Vladimir Kulistikov headed NTV, and Nikolai Senkevich headed Gazprom Media. A third full-fledged state television channel will appear in Russia. These, according to observers, are the main possible consequences of personnel changes at NTV and in the Gazprom-Media holding.

Instead of the Kremlin, business will go to the White House Yesterday the first meeting of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov took place. A similar body existed under the government of Mikhail Kasyanov. But in those days, with the exception of the last year, businesses already had many opportunities to talk about painful issues with the authorities. The reincarnated council has a fundamentally different historical meaning.

An international film festival is taking place in the Czech Republic The festival in Karlovy Vary is the only film screening of the notorious category “A” in Eastern Europe, which for a long time was the twin brother of the MIFF, alternating with it from 1960 to 1992, and since 1994 it has become an annual event.

The stock market did not notice another collapse of Yukos The news about new misadventures of YUKOS, which had accumulated over the past weekend and arrived on Monday morning, provoked a fall in the value of its shares. However, yesterday the company sank in splendid isolation - other securities, breaking tradition, survived.

German coach made Greece European champion The European Championship, having swept through the cities of Portugal like a wave, brought the Greek national team to the top. A team in which order is above all, a team that always knows what it wants and where the brightest star is the head coach, German Otto Rehhagel. King Otto. His Majesty Result. “Today the Greeks made history. This is a sensation. We have created an amazing achievement for Greek football.

Switzerland rushed into the arms of the European Union The European Union and Switzerland have finally initialed nine cooperation agreements. Switzerland negotiated for itself the preservation of the right to banking secrecy. But in exchange for this, she will have to transfer a billion Swiss francs ($811 million) to Brussels over five years to help new EU members and open up their labor market for them. Negotiations between Switzerland and the EU have been ongoing since 2000.

Military mortgages may supplant state housing certificates The State Duma ratified in the first reading the bill introduced by the government on the savings-mortgage system for providing military personnel with housing. It looks like the new bill will shake up the entire system of providing housing for people in uniform. The fact is that, in parallel with the savings-mortgage system, the old ones still remain - the distribution system and the State Housing Certificates (GHC) program.

The press service of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region yesterday announced the arrest of another, seventh suspect in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova. Vyacheslav Lelyavin, the elder brother of Igor Lelyavin, accused of organizing this high-profile political murder, is now accused of complicity in the crime. The trial in this case has been ongoing in the St. Petersburg City Court since December 2003.

Evgeny Astakhov has been appointed as the new vice president of the TNK-BP group of companies for tax policy, the company’s press service reports. Previously, this position was held by Alexey Moskov. Before joining TNK-BP, Mr. Astakhov was a tax partner in the Moscow office of Ernst & Young, and also served as head of Ernst & Young's international tax planning department for Russia and the CIS countries. "TIME FOR NEWS"

The Russian fencing team won the team event at the European Championships that ended in Copenhagen. Our fencers have five gold, five silver and four bronze awards. In second place are the French, who were able to win only two top medals. The Russians won four victories in team tournaments - men's and women's saber, men's foil and women's epee. The only “gold” in individual disciplines for our team was brought by Olympic champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov.

On the eve of his two-day visit to Russia, which begins today, Bulgarian President Georgiy PIRVANOV, in an interview with an INTERFAX correspondent specially for the Vremya Novostei newspaper, spoke about the current state and prospects of Russian-Bulgarian relations. — Mr. President, what do you expect from your visit to Russia? What will you discuss during negotiations with the Russian leadership? Are bilateral documents expected to be signed?

ChevronTexaco executives visited Viktor Khristenko for reconnaissance The American corporation ChevronTexaco announced its intention to invest $5-10 billion in the Russian fuel and energy complex. With such a proposal, company leaders came to a meeting with the Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko. True, they don’t yet know where exactly they would like to invest their money. And they wanted to find out this from the chief energy official.

Yesterday, direct presidential elections took place in Indonesia. For the first time in the history of the largest Muslim country in the world, the right to vote was given to 153 million ordinary voters, and not just deputies of the People's Consultative Congress (PCC), the country's highest government body. More than 575 thousand sites were created throughout the country.

Russian television cinema is competitive again We are very happy that the Rossiya TV channel received a prize at the 44th Television Festival in Monte Carlo. A golden copy of the figurine of the nymph Salmacis, the original of which is in the Louvre, went to actor Yevgeny Mironov for his role as Myshkin in the television film “The Idiot.” Some news reports even indicated that Mironov received the main prize.

Vladimir Kulistikov today is perhaps the optimal figure for the Kremlin, whose inhabitants, on the one hand, are tired of the permanent scandals on what was once the best news channel in the country, and on the other hand, reproaches periodically heard from the West for suppressing freedom of speech. Mr.