The flagship of the Russian automotive industry, AvtoVAZ, will show the Lada Kalina hatchback in the Balkans for the first time. Serial and promising Lada cars will be exhibited at the international show in the capital of Serbia and Montenegro, Belgrade, from March 25 to April 3. The Belgrade Motor Show has been held since 1938 and traditionally starts after the Geneva Motor Show. This year it received the official status of a passenger car exhibition.

A year ago, the American company Cushman & Wakefield published in New York its annual ranking of cities in the world with the most expensive offices, in which Moscow entered the top five. According to Cushman & Wakefield, the average price of a Moscow office then was 729 euros per 1 sq. m. m per year (the euro was equal to the dollar at that time). The price was given including VAT and operating costs. But this is not the limit: more expensive offices are also available for rent in Moscow.

Among the favorites, only France did not win The overwhelming majority of the World Cup qualifying games in the European zone that took place last Saturday were classified as “passable”. The favorites did not meet each other in any of the groups. And almost all the teams seriously aspiring to reach the final part of the world championship achieved their planned victories. There is one exception - the French team was unable to cope with the Swiss team. Group 1.

Mintimer Shaimiev became President of Tatarstan for the fourth time On March 25, the State Council of Tatarstan unanimously supported Vladimir Putin’s proposal to vest the current head of the republic, Mintimer Shaimiev, with presidential powers. Mr.

There is enough space in the Western software market The first spring conference of independent programmers, ISDEF Spring 2005, took place in Moscow. The participants of the event were welcomed by the Ministry of Information and Communications. Perhaps the companies included in the non-profit partnership ISDEF (Independent Software Developers Forum) are the target audience of future Russian technology parks.

The prosecutor told Alexey Pichugin about the future In the Moscow City Court on Friday, during the trial of Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin, a discussion took place of the verdict of the jury, rendered the day before. As expected, a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office asked the court to punish Pichugin “to the fullest extent” - with life imprisonment.

Arms exhibitions in Russia will be held in a new format The case is unprecedented in the history of Russian exhibitions of weapons and military equipment: the next military-technical show was announced a year and a half before it began. We are talking about the International Exhibition of Military Products of the Ground Forces (MVSV, organized by the Interpolitech company), combined with the International Festival of Aerobatic Teams (organized by Aviasalon OJSC).

One of the most important results of the “colorful” revolutions in the post-Soviet space is the emerging process of the inevitable coming to power of post-Soviet elites even in the most conservative former Soviet republics. For Russia, this means only one thing: our statesmen need to forever throw out of their heads the projects of any kind of state unions within the framework of part of the former USSR, without relying too much on military and economic alliances.

Another international auto show opened in Manhattan The New York International Auto Show 2005 opened in New York. Its popularity is not as high as that of salons, for example, in Detroit or Los Angeles. As a rule, the main participants of this exhibition are national companies, and foreigners do not indulge in new products. In this sense, the current show is an exception. There are more than 40 real new products at the showroom, and not all of them are American.

The Banking Association will write a set of legislative norms for the Central Bank A day after the meeting of businessmen and bankers with the president, the Association of Russian Banks (ARB) publicly spoke out against the existing system of banking regulation, in which Central Bank instructions occupy a central place.

Lithuania is outraged by the words of the Russian diplomat The interview of the Russian ambassador in Vilnius Boris Tsepov, published in the Respublika newspaper last Thursday, is now known almost by heart throughout Lithuania. “Most decisions are accompanied by scandals and a bad atmosphere: someone interrogates someone, accuses someone.

In the center of European Russia, the atmospheric pressure will be close to the climatic norm, but large changes in air temperature from night to day can negatively affect the well-being of those who suffer from various vascular reactions. On March 29, the disturbed geomagnetic background will aggravate the situation, which will become an additional stress factor for the well-being of weather-dependent people.

Syndicated loan promised to regional aircraft Four state-controlled banks on Friday entered into a framework agreement with Aviation Holding Company (AHC) Sukhoi to finance the development of the RRJ regional passenger aircraft. The bankers refuse to officially name the size of the syndicated loan that will be provided to Sukhoi, citing the fact that this figure is not in the signed document. It must be determined during further negotiations.

State Duma On April 1, at a plenary session, it will consider a number of bills establishing administrative liability for drinking beer in public places . Currently, four alternative bills are being considered by the State Duma. One of them, recommended by the relevant committee, proposes introducing penalties in the amount of one minimum wage for drinking beer in public places.

Biologists cling to the faint hope of resurrecting the Tyrannosaurus rex American scientists have discovered in Montana a paleontological miracle that generations of biologists have only dreamed of until now: the remains of the legendary tyrannosaurus, not completely turned into stone.