Alexey Miller's initiative did not meet with understanding from Anatoly Chubais Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais yesterday personally criticized the proposals of Gazprom head Alexei Miller to abandon state regulation of gas prices for industry. “I clearly understand that releasing prices with a monopoly supplier is categorically wrong,” Mr. Chubais told reporters. - A natural prerequisite for market liberalization is, of course, its demonopolization.

Moscow will take revenge on Warsaw for the memory of Dudayev The highest diplomatic mission was enthusiastically accepted by deputies of the Moscow City Duma, who, at the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry, undertook to prepare a symmetrical response to their Warsaw colleagues, who recently named one of the squares in the Polish capital after Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Novorossiysk Cossacks staged Armenian pogroms On Tuesday, a wave of Armenian pogroms swept through Novorossiysk. As reported by the city Internal Affairs Directorate, two hundred Cossacks of the local Cossack society dispersed throughout the neighborhoods of Novorossiysk and began beating men of Armenian nationality who came across their path.

The government is looking for ways to double GDP amid rising budget expenditures The government is delaying the adoption of both the socio-economic development program for the medium term and the scenario conditions for economic development for 2006-2008. The reason is simple - none of these documents provides a solution to the task outlined by the president to double GDP by 2010 or at least by 2012. Or rather, he didn’t.

Departments Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin appealed to the Federation Council with a request to preserve Article 138 in the Budget Code, which gives the Accounts Chamber the right to check the execution of budgets of subsidized regions.

Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko intends to consult St. Petersburg doctors. The athlete’s manager, Ari Zakarian, told a Vremya Novostey correspondent about this. During the World Figure Skating Championships, Plushenko underwent a short course of treatment at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (CITO) in Moscow. The photographs taken at CITO did not show that the skater had a rupture of the groin muscles. Moscow doctors agreed that it was inflammation.

Benois de la danse will be awarded at the end of April The rules for selecting the winners of this annual ballet prize, invented by Yuri Grigorovich, are quite amusing. The permanent chairman (Grigorovich) invites the jury members, each jury member names his nominees. Then their list is announced (yesterday’s press conference at ITAR-TASS was dedicated to this), and the day before the concert the jury meets, watches all the performances on video and makes a verdict.

Canadian fishermen began to exterminate harp seals This year, the Canadian government will continue its active intervention in the interspecies war that has been going on for many millions of years. In recent years, the authorities have supported the side of the Atlantic fish, which is losing the struggle for existence to its eternal enemies - the harp seals (balds). Canada is interested in maintaining an approximate balance of power off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The government was unable to develop a scheme for completing the construction of the Boguchanskaya HPP on time President Vladimir Putin’s December order to the government to resolve the issue of investing in the construction of the Boguchanskaya HPP within three months was not fulfilled. This construction is the main conflict between Oleg Deripaska and Anatoly Chubais in the last two years. The head of RAO UES of Russia admitted yesterday that options are still being discussed.

The mistress killed the banker for the million he took away Cecile Brossard, a 36-year-old French woman suspected of murdering major financier Edouard Stern, will remain in the Champ-Dollon investigative prison for at least another three months.

Retailers will have to report inventory levels to tax authorities Owners of street tents, small catering outlets, car services, shoe repair kiosks and other small businesses operating under the imputed income tax may soon need to obtain another document confirming their right to run their own business.

Such an order was once given by Aslan Maskhadov This April, in just a few days, will be the tenth anniversary of an event that few people knew about at the time, and therefore it passed almost unnoticed. However, it then led to major political results in the Chechen war. The main thing is to sign the Khasavyurt Agreement. By an old event, I mean the first negotiations between representatives of Chechnya, that is, militants, and the federal authorities in the village of Novye Atagi in April 1995.

Familiar opponents await Belgorod residents in the Final Four of the Champions League Early this morning, a charter with volleyball players from Belgorod Lokomotiv-Belogorye and about a hundred fans headed for Thessaloniki. This Greek city will host the Champions League Final Four next weekend. The Belgorod team will have to fight hard to defend the title of the best team on the continent, which they have held for the last two seasons.

The Mariinsky Theater presented the premiere of “Madama Butterfly” Remember, Nina asks Trigorin: “What are you writing?” He replies: “So I’m writing it down... The plot flashed by... The plot for a short story: a young girl like you has lived on the shore of a lake since childhood; loves the lake like a seagull, and is happy and free like a seagull.

The authorities and opposition of Kyrgyzstan are gathering forces for a denouement The internal political crisis in Kyrgyzstan increasingly threatens to turn this country into another full-fledged “hot spot” on the political map of the world. The name of a small mountainous country in Central Asia appears in news reports on television and on the front pages of the world media.