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.

CLUBS Almas del fuego. Flamenco evening with one of the best Russian ensembles performing this dance. April 9 at “Apshu” , 22.00. Igor Grigoriev (USA) and the Jazz Engine project - "15 years later...": Igor Grigoriev (guitar), Alexander Kostikov (guitar), Oleg Dobronravov (bass), Dmitry Vlasenko (drums). April 9 at the Ja-art Club , 19.30. Birthday of the Phlegmatic Dog Club. Disco and techno music are performed by DJs Dsico (Australia), Kubikov, Smile, Houser, Champ. April 9 at 21.00.

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.

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.

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.

FIRST APRIL 12 , MONDAY 6.00 Good morning 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00 News 9.20 “SHIRLEY-MYRLEY”. Comedy 12.20 "RUNNING UP". Hood. movie 13.50 City of Women 15.20 “SHORE OF A DREAM”. TV series 16.20 Guess the melody (S) 16.50 Big wash 18.20 Idols 18.50 “CLONE”. Series 19.50 Million Laundry 20.00 Wait for me 21.00 Time 21.30 “STREETS OF BROKEN LAMPS.” Series 22.30 “Fate. Sergei Korolev." Doc. movie 23.20 Seekers 23.50 Star Factory 0.10 "Shaman". Doc.

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.

Russia and NATO are building up forces on the demarcation line Following the Russian military, their colleagues from the CIS also “responded” to NATO expansion. Under the leadership of the Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Army General Vladimir Mikhailov, a command and staff training (CTS) of the Commonwealth Joint Air Defense System took place.

Their minesweeper fell victim to the water crisis The Vladivostok garrison military court sentenced officers of the Pacific Fleet - captain of the third rank Vladimir Kutsan and captain-lieutenant Vasily Khalin, who on October 11 last year burned the base minesweeper on which they served. They did not betray their homeland and did not seek to undermine the defenses of the main base of the Pacific Fleet, the safety of which was guarded by their ship.

Non-state maritime pilots of Russia managed to win a protracted conflict with the state, which in July 2001 banned the activities of private “ship guides” in four key ports: St. Petersburg, Novorossiysk, Kaliningrad and Murmansk. In the near future, private owners who are members of the Russian Maritime Pilots Association will be able to work in these strategic harbors again.

The management of "Matrosskaya Tishina" spoke about the conditions of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's detention Detain citizen M.B. Khodorkovsky, accused under a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, is an extremely hectic occupation. Since the billionaire was placed in a pre-trial detention center, the quiet life of the institution IZ-99/1 GUIN (in the world - “Matrosskaya Silence”) has ended.

MDM Bank proposes to issue ruble notes Investor interest in the ruble has reached its apotheosis: investment banks are already ready to organize ruble loans for Russian companies abroad, although just a year ago only marginal investors were investing in the Russian ruble in the West. MDM Bank offered borrowers to issue dollar credit notes (Credit Link Notes, CLN), pegged to the ruble exchange rate. In fact, these are ruble Eurobonds, settlements for which occur in dollars.

The global resettlement of northern people to warmer climes is temporarily canceled The story of the plan of the entrepreneur, governor of Chukotka, owner of the London football club Chelsea Roman Abramovich to resettle all residents of the region entrusted to him to warmer climes was continued yesterday.