The attack on Andrei Konchalovsky's film and performing arts foundation took place on Sunday in Moscow. According to the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, at 11:30 pm several men knocked on the door of the foundation, located in house No. 15 in Neprudny Lane. The unknown people introduced themselves as police officers and asked to be let in to inspect the premises.

An attempt on the life of a major Tyumen businessman and political strategist, 36-year-old Dmitry Ogulchansky, took place on Sunday in the center of Moscow. In the evening, the entrepreneur, together with his friend, an accountant of the Ecoteplogaz company, went for a walk in the center of the capital.

Gazprom produces gas by returning assets Gazprom continues to collect assets lost under the previous leadership. Having dealt with the larger “pieces” of property, the concern began to work on the “remains”, which were quite interesting. This time the target was the Northgas company, which last year produced 4 billion cubic meters of gas at the North Urengoy gas condensate field, and this year plans to increase production by another 1 billion cubic meters.

The celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg is called the main political and image project not only for the northern capital of Russia, but for the entire country. However, spending funds aimed at preparing the anniversary raises many questions. In April, the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation will conduct the second audit in the last six months of the expenditure of federal money allocated for the preparation of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.

The bankruptcy of the shipyard is postponed again The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region yesterday approved a settlement agreement between the state defense ship repair enterprise Kronstadt Marine Plant and creditors. Under the terms of the agreement, the plant must pay a debt in the amount of 764 million rubles. within a year.

As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, the implementation of the scandalous order of Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller “On improving the procedure for gas sales” has been postponed. At yesterday's Gazprom board meeting, it was decided to postpone the implementation of the document, according to which the domestic gas sales company Mezhregiongaz is de facto liquidated, and its functions are transferred to the Gazprom department for marketing, gas and hydrocarbon processing.

The Iraqi crisis coincided with the beginning of the active phase of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil transportation project, which is due to enter into operation in 2004-2005. Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia Georgiy MZHAVANADZE, who is in charge of this strategic project, answers questions from the correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper in Tbilisi, Mikhail VIGNANSKY.

From payphones to “crooked” cell numbers and to the Internet The Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) has recently been actively expanding the range of services of its payphones. Since the beginning of the year, users of MGTS card payphones have been able to access mobile phones with federal numbers, the company said in a statement. The new service is organized jointly with Rostelecom.

The visit to Moscow of US Presidential Assistant for National Security Condoleezza Rice turned out to be swift. Both in terms of time - less than a day, and in terms of a busy program of meetings with representatives of the Russian leadership. Among them are Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense Igor and Sergei Ivanov, Secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Rushailo and head of the Kremlin administration Alexander Voloshin. But Ms.

The operation in Iraq has entered its final stage Coalition troops tried to make yesterday a symbol of Saddam's inevitable defeat. American tanks demonstratively swept across Baghdad, attacking one of the bombed presidential palaces. And the British troops, without encountering significant resistance, reached the center of Basra.

The restless shareholder of Krasny Kotelshchik did not come to the meeting The annual meeting of shareholders of OJSC Krasny Kotelshchik, the country's leading plant for the production of boiler equipment for power plants, took place yesterday in Taganrog. Contrary to expectations, the event went without incident.

The Central Bank expects a reduction in capital outflow from Russia First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Oleg Vyugin predicts the continuation of an unprecedentedly high capital inflow into the Russian economy throughout this year, which does not bode well for the Central Bank itself, which still faces targets for annual inflation (10-12%) and real strengthening of the ruble ( 6--8%).

And from the statements of the American military Since the outbreak of the war in Iraq, oil prices have been steadily declining, and yesterday the market saw another significant drop in the cost of raw materials. On the London Stock Exchange, the price of Brent mixture dropped to $24.3 per barrel, while during the trading session the fall reached $23.42 per barrel. The last time prices were at this level was in March last year.

The men's club LUKOIL-Dynamo (Astrakhan) became the only Russian team to achieve the right to compete in the finals of the European Handball Cup this season. Volzhans were able to accomplish the impossible in the return match of the EHF Cup semi-final. Having lost to the Hungarian “Dunaferr” on their site a week ago - 23:25, the Astrakhan team by the break of the game in Dunaujvaros was losing 13:16, having a total deficit of five goals.

At the end of last year, SIBUR and Sibneft signed a memorandum on the creation of a joint venture based on the Muravlenkovsky gas processing plant owned by SIBUR. As the newspaper Vremya Novostey learned, Sibneft, as an investor in the development of the plant, will own 49% of the shares of the new enterprise, but the profit will be divided in half. SIBUR will thus be able to modernize the plant, and Sibneft will gain access to the gas market.