The embassy of this country was destroyed in Baghdad for supporting the United States Yesterday a car bomb exploded near the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad. 11 people who happened to be nearby were killed and more than fifty were injured. According to Jordanian Information Minister Nabil Sharif, no one from the embassy staff was killed. But the building itself was destroyed.

The Moscow City Court rejected the protest of Alexey Pichugin's lawyers Yesterday it took the assessors of the Moscow City Court about 40 seconds to uphold the decision on the legality of searches in the office and home of Alexei Pichugin, head of the economic security service of NP YUKOS. In total, the court hearings lasted about an hour. Which is undoubtedly not enough for a case that has received such wide scandalous publicity.

The Azerbaijani opposition is confident that the president died on July 31 The united forces of the Azerbaijani opposition are planning to hold protests this Saturday. At the same time, a delegation from the opposition leaves for Turkey to get to the Gulhane Military Medical Academy in Ankara, where President Heydar Aliyev was staying from July 8 to August 6. The goal is to obtain truthful information about the state of his health.

Money transfers promise to be faster and cheaper New tariffs for sending intercity postal and electronic money transfers will be introduced by the Ministry of Communications and Information from September 1. A correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper was informed about this yesterday at the press service of the federal state unitary enterprise Russian Post. The new payment procedure is called a unified tariff schedule. At this time, the amounts have not yet been finalized.

The US economy does not respond to government entreaties The world's leading economy continues to suffer, and statistical reports are reminiscent of Soviet newspaper editorials about the “crisis of capitalism.” Official data on industrial production in the United States published on Friday turned out to be worse than expected. At the end of December, production volume fell by 0.2%, while expert forecasts guaranteed its growth by 0.2%.

The challenger is shorting The auction for the sale of part of the property of NOSTA (Orsko-Khalilovsky Iron and Steel Works, Orenburg region) did not take place yesterday due to the fact that only one application was received. The external manager and the organizers of the auction are hiding the name of the company and its founders, the press service of NOSTA told the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

The Moscow Cellular Communications (MCS) company last week introduced a new board of directors, re-elected due to a change of shareholders. The increase in the number of employees of the RTDC holding, as well as the appearance of representatives of St. Petersburg companies, indicates the partnership between RTDC and the Accord-Tel company, close to the St. Petersburg telecommunications team, in the implementation of the project to build a single national NMT operator.

On January 17, the supervisory board of the Yaroslavl Tire Plant elected a new general director. This post was taken by Fartobey Dzapshba, a colleague of the current president of SIBUR Dmitry Mazepin at work at the RFBR. Thus, the conflict between the main shareholder of the plant and former general director Nikolai Tonkov has come to an end. In 2000-2001, Mr.

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Vladimir Putin and Viktor Khristenko spoke in different energy languages For the second time this year, President Vladimir Putin drew the government's attention to the high increase in electricity tariffs. Now the executive branch is preparing proposals for their indexation from January 1, and, according to the head of state, there are reasons for concern.

Gallup is not valid in the Russian Federation The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District yesterday overturned the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court of the first and appellate instances, which recognized the registration of the Gallup brand on the territory of the Russian Federation as valid, INTERFAX-AFI reports.

An architectural guide to “German” Moscow has been published There is no shortage of guides to Moscow. Bookstore shelves today are filled with publications on Moscow studies for every taste. The genre range is wide. From reprinted ancient walking books by Pylyaev, Geinike, Mashkov to the fundamental and increasingly unaffordable “topographical” series “Architectural Monuments of Moscow”.

Today, the rating agency Standard & Poor's publishes a report, “Sberbank Still Dominates the Russian Banking Sector.” According to the agency's estimates, the country's only systemically important bank holds 30-35% of the corporate loan market, 40% of the legal entity deposit market, and more than 2/3 of retail deposits. And, according to S&P, only foreign banks can seriously shake the position of Sberbank, whose rapid expansion is no longer in doubt among most experts.

Russia competes in terms of the number of migrants with the USA and Germany The 2002 All-Russian Population Census revealed that Russia came in third place in the world in terms of the number of migrants after the United States and Germany. However, the State Statistics Committee has not yet published the exact figures. The next stage of publication of the census results is being prepared for September 30, and the final stage - until December 30 of this year.

After restructuring, the bank did not return 477 million rubles to depositors The General Director of the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO), Alexander Turbanov, will today sum up the official results of the liquidation of SBS-Agro Bank, which the agency has been carrying out since 1999. However, the main result of the procedure has been clear for a long time - the bank, for various reasons, did not pay 5.4 thousand depositors in the amount of about 477 million rubles.