Russian investment companies increase trading time Following the investment company Finam, which figured out how to circumvent the regulator’s requirement to trade on the stock exchange only until six o’clock in the evening, the investment company Brokercreditservice yesterday provided its clients with the opportunity to make transactions after the closure of the RTS and MICEX. And as analysts note, this practice may spread among stock market professionals.

Tbilisi creates a political enclave in South Ossetia Today, at an extraordinary meeting, the Georgian parliament is going to support the initiative of President Mikheil Saakashvili on temporary government in South Ossetia. In fact, this step will legitimize the status of the leader of the unrecognized republic, Dmitry Sanakoev, loyal to Tbilisi .

Global warming will help the north and ruin the south UN experts are preparing another scientific report on the consequences of global warming. One such multi-page document was adopted in early February of this year at a conference in Paris (see “Vremya Novostei” of January 31 and February 5 ).

Officials have come up with a new office renovation scheme City authorities intend to involve tenants living there in the reconstruction of city-owned office buildings. In return, entrepreneurs are promised “rent holidays” - payment benefits or a credit for their repair costs.

The two countries with which Russia had the most noisy hydrocarbon wars, Ukraine and Belarus, recently experienced very stormy presidential elections. That is, an event to which all actions of the leadership are usually subordinated in states where there are no democratic traditions and where a change of power is perceived as a global upheaval. Very soon - March 2, 2008 - Russia will have to go through presidential elections.

For the first time in Russian history, the prime minister traveled to Chukotka Yesterday, the most remote region of Russia - Chukotka - was visited by two high-ranking guests. The first is Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. The second is the governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , permanently residing in London, Roman Abramovich. The head of government was the first official of this rank in Russian history to visit Chukotka.

E.ON, Enel and Acciona resolved the dispute amicably The most expensive takeover deal fell through. The German energy giant E.ON, which has been trying for more than a year to overcome obstacles to the purchase of the Spanish energy company Endesa, has stopped fighting.

Gazprom does not want to pay for the environment of Sakhalin-2 Gazprom board member Bogdan Budzulyak yesterday publicly explained the main reason for the delay in the gas concern's entry into the Sakhalin-2 project. As Interfax reports with reference to a top manager, Gazprom seriously fears that it, as the main shareholder of the project, will have to respond to the claims of Rosprirodnadzor. According to Mr.

CLUBS Denise Perrier (USA, vocals) and Andrey Kondakov's ensemble. “Igor Butman Club” , 20.00 “Iva Nova” in “B2” , 20.00. "Transatlantic". Jazz rock. Forte , 21.00. MOVIE “Paragraph 78: The Second Film” (Russia, 2007). Directed by Mikhail Khleborodov. Starring Gosha Kutsenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Anastasia Slanevskaya, Aziz Beishenaliev, Grigory Siyatvinda, Stanislav Duzhnikov, Anatoly Bely, Yusup Bakhshiev.

The UN decides the fate of the sharpest fragment of Yugoslavia Yesterday, at closed meetings of the UN Security Council, a discussion began on the final status of Kosovo. In addition to representatives of five countries - permanent members of the Security Council and a dozen non-permanent ones - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is taking part in the consultations.

Russia proposed that the European Union jointly inspect Polish meat processing plants The European Union was unable to convince Rosselkhoznadzor of the excellent quality of meat exported from Poland to the Russian market.

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The North Atlantic cyclone promises to ruin the weather throughout almost the entire European territory of Russia. With it comes clouds, precipitation, gusty winds and cold temperatures. But we must take into account that the air temperature will still be above the climate norm, since March was abnormally warm this year and spoiled us with good weather.

The founder and director of the New Riga Theater Alvis Hermanis is today one of the most sought-after European directors of the new generation. At the end of April in Thessaloniki, at the presentation of the main European theater award “Europe-Theatre”, Alvis Hermanis will receive the “New Theatrical Reality” prize, which is given to experimenters (in particular, Anatoly Vasiliev, Eimuntas Nekrosius and Oskaras Korsunovas received it). His performances have been in Moscow three times already.

Alexey Miller is looking for a business model for developing the Shtokman field Gazprom, having refused to create a consortium with foreign companies in the project to develop the Shtokman field, has still not decided what to do with it alone. As the concern's press service reported yesterday, Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller held a meeting on Monday on this topic. However, it has not yet been possible to approve the Shtokman business model without foreigners.