Aeroflot prepared for the meeting Aeroflot's board of directors will most likely be expanded from 9 to 11 people in May. This recommendation to the shareholders meeting scheduled for May 25 was adopted on Saturday by the current board of directors of the airline. At its meeting, the board approved the draft of a new version of the charter, which must be approved by shareholders.

Radical communists will protest on May 1st on a crawl Russians will begin a long weekend tomorrow in the name of international workers' solidarity. Those who consider themselves workers will simply celebrate. Those who are professionally involved in protecting workers will first protest and then celebrate. There will be hundreds of thousands of defenders.

Jiang Zemin's successor expands contacts with foreigners Deputy Chairman of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao arrived in Washington for the bride's ceremony. Tomorrow the potential Chinese leader will be received by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

We are buying a new domestic car When buying a domestic car, the choice is not that great. 80% of buyers are forced to choose one of the three lines offered by the Volzhsky Automobile Plant. The rear-wheel drive “classic” is not much different from the “penny” that rolled off the assembly line 32 years ago. The main difference is quality; today's Zhigulis are an order of magnitude worse than their first predecessors.

The government is currently considering two options for the government to buy back a stake in Vneshtorgbank (VTB) from the Central Bank - 40% and 99.8% of shares, First Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Ulyukaev told Interfax. The Bank of Russia now owns 99.8% of VTB shares. According to him, “there is no final answer as to which one will be chosen,” but this issue will be completely resolved during May.

After the first day of competition, Germany and Russia had equal chances of success. But after Elena Dementieva lost to the first number of the German team, Barbara Rittner, in two sets - 3:6, 1:6, the German team felt much more confident. However, Anastasia Myskina managed to beat Martina Müller in a stubborn match - 6:7 (5:7), 7:6 (7:4), 9:11. So everything was decided in a doubles match.

The authors of the project see a political motive in this The start of broadcasting of the Arsenal radio station on the Moscow frequency 87.5 FM has been postponed indefinitely. The reason is difficulties in obtaining a communications license issued by the Ministry of Communications.

But glad to see him free Last Sunday could become a fateful day for the Middle East settlement. "Chairman Arafat is now free to move and lead freely," President George W. Bush said at his Texas ranch in Crawford.

Russian Roman Meshcheryakov won “small gold” in the category above 105 kilograms in the snatch, lifting 207.5 kg. Unfortunately, due to injury, he was unable to compete in the second exercise. In the overall standings (snatch plus clean and jerk), German Ronnie Weller took first place. The second place was taken by the Pole Pavel Najdek, and the third step of the podium was taken by the Ukrainian Alexey Kolokoltsev.

The Prosecutor General's Office became involved in the investigation of Saturday's tragedy in Nizhny Novgorod, when two-year-old Timur Khalbabaev was taken hostage and the local police wounded the child while trying to free him. The prosecutor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Vladimir Demidov, announced this yesterday. According to him, the policeman who wounded the child with a careless shot is the commander of the Nizhny Novgorod SOBR.

IBG NIKoil has not yet formalized the purchase of Avtobank, but has already placed its man in the chair of the bank’s deputy chairman. The current deputy chairman of the board of NIKoil, Yuri Voronin, will become the tenth deputy of Avtobank President Vladimir Ryskin. He will oversee client policy issues. Yesterday, the supervisory board of Avtobank sent his candidacy for approval to the Central Bank. As Mr.

The government wants to convince citizens with the help of the police. The upcoming All-Russian Population Census in October 2002 has been given a political aspect and the status of an event of special national importance. Vladimir Putin spoke about the need to secure the trust of citizens before the fall at an extended meeting of the State Census Commission yesterday.

An Air Force Su-25 bomber crashed yesterday morning in the Vedeno region of Chechnya. According to the headquarters of the joint group of forces, the accident occurred at about 10.30 while the pilot was performing a combat mission. Several search groups flew into the area, and within half an hour the wreckage of the bomber was found 6 km from the village of Dyshne-Vedeno.

For the first time since 1926, the list of peoples of the country will be expanded In the All-Russian Population Census, which will take place in October 2002, the question of nationality will not be the last. Since the previous census, conducted in 1989, the ethnic composition of Russians has changed significantly. This happened due to objective migration processes and due to subjective reasons - many of our compatriots today identify themselves somewhat differently than in Soviet times.

The attempt of two Japanese climbers to climb the Alaid volcano (2400 meters above sea level), located on Atlasov Island in the North Kuril ridge, ended tragically. Yesterday, a search group from the Kamchatka State Emergency Situations Committee discovered the corpses of climbers on the eastern slope of the volcano. Sugawara Tomoki and Shimazaki Satoshi, members of the Japanese travel club, set off to conquer Alaid a few days ago.