The Customs Code went to the President Work on the Customs Code has been completed and is starting again. Yesterday, the Federation Council unanimously approved the new Labor Code of Russia - 155 votes in favor. However, despite the fact that the code was praised in every possible way, the Federation Council committees had 33 comments on it.

Today the visit to Moscow of the President of OPEC and the Minister of Oil of the Arab state of Qatar, Mr. Abdullah al-ATYY, ends in Moscow. Elena SUPONINA, a columnist for the Vremya Novostei newspaper, spoke with him. -- At the OPEC conference, which will be held on June 11 in the capital of Qatar, Doha, cartel members intend to reduce oil production to support prices. What is the scope of the cuts, and are you asking Russia to support you? — We don’t have specific numbers yet.

The V International Chekhov Theater Festival will begin tomorrow The Fourth Chekhov Festival, combined with the Theater Olympiad, took place two years ago, lasted almost three months and with its abundance of masterpieces made such a strong impression on the Moscow public and professionals that we are still reaping its harvest (both in productions and in audience judgments). .

The head coach of Spartak-Alania, Revaz Dzodzuashvili, said that he is not going to leave the team. Information about his resignation appeared a few days ago. The mentor of the Vladikavkaz team was ready to put his resignation letter on the desk of the President of North Ossetia, Alexander Dzasokhov. Batraz Bitarov was planning to do the same. The reason is a conflict with the club president Mikhail Shatalov.

Andron Konchalovsky and Kirill Nabutov will be involved in creativity on the channel Yesterday, the general director of the television company, Nikolai Senkevich, appointed the famous director and screenwriter Andron Konchalovsky as his official adviser. As the TV company told a Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent, the new adviser’s responsibilities include shaping the general style of the NTV channel, as well as developing a long-term creative strategy for its development.

Ulyanovskregiongaz yesterday completely stopped supplying fuel to Ulyanovskenergo due to debts of 32 million rubles. for supplied gas. Gas supplies were limited on May 7, then they were suspended for technical reasons. The energy system has 9 thousand tons of fuel oil in reserve; in the most economical mode, it will only last for ten days.

The city authorities will transfer the land under residential buildings to the collective ownership of residents.

In the car of the famous Romanian track and field athlete Gabriela Szabo, they found the banned medical drug Actovegin, which increases blood oxygen saturation and, therefore, increases the athlete’s physical activity. The drug was discovered during a customs inspection of a car in Menton on the border between France and Italy. It is noteworthy that Szabo’s friend was driving, and the Olympic champion herself was in Amsterdam at that time.

Famous Spanish football player Josep Guardiola is considering retiring from his career. The Italian Brescia player could move to Barcelona, ​​becoming the club director of the Catalan club. One of the candidates for the post of chairman of the board of directors of Barça, Luis Bassat, said that if elected, he would return Guardiola to Catalonia, giving him the opportunity to work in his native club.

Sergei Soldatenkov claims that the company has money The Megafon company, the third largest GSM operator in Russia by the number of subscribers, but unlike its competitors, which has full licensed coverage of the country's territory, yesterday disclosed its income for the first time. “We would like to clarify why we call ourselves the first all-Russian operator,” said the company’s general director, Sergei Soldatenkov.

The NATO Secretary General held talks on Wednesday in Georgia, a country that at last year's Prague summit of the Alliance announced its desire to join the bloc. George Robertson began his tour of the countries of the South Caucasus (following Tbilisi on the Yerevan and Baku route) after the Moscow meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, and the topic of the Russian presence in the region dominated the meetings in the Georgian capital.

Today, the Moscow Arbitration Court will hold preliminary hearings on the claim of Sberbank of Russia against its independent director from Hermitage Capital Management, Vadim Kleiner, and the newspaper Vremya Novostei. Sberbank demands that the information contained in the article “The best year after the crisis” dated January 21, 2003 be recognized as untrue. The publication cites the opinion of Mr.

Indian Guest Calls for New Trading Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha, who is visiting Moscow today and tomorrow, will participate in the next meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation. Mr. Sinha became its co-chairman back in 1998, while he was the Minister of Finance, and retained this post after moving to the diplomatic service in 2002.

Oddly enough, the consideration of the main provisions of the country's Energy Strategy until 2020 and the development of a concept for the development of the Russian gas market, scheduled once again for this month and repeatedly postponed by the Russian government, are directly related... to administrative reform.

Alexey Miller continues to collect “Soviet” gas With a visit to the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller began a three-day tour of the former Soviet republics, now the states of Central Asia. Today he will head to Dushanbe and end his trip tomorrow in Bishkek.