The Ministry of Press demands tax breaks for periodicals The Ministry of Press Affairs undertook to protect the interests of the periodical press. Within this department, a number of proposals have matured to strengthen state support for print media. All of them relate to tax benefits, primarily VAT and sales tax.

The Vremya publishing house has published a volume of poems by Timur Kibirov Yesterday at the Duma club, readers were presented with a new book from the Vremya publishing house, “Who goes where - and I’m off to Russia...” - a volume of poems by one of the brightest Russian poets of our time, Timur Kibirov, compiled by him from the works of the last fifteen years. Andrei Zorin tried to determine Timur Kibirov’s place in today’s literary process for those gathered.

Israeli hawks hope Arafat's career is coming to an end Never before has the Israeli army gone as far into a Palestinian city as it did last night. With a large crowd of journalists hiding from bullets behind a concrete fence, and amid the furious crackle of machine gun fire, Israeli troops passed through the southern outskirts of Jerusalem and occupied the adjacent Palestinian city of Beit Jala, gaining a foothold in its northern part.

The writer was attracted by the distance of a free novel The question arises: why would a successful detective author abandon the genre that brought him fame and try on the dubious armor of family melodrama?

The Ministry of Internal Affairs understands tax scams Representatives of the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced yesterday the end of one of the largest operations against financial structures that earned billions of rubles by illegally obtaining VAT from the state. The investigation now involves more than 1.5 thousand firms, forty banks in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as representative offices of various foreign banks.

Deputies are patching holes in the legislation on joint stock companies There are countless holes in the part of Russian legislation that regulates the activities of joint stock companies. One of them, concerning the need to register share issues - and one that could threaten the loss of property for two-thirds of Russian shareholders, deputies of the Moscow Regional Duma tried to patch up. They came up with a special law, which they submitted to the State Duma.

The state prosecutor protested the sentence of former Foreign Ministry employee Valentin Moiseev, who was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for spying for South Korea. The prosecutor, Colonel of Justice Andrei Titov, motivates his position by the fact that the sentence passed by the Moscow City Court to Moiseev does not correspond to the gravity of the crime committed and the personality of the convicted person.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to invalidate the decree of the Russian government “On the innovation of domestic government foreign currency loan bonds of the third series” (OVVZ-3) dated November 29, 1999. Thus, the statements of two private investors - Vladislav Gershkovich and Alexander Boychenko, who insisted that the OVVZ-3 innovation “limites the rights of owners to freely dispose of their property,” remained unsatisfied.

Russia plays on the global platinum metals market Last Saturday, Russia stopped exporting platinum group metals. The piquancy of the situation is that this happened on the day the decree of the President of Russia “On the procedure for the import into and export from the Russian Federation of precious metals and precious stones” (No.

One of the most prestigious tennis tournaments, the US Open, started in New York, gathering the entire tennis elite on its many courts. Even those players who, for various reasons, do not participate in the tournament, are in the field of view of fans and journalists. Attention to Kournikova, for example, is still fueled by the news of her imminent wedding to hockey player Sergei Fedorov. Whether this will happen or not is not yet known for certain.

The Bundeswehr will go on the Macedonian campaign without its minister In those days when Germany made the historic decision to participate in the Macedonian NATO operation, the Minister of Defense found himself not “ahead, on a dashing horse,” but on the island of Majorca in the company of Countess Cristina Pilati von Tassul. This island seems to have a special attraction for Sharping.

Iomega "broke" IBM hard drive American manufacturer of external “memory” devices for computers - Iomega, Corp. - decided to outshine numerous rivals who are mastering another direction - optical digital recording of information (CD, DVD). The company showed prototypes of an audio system and a video recorder with replaceable cartridges, which are the mechanical part of a high-capacity computer hard drive, at the last Hannover CeBIT exhibition.

The feds don't want a repeat of the July purge scandal. Representatives of the federal command in Chechnya summed up the results of the special operation in the village of Alleroy, Kurchaloevsky district, which began on August 16 and, according to initial reports, should have led to the capture or neutralization of Aslan Maskhadov. Maskhadov, however, was not found in Alleroi.

Boris Berezovsky promises to protect military personnel Starting in September, the Civil Liberties Foundation created by Boris Berezovsky will begin funding a program of legal assistance to Russian conscripts - similar to the already launched program of assistance to juvenile offenders. “Conscripts” will be paid for the services of lawyers if they suffer from the crimes of colleagues or commit a crime themselves and are taken into custody.

Secretary of State of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin flew yesterday afternoon on a Swiss Air flight from Geneva to Moscow. Before leaving Geneva, Pavel Borodin did not give any interviews to journalists. From the Russian mission to the UN, he was taken by car of the Consulate General to the VIP lounge at Geneva airport. Together with the Secretary of State of the Union State, his lawyer Eleonora Sergeeva flew to Moscow.