Electricity companies are reviewing their business plans for next year. The Board of Directors of Irkutskenergo calculated financial and economic indicators based on the tariffs approved by the Regional Energy Commission for the company. According to the press service of Irkutskenergo, in this case the company’s budget deficit is expected to be 750 million rubles.

Mother of five Liz Mays was so annoyed that her family, instead of helping her decorate the Christmas tree, were glued to the TV screens that she threw the hated TV set out of the house. Mace, 40, unplugged the socket, carried the television to the front door, lifted it over her head and threw it out of the house.

The largest shipment of heroin in recent times, more than 40 kg, was detained by law enforcement agencies in the Ryazan region. During the joint operation, employees of the local Internal Affairs Directorate and the FSB Directorate managed to reach an extensive network of drug dealers, which was led by visitors from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They usually transported heroin in the caches of trucks carrying fruits or juices.

Grigory Pasko betrayed his homeland with the enemy Military journalist from Vladivostok Grigory Pasko will celebrate the New Year in prison. Yesterday, by a military court of the Pacific Fleet, he was found guilty of high treason, stripped of his rank and sentenced to four years in maximum security camps. The sentence, surprisingly lenient for traitors to the motherland, became a cruel blow for Pasko himself, his lawyers, relatives and friends.

Vladimir Putin heard a report from loyal police officers The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Boris Gryzlov, yesterday, for the first time as the country's chief police officer, held such an important event as summing up the work of his department in the outgoing year.

2001 passed without shocks, which is what I wish for 2002 The outgoing year 2001 was the calmest for Russia over the past 10, or even 15 years. It was even a little boring in a European way - no battle between parliament and the executive branch, no turbulent conflict between the government and the oligarchs using all available media, no mass social unrest.

Tomorrow marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Marlene Dietrich There are emblematic images in the history of cinema. Bowler hat, cane and baggy trousers - this is Chaplin. The fedora hat, the crooked tie, the look of a beaten dog, which, however, has not yet forgotten how to bite - this is Humphrey Bogart.

The miners' trade union entered the stock market The last non-privatized coal enterprises are trying to protect themselves from being taken over by large private industrial holdings. In 2002, a federally owned 40.9% stake in Gukovugol OJSC will be put up for sale (20% of the shares are owned by the Rostov administration, which does not plan to part with them).

A sad Christmas tale about a Palestinian state “Old Man” Arafat, as his fellow fighters respectfully call him, was left with nothing. This Christmas, the fairytale of a Palestinian state became a story with a sad ending for the Palestinian leader. Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, was to become the symbol of Palestinian independence.

Raduev did not wait for mercy The Supreme Court of Dagestan announced yesterday the verdict against Salman Raduev and his three accomplices in the raid on Dagestan in January 1996.

Many Norwegians were surprised to read on the eve of Christmas in the popular newspaper AFTENPOSTEN an official announcement about the promotion to rank for services to the homeland of a certain Major Niels Olaf. There are plenty of majors in Norway, and lieutenant colonels too. Why such attention to this particular officer? It turned out that Mr. Olaf is not a person at all, but a penguin named Major, etc., who was donated to the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland in 1970.

Either Pasha ordered it, or Pasha was ordered Krasnoyarsk businessman Vilor Struganov, better known in criminal circles as Pasha Tsvetomuzika, was detained yesterday by criminal investigation officers. The name of Pasha Tsvetomuzika became widely known thanks to the media about a year ago. Allegedly, it was he who was planned to be killed by the former chairman of the board of directors of KrAZ, Anatoly Bykov.

Sri Lanka's 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Susanthika Jayasinghe has announced her retirement from the sport. The only Olympic medalist in the history of the island nation in the Indian Ocean was prompted to do so by sexual harassment from those with whom she had to deal with her occupation.

The robbers who stole 1 million rubles were detained on Monday by police officers from Kolomna, Moscow Region, in hot pursuit. At 21:12, an alarm signal was received at the control panel of the private security duty department from the cash desk of the central office of Mosoblproduct OJSC, located on Zelenaya Street. A detention group immediately left for the scene, to which the businessmen told the following.

Following the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov's play by Jean Anouilh was added to the repertoire of the Theater named after. Pushkin In Temur Chkheidze’s Antigone, released three months ago, Otari Megvinetukhutsesi, specially invited from Tbilisi, shone in the role of Creon. In the premiere, played yesterday on the small stage of the Theatre. Pushkin, the bet was placed on the performer of the title role, Irina Grineva.