The former oligarch of the capital's metro behaved well in the colony Today Alexander Babayan, a man who until recently controlled almost the entire business of the capital's metro, is due to be released. In 2001, he was arrested on charges of robbery and extortion, and the court sentenced the businessman to seven years in prison. However, this spring the Supreme Court (SC) reduced Babayan’s sentence to three years, and the colony’s leadership decided to release him on parole for good behavior.

Ivan Sahan was elected general director of Ukrainian Aluminum (representing the interests of RUSAL), who before his appointment worked as first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada staff and head of the Verkhovna Rada commission on budget issues. This appointment should smooth out the contradictions between certain representatives of the Ukrainian elite and RUSAL, which was accused of unwillingness to fulfill its obligations to build a new plant at the Nikolaev Alumina Refinery.

Israeli security guard disarms Palestinian kamikaze A young Palestinian, wrapped in a belt containing 10 kg of explosives, blew himself up yesterday at the train station in the Israeli town of Kefar Sava near Tel Aviv. A 22-year-old security guard was killed because he did not allow the terrorist to enter the platform. A young woman, a soldier of the Israeli army, who, together with a security guard, was monitoring the entrance to the station, is in critical condition.

Mikhail Kasyanov again has five deputies As of yesterday, there are again five deputy prime ministers in the Russian government. For more than three years, the White House persistently sought to reduce the number of “intermediaries” between the prime minister and ministers, and with the resignation of Valentina Matvienko from the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs, they almost achieved their goal. As planned in 2000, there were three deputy prime ministers. However, soon after Ms.

OPEC will reduce real production but increase quotas Despite market expectations that OPEC at its extraordinary summit would reduce oil production quotas by 1.5-2 million barrels per day in order to prevent a fall in commodity prices, oil ministers made the opposite decision. From June 1, it is planned to increase official quotas by 900 thousand barrels, to 25.4 million barrels per day.

Since 2000, no Fed Cup matches have been held in Moscow. During this time, our women's team has significantly strengthened both quantitatively and qualitatively. And finally, tennis fans who will come to the Druzhba Sports Center next weekend will be able to see with their own eyes in the match against the Croatian national team what Shamil Tarpishchev’s charges are capable of.

Russia's third largest bank by assets, Gazprombank, continues pre-sale preparations. Yesterday, its management announced the start of restructuring the bank's most risky loan, issued to the Russian-Polish company Europolgaz in the amount of $897 million. As expected, the loan, which exceeds Gazprombank's own funds, will be transferred to a syndicated loan with the participation of other credit organizations.

The head of the Pension Fund does not approve of plans to reduce the unified social tax The fate of pension reform has recently been associated with the increased activity of Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Mikhail Dmitriev. His public accusations against the government that it was moving too slowly on regulatory reform have already been marked with a warning for inadequacy. However, as it turned out, the sacrifices made by the official were in vain.

A restored Nijinsky ballet will be brought from Rome to Moscow The Roman Opera Ballet, which will arrive in Moscow in a month, on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, is not one of the majestic and magnificent troupes. Andris Liepa, who invited journalists to a press conference dedicated to this tour (organized by the Maris Liepa Foundation and the Cherry Forest open arts festival), diplomatically avoided the question of the current state of Italian ballet.

Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Yakovlev decided to abandon almost an entire year of governing the city Yesterday, the St. Petersburg governor made it clear for the first time that he would not wait for elections and was ready to resign from office much earlier. On Wednesday, deputies of the city Legislative Assembly approved the law on combining Duma and gubernatorial elections in the first reading. For Mr. Yakovlev, this meant a reduction in powers for almost six months.

The government was surprised by the number of “dead” settlements Heads of Goskomstat were summoned to the White House yesterday for a government meeting to report on the All-Russian Population Census, conducted last fall.

The government approved the program for the transition of the army to a contract The Russian government yesterday reviewed the long-prepared Federal Target Program (FTP) for the transition to recruiting the armed forces primarily on a contract-voluntary basis. If this program is implemented, then starting next year conscripts will no longer serve in the North Caucasus, and by the end of 2007 it will be possible to reduce the conscription service period from two to one year.

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The State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision Service has published a memo for Russians The State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision Authority decided to prepare compatriots for a possible outbreak of SARS, the virus of which is approaching the borders of our country. Although no cases of the disease have yet been identified in Russia, doctors have already prepared a leaflet for the population “Clinic and prevention of severe acute respiratory disease “Atypical pneumonia”.

Ukraine and Belarus have different views on the fact that their citizens will be able to serve in the Russian army The decision of the Russian government to accept CIS citizens for contracts caused strong reactions from our Slavic neighbors. An employee of the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, Yuriy Boychenko, quoted the Criminal Code.