Mortgage funds will appear in Russia In Russia, the opportunity has opened up for the creation of a new type of mutual funds - mortgage funds, the assets of which include not only money and securities, but also monetary claims on mortgage loans. This opportunity is provided by the FCSM Resolution No. 31/ps, which comes into force, issued on March 23 and published yesterday in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

President Appointed Secretary of State and First Deputy Minister of Justice Alexander Karlin as head of the Presidential Administration for Civil Service Affairs. Alexander Karlin was born in 1951.

Today Georgia celebrates National Unity Day, remembering the victims of the 1989 tragedy. Fifteen years ago, units of the Soviet army, after a preliminary gas attack, dispersed peaceful demonstrators who spoke for independence from Moscow using sapper shovels. 16 protesters were killed, including 14 women. These events became turning points in the history of the USSR. The then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was on a visit to England, said that he was not involved in the tragedy.

A market economy in Russia will do without political freedoms The international conference “The Liberal Agenda for a New Century: A Global Perspective,” which opened yesterday in Moscow, was, as the title suggests, intended to draw attention to the liberal movement on a global scale. However, the place where it was held determined the main direction of the participants’ thoughts.

Easter Festival begins On Sunday, the Third Moscow Easter Festival will open at the Moscow House of Music with Prokofiev's First Symphony performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra led by Valery Gergiev. The program of the first day will be all nobility of style and design. In addition to Prokofiev, Rachmaninov's Second Symphony will be performed, and Sibelius's Violin Concerto with a brilliant soloist (Leonidas Kavakos, Greece), which rhymes well with Rachmaninov, will highlight Russian music.

Oil workers and homeowners will pay the most for tax reform For the first time in modern Russian history, some reform now has not only a start date, but also an end date. Tax reform will end in 2005. In order to complete the reform on a positive note - that is, the long-awaited removal of wages from the shadows - the government is ready to get down to business ahead of schedule.

Americans storm Fallujah The war, which has resumed in Iraq with renewed vigor, is bringing surprises. The first of them is the very fact of the resumption of hostilities on such a scale. Fierce fighting is taking place in the Shiite-majority south. But the bloodiest battles are taking place in the Sunni city of Fallujah, 50 kilometers west of Baghdad.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed resolutions establishing lists of functions of the Federal Communications Agency and the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications. Both departments are part of the newly formed Ministry of Transport and Communications. According to analysts, the only thing that will follow the ongoing reform is a redistribution of functions within the former Ministry of Communications.

The co-curator of the exhibition, professor at the Moscow Architectural Institute Natalia DUSHKINA answered Sergei KHACHATUROV’s questions. How was the exhibition put together? -- Basic materials - from the collections of the Museum of Architecture. Many drawings specially restored for the exhibition are shown for the first time. Unique material - working drawings from Metrogiprotrans, an institute engaged in metro design.

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Deportivo organized a celebration for their fans Football Europe is in shock. When Chelsea reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, everyone took it quite calmly and felt sorry for Arsenal. When Monaco knocked Real out of the tournament, everyone shrugged their shoulders: they say, what can happen in life. But when Deportivo wins back a three-goal handicap from Milan, that’s too much.

On the holiday, public transport will operate on a special schedule. On Easter night, Muscovites will be able to use public transport even late at night. At the request of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, the capital’s authorities extended the metro’s operating hours on this day until 02.30. Ground transport running from metro stations to residential areas will run until three o'clock in the morning.

It turned out to be General Dostum The troops of Abdul Rashid Dostum, the leader of Afghanistan's ethnic Uzbeks, fought to occupy the city of Maymene, the center of the northern Afghan province of Faryab. The governor of Faryab, Anayatullah Anayat, was forced to flee the city. Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali announced this yesterday in Kabul. The minister did not provide any data on casualties, but sources close to Dostum claim that at least four people were killed in the shootout.

One of the most prominent ministers in the new government of Georgia is the Minister of Foreign Affairs Salome ZURABISHVILI. She is from a family of Georgian emigrants who moved to France during the Soviet era. And until last month she was a French citizen. Moreover, last fall, she, a career diplomat with 30 years of experience, became the French Ambassador to Georgia!

Akhmat Kadyrov wants to take away Chechen construction from the federal center Today the fate of the Federal Directorate for Construction and Restoration Work in Chechnya, and at the same time the federal restoration program, must be decided. According to the Vremya Novostei newspaper, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov ordered that this problem be dealt with by April 9.