The Russian national team has convenient and inconvenient opponents The first matches of the Russian national team at the traditional Moscow international tournament, the Baltic Cup, caused ambivalent feelings. Our national team, even at the third stage of the Eurotour, continues to remain a mystery. Both for its most ardent admirers and for most of its main rivals.

And the collection of money will be entrusted to automatic machines Since 2003, in Moscow and the Moscow region, when paying taxes, individuals will use machines installed in Sberbanks. The Ministry of Taxes and Taxes, together with Sberbank, plans to introduce barcode technology in the Moscow region when issuing payments. This was announced yesterday at a press conference by Nina Kozlova, Deputy Head of the Department of Accounting and Reporting of the Ministry of Taxes.

The joint venture between YUKOS and the Hungarian MOL to develop the West Malobalykskoye field has finally been created. Yesterday, Yukos President EP Yuri Belin and MOL President Zsolt Hernadi signed the necessary documents. Plans for joint development of the field have been discussed since 1999, and in February of this year a corresponding agreement was concluded and the imminent creation of a joint venture with equal shares was announced, and MOL must pay Yukos compensation of $100 million.

According to the head of the Russian representative office of Volkswagen, Torsten Bradler, since 2003 the concern plans to become a direct supplier of its cars to Russia. Currently, they are imported by the company's dealers. The change in strategy is due to the growth in sales of cars of brands that are part of the German concern (Volkswagen, Skoda and Audi).

Numerous attempts to guess the behavior of oil prices, large-scale fuel transportation projects, high-profile privatization deals - all these certainly attractive topics have obscured such a strategic problem as the efficiency of the Russian oil and gas complex. Moreover, we are talking about efficiency not only today, but also in the future, which is much more important. It is not easy to move away from current commercial estimates, nor is it easy to abstract from market conditions.

Gennady Troshev has not yet decided on his future Colonel General Gennady Troshev, removed by the president from the post of commander of the troops of the North Caucasus Military District, is, according to the wording of military personnel officers, at the disposal of the Minister of Defense. He did not submit the case, since there is no order of the Minister of Defense duplicating the presidential decree. So formally, Mr.

South Koreans vote for Noh The name of the new president of South Korea, who will hold this post for the next five years, is already known. After a preliminary count of ballots, it became clear that the majority of the nearly 35 million voters in the presidential election yesterday chose 56-year-old Roh Moo-hyun, the candidate of the ruling Democratic Party of the New Millennium (MDNT).

Gazprom plans to complete, by May 1, 2003, the approval with the constituent entities of the Russian Federation of the acts assessing the value of the company's real estate and the authorized capital of RAO Gazprom taken into account when calculating it as of July 1, 1992. This decision was made yesterday at a meeting of the company's board.

Progress in the negotiations between Belarus and the OSCE At the OSCE headquarters in Vienna, as it became known yesterday, negotiations on the resumption of the work of the mission of this organization in Belarus are taking place quite successfully.

In the Kurchaloi region of Chechnya, the head of the administration of the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Imran Khusiev, was killed. According to preliminary data, several criminals armed with machine guns broke into the house where Mr. Khusiev was staying with neighbors on Thursday night and shot everyone in the room. Three other people died along with Mr. Khusiev.

The relatives of the Chechen terrorist Salman Raduev, who died last week in the Perm regional hospital, were given his personal belongings and death certificate. This was announced yesterday by the head of the GUIN of the Ministry of Justice, Vladimir Yalunin.

Prime Minister Confirmed Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko as a representative of the Russian government on the board of the International Consortium for the Management and Development of the Gas Transport System of Ukraine. The consortium in the form of a limited liability company is being created within the framework of an agreement between the governments of Russia and Ukraine on strategic cooperation in the gas industry, which was signed on October 7 this year.

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President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to New Delhi demonstrated the unity of Russia and India's positions on many issues, especially the fight against international terrorism. Authoritative expert Gopalaswami PARTHASARATI told the Vremya Novostey newspaper about the Indian vision of this issue. He served as India's Ambassador to Pakistan until 2000 and is now a professor at the Center for Policy Research in Delhi. --Is India concerned about the possibility of war in Iraq?

“The Moth” was released at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop There was an American film called GI Jane starring Demi Moore. The brutal and muscular heroine Moore was recruited into the elite US troops - the Marines. She shaved her head, lived in a barracks, made forced marches in full combat gear and irrefutably proved that a woman is the same man, only much better. In the finale, the infantrymen, among whom, of course, there were many male pigs, were forced to recognize the equality of the sexes.