Anatoly Kinakh again became a candidate for prime minister Having driven away from Kyiv - to the village of Yasnozerye in the Cherkasy region, the Ukrainian president named a candidate for prime minister. For 47-year-old Anatoly Kinakh, head of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, this came as a surprise: at a recent meeting with him, the president did not say a word about his decision.

The government no longer hopes to keep inflation within the budget forecast. The Ministry of Economic Development admitted yesterday that instead of 12% under the budget law, consumer goods will rise in price this year by 17-18%. At the same time, a few hours earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin assured foreign bankers that the government still sets itself the task of not letting inflation go beyond 14%.

Oksana Klimentyeva is running for Nizhny Novgorod governor The ex-wife of Andrei Klimentyev announced yesterday her intention to nominate her candidacy for the post of governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to her, she made this decision because her ex-husband Andrei Klimentyev, also a candidate for governor, “set her up.” The day before her decision, Oksana Klimentyeva (Malkina) was detained by regional tax police.

It looks like two water skiing federations will start working in Russian water skiing in the near future. In Moscow, in the same building, in the administrative building of the rowing canal in Krylatskoye, two reporting and election conferences were held simultaneously, at each of which their own president, vice-presidents, and presidium were elected. Now the question of which federation is correct is for the Russian Olympic Committee to decide. Liliya PORFIRYEVA

Aliyev and Niyazov cannot decide how to divide the Caspian Sea The Caspian scandal between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is gaining momentum. Its new round began after the failure in early May of Ashgabat negotiations on the ownership of several oil fields in the center of the Caspian Sea.

The case of Tamara Rokhlina, convicted of murdering her husband, General Lev Rokhlin, has been sent to the European Court of Human Rights. As her lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said yesterday, “according to the rules of the European Court, a complaint can be filed within six months from the date the verdict comes into force, so the other day, both on my initiative and on the initiative of Tamara Rokhlina herself, we filed a complaint with the European court".

There is one less candidate for governor of Primorye Admiral Igor Kasatonov, who put forward his candidacy for the post of governor of the Primorsky Territory, admitted his defeat and abandoned further struggle less than a week before the first round of voting, scheduled for next Sunday. He sent a corresponding statement to the regional election commission on Tuesday, May 22.

The other day marked 100 years since the first major clash between workers and the forces of law and order, supported by the army. Workers at the Obukhov plant, Russia's most important defense enterprise, organized an organized protest against the dismissal of the May Day participants, but rejected the Social Democrats' claims to lead the strike process. They did not seize finished product warehouses, where field guns were also stored. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The criminal authority, who had been wanted for a long time, was detained by employees of the capital's Regional Organized Crime Control Department. In early March, investigators found out that several people had arrived in Moscow, whom the police had long suspected of committing a number of crimes. They were under surveillance.

Moscow builders exceeded last year's modest plan The construction complex not only coped with the plans for the first quarter of commissioning a variety of housing, but also exceeded the established targets. The results of the work of the capital's builders were presented at yesterday's meeting of the Moscow government by the head of the City Development and Reconstruction Complex, Vladimir Resin.

Trade unions face redistribution of property Today the country will find out for certain what kind of property is owned by the trade unions that are members of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia.

The US position on missile defense is gradually changing, says Adam Rothfeld, director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), one of the most influential European centers in the field of strategic issues. Mr. Rotfeld spoke yesterday at the IMEMO RAS at the presentation of “Yearbook 2000: Arms, Disarmament and International Security.” “The Americans no longer use the word “national” in relation to missile defense; they offer cooperation to many countries, including Russia.

A group of IAEA experts led by a high-ranking representative of the Department of Nuclear Safety, Alejandro Alfonso, arrived in Sukhumi yesterday. They will have to find out how safe the sources of radioactive radiation located at the Sukhumi Physico-Technical Institute (SPTI) are. Georgian State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili and Abkhaz Prime Minister Vyacheslav Tsugba agreed to jointly study this problem.

The threat of dissolution hangs over the Parliament of Tatarstan The campaign to bring regional legislation into line with federal legislation has reached a new stage. The first court decisions have appeared, the failure of which may lead to the dissolution of regional parliaments by the president. Thus, the Supreme Court of Yakutia found about half of the articles of the republic’s constitution to be contrary to federal laws.

“The current situation in the International Olympic Committee is very reminiscent of a jar in which famous insects are fighting,” the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Vitaly Smirnov, who recently visited the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, expressed his opinion about the upcoming elections for the post of IOC President. Smirnov refused to name the candidate for whom he would vote.