St. Petersburg and the region lay claim to almost the entire investment fund All funds from the budget investment fund can go to one Russian region - St. Petersburg and its environs. Acceptance of applications from those wishing to receive money from the investment fund will begin only on Monday, but yesterday Deputy Minister of Economic Development Kirill Androsov named the favorites. Speaking at the international forum “North-West.

The region requires a sharp increase in funding The parliament of Chechnya, elected last November, has begun to turn into an instrument with the help of which the republican authorities hope to obtain additional budgetary allocations and economic preferences from the federal center. At yesterday's plenary meeting, deputies rejected the proposed draft republican budget, demanding a manifold increase in the volume of transfers from the federal center, through which it is mainly formed.

At a business dinner in Delhi, Prime Minister Fradkov was forced to open up Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov took charge of Russian business for an hour. He did this in New Delhi, where he arrived on an official visit last night. And he immediately went to a meeting with Indian business circles. Accompanied by two famous bankers Vladimir Dmitriev (VEB) and Andrey Kostin (VTB), as well as representatives of the Russian metallurgical, aviation and gas industries.

Russian Paralympians continue their triumphant performance in Turin. The Russian team, whose general sponsor is RAO UES, continues to lead in the overall medal standings, ahead of the recognized favorites - the teams of Germany and the USA, which brought the most representative delegations to the Paralympic Games.

In the central regions, winter will still remind itself of itself with night frosts down to -5...-10°C. During the day, the temperature will not move so far from zero towards the warm side, it will not be higher than -1...+5оС. By Sunday, atmospheric cyclone fronts from northern Scandinavia will reach the center of Russia. There will be more clouds, so frosts at night will weaken to -3...-8oC. During the day there will be light snow in some places, -1...+5оС.

Minsk did not allow suspicious deputies to enter Belarus included Georgian deputies from President Mikheil Saakashvili’s entourage among the “scumbags” who, according to President Alexander Lukashenko, are going to “restore order with American money” during the presidential elections.

The Chechen special services did not believe the psychiatrists Seven schoolgirls were admitted to the Argun rehabilitation center yesterday after again complaining of a still unidentified disease. True, no new patients with symptoms of the mysterious disease that broke out at the end of last year in the Shelkovsky district of Chechnya have appeared, but those who have already been hospitalized once come to the doctors again.

The head of Mosvodokanal named the reasons for winter accidents After the scolding that Yuri Luzhkov recently gave to the heads of city services for unsatisfactory work during the winter period, the head of Mosvodokanal, Stanislav Khramenkov, was the first to attempt to rehabilitate himself. At yesterday's press conference, he made it clear that the "radical failure" of his department, as stated by the mayor at the last meeting of the capital's government, was an exaggeration. True, Mr.

"Classical Ballet" revived the performance "Strauss Gala" Ballet concerts in theaters happen extremely rarely, and this can only be upsetting - where else can an artist try out a role, where can he find room for a fresh miniature? But the reasons for the lack of concerts in the repertoire are economic, not artistic. The artists are paid for going to work, and on the day of a regular performance, the theater usually spends on fees for the ballerina, fees for the premiere, several soloists, etc.

President Met with the Prosecutor General of Russia Vladimir Ustinov. The Prosecutor General reported to the head of state on the progress of work on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression. Answering the president’s question, Ustinov said that the families of the victims were informed in detail about the progress of this work, and there were no complaints or complaints from them. According to Ustinov, over 648 thousand cases opened against 918 thousand people were verified.

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Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Collective Actions group, which is fundamental to the history of Moscow conceptualism. Its composition is constantly changing from action to action, but the main characters have been the same for thirty years: Andrei Monastyrsky, Nikolai Panitkov, Nikita Alekseev, Igor Makarevich, Elena Elagina, Georgy Kiesevalter, Sergei Romashko, Sabine Hensgen. What do Collective Actions (CA) do?

The United Russia faction counts on absolute leadership in the Kaliningrad Regional Duma Parliamentary elections in the westernmost Russian region are over, but the hot time for the winners is just beginning. Deputies of the new Kaliningrad Regional Duma begin dividing up portfolios. The distribution of positions by person will depend on what the factional balance in the new Duma will be. United Russia won 19 of 39 seats (9 on party lists and 10 on mandate districts).

The new version of the bill “On Subsoil” takes into account the wishes of Russian state-owned companies It seems that the bill “On Subsoil”, which was withdrawn by the government from the State Duma at the end of autumn, is still not completely buried in the White House. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin promised the energy ministers of the G8 countries that new rules for the use of Russian subsoil, including with the participation of foreign capital, would soon be considered by deputies.

Discussions about the causes of inflation, its consequences and ways to reduce it are taking place at the very top, in scientific circles, and in kitchens. The latter are especially passionate, given that prices grew quite rapidly at the beginning of the year, and utility tariffs jumped so much that the government had to specifically intervene to stop them.