Vladimir Putin won with an advantage unprecedented in Russia The incumbent president won with an overwhelming advantage, unprecedented in the modern history of Russia. However, the absence of any full-fledged rivals for Vladimir Putin should not serve as a basis for discrediting the institution of elections. This freedom, which we received not so long ago, has already been seriously discredited. Moreover, we honestly admit that this did not happen in the last four years.

Private companies are content with the minimum For the third month now, Russians have had the opportunity to enjoy the first fruits of the pension reform. At the end of last year, 42 million future retirees could entrust the funded portion of their future pension to a private management company. However, the main stage of the most important reform was so crumpled that today even its immediate implementers cannot say at what stage it is. By the way, many of them have already changed jobs.

The winner of the vote in Spain will only be determined today Yesterday's parliamentary elections in Spain, marred the day before by bloody terrorist attacks, determined the name of the new chairman of the government, since the leader of the winning party becomes prime minister in this country. Official data will only be available today, and preliminary results, summed up late yesterday evening by independent agencies, were full of contradictions.

The Center for Alternative Vote Counting at the House of Journalists, a stronghold of opposition presidential candidates Sergei Glazyev and Irina Khakamada, began informing the public about the election progress at 7 p.m. Glazyev and Khakamada, accompanied by member of the Moscow City Election Commission Natalya Borodina and head of the Glazyev headquarters Yana Dubeykovskaya, came out to the journalists and spoke about the violations recorded so far. According to Ms.

Russian Cezanne artists are shown in Monaco Sixty-six works from eleven regional museums, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and nine paintings from a private collection made up the exhibition “Jack of Diamonds”: from Cezanne to the avant-garde.” The sensational nature of the event, firstly, is that never before have the works of Russian Cezanne artists from the Jack of Diamonds association been exhibited in such a volume, and secondly, the exhibition in a tiny European country was

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On containers and oil Less than two months have passed since the president of Russian Railways OJSC Gennady Fadeev reported to the public on the company’s work for the first three months of its existence, and last Friday he already presented a new report - based on the results of the work of five months. And although Mr.

Governors win the first round In all ten regions that elected a regional governor this Sunday, in addition to the president of the country, the elections were recognized as valid. Moreover, the turnout in some regions was even slightly higher than expected. Thus, the president indirectly helped most of the current governors get re-elected. The required turnout for regional elections is significantly lower than the federal one, on average 20-25%.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky intends to fight with Vladimir Putin's successor At the headquarters of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which nominated Nikolai Kharitonov as its presidential candidate, a mood of mild euphoria reigned. The smile, unusual for the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, immediately caught the eye, and candidate Kharitonov was clearly pleased with the second place.

Rosneft will build the largest transshipment terminal not only for itself Rosneft has announced its intention to build the largest oil terminal in Russia among oil-producing concerns (not counting the Transneft ports in Primorsk and Novorossiysk). The state-owned company, which produced only 19.4 million tons of raw materials in 2003, decided to build an oil export complex with a capacity of as much as 30 million tons in the Leningrad region, on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland.

From Russian reconnaissance aircraft NATO Secretary General, Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (he will visit Moscow at the end of March) visited Lithuania yesterday. He met with the top officials of the state and spoke in the Sejm (parliament). Among many issues, control over the airspace of the Baltic countries was discussed. It is especially relevant in connection with the recent flights over the Baltic territory of the NATO AWACS reconnaissance aircraft.

"Yabloko" Artemyev wants to split companies and break up mega-mergers Igor Artemyev, recently appointed chief overseer of fair competition with the rank of head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), held an “introductory” press conference on Friday. Mr. Aryemev was quite cautious in answering specific questions, but showed ambitions in the area of ​​antitrust strategy. FAS was created on the basis of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Support, which was headed by St.

The heads of the central banks of Belarus and Russia hope that the transition to a single currency will take place, as planned, from January 1, 2005. “The deadline of January 1, 2005 is still realistic. There is time to sign documents and ratify them. Although there is little time,” noted Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Sergei Ignatiev at a recent press conference in Minsk.

David Beckham's wife Victoria categorically refused to live in this city after the terrorist attacks in Madrid. Thus, Real is already preparing to part with the England midfielder. “We, of course, do not want to lose such a player, but if he finds it impossible to stay in Madrid, we are ready to terminate our contract. However, Beckham’s new club will have to pay a large penalty,” a confidential source at the Royal club told the Evening Standard.

Local authorities fought for turnout as best they could If we characterize the voting process in the presidential election, then, perhaps, the best description for it would be the word “calm.” Even in Chechnya there were no special incidents. True, on Sunday morning, explosions occurred near two polling stations in the village of Sernovodskaya in the Sunzhensky district of Chechnya. The bombs went off immediately after the opening of the sites, at intervals of five minutes.