Moscow will prohibit investors from liquidating enterprises being removed from the center Yuri Luzhkov’s emotional speeches addressed to the owners of industrial enterprises who are repurposing and moving their production facilities out of the center of the capital were promptly formalized into an entire city program. Already on March 18, the Moscow government will consider the PromCity program.

Andrey Vavilov, senator, scientific director of the Institute for Financial Research, former first deputy minister of finance of the Russian Federation: A package of bills on local government reform, recently submitted to the State Duma, was presented by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kozak. It seems that the reform started from above received unexpected and strong support from below.

“Protest traffic jam” will cost the trade union leader 1,500 rubles The Moscow authorities have made it very clear that they will not allow protests in the city that could interfere with street traffic. The Tver Intermunicipal Court yesterday considered the cases of the leaders of the trade union of professional drivers who organized a picket on Mokhovaya Street last Saturday.

All the rest Russians can eat The negotiations that ended in Moscow between representatives of the Russian and American Ministry of Agriculture on the supply of American chicken to Russia did not bring any sensations. Despite the fact that the reason for their conduct was the identified cases of violations by American chicken producers of the requirements of the new veterinary certificate, no decisions were made based on the results.

The Minister of Labor organized a meeting with trade union leaders The upcoming wage reform became the subject of heated debate between the government and trade unions yesterday. The United Russia party confronted Labor Minister Alexander Pochinok and trade union leaders. According to the initiators of the negotiations, the State Duma will insist on considering only the agreed version of the reform of the wage system, which is expected to be carried out after October 1 of this year.

The new Vatican ambassador arrived in Moscow The Vatican is sparing no effort to normalize damaged relations with Russia. On Saturday, the new official representative of the papal throne, Archbishop of Ferenti Antonio Mennini, arrived in Moscow.

At the end of last year, the Russian government managed to agree with Italy to exchange part of the Russian debt for investment, but it turned out that no one knows how this project can be implemented. As a result, Italian and Russian businessmen decided not to wait for their governments to develop a suitable plan, and got down to business themselves. Moreover, very little time was allocated for the preparatory process.

Akhmad Kadyrov supported the federal forces with his security Chechnya's prosecutor Vladimir Kravchenko sent a special investigative group to Argun yesterday to clarify the circumstances of the military clash that occurred there on Saturday afternoon. At first, local security services mistook the shootout for another attempt to assassinate the head of the republic’s administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, since his security personnel were injured in the process.

Young people cannot withstand competition from masters A little more than half of the super tournament has been played in Linares, and the interim results can be summed up. The tournament table shows an interesting picture, quite consistent with the table of ranks: ahead is the entire color of the FIDE rating list.

The Andrei Rublev Museum was unlucky again. The attempts repeatedly made in Soviet times to close it (“for excessive religiosity”) unexpectedly intensified in our officially Orthodox times. Efforts to “optimize federal budget expenditures” led to the emergence of a blacklist of museums within the commission created for this useful mission.

Only a small part of small businesses were able to simplify taxes from January 1 From January 1, small businesses have the right to switch to a simplified taxation system. However, only the most nimble and fast representatives of small businesses were able to take advantage of this right.

The Prosecutor General's Office protested Budanov's sentence At the end of last week, the Main Military Prosecutor's Office protested the verdict passed by the court of the North Caucasus Military District in the case of Colonel Yuri Budanov.

Basketball. NBA Regular Season . “New Jersey” — “Utah” — 90:91 — Kirilenko “U” (15 points + 6 rebounds + 2 assists + 4 steals + 2 blocked shots), “Cleveland” — “Orlando” — 76:102, “Toronto” – “Boston” – 104:92, “Milwaukee” – “Atlanta” – 120:93, “Minnesota” – “New York” – 99:90, “Hughton” "-" San Antonio" - 88:97, "Miami" - "Washington" - 93:83, "Portland" - "Detroit" - 103:86, "Denver" - "Philadelphia" -- 94:100. Utah hasn't lost in East Rutherford since 1994.

On March 2, elections to local councils were held in Belarus. According to the Central Election Commission, 73.3% of voters took part in them. Methods such as early voting and ballot boxes were actively used. In some counties, voters received calls at home asking them to “participate.” Experts see these elections as a rehearsal for more serious election campaigns, in particular a referendum on constitutional changes to allow President Alexander Lukashenko to run for a third term.

Four people were killed and seven were seriously injured as a result of a live grenade explosion that occurred on Sunday night in eastern Moscow. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the incident occurred around 3.10 in a cafe located in the dormitory building of the Moscow Medical Academy named after. Sechenov on 11th Parkovaya Street, 5. According to the main version of the operatives, most likely, there was not a terrorist attack or a gang fight, but an accident.