Although the Western military is rushing to Moldova Transnistrian leader Igor Smirnov said at the end of last week that Tiraspol is ready to support the memorandum proposed by Moscow on the creation of a federal Moldovan state, subject to Russia providing physical and military guarantees of its implementation.

From today, Shakhnovsky is no longer a senator The head of Evenkia, Boris Zolotarev, decided to respond to persistent invitations from the Office of the General Prosecutor for the Siberian Federal District and arrived in Novosibirsk on November 22. Mr.

The President, before the deputies, proposed extending the deadline for the exchange of passports The exchange of USSR passports for new Russian documents may be extended until the summer of next year. Vladimir Putin unexpectedly showed such concern for fellow citizens who did not have time to obtain new passports before January 1, 2004, at the end of last week.

The Ministry of Natural Resources considers its structure “very productive” Despite the fact that the third All-Russian Congress on Nature Conservation, held last week in Moscow, did not end with a consensus of the official environmental department and the “green” public of Russia, the Ministry of Natural Resources was pleased with the results of this forum.

Our stars shone in front of half-empty stands The championship series in figure skating has finally reached Moscow. On the first day of the tournament, people asked for extra tickets already on the approaches to the Sports Palace in Luzhniki. But strangely enough, the seats in the audience were barely half full. Even on weekends there was no excitement in the stands. Although we must pay tribute to those who visited Luzhniki these days.

Apartments in the region are in great demand Real estate in the Moscow region is becoming more and more popular: if in 2002 the ratio of the number of apartments built in the capital and the region was 70:30, then according to the results of the current year it will approach the proportion of 55:45. It is expected that by the end of the year, 4.4 million square meters will be built in Moscow. m of housing, and in the Moscow region - 3.5 million.

Georgia may begin searching for competitors for RAO UES and Gazprom Events in Georgia quite seriously threaten Russian monopolies - Gazprom and RAO UES of Russia. Oppositionists to Eduard Shevardnadze have repeatedly stated that Georgia should not allow itself to become dependent on Russian gas and electricity supplies.

In Grozny on Saturday, an attempt was made on the life of the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, Colonel Sultan Satuyev. At about 8.30, when the official was on his way to work, in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, militants detonated a powerful bomb on the route of his Volga. The explosion occurred just two meters from the car at the intersection of 8 March and Saykhanov streets. As a result, the Volga was thrown several meters away and caught fire. However, Mr.

Nude of Frantisek Drtikol in the Moscow House of Photography Every revolutionary era has its own tenor - a romantic virtuoso, a singer of beautiful ladies and eternal beauty, soaring in spirit to heights unknown to the world, from which the roar of time is heard both weaker and more tender. František Drtikol (also known as Dritkol due to the unpronounceability of three consonants in a row in many languages) is an iconic figure of the Sturm und Drang period of Czech photography.

“Another World” on Moscow screens Vampires and werewolves of world cinema existed according to Euclidean laws, intersecting only in the hodgepodge cinema of the forties, when almost all the Hollywood monsters that existed at that time could be found in one film.

The President of Georgia resigned 75-year-old Eduard Shevardnadze announced his resignation as president of the country yesterday in Tbilisi, which caused jubilation among most Georgians. Shevardnadze noted at the same time that he would not leave the country, although all yesterday evening rumors were spreading in Georgia about a plane prepared for the president’s escape.

Russians return from Vancouver without top awards Having not won a single gold medal at the World Championships in Vancouver, our weightlifters nevertheless completed the main task - they received the maximum number of Olympic licenses. For women, nine countries - China, Thailand, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Korea, India, Turkey - will be able to field squads of four participants at the 2004 Games. For men, the maximum quota has been increased to six athletes from six countries.

How to translate the unity of strategic interests of the world community into the language of coordinated actions The criminal terrorist attacks in Istanbul, which claimed the lives of dozens of people, once again reminded the whole world of the threat of terrorism and other dangerous challenges facing the international community. Today, hardly anyone doubts that modern threats to the security of an individual and our entire civilization have become global in nature.

After a $12 billion fine, the company sued the state for $2 billion. The world's largest oil company, Exxon Mobil Corp., will receive a significant increase in profits. in the last quarter of this year. On Thursday, she published a press release according to which she once again managed to resolve a dispute with the US Tax Administration in her favor. According to the court's decision, oil workers will receive about $2.2 billion from the management as a refund of previously paid taxes.

Mikhail Zurabov is satisfied that not all recipients received letters of happiness The Russian Pension Fund continues to inform citizens about the progress of pension reform. At the end of last week, the head of the Pension Fund, Mikhail Zurabov, said that 20 thousand out of 41 million future pensioners had already decided to entrust their savings to private companies.