55 regions signed up for housing and communal services reform The authors of the housing and communal services reform intend to legislate the obligation of citizens and regional authorities to pay for utility services in full. Recently, the State Duma introduced a voluminous package of amendments to the federal law “On the Fundamentals of Federal Housing Policy,” which provides for 100 percent financing of all services of housing and communal services enterprises.

According to the company's management, Megafon's subscriber service is the most advanced in the Moscow mobile communications services market. Here, slightly different operating principles are taken as a basis: one client - one point of contact.

You no longer have to worry about the safety of VGTRK There are big personnel changes on Russian television. Deputy Chairman of VGTRK Vladimir Kulistikov headed the directorate of RTR information programs, simultaneously becoming editor-in-chief of the Vesti program. Vladimir Kulistikov will begin performing new duties on June 4. Today it will be presented to the creative team.

The Gazprom concern has not started negotiations on the sale of 65% of the shares owned by the holding company OJSC NTV Television Company. This was stated by the head of the information policy department of Gazprom, chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Gazprom-Media, Alexander Dybal. He also denied the information that had appeared that the deal to sell NTV shares had taken place.

South Americans dominate on clay at Roland Garros At the French Open in Paris yesterday, the final quarter-finalists in the men's singles were determined. The only remaining Russian representative, Marat Safin, took to the court of the Roland Garros tennis stadium late yesterday to fight Frenchman Arnaud Di Pascual in the fourth round. And the day before, the last representatives of Russia, Elena Dementieva and Vera Zvonareva, were forced to sheath their rackets.

The tariff war is over. The battle for quality of service has begun A mobile communication service cannot yet be called cheap, but we can already talk about its availability for the widest circles of the population. The cost of airtime and telephone sets themselves is continuously decreasing, which is greatly facilitated not only by the rapid growth in the number of subscribers, but also by the intensification of competition between operators.

The Moscow City Court yesterday upheld the preventive measure against the former head of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, Anatoly Bykov, and left him under arrest. Bykov is accused of organizing an assassination attempt on his former partner Vilor Struganov, also known as Pasha Tsvetomuzyka. Bykov's lawyer, Genrikh Padva, demanded the release of his client, and when the Meshchansky Court of the capital refused him, he appealed to a higher authority.

Turkish Prime Minister's illness becomes political The Prime Minister is working with documents at home. Turkish citizens are now getting used to this formula, well known to Russians from the recent past. 78-year-old veteran of Turkish politics Bulent Ecevit suffers from progressive Parkinson's disease and has been hospitalized more than once over the past month, but has no intention of resigning. Despite the fact that calls for this are already being heard openly in Ankara.

Killers were sent to Rupert Murdoch's Russian partner An attempt on the life of the general director of one of the largest advertising holdings in Russia, News outdoor Russia, 36-year-old Maxim Tkachev, was committed yesterday in Moscow. Unknown people tried to shoot him at the entrance to the company’s office on Leningradskoye Shosse near the Sokol metro station in front of dozens of witnesses.

The head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Lebed, a year and a half before the gubernatorial elections, decided to radically update his team. Yesterday he said that in the coming days a special commission will be created that will certify all deputy governors. “Those who are in their place will remain in the administration. A competition will be announced to select candidates for vacant positions.

Kaliningrad special services yesterday announced the detention of the first suspect in the case of the sensational assassination attempt on Major General Vitaly Gamov, head of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk territorial department and deputy head of the Pacific regional department of the Russian border service. On the night of May 21 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, unknown persons pelted an officer’s apartment with Molotov cocktails. As a result, General Gamow himself and his wife Larisa received severe burns.

The Rusavtoprom company, representing the products of domestic bus factories PAZ, LiAZ, GolAZ, KAVZ, KAAZ, handed over to Mosgortrans four new large city buses LiAZ-5256.25, designed for transporting disabled people. These buses will be used by disabled people's societies for specialized trips. In the future, a route should appear in Moscow that will be served by such buses (a similar experience already exists in Rostov-on-Don).

The World Bank is pleased with the development of the Russian customs system In Moscow last week, a World Bank mission completed its work, which is studying the possibility of providing the State Customs Committee with a loan in the amount of $140 million for the development of SCC information systems. The WB mission, headed by Carlos Ferreira, worked this time not only in Moscow, but also in the North-West Customs Administration.

The accident at Baikonur will be attributed to a natural disaster The work of the state commission investigating the “Baikonur incident” has been extended for at least another week. By signing the order on the creation of the commission on May 13, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov obliged its chairman, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Science, Ilya Klebanov, to report to the government on the results of the investigation by June 1.

Traffic jams on earth can no longer be dealt with The Moscow government was not ready to accept a full-fledged concept for the development of the capital's air transport system. Yesterday at a meeting of the Moscow government, where the document was considered, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov insisted on its revision. However, according to city authorities, the delay in issuing the resolution does not eliminate the need to provide access to airports, as well as to develop city aviation.