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In the North Caucasus, Vladimir Putin was greeted with terrorist attacks Vladimir Putin still supports the leadership of Chechnya, headed by Akhmad Kadyrov. Following his Saturday blitz visit to the republic, Mr.

Promstroibank is preparing for a meeting of creditors and bankruptcy court Last week, a group of foreign investors, who had secured the support of the management of Promstroibank (PSB) and interim manager Sergei Podobedov, turned to PSB's largest creditors. They are invited to discuss a plan to restore the bank's solvency on April 19.

The government tactically beat the oil workers The government has begun raising taxes on highly profitable sectors of the economy, while simultaneously promising to reduce these taxes in the very near future. At an extraordinary government meeting on Friday, it was decided to increase excise taxes on all excisable goods, except natural gas and vodka, by 12%. The excise tax on vodka will be raised by 5%, the excise tax on gas will remain the same. The main victims were oil companies.

The court hearing in the case of Australian swimming team coach Gennady Turetsky, who was convicted of allegedly possessing anabolic steroids, was postponed to May 3. However, Australian officials have already hastened to declare that if Turetsky’s guilt is proven, he faces lifelong disqualification.

The communists said goodbye to the past Communists must get rid of nostalgia in order to get down to the “long and painstaking” work of building socialism.

"Russian Aluminum" received the right to manage for 25 years the Guinean state company "Kindia Bauxite Society" (SBK), whose mines were created by specialists from the USSR. SBK is the last state-owned enterprise in Guinea, and controlling it is the only opportunity for Rusal to gain access to the extraction of bauxite (raw materials for the production of alumina), where the Nikolaevsky Alumina Refinery (NGZ), which is part of the Rusal structure, operates.

Nadezhda Petrova performed more successfully than her compatriots at the WTA women's tennis tournament in Amelia Island with a prize fund of 565 thousand dollars. Most Russian fans hoped that Elena Dementieva would extend her winning streak. However, she was let down by the injury that the tennis player received in a duel with her compatriot Elena Likhovtseva. Dementieva managed to bring that match to victory, but was unable to qualify for the quarterfinal match against Amelie Mauresmo.

The energy reform plan has not yet been presented to Vladimir Putin The report of the State Council working group on reforming the electric power industry did not reach Vladimir Putin’s desk on time, April 15.

Boeing will explore Russia's capabilities Philip Condit, chairman and chief executive officer of Boeing, visited Moscow late last week to pledge his corporation's commitment to working with Russia. On Friday morning, he signed a long-term cooperation agreement between Boeing and Rosaviakosmos with the General Director of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Yuri Koptev. A few hours later, Condit discussed the agreements reached with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov.

The draft joint statement of the government and the Central Bank on economic policy, which was originally supposed to form the basis for an agreement with the IMF, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers last Friday. However, several more days will pass before it is signed by Mikhail Kasyanov and Viktor Gerashchenko and subsequent publication, as explained in the White House.

Dynamo head coach plays ahead The last round of the Russian Championship was rich in events: the first victory in the championship of Vladikavkaz Alania, as well as the first points scored by CSKA. But the most important sensation was the resignation of Valery Gazzaev from the post of head coach of Dynamo Moscow. Resignations. “My mission at Dynamo is over,” said the Blue and White coach Valery Gazzaev after the loss to the capital’s Lokomotiv (1:2).

Interros gained control over Krasny Vyborzhets At an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the St. Petersburg OJSC Krasny Vyborzhets, initiated by one of the Interros structures and held last Saturday, a new general director was elected. He became Oleg Dyachenko, who represents the interests of Interros and Norilsk Nickel. Krasny Vyborgets is one of three Russian factories capable of producing rolled copper strip, and it is in this capacity that Interros needs it. On his order, Mr.

The government will be set to work The economic downturn that began in the first two months of this year has been overcome. And although, according to government sources, “the situation is still not stable,” Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is obviously proud that the cabinet is coping with it at this stage, and hopes that the results of the year will be successful.

The man who compromised Kuchma received asylum in the USA On Saturday, American authorities announced that they had granted asylum in the United States to the widow of Ukrainian opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze, Miroslava, and to former security guard of Leonid Kuchma, Nikolai Melnichenko, who secretly recorded numerous conversations of the Ukrainian president. It was with Melnichenko’s tapes that the “cassette scandal” began, which led to an acute political crisis in Kyiv.