The fate of the hotel near the Kremlin walls has not yet been decided Memory of a place You can imagine Moscow before “Moscow” from the photographs in the Museum of Architecture named after Academician Alexei Viktorovich Shchusev. Maria Rogozina, head of the catalog section of the museum’s photo library, shows them and comments: “Three can be considered truly historical squares near the Moscow Hotel: Red, Voskresenskaya (Revolution Square) and Teatralnaya.

A phantom organization is trying to restore unity Seven former socialist countries (including the three Baltic states), invited to join the NATO military bloc in November, found themselves in a delicate situation. The alliance they so strive to join is in a grave crisis. NATO Secretary General yesterday assessed the situation as “very serious,” and US Secretary of State Colin Powell called on the Alliance for unity.

Leaders of Russian metallurgical companies gathered yesterday for the first organizational meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Committee on Metallurgy, the main goal of which, according to UMMC General Director Andrei Kozitsyn, appointed chairman, is to consolidate efforts to solve problems emerging in the industry.

Volleyball. Russian Championship. Super League . 13th round. "Lokomotiv-Belogorye" - "MSTU-Luzhniki" - 3:1, 3:0, "Dynamo" (M) - "Luch" - 3:2, 3:1, "Neftyanik" (Y) - - Samotlor - 3:0, 3:0, UEM-Izumrud - Neftyanik Bashkiria - 3:0, 3:0, ZSK-Gazprom - Baltika - 3:1 , 3:0. The leaders are : Lokomotiv-Belogorye - 52 points, Dynamo (M) - 49, UEM-Izumrud - 47, ZSK-Gazprom - 41. Belgorod Lokomotiv-Belogorye continued its unprecedented winning streak, beating its rivals for the 26th time in a row.

The State Customs Committee agreed with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the terms of a loan of $140 million to modernize the information system of customs authorities. A protocol on this was signed at the end of last week by the Chairman of the State Customs Committee Mikhail Vanin and the head of the program Carlos D.K. Ferreira.

“Weekly Magazine” changes its editor and merges with “Business Chronicle” The publishing house "Ostrov", which unites the magazines "Business Chronicle" and "Weekly Journal", has undergone serious changes. The editor-in-chief of the Weekly Journal (EZh) Sergei Parkhomenko resigned. His first deputy, Masha Lipman, also leaves with him.

News about the BP-TNK deal caused the oil market to grow British Petroleum (BP) is negotiating the acquisition of a stake in the company, which could arise through the merger of Sidanco and two companies currently owned by TNK International (owns 97% of TNK shares). Yesterday information appeared that BP intends to spend up to $4.5 billion on this purchase, and we are talking about acquiring 30-50% of the shares of the new structure. Today, BP owns 25% plus one share of Sidanco.

Starting next week, new residents will be able to use a telephone hotline to complain about deficiencies they discovered in their new apartment. Thus, the first deputy mayor in the Moscow government, Vladimir Resin, who oversees urban construction issues, responded to Yuri Luzhkov’s dissatisfaction with the activities of his department. As Mr.

The NBA's "star weekend" ended in Atlanta, the culmination of which was a duel between the stars of the "West" and "East". For the first time in the history of the All-Star Games, it took two overtimes to determine the winner, but in the end the stars of the West turned out to be stronger than the East - 155:145. The first star of the match was Kevin Garnett from Minnesota, who scored 37 points and made 5 steals. But it was not he who was the center of attention, but Michael Jordan.

The State Fisheries Committee wants to strengthen its position The head of the State Fisheries Committee, Evgeniy Nazdratenko, apparently intends to launch another campaign to concentrate control over the fishing industry in his own hands. He considers it wrong that 25 different control services are involved in inspections of fishing vessels in Russian ports. Mr.

Rene ANDRE is a prominent figure in French politics. A well-known lawyer, long-term permanent neo-Gaullist parliamentary deputy from Normandy, vice-president of the delegation of French parliamentarians in the Council of Europe, he heads the France-Russia parliamentary friendship group in the National Assembly. Therefore, the special correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper in Paris, Peter ROZVARIN, asked Mr. Andre to comment on President Putin’s visit to France.

The Primorsky Department of Internal Affairs has no money for compensation The Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok postponed consideration of a civil claim filed against the Primorsky Territory Internal Affairs Directorate by relatives of dead and wounded young people who were victims of a massacre carried out by a local policeman last summer.

Volgograd communists create their own government In Volgograd, in recent days, the possibility of creating a regional government, which will operate parallel to the existing apparatus of the regional administration, has been increasingly discussed. Officially, the need for such reform of the executive power is explained by the fact that among the federal subjects that make up the Southern Federal District, only the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions do not have their own government.

From Sunday evening until Monday noon in the Volgograd region on the Syzran-Saratov-Volgograd federal highway between the villages of Panovka and Ust-Gryaznukha, due to snow drifts, about 400 cars and three regular buses were stuck in a traffic jam. The emergency occurred after one of the drivers lost control during a snowfall and his car got stuck in the middle of the road. From Kamyshin and Saratov, 15 tractors and several graders were urgently sent to help people trapped in snow.

Iraq again denies LUKOIL the development of West Qurna 2 The Iraqi leadership, in anticipation of a solution to the issue of bombing the country, is making feverish steps - from statements about hypothetical cooperation with American oil companies to a final refusal to cooperate with Russian LUKOIL. Yesterday, for the first time, Baghdad declared so sharply that the end of relations with this company had been reached. At a press conference for Moscow journalists, acting.