And save Gazprom from losses, and miners from unemployment This coming Friday, at the House of Unions, at the initiative of the Federation Council, a meeting will be held on the development of the energy complex.

Although mysterious murders continue near Washington The population of the American capital and suburbs is in panic. Over the course of ten days, an unknown sniper shot eight people there and wounded two people. On Friday morning, his victim was 53-year-old businessman, father of six children, Kenneth Bridges. He came on a business trip from Philadelphia and refueled his car in the suburbs of Washington. At just after ten o'clock in the morning, gas station workers heard a shot.

The Chechen prosecutor's office began an investigation into a criminal case of theft of money from a bonus fund intended for payments to police officers assigned to the temporary operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya. The case was based on the materials of an inspection conducted at the beginning of the year in Chechnya by employees of the KRU and the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the ministry.

The Tatar authorities claim that there is no such nationality Federal inspector for the Republic of Tatarstan Denis Akhmadullin told a Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent that by Sunday the public reception hotline had received more than 60 citizen complaints about various violations of the population census procedure. Almost half of the callers said that enumerators do not enter data into standard sheets, but into some kind of “notebooks” or fill out census sheets with a pencil.

The Russian team stepped onto the podium The successes of the Russian volleyball team this season will certainly shed balm on the wounds of our fans. The year of the World Championships (of those held every four years) has so far brought nothing but disappointments. The football players failed, the basketball team suffered an unprecedented disgrace. But the prestige of Russia was supported in time by the students of Gennady Shipulin.

Russia's fight against money laundering is appreciated in the West Last Friday in Paris, at a session of the international working group on financial transactions (Financial Action Task Force - FATF), Russia was removed from the list of states that do not combat money laundering, which gives it the opportunity to speak with Western partners on an equal footing.

In St. Petersburg they tried to play Olymusic Until recently, this festival was called much simpler and more modest - the St. Petersburg Festival of Ancient Music. However, the organizers considered that English early music does not correspond to our “ancient music”. Since the main goal of St. Petersburg musicians is to prove that early music is full of strength and is not going to become outdated, a curious anglicism appeared in the name.

Over the past year, production at the Orsko-Khalilovsky plant, which is now managed by the Russian Aluminum company, has increased by almost 80%. According to company representatives, this year NOSTA will reach a production level of 2 million tons of steel. At the same time, the plant's problems with suppliers of iron ore concentrate have worsened.

October 2002 colder than usual by 3.5 degrees It is difficult to surprise Moscow residents with early snow. However, the October cold and the first snowfall at the end of last week still became an unpleasant surprise for Muscovites. For example, in recent years, car owners have become accustomed to changing their tires to winter ones in November - when the first snow usually falls in the city.

The deposit guarantee system will be mandatory The Ministry of Economic Development on Friday submitted to the government its version of a bill on guaranteeing the return of individuals' deposits in banks. The document clearly assigns to the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO) the functions of guaranteeing contributions, although this issue has long been considered controversial.

Another film by Kim Ki-Duk in Moscow Korean Kim Ki-Duk is a director whom domestic film fans get acquainted with in the most favored way. Two years ago, his film “The Island” (the fourth in a row, but the first truly sensational) could be seen on the wide screen.

The President of Ukraine was tried on European Square The symbolic tribunal, which the opposition troika - the Communist Party, the Socialist Party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc - held on Saturday in Kyiv's European Square, sentenced Leonid Kuchma to life imprisonment.

Alexey Kudrin stumbled over the currency barrier For Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin, the end of last week brought results that made him both happy and sad. On the one hand, Russia, despite the gloomy forecasts, was excluded from the FATF blacklists.

Russia is ready to change legislation for the sake of Kaliningrad Russia has new proposals for visa-free transit through the Kaliningrad region, and they “fully fit into the regime of European Union legislation.” Russia may agree to this, although this even presupposes a change in its legislation. This was stated by the special representative of the Russian President on the Kaliningrad problem, Dmitry Rogozin.

The New Commonwealth holding, which owns more than 60% of Rostselmash shares, announced the beginning of a large-scale restructuring of the combine harvester giant. In October, three structural divisions will be separated from Rostselmash into independent factories: Conord (production of boilers and non-standard equipment), Rostov plant of special tools, technical equipment and Rostov non-ferrous casting plant. These productions employ about 15% of Rostselmash personnel.