Another concern is being created in the Urals The passion for creating industrial holdings has seriously taken hold of the Urals. Following pipe, aluminum and copper, another one will soon appear in the region - compressor. The management of the Uralinvestenergo Industrial Group announced its intention to create the Uralkhimmash concern this year on the basis of three large machine-building plants in Yekaterinburg - the Ural Compressor Plant, Uralcryotekhnika and Uralkhimmash.

The last matches of the NHL regular season were played overseas. The first place, and with it the home field advantage at all stages of the playoffs, was won by the Colorado Avalanche hockey players. The main games of the season are still ahead, but today we can already name the winners of some prestigious prizes. Thus, Florida forward Pavel Bure stopped at 59 goals and won the Maurice Richard Trophy, awarded to the best sniper of the championship, for the second season in a row.

The veterinary service rehabilitated only European chickens and fish The Russian Veterinary Service lifted the ban on the import of certain types of food from a number of European countries as of yesterday. Now it is allowed to import fish and seafood, poultry, prepared meat and dairy products from Norway, Iceland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into Russia.

Rostov-Turkish beer will appear in May 2003 The Turkish concern Efes Beverage Group agreed with the Governor of the Rostov region Vladimir Chub on the construction of a new brewery in Rostov-on-Don. The Turks intend to turn their Rostov Coca-Cola plant into which they have already invested $40 million.

One of the candidates for governor of Tula ordered the regional election commission Governor elections were held in the Tula region last Sunday. None of the four candidates received the number of votes required to win (more than 50%). The current governor Vasily Starodubtsev and the head of the municipal formation “Leninsky District of the Tula Region” Andrei Samoshin entered the second round, which will take place in two weeks.

The era of "Dina" ends The Russian mini-football championship is nearing completion. And although there is one more round left before the end of the championship, it is already clear that for the first time in 9 years the Moscow “Dina” will concede the top step of the podium. And the most real contender for the championship title is the capital's Spartak.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry agreed to lease two plots of land in Minsk with a total area of ​​2.5 hectares to Russia to accommodate the embassy and a residential building for mission employees. Previously, the Russian embassy received a plot of 3 hectares. It is expected that all formalities will be agreed upon by the beginning of May, and then construction will begin. According to preliminary information, Russian President Vladimir Putin will lay the first stone.

The fourth chamber music festival “Return” has ended Using the festival booklet, you can study the recent history of migration of the domestic musical elite. Detailed biographies of its participants, scattered across various musical educational institutions in Europe and America, not only tell us where young talents are flowing, but also tell us about the international careers of famous Russian teachers. However, there is no pessimism in the Return festival.

At the Moscow Karting Center, the main characters of the Arden-Russia team, representing our country in the international Formula 3000 championship, met with journalists. This class of cars is second only to Formula 1 in terms of technical characteristics. The main difference between the F-3000 and the F-1 is that all the cars are technically identical, which means that the professionalism of the athlete comes first.

The meeting of Promstroybank creditors will take place on April 23 at the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers. As PSB interim manager Sergei Podobedov told the Vremya Novostei newspaper, at the meeting it is planned to elect a committee of bank creditors, select a bankruptcy trustee and vote on a petition to the arbitration court to declare or not recognize the bank bankrupt. Let us remind you that the hearing of the Promstroibank bankruptcy case is scheduled for May 14. "TIME FOR NEWS"

Deputies are ready to take Minatom's word for it The State Duma has once again changed its attitude towards the foreign nuclear fuel business proposed by Minatom. The deputies, who had already overwhelmingly first approved and then rejected amendments to the legislation allowing the import of irradiated nuclear fuel from foreign nuclear power plants into Russia for reprocessing, after yesterday's parliamentary hearings decided to consider this issue again.

The company lost its board of state representatives Yesterday, Rosgosstrakh lost its main governing body - the board of state representatives, formed at the time when the current head of the company, Alexey Golovkov, came to power. As the Department of Government Information reported yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov signed an order declaring the order of May 10, 1999 (No. 741-r) invalid.

Gala concert of the Mariinsky Theater on the Bolshoi stage The evening, which brought together most of the Mariinsky stars on stage, and the capital's elite in the hall, lasted about five hours. In the third hour of the concert, when the audience was pretty tired, there was only one person left in the hall, ready to enjoy the music again and again - Valery Gergiev.

After a five-year break, the capital's club will play in the super final The volleyball “gold” of the Russian championships may well return to Moscow. At least the MSTU-Luzhniki players will try to do everything possible to make this happen. The team won the regular season and received home-court advantage in the final series. On April 14 and 15, Muscovites will host UEM-Izumrud on their site, then the teams will play in Yekaterinburg on April 18 and 19.

The fights of the third game day of the Davis Cup quarterfinal match between Sweden and Russia could no longer influence the final outcome of the confrontation. In this situation, the appearance on the court of Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who plays so much, seemed meaningless. He was replaced by Andrey Stolyarov, who managed to bring our team the only point. Stolyarov defeated Magnus Norman - 6:3, 3:6, 6:1 (the games were played according to shortened regulations).