, a new one will be appointed. The plant believes that this is a matter of principle.

The selection criteria for an international consultant to the Russian government on structural reforms in the electric power industry were approved yesterday at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, said Russian Minister of Economic Development and Trade German Gref. At the meeting, a list of approximately ten organizations that could apply for this position was reviewed.

The Bank of Russia registered a report on the results of the third issue of shares of the Russian Development Bank, as a result of which the bank’s authorized capital increased to 3.66 billion rubles. As the PR service of the Russian Bank of Russia reported to the Vremya Novostey newspaper, funds for increasing the authorized capital were allocated on the basis of Article 57 of the law “On Amendments and Additions to the Federal Law “On the Federal Budget for 2000”.

The Ministry of Finance and the Accounts Chamber are challenging the right of financial supervision The adoption of the “Unified Concept of State Financial Control,” which was actively discussed in December last year, was on the verge of failure. Meanwhile, strengthening state control over finances is one of the main demands of the international community on our country.

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If Russia cedes the Southern Kuril Islands The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is ready to become the financial coordinator of the Sakhalin-2 project worth more than $10 billion and provide the largest loan in its history of “several hundred million dollars” for the implementation of this project.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Tuesday ordered the State Unitary Enterprise Ukhtaneftegazgeologiya to fulfill its obligation to the Komineft company under the purchase and sale agreement for a 25% stake in Severnaya Neft CJSC, concluded in December 1999. Komineft paid for the purchase, but did not receive the shares, since the required package decreased tenfold after an additional issue of shares in Severnaya Neft.

15 motor ships are forced to spend the winter in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory - they are frozen in the ice, not having time to reach clean water before the onset of frost. All these vessels belong to private companies, whose owners accused the management of the Yenisei River Shipping Company (EnRP) of using unscrupulous methods of competition.