And preparing for settlements with investors As the newspaper Vremya Novostey learned, yesterday the sale of GKO-OFZ belonging to Inkombank began on the MICEX. Moreover, according to a source in the bank's creditors' committee, this week it is planned to sell only part of the package of government securities - only to raise funds to complete settlements with depositors.

The Ministry of Property will begin issuing licenses to appraisers approximately in the second half of July, three months after the official publication of the Regulations on licensing of appraisal activities (Russian Government Decree No. 285 of 04/11/01), Deputy Minister Zumrud Rustamova said. According to the Law “On Valuation Activities”, state property is subject to mandatory independent valuation during privatization, lease or trust management, when used as collateral and in other cases.

The President puzzled the country's financiers The government does not intend to revise the main indicators of this year's budget, despite the inflationary surge in the first quarter. Both the head of the cabinet, Mikhail Kasyanov, and his deputy, Alexei Kudrin, assured Vladimir Putin of this at yesterday’s expanded board of the Ministry of Finance. However, the president, being late for the event out of habit, did not fail to critically review economic achievements.

Chick Corea gave a concert at a festival dedicated to the centenary of the Great Hall of the Conservatory Chances are you know what Chick Corea's music sounds like. Even if the name is unfamiliar to you. One of his duets with vibraphonist Gary Burton is the theme song for the program “Above Barriers” (Radio Liberty). By the way, it was this duet that the legendary jazz promoter Willis Conover brought to a concert at the Moscow US Embassy almost 20 years ago.

The assassination attempt on Draskovic was coordinated by the head of the Serbian state security The 32-year-old officer of the Special Operations Directorate of the Serbian State Security Service, Nenad Bujosevic, received the order to carry out a mission of particular importance personally from the chief of the State Security Service, Rade Markovic, in June 1999. The general and the officer met without witnesses in the town of Koshutnyak.

State Duma deputy Pavel Medvedev talks with a Decent Money correspondent about the key problems of creating a system for guaranteeing bank deposits. — You have been trying to implement the idea of ​​guaranteeing bank deposits for several years now. How do you assess the prospects for the new bill? — Indeed, the project has existed in various versions for several years and has already been discussed in the State Duma more than once.

In test elections held by the Union of Right Forces The local organization of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) held trial elections (primaries) for the governor and State Duma deputies last Saturday in Kemerovo. The purpose of the action is to organize a public study of the pre-election situation in Kuzbass on the eve of the early gubernatorial elections scheduled for April 22, as well as to find out the party sympathies of voters.

The chief accountant of the TNT-Teleset television company, Elena Metlikina, was summoned yesterday to the Office of the Federal Tax Police Service (UFSNP) in Moscow. There, investigator Valery Sarkisov informed Ms. Metlikina that she had been charged under Article 199, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of Russia (tax evasion by a group of persons by prior conspiracy), and a preventive measure had been chosen against her - a written undertaking not to leave.

A strong fire occurred yesterday morning in Moscow at a factory that manufactured fire extinguishers. At 11.23, control panel “01” received a message about an explosion and fire in the two-story administrative building of the Pechatniki metro station on Yuzhnoportovaya Street. Part of the premises was rented by the Epotos company, which produces automatic fire extinguishers. In the morning, a strong explosion occurred in the hood of the house, after which one of the walls collapsed.

Famous television journalist Sergei Dorenko became the hero of an unexpected scandal involving a Honda motorcycle, a naval officer and a careless dog. The result of the unpleasant incident was the intervention of the police - the issue of initiating a criminal case against Mr. Dorenko is now being decided.

Bailiffs accused of software piracy The Primorsky Territory Bailiff Service will soon itself become a defendant in the arbitration court. Moreover, the actions of bailiffs, which are being challenged in an arbitration court by one of the Vladivostok companies, border on a criminal offense. We are talking about using pirated computer programs.

Processor manufacturers reduce prices The price of Intel Pentium 4 processors will be reduced by half by the end of the month, CNet announced last week. Processors from Intel's main competitor, AMD, will also become cheaper, Western news agencies believe. Both manufacturers, waging a long-standing price war, do not confirm these rumors. The press service of the Moscow representative office of AMD did not comment on these reports.

The Prosecutor General's Office has completed an investigation into the case of an attack by Raduev's militants on the Dagestan city of Kizlyar and the village of Pervomaiskoye in January 1996. Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev, a former deputy prime minister in the government of Aslan Maskhadov, and Aslanbek Alkhazurov are also involved in the same case along with Salman Raduev.

Recently, tax inspectorates have been trying to conduct repeated audits prohibited by the Tax Code, using the so-called. “Additional tax control measures.” Sergei Nosov, senior managing lawyer at Andersen Legal BV, told Decent Money about the problems that arise in this regard. -- What are the additional tax control measures mentioned in the Tax Code?

Bankers will be required to insure household deposits The government draft law “On guaranteeing household deposits in commercial banks” should be prepared before the beginning of May. This is the order of President Vladimir Putin. However, a number of fundamental provisions of the bill still cause heated debate in the government.