Three secret units included in the onboard communications of the Su-27 fighter were stolen from the warehouse of the Far Eastern 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army, stationed near Ussuriysk. The loss was discovered at the end of November, but the Military Prosecutor's Office officially became aware of it only the other day. The head of the aviation instrument storage service, suspected of the crime, was searched for more than two months and was eventually taken into custody.

An attempt on the life of Ramis Deberdeev, general director of the Ust-Luga Timber Terminal, was prevented in St. Petersburg. A janitor found a mitten attached to the wall of a house on Bolshaya Monetnaya Street in a prestigious area of ​​the historical center next to the apartment where a businessman lived. This seemed suspicious to him, and the janitor called the police.

"Rusal" stocked up on alumina The Russian Aluminum company has figured out how to cope with the shortage of raw materials for metal production. The recipe turned out to be simple. Last year it entered into long-term contracts to purchase alumina. Thanks to these transactions, the share of Rusal's purchases of raw materials on the open market will decrease from 50 to 8.5% of the aluminum production requirement.

The future Spanish monarch is expanding his knowledge in Russia Last night, Don Felipe, Crown Prince of the Royal Court of Madrid, flew to Moscow at the invitation of President Putin and to mark the 25th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Today he will take part in the opening ceremony of the Instituto Cervantes center in Moscow.

Today's desktop hard drive market is reminiscent of a soap opera, with characters getting married, divorced, adopting other people's children, etc. so often, and their relationships so complicated, that it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to follow the plot. And this despite the fact that there are very few players left here: Maxtor, IBM, Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung.

The Prime Minister will again have to solve the problems of oil workers The Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) wants to put an end to the scandalous story with the sale of the state stake in the Eastern Oil Company (VNK). For now, the results of the auction, for which 36.82% of VNK shares are up for grabs, are scheduled for February 14.

Galina Kukleva: Young people don’t step on their toes Olympic biathlon champion Galina KUKLEVA hopes to perform successfully at the current Games. She told Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Olga ERMOLINA about preparations for the races in Salt Lake City. — Was the preparation for the main start of the four-year anniversary different from usual? - New coaches, they have their own approach.

Mechanical engineers of the Urals want cheap gas The authorities of the Sverdlovsk region are trying to resolve the conflict between gas suppliers and consumers in the region. Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister of the regional government Viktor Shtager held a special meeting regarding the strained relations between the Uralsevergaz trading house (a subsidiary of Itera, the exclusive gas supplier to the region) and industrial enterprises in the region.

Movies on cassette will be better than DVDs Personal cinemas, through the efforts of high-end video equipment manufacturers, have now formed a steadily growing sector of the high-tech product market. Film companies, in turn, not without reason, count on expanding the “individual” consumption of their products outside the traditional distribution system. However, the familiar VHS standard used in most VCRs no longer provides image quality acceptable for home theaters.

“Roberto wants to finish football and change his lifestyle,” was the statement made by the agent of the famous Italian football player Vittorio Petrone after it became known that Baggio would not have time to recover from injury in time for the start of the 2002 World Cup. Almost all the successes of the Italian national team in the 90s are associated with the name of Roberto Baggio. Before the 1990 World Cup, Juventus bought Baggio from Fiorentina for a then-record £8 million.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone": first impressions Planetary Pottermania has not escaped us either. Happy parents, not paying attention to the bitter tears of their children, take Madame Rowling’s books from them and read them on their own, while the deprived children, meanwhile, excitedly write their own versions of the continuation of the story of the boy wizard.

There was an emergency in the Women's Basketball Super League championship - for financial reasons, the Irtysh club from Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, which was admitted to the Russian championship as an exception, withdrew from the tournament. “Irtysh” played in the “East” division at the preliminary stage, and last season took a high sixth place in the Super League (out of 18 participants).

Russian companies dominate the business software market Without even suspecting it, our state has created and carefully maintains today excellent conditions for the prosperity of the business software market. The peculiarity of domestic economic information is the high proportion of regulatory and reference information, forms of regulated reporting, as well as constantly changing accounting rules.

Soyuzneftegaz became an investor in the Vankor project The Soyuzneftegaz company, created a year ago by former Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuri Shafranik, became an investor in one of the largest oil projects in Eastern Siberia, the Vankor oil project. Previously, the English company Sibir Energy, controlled by the famous Moscow entrepreneur Shalva Chigirinsky, claimed to be the main investor in this project. Gg.

Increase in the US military budget will bring Russia $416 million The Russian military-industrial leadership is obviously looking forward to the approval of the parameters of the 2003 American budget. Moreover, this time it’s not even a matter of the traditional desire to extort additional funds from the government for rearmament programs for its own army, citing the unprecedented increase in Pentagon spending.