The State Council working group on mortgage development, headed by Samara Governor Konstantin Titov, yesterday discussed the plans of the Federal Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML). The group will meet at least twice more this summer.

Polish shareholders of the Russian-Polish JSC Europolgaz did not approve the decision to increase the company's authorized capital in order to finance the construction of two compressor stations in Poland. Gazprom reported this to the Vremya Novostei newspaper. The Russian side proposed increasing the authorized capital of Europolgaz on a parity basis by introducing into the authorized capital loans returned to its shareholders - Gazprom and the Polish JSC PGNiG.

If the Turks don't intervene The tale of Cinderella is over. The South Korean team, which sensationally reached the semi-finals of the World Championship, lost to the German team with a score of 0:1 and will now fight only for bronze medals. But the Koreans still proved that in today's football you can rely on romanticism and attack. “Despite the huge disappointment with the result, I have nothing to blame the players for,” said head coach of the Korean team Guus Hiddink after the final whistle.

Electricity reform stuck in Duma State Duma deputies cannot decide when to consider a package of bills on electricity reform in the first reading. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday, June 27, but many deputies, including Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev, are in favor of postponing the consideration to the autumn session.

Roman Abramovich's company bought some Slavneft Sibneft became a minority shareholder of Slavneft and its subsidiaries. Roman Abramovich's company acquired a 25 percent stake in the trust for managing these shares last year for $76 million, Sibneft First Vice President Alexander Korsik said yesterday at the presentation of financial statements according to international standards for 2001.

At the age of 48, the famous journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of the Sports Information Agency (ASI) ITAR-TASS, press attaché of the Russian Handball Union Vladimir Yashin tragically passed away by committing suicide. Yashin is a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, and has worked at many major international competitions. His favorite sports were handball and shooting.

On the birthday of DuPont, the Pushkin Museum received a gift For any high-status business corporation, the best birthday present is a broad PR gesture. Du Pont de Nemours is no exception. Let's recall the story. Two hundred years ago, a young chemist, Elether Dupont, emigrated to the United States to escape the French Revolution. There, in Delaware, he opened a gunpowder factory.

Lawyers intend to continue the fight Grigory Pasko will spend the next four years in a maximum security colony. This is what the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court ruled, leaving in force the decision of the military court of the Pacific Fleet (PF), according to which the journalist was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for treason.

Deputies fear that he will grow up Small traders, owners of small hairdressing salons and restaurants, tailors, shoemakers and other entrepreneurs who pay tax on imputed income to the treasury can purchase champagne. Very soon, in a month and a half to two months, there will be a holiday on their street: they will be exempt from paying the single social tax (UST).

President Kostunica fired the commander in chief The Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army, Nebojsa Pavkovic, found himself at the center of a political scandal. Although the Supreme Defense Council (VDC) of Yugoslavia refused to support President Vojislav Kostunice’s intention to dismiss the obstinate colonel general, the head of state, by decree, appointed an acting Commander-in-Chief of the Yugoslav Army, Deputy Pavkovic, Colonel General Branko Krga.

The prosecutor's office will ask Sergei Mikhailov about AvtoVAZ's partner The Naro-Fominsk prosecutor's office, as the Vremya Novostei newspaper learned, summoned Sergei Mikhailov, a reputable businessman from the Moscow Solntsevo district (friends call him Mikhas), for questioning. The businessman himself, on Monday, after large-scale searches by the special services at his dacha and office, went to Moscow City Hospital No. 17, citing the fact that the police had broken his head.

Aslan Maskhadov asks the G7 to influence Putin On the eve of the meeting of the G8 leaders in the Canadian town of Kananaskis, the leader of the Chechen separatists Aslan Maskhadov wrote to the G7 leaders. The open letter calls for help to resume contacts between the separatist representative Akhmed Zakayev and the presidential envoy to the Southern District Viktor Kazantsev. The same message asks Moscow to cease hostilities on July 15 and begin new negotiations.

Alexander Litvinenko will serve his sentence in England The verdict of former FSB lieutenant colonel Alexander Litvinenko was handed down yesterday by the Naro-Fominsk military garrison court. For abuse of power and illegal acquisition of explosives, he was given a 3.5-year suspended sentence. To serve such a sentence, the disgraced security officer does not even have to return to Russia from England, where he received political asylum.

Mikhail Kasyanov promised to solve leasing problems Problems of the socio-economic development of Tatarstan, the aviation complex, mechanical engineering, small and medium-sized businesses - these are the range of issues that Mikhail Kasyanov intends to consider during his two-day stay in the republic. He started with aviation.

How our cars are stolen According to the boast of our professionals, it takes them no more than 15 minutes to disarm an alarm of any complexity. Immobilizer deactivation - 5 minutes. It is more difficult with mechanical anti-theft devices. The lock of a classic Zhiguli car is easy to open using a metal ruler, but a Volgov lock can simply be broken if you insert a strip of hard metal with a welded or screwed lever into the keyhole and turn this same lever.