As part of the World Bank's program to develop the information community, the international Development Gateway Corporation is beginning to replicate standard software for creating portals for government agencies at various levels. An experimental version of the national development portal based on Microsoft programs was first tested in several regions of Russia and will now be distributed in other countries participating in the program.

In St. Petersburg they are preparing to divide the inheritance of a fellow countryman who died in Moscow Konstantin Yakovlev, nicknamed Kostya-Mogila, one of the most famous and influential “reputable businessmen” of St. Petersburg, was killed on Sunday in the center of Moscow. Late in the evening, investigators identified him as one of the victims of the massacre on Vorontsovo Pole Street, where unknown assailants shot four passengers of a passing foreign car.

At the Laputa Animation Film Festival, which opened on Friday in Tokyo, the results of the voting of 140 filmmakers and critics from around the world were announced, to whom the Festival Organizing Committee asked to name the twenty best animated films. As a result, a list of the 150 best films of all time appeared. The first and second places were taken by Yuri Norshtein's films - "Hedgehog in the Fog" and "Tale of Tales", respectively. In third place is Disney's 1940 classic Fantasia.

The railway and the FSFO want to bankrupt the Korshunovsky GOK Today in the city of Shelekhov (Irkutsk region) it is planned to sign a settlement agreement between the creditors of the Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Plant, which is part of SUAL-Holding. The claims of the first three priority creditors have already been fully satisfied. Partial agreements are in place with creditors of the fourth group.

The Supervisory Board recommends that shareholders allocate about 2.2 billion rubles for dividends The Supervisory Board of Sberbank yesterday approved recommendations to the meeting of shareholders on the amount of dividends for 2002. As expected, they will amount to 7% of the bank's net profit. In addition, the council submitted for approval to the shareholders' meeting two draft amendments to the bank's charter, initiated by the board and minority shareholders.

Almost all championships of the leading European football powers have ended. And only in the Spanish championship there are three rounds left, during which the champion and the teams leaving the “prima” must be determined. Football. Spanish Championship . 35th round.

New terrorist explosions prevented in the Caucasus The North Ossetian intelligence services yesterday announced the prevention of two terrorist attacks that could lead to truly monstrous consequences - perhaps even greater than the recent bombings of the Chechen Government House in Grozny and the administration of the Nadterechny region combined.

The capital's army team in their native USC CSKA defeated the Perm "Ural Great" in the decisive fifth match - 91:64 and, having won the final match with a score of 4:1, won the gold medals of the Russian basketball championship. Thus, the two-year stay of the Urals on the champion throne came to an end. The success of the “red-blues” became an anniversary, the tenth in the Russian history of the illustrious team. The last seconds of the fight the audience counted down in chorus: “Ten! Nine!

The Ministry of Internal Affairs became interested in the “alcohol games” of the Odintsovo authorities A major “alcohol” scandal is brewing in the Moscow region. The other day, employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a large-scale inspection of the main monopolist in the wholesale trade of alcohol in the Odintsovo district - the municipal enterprise (MP) Mashuk.

The partnership will provide China and Russia with reliable rear support Since China and Russia established a relationship of strategic cooperation and partnership in 1996, ties between the two countries have continuously developed. The most successful result in the field of multilateral relations was the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) by China and Russia, and in the bilateral field - the continuous expansion of military trade.

The government is promoting a sedentary lifestyle and ventilation of premises From Monday, every Russian citizen returning home from an epidemiologically unfavorable country will remain under medical supervision for ten days, even if he does not have a fever or other symptoms of atypical pneumonia. And this time this is no longer a precaution of sanitary doctors, but a clause from an order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

Spacecraft's hard landing deemed a successful test Russian experts brilliantly overcame the difficult situation created by the landing and fall of the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft. According to representatives of RSC Energia, the extreme landing of the ship on May 4 was the result of an experiment to test new seats for crew members.

Another travel story from Michel Houellebecq has been released - “Lanzarote” (Foreign Woman, series “Behind the Porthole”, translation by Nina Kulish), a kind of prequel to the acclaimed “Platform”. Anyone who is familiar with the work of Monsieur European Scandal will be faced with a set of ideas and situations that have already set their teeth on edge. “Lanzarote” is either a story or an essay, a little literary curiosity, tailored, however, not without grace.

The gas monopolist did not achieve an increase in quota, although it gained access to the pipe The working group on the movement of oil and petroleum products under the government commission on the use of main pipelines, as it became known yesterday, asked the commission to include Gazprom in the oil export schedules. As a representative of the concern explained to the Vremya Novostei newspaper, we are talking about a technical solution.

Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. 1/2 finals . “Dallas” – “San Antonio” – 95:102 (series score 1:3), “New Jersey” – “Detroit” – 102:82 (4:0). San Antonio only needs to win one match to reach the finals. There, the Spurs are already waiting for New Jersey, which literally crushed Detroit in the semifinal series. By the way, Nets guard Jason Kidd, as a result of a fan poll, became the most valuable player of the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. Previously, Kidd was named MVP of the regular season.