The whole country will take care of Kaliningrad The government will have to decide today what to do with Kaliningrad. The European Union is moving further east, Poland and Lithuania will soon join it, and it will be increasingly difficult for the Russian exclave to survive. According to the Ministry of Economic Development, “surrounded by foreigners, Kaliningrad needs to become as strong as they are,” that is, to reach at least the average Baltic level.

VAZ subcontractor against tolling schemes of automakers A workers' riot broke out at one of AvtoVAZ's suppliers - Otradnensky OJSC Polimerstroymaterialy (PSM). Employees of the enterprise turned to the main shareholders - the Tolyatti group "Polad" with a demand to change the tolling scheme of the enterprise and return the suspended director Anatoly Feigin, who was the first to speak out against this scheme.

And preparing for meetings with “dark horses” After two rounds, there was a two-week pause in the Russian Championship. However, Russian fans will not be bored. At this time, the national team of our country will play two matches as part of the World Cup qualifying tournament. The first opponents of the Russian team will be the Euro 2000 participant - the Slovenian team, with which Romantsev's team will meet on Saturday. And on Wednesday our team will play a match with the Faroe Islands team.

And the FBI chief praises Bulgaria for its quarrel with Russia The quarrel between Russia and Bulgaria, which flared up due to the spy scandal in Sofia, continues to gain momentum. The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry yesterday rebuffed the Russian diplomatic department, which, according to press secretary Radko Vlaikov, teaches Bulgaria what its “true national interests” are and even carries out “direct interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.” In Sofia, Mr.

The Uzbek national airline Uzbekistan Airways (UHY) paid for the construction of ten Il-114s with engines from the Canadian company Pratt & Whitney at the Tashkent Aviation Production Association. Chkalova. UHY General Director Arslan Ruzmetov announced this yesterday in Moscow. The company expects the first three aircraft this year.

Hockey. Russian Championship. Super League. Playoffs. 1/2 finals. First matches. "Metallurg" Mg - "Severstal" - 6:2, "Avangard" - "Lokomotiv" - 1:0. In both semi-finals of the Russian Ice Hockey Championship, the home team won. But if the Severstal hockey players were able to adequately resist Magnitogorsk for only one period, then in Omsk the intense struggle went on for all sixty minutes. Lokomotiv's arrival in Omsk was shrouded in mystery.

Moscow will raise the republic’s managerial elite Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko named “five key tasks” facing the government in Chechnya. The main task this year, Mr. Khristenko said, speaking to State Duma deputies, is to create conditions for the return of refugees to Chechnya. RUB 1.3 billion has been allocated for the restoration of housing in rural areas and the overhaul of houses in Grozny, Argun and Gudermes.

Without waiting for the disastrous amendments to the Law “On Advertising” to be discussed in the second reading, Russian advertisers decided to show that they are strong and adopted their corporate code yesterday.

Communist Glazyev outdid the government and the Central Bank in liberalism Despite the opposition of the government and the Central Bank, the State Duma yesterday approved in the second reading amendments to the currency legislation, relieving some Russian industrialists, insurers and citizens from headaches.

On World Sleep Day, WHO advises how to get rid of insomnia World Sleep Day was celebrated yesterday as part of the World Sleep and Health Project across Europe. Since 2001, Russia has also joined it. The goal of the WHO project is to help people fight insomnia.

Entrepreneurs threaten to take up sawn-off shotguns At the Second All-Russian Conference of Small Business Representatives, which ended yesterday in Moscow, entrepreneurs shouted about their problems, and Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told them the same thing in an even voice. Thus, the head of government “passed the test” for knowledge of the problems, and businessmen went to their regions to suffer.

Don environmentalists launched a spring offensive against RoNPP Since yesterday in Rostov-on-Don, the public movements “Don Public Against RoNPP” and “For a Nuclear-Free Don” have been holding a noisy action “Our Note to the Chamberlains.” True, none of the Chamberlains known to history has anything to do with this: within a week, local environmentalists will organize pickets in all eight districts of the city and once again demand that the Rostov nuclear power plant be mothballed, where, in the

Moscow will host a week of Old World films An exquisite cinematic spectacle awaits moviegoers in the capital.

The EU insists on market liberalization Today, for gas exporters, Europe is simply a promised land. The gas component in the energy balance of European countries is growing before our eyes (it is already a quarter of total energy consumption). Over the past 10 years, gas demand has increased by 40%, and in the next decade, according to experts, this trend will continue.

The Tyumen Oil Company confirmed its intention to create the Ural Oil Company (“UralNK”). At negotiations between the senior vice-president of TNK and the Minister of Property Relations of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region, Veniamin Golubitsky, an agreement was reached that the share of TNK in the company being created would be 51%, and not 49%, as required by local parliamentarians.