Only Gennady Fadeev met the authorities’ standards On Monday evening, the Kremlin and the White House decided to appoint the head of the Ministry of Railways, Gennady Fadeev, as president of Russian Railways. “At the top” they came to a consensus - at this stage, the super company should be headed by a railway official, and Fadeev, like no one else, fits this definition.

The Dalai Lama again failed to visit Russia Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Ministry once again refused to issue an entry visa to the 14th Dalai Lama Agwan Lobsan Tenjin Gyatso. The head of Buddhists around the world was going to visit Kalmykia at the personal invitation of the president of this republic, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

Tax cuts will begin when the elections are over Tax reform will continue. Moreover, its direction will seriously change. If this summer's tax cuts were supposed to impress domestic producers, now the emphasis will be on foreign investors. This was stated at the Russian-American business summit in St. Petersburg by the Minister of Economic Development German Gref.

Representation at the Olympics will depend on the results of the World Championship The first finals will take place today at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, which started on Monday in Budapest. The Russian team went to the world championship with the strongest squad. True, our athletes competing in group competitions reached the capital of Hungary with adventures. More precisely, misadventures that significantly spoiled their mood on the eve of the championship.

On STS one heroine of Dontsova replaces another The STS company opened the new season with an ambitious and widely advertised project “Russian TV series at 20.00”. Counting on expanding the audience, the company staged in prime time not the typical American genre films that brought it success among young people, but a product of its own production. And she started with TV series based on the novels of Daria Dontsova, the rights to which she purchased on the vine.

By inviting Japan and China to interfere less in the economy At the beginning of the week, the world's leading markets experienced a slight shock. On Monday, shares of many companies in the US, Japan and Europe plummeted after the dollar once again lost its ground. Analysts explain the fall of leading financial markets by the reaction of traders to the call of G7 finance ministers to abandon active government intervention in financial policy.

According to intelligence services, Chechen militants are exchanging sponsors' currency for counterfeit dollars. Representatives of the FSB announced yesterday the discovery of a large channel for financing Chechen militants from Saudi Arabia.

Students from Chechnya are beaten in Kabardino-Balkaria In Nalchik, Chechen children no longer go to school, and Chechen students do not go to college. Parents are afraid to let their children leave home, as rumors continue to circulate around the city that the militant thugs who carried out mass beatings of students from Chechnya on September 17 are ready to continue the “anti-Chechen operation” at any moment.

“Torpedo” and “Spartak” do not count on much in the UEFA Cup Today, two Russian clubs “Spartak” and “Torpedo” start in the main draw of the UEFA Cup. Long gone are the days when we looked down on the teams we got in the 1/64 finals of this tournament. And the hackneyed phrase “there are no weak rivals in Europe now” could not be more relevant. For Russian teams - definitely not.

"ZhZL" has been replenished with a book about Nicholas the First The “Young Guard” series “The Lives of Remarkable People,” popular in Soviet times, now holds up quite confidently. Its strategy could be the topic of a separate conversation, but even from a general perspective, one can see how the editors are trying to expand the repertoire and close annoying gaps.

FCSM will tighten requirements for exchanges The recent jump in the RTS index, caused by two non-market transactions in Norilsk Nickel shares on the RTS stock exchange, is reflected in new initiatives of the Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM). According to the commission, the exchange should develop measures to prevent sharp fluctuations in the main indicator of the Russian stock market.

Russia is gaining a foothold in the Asia-Pacific arms market The Russian military-industrial complex is actively developing the Asia-Pacific arms market. This can be judged at least from the list of exhibits that FSUE Rosoboronexport plans to present at the 7th international exhibition of aerospace and marine technology LIMA-2003, opening on September 30 on the Malaysian island of Langkawi. The extensive list includes all the best that our defense industry is capable of today.

The Ministry of Defense and LUKOIL signed a cooperation agreement The Russian army is increasingly moving towards commercial operations. Having conducted unprecedented exercises with Transnefteproduct in July of this year and convinced of the usefulness of contacts with civilian firms, the Ministry of Defense yesterday entered into a cooperation agreement with LUKOIL. The document was signed in St.

The executive director of the Dmitry Likhachev International Charitable Foundation, Alexander KOBAK, is one of those who are today trying to resolve the conflict between human rights activists, museum workers and clergy on Solovki. Mr. Kobak talks about how the dialogue between the parties takes place and the preservation of the entire heritage of the archipelago in an interview with our correspondent Zinaida KURBATOVA.

North Korea will maintain its nuclear program Yesterday, Pyongyang declared invalid the resolution of the General Conference of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) adopted on September 19 in Vienna on the North Korean nuclear program. It was considered not to correspond to reality, since back in December the DPRK broke off contacts with the IAEA and withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.