The government does not like the current car import regime The government has decided to accelerate the equalization of conditions for the import of cars with a service life of 3-7 years for individuals and legal entities, the need for which Russian industrialists have been talking about over the past year.

Gazprom was not satisfied with the version of the holding's business plan for 2003-2010 presented by the new president of SIBUR (a subsidiary of the concern), Alexander Dyukov. As a source at Gazprom told the Vremya Novostei newspaper, the concern's board yesterday instructed SIBUR management to develop an alternative option for recapitalizing the holding. SIBUR proposed a business plan based on carrying out an additional issue of shares of the holding and converting them into debts to Gazprom.

“The Rite of Spring” at the Russian Chamber Ballet “Moscow” At the back of the stage there is a high gray wall. At different heights, small shelves stick out from it - just enough so that you can sit on it crouched or stand up not too freely.

German Gref has options Yesterday, the Ministry of Economic Development submitted scenario conditions for economic development to the government. Despite the excitement around the number of scenarios prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (according to initial data there were 8), the government officially received two options. According to the first, the average annual oil price until 2006 will be $18.5 per barrel. The second option predicts a steady rise in prices.

The situation around Iraq in an interview with the columnist of the newspaper “Vremya Novostey” Elena SUPONINA is commented on by the ambassador of this country to Russia, Mr. Abbas KHALAF. Last night he hastily returned to Moscow from Baghdad, where he brought Russian peacekeepers and religious leaders on Monday. But the visit had to be shortened due to American threats to start a war. - There is no panic in the country. No fear. Both ordinary people and management.

Yesterday, the Serbian Assembly (parliament), on the recommendation of Speaker Natasa Micic, acting president of the country, approved a new cabinet headed by Zoran Zivkovic. The new prime minister, a former interior minister of the defunct Federal Yugoslavia, will also take Djindjic's place as chairman of the Democratic Party until the next elections in 2004. Out of 250 deputies, 128 people voted for 42-year-old Zivkovic.

Tbilisi forgives “terrorist” Georgadze Yesterday in Tbilisi, a small (about 100 people) rally of supporters of the former Minister of State Security Igor Georgadze took place in front of the Prosecutor General's Office building. He fled abroad after he was suspected of involvement in the assassination attempt on Eduard Shevardnadze in August 1995.

The expected personnel appointments took place at the Rossiya TV channel. Yesterday, by order of the Chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Oleg Dobrodeev, Sergei Shumakov was appointed Deputy General Director - Head of the Chief Producers Service of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Rossiya TV Channel.

It will cost rural motorists cheaper than those in the capital The closer July 1st comes, the more Russians learn about compulsory motor third-party liability insurance, the law on which comes into force in the second half of the year. Time pressure is forcing officials and insurers to increasingly explain to car owners why and against what they will be insured.

So, the vote on the new US-British resolution on Iraq did not take place in the UN Security Council.

The exhibition thaw has begun at the Museum of Architecture It seems that everyone has already lost hope that exhibitions at the Museum of Architecture will once again become the heroes of the pages of respectable magazines and business newspapers. But look... After the autumn-winter apathy and hibernation, the museum, slightly forgotten by everyone, has awakened. I heard the ringing of drops and the purring of March cats. The spring sun began to sparkle in his glasses-windows.

Washington does not need the UN Security Council Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday, in a telephone conversation with his American counterpart, expressed regret over the ultimatum that George Bush put forward to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Bush demanded that Saddam and his two sons leave Iraq within 48 hours. Refusal will lead to military conflict.

Moscow's budget hotel construction program fails The capital will have to wait for now with affordable and inexpensive hotels. It seems that they will not appear in Moscow in the coming years, despite promises from the mayor’s office and even a special program launched by the city government. The City Chamber of Control and Accounts recently conducted an audit of the implementation of this project and found that at the beginning of 2002, only three of the seven stages of work had been completed.

Gosnarcon and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have already begun to fight for personnel The structural revolution in the security forces , proclaimed last week by President Putin, seems to threaten to take on a protracted and therefore even broader and deeper nature than it seemed at first.

There is another change in management at the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Smelter (KrAZ). Its director, Ilay Akhmetov, “has been promoted”: he will oversee all new construction at Russian Aluminum. According to Ilay Akhmetov, the holding plans to become “the number one aluminum company in the world” in 2012. He will have to build the second stage of the Sayan aluminum smelter in Khakassia and a new metallurgical plant in Taishet (Irkutsk region).