Transneft speeds up the construction of the Baltic pipeline system Transneft, Russia's state-owned oil pipeline company, has promised that the first oil tanker will leave for the West from the new port of Primorsk (Leningrad region) in December this year. However, designers fear that the port may “float” due to the emergency pace of construction.

Eduard Shevardnadze has secured US support Georgia will be able to count on Washington's help in solving its most pressing problems - easing Russian pressure and fighting terrorism. After meetings with American leaders, Eduard Shevardnadze received an assurance from First Deputy Defense Minister Paul Wolfowitz of his readiness to help Georgia strengthen its borders against terrorist infiltration.

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The will to power of Mohammed Daoud A burst of machine gun fire was heard in the next room, and the 70-year-old head of Afghanistan, Sardar Mohammed Daoud, rushed to the door. But it was too late: the military was on the threshold, seizing the presidential palace. They opened heavy fire, and in a few seconds it was all over: Daoud and his brother Mohammed Naeem lay in pools of blood. Thus, on April 27, 1978, the political career of a man who played a fatal role in the fate of his country ended.

Grozny, once one of the most beautiful cities in the North Caucasus, lies in ruins. Some historical buildings, someday, when the state has money, may be restored in all their splendor. But the presidential palace, the oil institute and other memorial buildings, on the site of which there are vacant lots overgrown with young growth, will have to be built anew. However, all these objects were not included in the federal program for the restoration of Chechnya.

FEC failed to force Irkutskenergo to pay The conflict between Irkutskenergo and RAO UES of Russia continued yesterday. The acting general director of the Irkutsk energy company, Sergei Kuimov, said that Irkutskenergo does not intend to comply with the instructions of the Federal Energy Commission (FEC) and will not pay a subscription fee to RAO for services to use the networks.

The Russian Prime Minister promised Moldovan exporters a “green light” The opposition press called Mikhail Kasyanov's visit to Chisinau last Friday a failure for the Moldovan side: the authorities' inflated expectations, they say, did not come true.

The exchange is looking for a way to improve trading in government securities Yesterday, the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange—so far the only platform on which government securities are traded—reduced the commission for some classes of transactions and called on participants to develop a concept for the development of this market segment. Maintaining and developing the infrastructure of the government securities market is one of the priority strategic directions of the MICEX.

The premiere of the information program “24” will take place on the REN TV channel on Monday. Deputy General Director of the television company REN TV for information and socio-political broadcasting, Alexander GERASIMOV, told Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Maxim BALUTENKO about changes in the television company's information broadcasting. -- What changes will occur in the channel's news broadcasting? -- The frequency of broadcasting will not change.

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The Russian youth football team is one step away from the play-offs of the European Championship. In the last match of the group stage, Gazzaev's team failed to beat their peers from Switzerland - 3:3. Having conceded a goal in the opening of the match, the Russians rushed to win back and by the 17th minute they were already leading with a score of 3:1. Our players were close to scoring the fourth goal, but failures in defense did not allow the Russians to bring the match to victory.

Now they divide the money into the next one The delivery of cargo to the Far North in 2001 will most likely be completed in full. This is how the head of the Department for Northern Affairs of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Konstantin Dotsenko, assessed the current northern delivery. According to him, as of today, 85% of cargo delivery to the North has been completed, which is quite acceptable: northern delivery ends on November 15.

The rains that began in the Khabarovsk Territory have not yet significantly affected the situation with forest fires in the region. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent was told by the Department of Natural Resources for the Far Eastern Region, the number of fires in the Khabarovsk Territory has decreased by only one, and now there are 37 registered. However, the number of large fires has increased from four to eleven.

The number of credit institutions operating in Russia decreased by 38 in 2000 - from 1349 to 1311. According to information released yesterday by the Central Bank, at the beginning of 2000 there were 3923 branches of existing credit institutions, and by January 1, 2001 their number had decreased to 3793, from of which 1529 are branches of Sberbank of Russia. "TIME FOR NEWS"

Regional authorities do not want a new head of the television and radio company The conflict associated with the change of leadership of the state television and radio company Udmurtia may become the most striking manifestation of separatist tendencies in Russia in recent years.