Volga will celebrate the New Year with a new face The Gorky Automobile Plant officially confirmed that from January 2004 the modernized “ten” GAZ-31105 will already be on sale. As the plant assures, this model will remain in the same price category as the rest of the Volgas. The previous development of the GAZ-3111, which never made it into serial production, really left no one indifferent not only with its appearance, but also with its price - 435.9 thousand rubles.

In Tolyatti, at the end of last week, the editor-in-chief of the Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye newspaper, Alexey Sidorov, was killed. On Friday evening, when the journalist was returning home, an unknown criminal hit him several times with a sharpened blade at the entrance door. This assassination attempt immediately caused a stir in the special services and power structures of the Samara region. Mr. Sidorov became the second editor of Togliatti Review to die in the last year and a half.

At the end of the qualifying round for the European Championship, teams from Denmark, Germany, Greece, England, Italy and Switzerland won tickets to Portugal, following the teams of France, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Bulgaria. Thus, taking into account the Portuguese national team, 11 of the 16 participants in the European Championship are already known.

When the girl answering in front of me rattled off by heart everything she knew in the Russian language, they began to ask her about literature. Question - “Female images in the works of Nekrasov.” Having told what she knew about Matryona Timofeevna, the girl fell silent. “Okay, in what other poem did Nekrasov glorify beautiful female images?” Silence.

The premiere of Quentin Tarantino's film "Kill Bill" took place On Friday, Quentin Tarantino's fourth full-length film, without having had time to attend any film festivals, was released in wide American release.

Mikhail Kasyanov blessed Kuban to search for foreign capital Last Friday and Saturday, the second international economic forum “Kuban-2003” was held in the Sochi health complex “Dagomys”.

Authorities are expanding the mini-metro construction program The capital's authorities postponed the opening of the light metro line to Vnukovo airport until the end of 2005 - beginning of 2006, although the metro builders had previously promised to launch trains as early as 2004. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov announced this during the traditional Saturday tour. According to him, there are currently two projects for the construction of a light metro to the airport.

Today the opponent of the Russian national team in the play-offs of the 2004 European Championship will be determined. The draw will choose as our opponent one of the nine national teams that took second place in their groups - these are Slovenia, Norway, Holland, Latvia, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, Croatia or Wales. However, the leader of the Russian national team, 35-year-old Alexander Mostovoy, by and large, doesn’t care who he plays with.

Today is a double anniversary in Lenkom Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov is turning 70 years old, and for thirty of those years he has been directing the most popular theater in the country - a theater that in the full sense of the word can be called “artistically publicly accessible.” The history of Lenkom would be worth tracing in detail: this is the history of successfully overcome prohibitions - both ideological and taste, which are equally important for the national cultural consciousness.

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The first Russian borrower to receive an investment rating for its securities was Sberbank. Last Friday, Moody's announced that it had been assigned a credit rating of Ba1 for foreign currency obligations and Baa3 for three-year Eurobonds, which are scheduled for issue next week. Now Sberbank, which is currently holding a road-show of its Eurobonds, has a chance to borrow on the world market cheaper than all Russian companies did. Moody's analysts continue to make Russia happy.

Right-wingers argue about Russia's development path Anatoly Chubais has always been famous for his love of eccentric and sometimes even paradoxical thoughts. And now, having thought about the “national idea”, the head of RAO UES of Russia decided to combine, at least at the level of terms, the incompatible - liberalism and imperialism. In order to solve both external and internal problems, according to the country's chief energy officer, it is necessary to build a “liberal empire.” Mr.

Corruption is everywhere. There is a certain corrupt environment with its own price lists and rules. But we also have a society that is protected by some “secret” knowledge. A person who comes to the market from the outside will poke around everywhere like a blind kitten - he will not know with whom or through whom to negotiate. This is why our computer market is strong. Why are there no Compaks, Businesses and others in Russia?

For the first time, the NYSE publishes information on the earnings of its managers. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) continues its “ethical cleansing.” The world's largest trading platform may reconsider contracts with a number of high-ranking exchange managers. Most likely, we will talk not only about reductions in payments, but also about new resignations.

World-class offices are becoming more expensive According to research by the American agency Cushman & Wakefield, Moscow is one of the five cities in the world with the most expensive office space. Just a year ago, she ranked seventh in the agency’s ranking. London, where the cost per square meter exceeds 1,000 euros per year, is ahead of Moscow, Tokyo, Paris and New York. In total, the agency's list includes cities from 45 countries.