The management of Aeroflot was strengthened by the assistant to the President of Russia, and the management of Sheremetyevo was strengthened by the president of Kaskol. Last weekend, almost simultaneously, the management of Russia's largest airline Aeroflot and the country's main air harbor, Sheremetyevo International Airport (SIA), was updated. The management staff of both state-controlled enterprises was strengthened by government administrators and business practitioners.

Forecast for the coming days Atlantic cyclones moving across northern Europe will maintain unstable weather in most of the European territory of Russia in the coming days. With the continued westerly transfer of air masses, average daily temperatures in the next two days will exceed the long-term average by 2-4 degrees.

Government The head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Mikhail Zurabov, informed the Russian President about the main directions of social support included in the draft 2005 budget . The minister recalled the figures provided for in the federal budget and the budgets of social funds. According to Mr. Zurabov, 10 billion rubles.

The election of the governor of the Volgograd region is developing in the genre of a political farce The other day, the Volgograd Regional Election Commission announced the names of 13 registered candidates for the post of head of the administration of the Volgograd region, whose elections are scheduled to take place on December 5.

It just so happened that the anniversary of the arrest of the former head of the almost former oil company YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, almost coincided with the lawsuit that Alfa Bank won against the Kommersant newspaper. In essence, these are two sides of the same political process. The process of decomposition of Russian capitalism from the outside and from the inside.

The Trocadero artists outdid all their colleagues At the Grand Pas festival there were performances by the British - Random dance company - experimenting with computer toys, the Dutch - the Royal Netherlands Ballet - callingigraphically drawing the contours of 20th century ballet, and the Americans - Complexions - taking over the audience with the pressure of a Broadway show.

The President of Karachay-Cherkessia renounced his son-in-law so as not to lose his position The complicated criminal epic with the disappearance and murder of seven local residents in Karachay-Cherkessia, which led the republic’s leadership to a serious crisis, received a new continuation over the weekend.

The number of protesters in Minsk is falling due to hyperbole. On the first day after the referendum, about three thousand people came to the square, on the second - two hundred, on the third - 70. On the first day, no demonstrators were beaten. In the second they beat me as if they were repenting for all the humiliations of the first day, when it was wisely decided to endure and not touch anyone. On the third day they didn’t beat me again.

Government is being formed in Lithuania Yesterday in Lithuania, with a low voter turnout, the second round of parliamentary elections took place. In the first round on October 10, 70 people entered the Sejm on party lists. And in single-mandate constituencies (71 seats), only five managed to collect the minimum votes required for victory. Yesterday, 66 members of the Sejm were required to be elected in single-mandate constituencies.

There is too much garbage in the Ukrainian presidential elections The countdown of the last week before the presidential elections in Ukraine began on Saturday with a mass rally in Kyiv of supporters of the leader of the opposition bloc “Our Ukraine” and one of the main contenders for victory, Viktor Yushchenko.

The State Duma ratified the Kyoto Protocol On Friday, in just two hours, Russian deputies managed to make all European officials happy, along with the international environmental community. The State Duma has put an end to the discussion on the future fate of the Kyoto Protocol, which limits harmful emissions into the atmosphere.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is ready for an alliance with right-wing liberals The October (2004) plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took place on Saturday. The Communist Party held its first major political event since the split this summer.

Alexey Miller negotiated the supply of liquefied gas to the USA in London Last Friday, Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller met in London with the heads of the world's three largest oil corporations - British BP, Anglo-Dutch Shell and American ExxonMobil. All negotiations, to one degree or another, touched upon the topic of cooperation in the American liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, entry into which Gazprom declared one of its priorities.

The preliminary results of Saturday's parliamentary elections in Kosovo will be announced today. Official results will be published in a week. But it is already obvious that international forces in Kosovo have not smoothed out the contradictions between Kosovo Albanians and the non-Albanian population, which boycotted the elections, protesting against the unbearable living conditions. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and the Serbian Orthodox Church supported a boycott of the elections.

The VTB Supervisory Board, which met at the end of last week, decided to submit to an extraordinary meeting of shareholders the issue of transferring the bank's head office to St. Petersburg. Thus, the state bank confirmed rumors about its move that had been circulating for months. However, experts note that it will not be easy for VTB to organize work in the northern capital. The bank has not made and is not making any preparations for the move.