“Degree of increased danger” by Irina Nakhova at the Center for Contemporary Art Small screens blink in the dark hall. This is a slideshow. Shown are New Jersey single-story American homes decorated for Christmas. People walking around the hall suddenly fit into the given video sequence. Their silhouettes are projected onto two huge screens, where the entrance to an ordinary supermarket is filmed with a stationary camera. Here is an American lady pushing a cart with groceries.

The mouthpiece of the Chechen militants - the website "Kavkaz-Center" - reported late yesterday that the leader of a certain paramilitary group "Gazaton Murdash" Lom-Ali Chechensky took responsibility for the explosion in the Moscow metro on February 6 of this year. Kavkaz-Center stated that this person sent written messages several times, and on February 29 he got in touch via satellite phone.

As people who worked with Mikhail Fradkov back in Soviet times told a correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, he was always distinguished by a number of qualities that made his candidacy ideal for a “technocrat prime minister.” Our interlocutors believe that he is a very smart person, but at the same time efficient and does not have the habit of sticking his head out.

Over the past four years, everyone has been talking about structural changes in the gas industry.

The growing battle for the White House is prompting us to remember two moments from the presidency of George Walker Bush. The first is the extreme unusualness of his victory in November 2000. Bush then received fewer votes than his rival, Democrat Al Gore, vice president under Bill Clinton. But, according to the US Constitution, the new president is determined not by the voters directly, but by the Electoral College.

Trajkovski left a lasting legacy Yesterday, three days of mourning ended in Macedonia in connection with the tragic death of the country's president, 47-year-old Boris Trajkovski, on February 26. The funeral will take place on Friday. Yesterday, the president's body was identified among the charred corpses using DNA analysis. DNA samples were taken from his father and brother for analysis. From the day of the funeral, the 40-day countdown to new elections will begin.

The candidate for prime minister is short of time With the appointment of a candidate for the post of new prime minister, there was no more clarity about the new economic course and the new cabinet of ministers. It is only clear that the candidate for prime minister, Mr.

Political scientists comment on the president's decision Vyacheslav NIKONOV, President of the Politika Foundation: - The appointment is unexpected - as always, because Putin makes decisions about such appointments himself, guided by criteria that are unknown to anyone. I believe that the president made the decision to resign, already knowing the name of the future prime minister. The president named the reasons why Fradkov was chosen: professionalism, decency, work experience.

The court helps the offshore companies of Abramovich's team wrest Sibneft from YUKOS There has been a new turn in the “divorce” of YUKOS and Sibneft.

The Russian defense industry begins to work on its own The export of Russian weapons and military equipment reached $5 billion 568 million last year, the plan was exceeded by more than a quarter, Russia is confidently one of the five leading world exporters of military products. Vladimir Putin announced this at yesterday's meeting of the State Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation (MTC).

Four years ago, it seemed that reform of natural monopolies would become a critical element of President Putin's economic platform. The political credit he had was fully consistent with the ambitiousness of such a task. And the reformist part of his circle rushed into battle: Gref’s 2000 program envisaged reform of both the electric power industry and the gas industry. Moreover, it was then believed that the simultaneous implementation of these reforms would have a high cumulative effect.

Vladimir Bortko and Evgeny Mironov became laureates of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize The permanent jury of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Literary Prize (in addition to the writer himself, includes Lyudmila Saraskina, Natalya Solzhenitsyna, Pavel Basinsky, Valentin Nepomnyashchy and Nikita Struve) honored the creators of the television version of the novel “The Idiot”. The decision may seem surprising.

Vladimir Putin's decision to appoint Mikhail Fradkov as prime minister came as a surprise to the West. The former head of the tax police rarely communicated with the press in Russia, and after leaving for Brussels, he practically ceased to act as a newsmaker. For example, The Washington Post notes in bewilderment that a person has been nominated for the post of prime minister who has not been mentioned once in either the foreign or Russian press over the past three months.

Troika Dialog now has a bank The investment company Troika Dialog and Rosgosstrakh yesterday presented their mortgage bank, the creation of which they announced in October last year. It turned out to be the former Bank-Gerd (ranked at the end of the 13th hundred of Russian banks), 100% of whose shares were recently acquired by Rosgosstrakh shareholders. Now it will be renamed the City Mortgage Bank, and its authorized capital will increase to $40 million.

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