The ex-president of Yugoslavia forced everyone to play by his own rules When Serbian guards showed up last Thursday at the Belgrade prison cell where former President Slobodan Milosevic was being held, he was not surprised. “What, already?” - he only asked the visitors who were to transport him to The Hague, to be judged by his worst enemies. The fact that his homeland was so openly selling him for a package of financial assistance hardly shocked Milosevic.

The Konstantinovsky palace and park complex will be restored by May 2003 Based on the results of the competition, the State Hermitage and the design institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences “GiproRAN” became the general designers of the restoration of the Konstantinovsky palace and park complex in Strelna. This was announced by Presidential Administrator Vadim Kozhin at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Restoration of the Konstantinovsky Palace held on Saturday.

Exporting enterprises will have to sell not 75%, but 50% of foreign currency earnings to the state. The corresponding bill will be sent to the Duma this week. The decision was made on Friday at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, which was attended by members of the government’s financial bloc, as well as presidential adviser Andrei Illarionov and Central Bank head Viktor Gerashchenko. For the first time, Mr. Putin announced the need for currency liberalization in his address to the Federal Assembly.

Bislan Gantamirov intends to organize elections in 2002 At the end of last week, the federal center made another attempt to present a long-term strategy for the development of the situation in Chechnya. It was voiced by the new federal inspector in the Southern District, former mayor of Grozny Bislan Gantamirov. It is planned to introduce a new constitution in Chechnya, and perhaps parliamentary elections will be held there in the spring of 2002.

The military prosecutor's office of the North-Western Regional Directorate of the Federal Border Service charged five servicemen of the Vyborg border detachment with violating statutory relations, which entailed grave consequences. This is the result of the investigation into the suicide of serviceman Sergei Strochikhin, which he committed after he fled with a weapon from the border post of the 13th outpost of the Vyborg border detachment on May 24 and crossed into Finnish territory.

There is another election scandal in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The FSB directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod region discovered listening devices - “bugs” - in the office of one of the candidates for governor, State Duma deputy Vadim Bulavinov. According to the FSB, the security company “Complex Security”, owned by another candidate for governor, also a State Duma deputy and former head of Transneft, Dmitry Savelyev, was involved in their installation. Neither Mr. Bulavinov nor Mr.

The Vremya Novostei newspaper asked member of the board of the concern Alexander Semenyaka to comment on Gazprom’s financial policy. -- The past year was extremely successful for Gazprom. Export earnings increased sharply, resulting in consolidated pre-tax profits increasing by 72% compared to 1999 results. At the same time, Alexey Miller, in his report at the meeting, several times called Gazprom’s financial situation difficult. What is this connected with?

85 years ago, on July 2, 1916, tanks were used for the first time during the Battle of the Somme. These combat vehicles played a big role in the wars of the twentieth century, and therefore in history. Tanks have long served as a symbol of the military power of the state. Symbols are an expensive thing, so money was never spared on the construction and maintenance of tanks.

For the sake of success in London, LUKOIL will increase dividends by 80% LUKOIL, Russia's largest oil company, promises to increase dividend payments by $50 million for 2001, despite a projected threefold decline in profits. Such a policy should help increase the attractiveness of LUKOIL securities before listing on the London Stock Exchange and the sale of a large block of shares planned for the end of the year. “The minimum dividends for 2001 will be 12 billion rubles.

Severstal's balance sheet profit for 2000 amounted to 24 billion rubles. with a sales volume of about 59 billion. Such data was presented by the general director of the enterprise, Alexey Mordashov, at a meeting of shareholders on Friday.

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The largest concern came under state control The state's share in Gazprom's capital is now 49% of shares. This is exactly the number of votes (more than 53% of the votes of the meeting participants) that were cast at the annual meeting of the concern’s shareholders for the six state representatives who joined the new board of directors of 11 people.

Rosbank may lose influence in DCC Contrary to expectations, the meeting of shareholders of the Depository Clearing Company (DCC), the depositary servicing trading on the RTS stock exchange, went very smoothly on Friday. As it turned out, the meeting did not actually decide anything, since the majority of DCC shareholders are creating a parallel structure that will not give any of them advantages in managing the company.

At the last Friday meeting, the renewed Federation Council showed its readiness to compromise with the authorities. Senators approved by a majority vote the last of three spent nuclear fuel laws, which allows the import of irradiated nuclear fuel into Russia.

Irkutskenergo shareholders act in unison The annual meeting of shareholders of Irkutskenergo, an energy system that is not part of RAO UES of Russia, was much calmer than the extraordinary one in April. The shareholders, “to be on the safe side,” stocked up on a fresh court ruling prohibiting interfering with the holding of the meeting.