Mikhail Zurabov is waiting for “the business to be cleaned up to the waist” The third all-Russian meeting of accountants and auditors, dedicated to the implementation of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and auditing (ISA), for some reason turned mainly into a discussion of pension reform.

IAEA discusses resolution on Iran's nuclear program Today, at the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, a draft resolution on the issue of Iran's nuclear program will be considered. The document was a compromise reached after five days of debate between the Europeans and the United States.

President Met in the Kremlin with UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura. At the meeting, Vladimir Putin emphasized that “Russia is one of the main intellectual and financial sponsors of UNESCO and one of the consumers of the product that UNESCO provides as a result of its activities.” For his part, Koichiro Matsuura expressed the opinion that the Russian leadership and UNESCO managed to do a lot to restore the education system in Chechnya.

The Minister of Education will teach university leaders how to prevent fires In the coming years, schools, universities, kindergartens and vocational schools will be equipped with modern fire-fighting equipment and new electrical wiring. Education Minister Vladimir Filippov told reporters about this yesterday after a meeting of the ministry's board, at which the recent fire at Peoples' Friendship University was discussed.

An emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the CIS countries was held in Kyiv Yesterday in Kyiv an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CIS countries took place, related to the events in Georgia. The initiator of the meeting was Kyiv, which chairs the council. The meeting was attended by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Igor Ivanov and the chairman of the executive committee of the CIS countries Yuri Yarov.

The investigation into the criminal case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been completed Representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office yesterday officially announced the completion of the criminal investigation against the former head, and now simply the main owner of the YUKOS company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Today, the entrepreneur, together with his lawyers, will have the opportunity to familiarize himself with the materials of the prosecutors. Thus, Mr.

The mayor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky lost his immunity in hospital The Kamchatka prosecutor's office can now freely prosecute the mayor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yuri Golenishchev. The mayor, who is also a deputy of the regional council, was deprived of parliamentary immunity yesterday right at the door of the hospital ward, where he is undergoing treatment for coronary heart disease. Having deprived Mr.

Officials are tasked with solving the demographic problem in the city As the mayoral elections approached, various socially-oriented programs began to emerge one after another in the Moscow government and the Moscow City Duma, designed to radically ease and improve the lives of Muscovites. Yesterday's meeting of the capital's government was no exception: city authorities set their sights on solving Moscow's demographic problem.

The Central Bank yesterday clarified the composition of the participants in the competition to select an auditor for the Central Bank's reporting for 2003 (see Vremya Novostei, November 25) .

Charges brought against those involved in explosions in Istanbul Yesterday, the State Security Court of Istanbul began hearings in the case of nine people accused of involvement in terrorist attacks against British missions - the Consulate General and the HSBC Bank. As a result of two explosions that occurred on November 20 in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, 29 people were killed, including British Consul General Roger Short, two Englishmen, two Armenians and an Australian.

Along with many other legislative initiatives that were scandalously removed from the Duma’s agenda, the draft law “On the status of participants in armed conflicts and combatants” also suffered. This bill can be included in textbooks on the fundamentals of state and law and political science, since its fate remarkably fully reflects the inability of the authorities to resolve the most complex moral, financial and legal dilemmas. The bill was introduced by a group of deputies back in 2000.

The Spanish referee helped Russia again Arturo Dowden Ibáñez. Remember this name. The name of the arbiter may be the only one who makes a mistake in favor of Russia. Thanks to the penalty awarded by the Spaniard against Dynamo Kyiv, Lokomotiv yesterday won its next victory in the Champions League - 3:2. A victory, which, perhaps, will be a pass to the 1/8 finals of the most important club tournament in Europe. But it was not Ibáñez who was greeted with applause by the audience.

Minsk fears a jump in fuel prices Official Minsk plans to create a budget reserve in the amount of 101 billion Belarusian rubles next year (the exchange rate is 2140 Belarusian rubles per dollar). These funds, according to Deputy Minister of Finance Ivan Shunko, are supposed to be used in the event of an increase in gas or oil prices. “There was a spike in oil prices this year that no one saw coming,” Shunko said.

Forecast for the coming days Atmospheric processes are developing very unusually over the European territory of Russia. Two atmospheric vortices attack it from opposite sides. A powerful Atlantic cyclone is slowly approaching the western borders, in which very warm air circulates both at the surface of the earth and at the heights. And in the east - over the Urals and the Volga region - the anticyclone is about to begin to intensify. The air in the anticyclone is colder and therefore heavier.

US Congressmen take revenge on the Kremlin for Yukos A draft resolution offensive to the international prestige of Moscow has been submitted to the US Senate and Congress. Four congressmen called on the US President to exclude Russia from the G8. Two senators - Republican John McCain and Democrat Joseph Lieberman and two members of the House of Representatives - Republican Chris Cox and Democrat Tom Lantos signed an extremely harsh and evil text.