The President of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB) Garegin Tosunyan wrote a letter to the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Oleg Vyugin, in which he drew attention to the discrimination of regional credit organizations when the Bank of Russia conducts deposit and credit operations with banks. According to Mr.

The other day - without noise, shouting and PR - a new album from the most famous modern Ukrainian group in Russia, the Lvov quintet "Okean Elzy" "Supersimetriya" ("Mystery of Sound") appeared on store shelves. I have always respected Okean Elzy immensely for their intelligence, drive and lack of posture. A couple of years ago, our newspaper even called them either “group of the year” or “album of the year”. We were, however, not alone in this assessment. But that's then.

Last week in Germany, a new stock market, NASDAQ Deutschland, began operating, intended for trading in securities of US and German corporations. According to the founders of NASDAQ Deutschland, it will become the main competitor of the Frankfurt stock exchange and the Xetra electronic trading system.

The other day it will be a year since two dream teams - a unique “team” of Russian oligarchs and a “unique creative team” of former NTV journalists - won a competition to broadcast on the sixth TV channel. The journalistic team led by Evgeny Kiselev, in fact, by that time was already working on TV-6, but with the only oligarch - Boris Berezovsky. It is believed that it was his activities that caused the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation to be taken off the air.

The deterioration of relations between the US and North Korea will deprive Russia of a billion dollars First Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Vladimir Yakunin said in Khabarovsk that the project for the reconstruction of the Trans-Korean Railway with its access to the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway in the Tumangan-Khasan area is under threat due to the war in Iraq. He also noted that freezing this project could deprive Russia of $1 billion in profits.

On Sunday, employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations completed the first stage of the operation to transport humanitarian supplies to the Iranian city of Kermanshah to establish a camp for Iraqi refugees there. Four rescue transport planes delivered 110 tents, each designed for 30 people, 25 tons of flour, 12 tons of canned milk, 5 tons of salt, 18 diesel power plants.

After many years of an unequal struggle with rent defaulters, representatives of public utility services finally received the right to legally evict unscrupulous tenants. Last Friday, parliamentarians adopted an amendment submitted by the government to the law “On the Fundamentals of Federal Housing Policy.” The new amendment applies to those who have not paid rent for housing for six months.

Lokomotiv goalkeeper Sergei Ovchinnikov did not accept defeat The second round of the Russian Football Championship was marked by the defeat of the winner of the last championship, Lokomotiv Moscow. Yuri Semin's team lost to Zenit, with whom Czech coach Vlastiml Petrzhela works. It seems that one of the highest paid coaches in the Premier League (Petzela's contract provides for an annual salary of 12 million Czech crowns - $375 thousand) is more than earning that money.

The Russian Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with the US Embassy in Moscow due to the fact that on March 22, an American U-2S strategic reconnaissance aircraft made a long (more than four hours) flight over Georgian territory along the Russian border. This is the third flight of this kind. The first two took place on February 27 and March 7. Then the United States explained this by the need to detect and identify the bases of international terrorists.

The head of the Central Russian House of Knowledge, Igor ZAITSEVSKY, argues that private retraining and advanced training courses are able to respond more flexibly to the needs of the market and the population. The non-state sector in the field of additional education is attractive primarily for its flexibility to market needs and narrower specialization. We have courses and topics that government agencies cannot provide.

An evening was held to mark the five-year anniversary of the death of Galina Ulanova The Galina Ulanova Foundation is a room in the Actor's House on Arbat, a recent polite refusal of the current management of the Bolshoi Theater from co-founding (which, it seems, may be reconsidered: Mikhail Shvydkoy said at the evening that “the place of Ulanova, the Ulanova Foundation, is in the Bolshoi Theater” ) and Vladimir Vasiliev, when he was artistic director of the Bolshoi, the legendary ballerina held

Only housewives and residents of remote areas listen to meteorologist forecasts World Meteorologist Day took place in the capital without any weather surprises. Unlike the last working days of last week, weather forecasters could meet March 23 without fear of unflattering statements addressed to them. By the way, the coming week will also not be varied in temperature changes. So, at least, that’s what they promise at the capital’s Hydrometeorological Bureau.

The Volzhsky Automobile Plant, whose cars at the “People's Brand is Our Choice” ceremony on March 14 once again received the title of the most popular among Russians, is again forced to make excuses to its customers. For the third time in the last two years, AvtoVAZ is recalling cars with steering faults.

Belgorod residents beat the most inconvenient opponent In the semi-final match of the “Final Four” of the Volleyball Champions League, the players of the Belgorod “Lokomotiv-Belogorye” defeated the French “Paris Volley” - 3:2 (30:32, 25:23, 24:26, 25:21, 15:10) . The final match ended late yesterday evening, in which Gennady Shipulin's team faced the Italian Modena.

An exhibition by iconic 20th century photographer Helmut Newton opens today. The star of German advertising photography, Helmut Newton, is not a shocking monster, but a cheerful old man in dark glasses and a leather jacket. At the end of last week, the 82-year-old master came to Moscow to open the III International Festival “Fashion and Style in Photography”. Herr Newton was Jewish by birth, but did not disdain to photograph the Nazi film director Leni Riefenstahl.