The German government will reduce its stake in the company by 7 percent The German government, having serious problems filling the federal budget, continues to convert existing assets into cash. As you know, Berlin recently securitized Russian debt by issuing bonds against pending payments to Russia. This deal displeased Moscow and destabilized the bond segment of the stock market.

Europe and America are trying to combat high oil prices Oil prices continue to rise. Yesterday, a barrel of Brent on the London Stock Exchange crossed the $50 mark, and in America, quotes for WTI reached another high - $53.6. Yesterday, Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, one of the reputable OPEC member countries, called the fair price 126 dollars per barrel.

The Central Election Commission of Abkhazia decided to name the winner of the presidential elections Yesterday, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, Sergei Smyr, unexpectedly announced that the presidential elections on October 3 were recognized as valid and Sergei Bagapsh won them. Immediately after this, Mr.

The first object of the Moscow City complex was commissioned The project for the construction of the Moscow-City business complex, which is estimated at $3 billion, has achieved the first clear results. Yesterday, one of the three buildings of the Embankment Tower office complex, which is being built by the Turkish development company Enka, officially opened.

President Signed the decree "Issues of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets." The document proposes “to establish that decisions of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Protection of State Secrets, adopted in accordance with its powers, are binding on federal government bodies, government bodies of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, local governments, organizations, officials and citizens.” Requires the government to ensure drug quality control.

Christopher Reeve has died Fame came to actor Christopher Reeve after he played the role of Superman in a film based on popular comic books in 1978. It was the same Bill from the Quentin Tarantino film who spoke about his hero before he was killed. Bill noticed that Superman, unlike other superheroes - Spider-Man, Batman, the X-Men and others who are forced to overcome their human nature, is not initially human, and he just has to pretend to be an ordinary, ordinary Clark Kent.

The White House is forced to deny rumors that during the first televised debate with John Kerry in Miami, George W. Bush allegedly used a modern cheat sheet - a hidden radio device through which aides sent him tips. Suspicion was aroused by a fold in Bush's jacket between his shoulder blades. It looked like there was some kind of rectangular object hidden in this place.

There has been an addition to the Ministry of Finance. Departments Yesterday the government made further technical adjustments to the administrative reform. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov allowed the Ministry of Finance to increase the number of departments to thirteen. This spring, as part of the administrative reform, the number of structural divisions in the Ministry of Finance was reduced from 28 to 11. Actually, all departments had to shrink, but so far only Mr.

The MICEX again suspended trading in Mosenergo shares Trading in Mosenergo shares was suspended yesterday on the MICEX for the fourth time in the last two weeks. However, this time it was not due to a sharp rise in the price of securities, as had happened before, but due to a rapid fall in quotes. The issue of resumption of trading, as in the three previous cases, will be decided by the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM).

Lukashenko seeks support from the church Alexander Lukashenko called the Orthodox Church one of the main institutions of the state, which maintains peace between different faiths in Belarus. According to the state news agency BelTA, the president announced this yesterday at a meeting with members of the synod of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (BOC).

Alfred Schnittke's Concerti Grossi at his personal festival At the festival in honor of Alfred Schnittke's 70th birthday, which will last at the BZK until October 20, perhaps his most ambitious and serious project is presented - all six of Schnittke's instrumental concertos, written in the baroque genre, will be performed over two days (October 8 and 10) “Concerto Grosso” from 1977 to 1993 and containing almost all aspects of the work of the once banned, then wildly popular, and now remembered

YUKOS lost another tax claim The Moscow Arbitration Court confirmed the legality of the demands of the Federal Tax Service (FSN) against YUKOS, which believes that the company underpaid the state in 2001 by 79.3 billion rubles. taxes and penalties. The judge fined Yukos 39.1 billion rubles for this. Thus, in just 2001 the company must transfer more than $118 billion to the budget. The tax authorities' claims against YUKOS were made back in August.

The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to the Norwegian Finn Keeneland and the American Edward Prescott Yesterday Nobel week ended - in seven days the awarding of six of the most prestigious awards in the world was announced. As usual, in terms of the number of awards, the Americans were ahead of everyone: of the 12 laureates, eight people have a US passport, two are Israelis, and one laureate each belongs to Austria, Kenya and Norway.

German intelligence worries about the convergence of terrorism and crime The conflict in Iraq is on the verge of sliding into uncontrollable chaos, which will further inflame the situation outside the Middle East region as well. This is how the President of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) August Hanning recently assessed the situation in the hottest spot on the planet at a symposium of this agency in Berlin.

Football players will become radio-controlled In the near future, one of the most conservative sports - football - may change dramatically. It is proposed to equip football players with mini-headphones, with the help of which coaches will be able to direct their players via radio directly during the match. The innovation has already been tested in Belgian football.