The co-owners of the Rostov Helicopter Plant voted for an additional issue of shares in the amount of 3.6% of the authorized capital, as a result of which the state will appear among the shareholders of Rostvertol. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper was told in the company's securities department, 89.6% of voting shares took part in the meeting. The issue was approved by 97.1% of the votes, although 75% was sufficient.

Ministries will increase salaries According to the government's plan, the reform of federal authorities should lead, among other things, to some reduction in the bureaucracy. If so, then this will be the only reason for concern for more than 300 thousand federal clerks. Maybe someone will be fired, but those who remain will appreciate the transformations initiated by the Kremlin. Those of them who remain to work in ministries can count on increased salaries.

Juventus was powerless to stop the best club in Europe Late on Sunday in the central match of the 25th round of the Italian championship, Milan easily beat Juventus away - 3:1 and broke away by nine points. The game, which took place with the full advantage of Carlo Ancelotti’s team, finally convinced that Milan holds the fate of the Scudetto in its hands and can only release it itself, and the problems in Juventus’s game are not an accident and will have to be solved next season.

Putin's new program: multi-party system and civil society The resounding success in the elections required convincing words and images from candidate Putin and his representatives. “In the first term, the president is constrained by the need to run for a second time. And the second term is a work for history,” this is what the head of Vladimir Putin’s campaign headquarters, Dmitry Kozak, told reporters at a press conference on the night after the elections.

Biathlon World Cups became the property of the Poiret family The biathlon season can be considered almost over. Last weekend, the last World Cup stage took place in Holmenkollen (Norway), after which the leading shooting skiers had to go to the final start. Grand Prix competitions begin tomorrow in Khanty-Mansiysk, but they are mainly of commercial interest to the participants. At the final stage of the World Cup, our Olga Pyleva shone again.

Yuri Luzhkov is confident that the Manezh burned down without the help of terrorists In Moscow yesterday there was another “shock” construction site. As a result of a powerful fire that raged for almost seven hours, which began on Sunday evening, by Monday morning the famous building of the Moscow Manege was virtually destroyed. From the architectural and historical monument, which stood for almost 200 years, now only a charred box of external walls remains.

Moscow condemned Israelis and Palestinians The Israeli army launched a military operation yesterday in the Palestinian town of Tulkarm in the West Bank. The city has been occupied by armored vehicles, searches and arrests are underway. Yesterday in Gaza City, missile strikes from helicopters destroyed two workshops for the production of weapons and explosives belonging to the radical Hamas movement.

The President ordered the government to build faster After a sleepless night of celebration, President-elect Vladimir Putin met with members of his cabinet. He said that he would “charge the government so that it does not sleep.” According to the head of state, “you can already begin to judge the work of ministers,” because their salaries are accrued from the first day, which means that you can ask from the first day what you get money for.

Calls to MTS-Samara phones for local residents cost the same as long-distance calls This week the Mobile Telesystems (MTS) company will file a complaint with the Samara territorial department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service against local cellular operators. MTS is dissatisfied with the so-called barrier tariffs that apply to subscribers of these operators when making calls to the phones of the MTS-Samara network launched in February.

Lawyers for the former Ukrainian prime minister are trying to turn the trial “USA v. Lazarenko,” which began yesterday in San Francisco, into a trial against Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

The second round of gubernatorial elections will take place in four regions of Russia In the regional elections held last Sunday, unlike the voting for the president, there were some sensations. The main surprise came from the Altai region. Alexander Surikov fell 2.5% short of victory, and in the second round he will have to fight with the famous satirist Mikhail Evdokimov, who received just under 40% of the votes. Although Mr.

Catherine Breillat presented her new film in Moscow Pornocracy is at once the simplest and most controversial of French director Catherine Breillat's latest films. After the well-deserved success of “Romance X” (at the Chicago Film Festival the film received two major awards), Breuil’s title was firmly established as the main cinematic feminist intellectual. Something like Julia Kristeva, only in the movies.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season . "Colorado" -- "Phoenix" -- 4:1, "Pittsburgh" -- "Philadelphia" -- 3:3 -- Morozov "P" (2+0), Zhamnov "F" (1+1), " Chicago" -- "Dallas" -- 0:4 - - V. Bure "D" (1+0), "Los Angeles" -- "Anaheim" -- 5:1 -- Frolov "LA" (1+ 0), Fedorov "A" (1+0), "Detroit" -- "Nashville" -- 3:2 (OT) - - Arkhipov "N" (1+0), "St. Louis" -- "Calgary" " -- 0:3, "Edmonton" -- "Ottawa" -- 3:1 - - Ulanov "E" (0+1), "Minnesota" -- "Columbus" -- 3:2 -- Zherdev "K" "(0+1).

Vladimir Fedoseev's orchestra played music from old films Can you imagine the artistic director of the most respectable symphony orchestra in Moscow - the Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra - soulfully singing a song from Utesov's repertoire at the conductor's stand? And what about actor Alexei Petrenko, thoughtfully perched on the edge of the stage during the BSO’s performance of the famous “Polka” by Boris Tchaikovsky from the beloved film “Balzaminov’s Marriage”? I couldn't.

The mayor's office decides how to reconstruct the burned building The arena was not lost forever: Moscow authorities yesterday made the final decision to restore the building after the fire. As the chief architect of the capital, Alexander Kuzmin, said on Echo of Moscow, two options for restoring the Manege building are now being considered, which will be submitted to a meeting of the Public Urban Planning Council under the Mayor of Moscow on Friday.