Doctors Without Borders employee freed by intelligence veterans In Dagestan, on Sunday night, security services released the head of the local branch of the international organization Doctors Without Borders, Aryan Erkel, from gangster captivity. A citizen of the Netherlands was kidnapped back in August 2002, and the criminals, according to various sources, asked for a ransom of 5 to 10 million euros for him.

Dmitry Kozak begins “cleaning up” the White House Plastic surgery on the face of the current government is almost complete. Just the other day, the last significant event in the restructuring of the domestic bureaucracy will take place. The White House apparatus and the structure of government commissions will be modernized. As Prime Minister Fradkov recently said, “beyond recognition.” In fact, Mr. Fradkov has already worked personally with the White House commissions.

On April 7, 2004, representatives of 70 Russian insurance companies signed the Code of Professional Ethics for Activities in the Insurance Market. The Code of Professional Ethics of Insurers contains a list of norms and ethical principles of activity in the insurance market, and the companies that signed it thereby expressed their solidarity with these principles.

By the end of May, the last four Rostovugol mines, where it is still possible to resume coal mining, will be auctioned off to private investors. This was stated by the Minister of Industry, Energy and Natural Resources of the Rostov Region Sergei Nazarov. The liquidation of the bankrupt company, 87% owned by the state, lasted for two years. During this time, three of its mines were flooded, more than 10 thousand people were left without work.

Japanese hostage threatened with execution within 24 hours The battles between coalition forces and Iraqi rebels have been going on all last week, and there is no end in sight, despite significant losses on both sides. Yesterday in the Sunni city of Fallujah, besieged by the Americans, a truce that was negotiated with the United States by the city's elders with the help of a delegation sent by the Interim Governing Council of Iraq (IGC) broke down.

Manager of RAO UES of Russia accuses Oleg Deripaska RAO UES of Russia has decided to more actively oppose Oleg Deripaska’s “Basic Element”, which is trying to unite Siberian hydroelectric power plants. Last Friday, Andrei Trapeznikov, a member of the energy holding's board who oversees relations with the media, said at a press conference that RAO is now studying the legality of Mr. Deripaska's structures acquiring a blocking stake in the Boguchanskaya HPP under construction.

The state will maintain a monopoly on oil pipelines As long as the government is headed by Mikhail Fradkov, there will be no private pipelines in Russia. “This is our infrastructure and our competitive advantages (over other countries - Ed. ), we need to monitor this," he said last Friday.

The fate of Russian security officers will be determined no earlier than May The first open court hearing in the case of the February 13 murder of Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiev took place in Qatar yesterday. It would be a stretch to call this event a trial. According to diplomatic sources of the Vremya Novostei newspaper, in essence, it was more like a procedural meeting held in Doha on March 25.

The government will check the prices of metallurgists Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov decided to look into the feud between metallurgists and consumers of their products over high steel prices. As you know, complaints were written to the top officials of the country by the heads of the largest oil and pipe companies.

President Held a meeting with members of the Security Council. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, head of the presidential administration Dmitry Medvedev, Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Internal Affairs Minister Rashid Nurgaliev, FSB head Nikolai Patrushev, and Foreign Intelligence Service head Sergei Lebedev. Various issues of domestic and foreign policy were discussed at the meeting.

Avangard returned Valery Belousov to active coaching and returned star Oleg Tverdovsky from the NHL to the Russian Super League. The Omsk club was rewarded handsomely - it was the coach and captain who did not allow the team to fall into confusion after an unsuccessful start to the final series. And after the fifth match, they answered questions from a correspondent of the newspaper “Vremya Novostey” as triumphants.

This week in Geneva there will be a vote on a very scandalous, from Russia's point of view, resolution of the UN Commission on Human Rights. This resolution on the situation in Chechnya was introduced by representatives of the European Union at the end of last week, at the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, currently taking place in Switzerland.

Coca-Cola shareholders are recommended to remove him from the board of directors The famous American billionaire Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway, may lose his post on the board of directors of Coca-Cola (8.2% owned by his company). Last Friday, a group of independent observers led by the reputable US consulting company Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) called Mr.

An ethical DVD player goes on sale in the US High technologies are put in place to protect the moral foundations of American film fans. Wal-Mart, the largest overseas retail chain, will have a new DVD player on sale in the coming days. For just $79, Americans will be able to get themselves a home censor - the device will independently cut scenes of violence, nudity and obscene language from films.

Gazprom management wants to stimulate itself with bonuses and options Tomorrow the board of directors of Gazprom will meet for the March meeting, which was postponed several times due to the busyness of state representatives in the process of distributing functions in the new government. And very conveniently, in the spirit of new trends, the directors of Gazprom will study how to materially stimulate management to work more efficiently.