A bestseller will be created about Evgenia Nazdratenko The former first deputy head of the Primorye administration, Konstantin Tolstoshein, who was forced to leave this post after the resignation of Governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko, began work on his memoirs. In them, an official known in the region for his passion for profanity intends to expose the morals of the Primorye executive power. In the book, which will be called “The Land of Emergency Situations,” Mr.

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The White House has named China as America's main rival The decision to sell four destroyers, eight submarines and a dozen anti-submarine aircraft to Taiwan marked the White House's farewell to Democrats' traditionally cautious policies in the region. Yesterday, in an interview with ABC television, President Bush stated bluntly: the United States “will do everything to ensure that Taiwan can defend itself.” Asked whether he considered defending Taiwan a US duty, Bush replied: “Yes.

Prefix "acting" becomes popular With the onset of a ten-day break in the Russian Championship, the time has come to sum up the first results. And the leaders of many clubs made their conclusions. And although all the coaches who left their posts after the sixth round put their resignation letters on the table “of their own free will,” it was not without pressure from outside. But despite the abundance of vacant positions and free specialists, there are not many full-fledged new appointments.

Two cities are competing to become the elder Schroeder's final resting place. Romania is not spoiled by the attention of major European powers, and Bucharest happily uses any opportunity to remind its powerful neighbors about itself. Now such an occasion has just come up - German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder intends to make a private visit to Romania to visit the recently discovered grave of his father.

Managers of AFK Sistema met with representatives of American big business. Sistema, known for the great diversification of its business, wants to attract large foreign investments in its new projects. Vice President Levan Vasadze estimated the holding's investment needs at $320-500 million.

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Laurent Kabila, was assassinated in January 2001 by order of Lebanese Shiites. These are the results of the official investigation, as reported yesterday by the local press.

The IMF has approved a six-month monitoring program for economic reforms in Belarus. According to Chairman of the National Bank Pyotr Prokopovich, the result of joint work with the IMF should be the resumption of lending to Belarus. The government has taken on serious restrictions. It undertakes not to allocate emission loans for agricultural needs and to lower prices. According to IMF representative Mark Horton, if commitments to liberalize the economy are not met, monitoring will be suspended.

As a representative of Inkombank told the Vremya Novostey newspaper, payment of the remaining 30% of the debt to private depositors will begin approximately on May 16-17. “All the necessary funds have already been transferred, the agreement with Sberbank has been signed, and the register of depositors’ demands has already been transferred to it. Payments will begin as soon as Sberbank checks the register and sends it to its territorial offices,” he noted. "TIME FOR NEWS"

Bishkek does not exchange its rivers for Uzbek mountains A serious political scandal is breaking out in Kyrgyzstan. The secret “Memorandum on the settlement of the legal basis for the delimitation of the state border between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan” became public. It was signed in February by the prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Utkir Sultanov.

A lively discussion was sparked yesterday in Moscow by the presentation of the latest annual report of the United Nations Industrial Development and Trade Organization (UNCTAD). The document criticizes the current model of “international financial architecture,” which, according to UN experts, meets the interests primarily of rich countries.

The Russian national team has one foot at the World Cup In Belgrade, our national football team took perhaps a decisive step towards the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The Russian team won a wonderful victory over the Yugoslav team - 1:0 and completed the first round of the qualifying tournament as the sole leader. After this victory, we have the right not only to count on first place in the group, but even to demand it.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn awarded Konstantin Vorobyov and Evgeny Nosov The fourth Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize was shared by Konstantin Vorobyov (posthumously) and Yevgeny Nosov - “two writers whose works revealed in full truth the tragic beginning of the Great War, its course, its consequences for the Russian countryside and the later bitterness of neglected veterans.” The two months that separated the announcement of the new laureates and their public celebration added little to this capacious

A major scam was recently uncovered during an operation by employees of the capital's Regional Organized Crime Control Department. Investigators found out that in October 1999, fraudsters, using forged documents, registered Trades Ricks LLC in Moscow, renting premises in the business center of the Mezhdunarodnaya-1 Hotel.

Federal authorities cannot cope with the “unauthorized oil business” in Chechnya. Minister for Chechen Affairs Vladimir Elagin said yesterday that “the Grozneftegaz company produces 1,200 tons of oil per day, but 300 tons of them are stolen, and the same amount is stolen from wells not under the control of Grozneftegaz.” According to him, entire trains with oil leave the territory of the republic mainly at night. Mr.