Major changes are coming in the management system of the New York Stock Exchange. Yesterday, during his speech to representatives of the association of professional financiers, the new head of the NYSE, John Reed, said that the board of directors of the exchange could be reduced by almost three times. Moreover, Mr. Reed himself does not intend to join it.

Ukrainians write a note to Moscow The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to send a request note to Russia regarding the construction of an ammonia and oil terminal on the Russian Taman Peninsula. This was stated yesterday by Igor Ostash, head of the Rada commission for control of the state border in the Tuzla Spit area.

Washington has not allowed itself such a tone since the collapse of the USSR Yesterday, Washington voiced the harshest criticism of the Kremlin since the start of the “YUKOS case”, and perhaps even since the collapse of the USSR. Republican Senator John McCain, in a special address to US President George W. Bush, expressed “his growing concern that all 400 years of Russian oppression are concentrated in the soul of Mr. Putin.” The senator did not explain which year he was counting from.

It is better not to appear by car in the center of Moscow on weekends The upcoming Day of Accord and Reconciliation may cause serious disagreements between drivers and traffic police officers. The latter, as usual on official holidays, plan to limit traffic in the center of Moscow. Moreover, this time not only personal but also public vehicles will be banned from appearing in the center.

Tomorrow a meeting between the Presidents of France and Russia, Jacques Chirac and Vladimir Putin, will begin at the Elysee Palace. This visit will be a working one, with a minimum of protocol events and a maximum of business contacts. But a short stop in Paris before returning home from Rome against the backdrop of the “YUKOS affair” causes conflicting reactions in France.

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The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation yesterday partially satisfied the cassation appeals of the lawyers of the famous St. Petersburg businessman and public figure Mikhail Mirilashvili. His sentence was reduced by four years to eight years in prison. However, this verdict did not satisfy Mirilashvili’s lawyers, and the defenders intend to file a complaint by way of supervision to the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Russia does not want to support OPEC In recent days, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko had to meet simultaneously with representatives of two organizations whose interests have always been diametrically opposed - the Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Alvaro Silva Calderon and the deputy head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), which unites consumers oil, William Ramsay. Mr.

International rating agency recognizes Russia as attractive, but not its largest corporations The international rating agency Moody's yesterday downgraded the outlook for the ratings of Yukos and Sibneft to "negative" - ​​before that they were "stable" and "positive" respectively. More recently, even before the new “attack on Yukos,” Moody’s assigned Russia an investment rating, which caused a strong reaction from domestic and foreign investors.

— Your festival is perhaps the only one in the post-Soviet space of the CIS countries that has managed to gain international recognition. What new achievements have appeared this year ? — Our festival was registered as an international festival 11 years ago; before that it was a showcase of young Soviet cinema.

In Italy, Putin willingly spoke about the fate of the oil company Vladimir Putin, who was recently unsuccessfully called upon to outline his position in relation to the events around YUKOS, is now increasingly willing to comment on this topic. Moreover, questions about YUKOS no longer cause him the former irritation. On the contrary, one feels that the Russian President constantly thinks about this and finds new explanations and images for the public.

We managed without Turkmenistan Yesterday the first interstate document on the Caspian Sea was signed in Tehran. This happened ten years after the start of negotiations between the five Caspian countries. But, firstly, it has nothing to do with the essence of the problem, the status of the sea; this is so far only a framework Convention on the protection of the Caspian environment. And secondly, the document was signed only by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia.

The opening of the Third Transport Ring will be timed to coincide with the mayoral elections The mayor of Moscow, who went on pre-election leave, prepared a lot of surprises for voters. In addition to a number of populist bills introduced by the mayor to the Moscow City Duma before the vacation, the city authorities decided before the elections to please the capital’s motorists by putting into operation the last section of the Third Transport Ring.

The victim of French justice intends to achieve satisfaction In France, the trial of the former head of the security service of the largest Russian processing company Union Card, Andrei Golov, recently ended. A graduate of the FSB Academy is the main person involved in an investigation by international intelligence agencies into the theft of a database of more than 100 thousand credit card owners, who as a result lost at least $2 million.

The Moscow government does not distinguish social housing from exclusive housing The capital's vice-mayor Vladimir Resin, who is responsible for construction, yesterday once again tried to dispel the popular belief that housing being built in Moscow is of poor quality.