The FCSM dreams of universal application of the Code of Corporate Conduct The head of the Federal Securities Commission (FCSM), Igor Kostikov, yesterday presented to the general public his favorite brainchild - the Code of Corporate Conduct. The FCSM expects that the standards formulated with funds from the EBRD grant will take root on a national scale. They started talking about creating a set of rules for corporate behavior in the spring of 2000.

The case of the first of the St. Petersburg vice-governors went to court Yesterday, the Prosecutor General's Office transferred to court the case of the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg Valery Malyshev, accused of committing serious crimes in office. Together with him, Praskovya Kopaneva, General Director of EXI Bank, is involved in the same case.

The heads of the traffic police are accused of ignorance of the Code of Administrative Offenses A well-known defender of the rights of motorists, lawyer Leonid Olshansky, called the high-profile action of the traffic police to restore social justice and fight on the roads absolutely illegal.

Contemporary dance at the Golden Mask The performance “Breaking In” by the Russian Chamber Ballet “Moscow” at the Golden Mask began a series of performances by contemporary dance troupes. It will continue next weekend. This is the third time that contemporary dance has been nominated for a separate category at Mask.

“Romeo and Juliet” by Nikolai Kolyada was brought to the Golden Mask Nikolai Kolyada lives in Yekaterinburg, writes plays with enviable regularity, and they are staged with even more enviable regularity in the theaters of our vast homeland. We can say that Kolyada, the author of “Slingshot”, “Murlin-Murlo” and “Oginsky’s Polonaise”, if not the most popular, then certainly the most repertoire of Russian authors.

Candidates for “National Bestseller” have been named Six dozen different essays, both published in 2001 and handwritten, were nominated for the National Bestseller Award. 22 members of the Grand Jury had the right to give one text 3 points and another 1. As a result, 22 works received some kind of attention, and six of them made the shortlist. Alexander Prokhanov ’s novel “Mr. Hexogen” (special issue of the newspapers “Soviet Russia” and “Zavtra”) received 16 points (five three rubles and one).

Valery Gergiev is organizing a new festival in Moscow Yesterday at the mayor's office, Yuri Luzhkov and Valery Gergiev held a press conference dedicated to the first Moscow Easter festival, which will be held from May 5 to 12. As the mayor proudly stated, now, thanks to the festival, the capital will be able to join the vital values ​​of any metropolis in Europe, for which musical festivals at Easter have long become a tradition.

Afghan authorities claim to have exposed his machinations For the first time in three and a half months after the interim Afghan administration led by Hamid Karzai came to power, a serious anti-government conspiracy has been uncovered in Kabul. This was announced yesterday in the Afghan capital by the head of the security service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Din Muhammad Jurat, and the head of the security service of the Kabul office of the Karzai administration, Mohammed Nasir.

The Moscow City Court yesterday handed down a verdict in the case of the head of the People's National Party (PNP) Alexander Ivanov, who was accused of inciting ethnic hatred and calling for mass riots. The court acquitted him of the second count, but found him guilty of the first and sentenced him to three years of suspended imprisonment. Considering that the sentence was not too severe, the court immediately pardoned Ivanov.

On the eve of the draw, a correspondent for the Vremya Novostey newspaper visited a training session of the Swedish national team, where she talked with the assistant captain of the visiting team, Jandres Jarryd, who in 1994, during the Russia-Sweden Davis Cup final, came to Moscow as an active tennis player. - How do you feel at the Sports Palace? - It’s okay, I even like it here. Big arena. I can imagine how many spectators will come to root for your team.

Regional authorities were reminded of the powers of the president The President's right to dismiss heads of constituent entities and dissolve local parliaments has been confirmed by the Constitutional Court. The judges yesterday recognized the provisions of the law “On the general principles of organization of legislative (representative) and executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” as consistent with the Constitution.

An almost Bulgakov story happened in Krasnoyarsk in early April. One of the local television companies reported that several dozen Cuban and Madagascar cockroaches escaped from the city zoo center. Journalists also reported that these are very large insects, growing up to 5-6 cm in length. They differ from their fellow species in simply fantastic fertility. As one of the zoo center employees stated, these cockroaches were brought to Krasnoyarsk in order to feed lizards from exotic countries.

Safin has a chance to take revenge for the Australian Open Yesterday at the Luzhniki Sports Palace the draw for the 1/4 finals of the Russia-Sweden Davis Cup took place, the matches of which will take place from April 5 to 7. On Friday, the first racket of the Swedish national team, Thomas Johansson, and the second number of the Russian team, Marat Safin, will first take to the court, after which Yevgeny Kafelnikov will fight with Thomas Enqvist.

We already have a bust of Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky was buried in Paris at Sainte-Genevieve-du-Bois, but death in a foreign land did not cancel his closeness to Moscow - the city where he was born, studied, worked, thought, suffered, loved. On the day of the famous film director’s seventieth birthday, a memorial service was held near the walls of his home in Zamoskvorechye; the service was performed by Fr.

The Baltika brewing company, one of the leaders in beer production in Russia, will begin producing licensed Carlsberg beer in early summer. In accordance with the agreement between Baltika and the Danish concern Carlsberg, beer will be bottled by Baltika-Don (Rostov-on-Don) in 30-liter kegs, and from September - in 0.5-liter bottles. Its selling price will be at least 18 rubles. per bottle. By the end of the year it is planned to produce at least 100 thousand dal of this beer. "TIME FOR NEWS"