Unity is not averse to shaking up the Duma The head of the Duma apparatus, Nikolai Troshkin, is in trouble. They want to fire Nikolai Troshkin from his job. And not just anyone, but representatives of the “party in power” - deputies from the Unity faction. There is probably only one thing that can console Mr. Troshkin: his personnel fate is tightly linked to the package agreement on the distribution of Duma posts. The agreement also applies to Mr.

The Don Governor's election cards are being knocked out The office of the presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District summed up the first results of a planned comprehensive audit of the Rostov region. On the eve of the gubernatorial elections scheduled for September, too many shortcomings have been revealed. Obviously, the results of the audit will do a disservice to the current governor, Vladimir Chub, who intends to run for a new term.

The first match of the final series of the Russian Basketball Championship took place at the Perm Sports Palace "Molot". As in last year's final, the creative debate between our two best mentors - Sergei Belov and Stanislav Eremin - is of particular interest. But if Belov is still in charge of a noticeably strengthened Ural Great this season, then Eremin is working with UNICS Kazan for the first year.

The chairman of the board of directors of TV-6, Badri Patarkatsishvili, was officially summoned for questioning. Investigators from the General Prosecutor's Office want to ask him a number of questions in connection with the case of the failed escape from custody of the main person involved in the scandalous Aeroflot case, former deputy head of the company Nikolai Glushkov, who, like Patarkatsishvili, is closely associated with Boris Berezovsky.

The 2003 problem will be solved through pension contributions from employers An investor of irresistible force has appeared in Russia. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper reported yesterday, the government has appointed the Pension Fund as such an investor. He is allowed to invest “temporarily available funds” in government securities. According to various estimates, from 100 to 110 billion rubles are “gathering dust” in the Pension Fund’s accounts with the Central Bank.

The FCSM and Pallada interpret the word “pension” differently In the struggle between the head of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM) Igor Kostikov and the head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais for influence on the Russian stock market, passions are heating up.

Boris Fedorov quarreled with Russia Losing the fight for the rights of his clients - the foreign shareholders of Gazprom and RAO UES, Boris Fedorov resorted to perhaps the last resort - he wrote a letter filled with civic pathos to the government, in which he accused almost the entire Russian printed press of corruption.

There is one less case on the mayor's list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs The acquittal of the head of the Moscow Registration Chamber (MRC), Igor Alexandrov, ended yesterday in a high-profile trial of the leaders of this organization. The court considered the charges of taking bribes, fraud and embezzlement, incriminated against the official by the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, unproven.

The entrepreneur was waylaid at the customs gate One of the most notorious entrepreneurs in customs circles, Viktor Kibza, was shot yesterday afternoon in Moscow, on Yauzskaya Street, right at the gates of the Central Excise Customs. This man, who owned and managed a number of large enterprises specializing in customs clearance of goods, was known as a close acquaintance of several chairmen of the State Customs Committee. Mr.

The Duma stands up for the property of the Orthodox Church of Estonia On the eve of the visit to Ukraine of the head of the Roman Catholic Church, State Duma deputies considered it necessary to publicly demonstrate that Russian legislators do not forget about the protection of Orthodox Christians in the near abroad.

Moscow authorities want to make a business out of intellectual property Moscow government officials suddenly remembered the problem of the efficiency of city spending on scientific development.

And without the great singer in the play there will be something to see Valery Gergiev's Stars of the White Nights festival has reached its culmination - Placido Domingo arrived in St. Petersburg. Although the visit of the famous Spaniard here has not surprised anyone for a long time. Over the past ten years, he has become his own man at the Mariinsky Theater. Domingo himself performs here almost every year. His wife Martha produces plays.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank Group, announced yesterday that it will finance the completion and expansion of the Ford Vsevolozhsk automobile plant in the Leningrad region. The plant is scheduled to be launched in four months. The total amount of financing is $110 million. IFC will provide Ford Vsevolozhsk with a loan of $55 million guaranteed by Ford Motors (it owns 99% of the shares of the plant under construction).

General Musharraf appointed himself as the duly elected president Pervez Musharraf, who is already Pakistan's most powerful official (he holds the posts of Chief Executive, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces and Chief of the Army Staff), yesterday also became president.

The final document of the RSPP Congress was outdated before approval At the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), the “captains of the new economy”, together with the remnants of the “red directors”, will today form common goals for the business community.