Grani.ru collage Gazprom's subsidiary - Dutch Gazprom Finance BV - acquired 72.5383 percent of the shares of Sibneft, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company. According to the report, changes in the list of persons registered in the Sibneft shareholders register occurred on October 20, 2005. Gazprom announced the purchase of more than 72 percent of Sibneft shares for $ 13.1 billion on September 28.

Oktyabrsky district of Rostov-on-Don. Photo from Rostov-gorod.ru In Rostov-on-Don, on Friday, unknown people attacked a student from Cameroon, RIA Novosti reports with reference to law enforcement agencies of the Rostov region. He is seriously wounded. The attack was committed in the Oktyabrsky district, on Lenin Street near house 83, on a sports ground located next to the hostel of the Rostov State Medical University.

The fragments of the Su-27. Frame '' Vesti '' Lithuania is ready to begin the transfer of fragments of the Su-27 fighter of Russia. According to Interfax, the corresponding note, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday handed over to Russia in Vilnius. As stated in the document, the acceptance procedure will take place in accordance with the compiled inventory, after coordination from the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense.

Rasul Guliev. Photo from the site www.whoiswho.ru The head of the opposition Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, ex-speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament, Rasul Guliev flew from Kyiv to London. This was announced on Friday by Gazeta.ru by his first deputy, located in Baku Sardar Jalalogli. Guliyev planned meetings with the leaders of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada, but they were canceled.

Streaming in Blagoveshchensk. Frame 'Vesti' The Bashkiria prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on the fact of providing pressure on the inhabitants of Blagoveshchensk, recognized as victims during the December police raid. About this, as reports RIA Novosti, said Alexander Konovalov on Friday to the prosecutor of the republic. The case was opened under Article 309 of the Criminal Code of Russia (bribing or coercion to the testimony).

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in court. Photo by ar Concluded in the colony of Yag 14/10 near the Krasnokamensky Chita region, where Mikhail Khodorkovsky was delivered, are specially dangerous due to uranium extraction, which is carried out 15 kilometers from the zone. This is stated in the statement of the group "Eco -Protection!", Friday received on Friday to the editorial office of the Grani.ru.

Trauler '' Electron '' entered the port of Murmansk. Frame NTV The captain of the trailer "Electron" Valery Yarantsev was hospitalized, RIA Novosti reports. He felt ill on Thursday after 22.00, when the trawler arrived at the port of Murmansk. He is located in the Cardioremation Department of the Murmansk Regional Hospital, said Gennady Stepakhno, president of the North fishing union, Interfax reports. According to him, doctors assess Yarantsev’s condition as difficult.

Oil Production. Photos from the archive of the faces The Lithuanian Seim of Lithuania adopted on Thursday a package of bills that grant the government the authority to conduct cases of buying and selling shares of the Mazeikiu Nafta Neftekomplex. According to Prime-Tass, at the same time the Sejm ordered the government to coordinate the basic terms of the transaction on the purchase and process of shares with the parliament.

Logo MNS. The State Duma adopted on Friday in the third, final, reading the law on the extrajudicial recovery of tax payments. According to RIA Novosti, with the necessary 226 votes for the law, 343 deputies voted, 35 - against, 5 - abstained. The law makes amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and to the Law "On Compulsory Pension Insurance in the Russian Federation", as well as to the Customs Code of the Russian Federation.

Putin and Lukashenko. Photo from 3dway.org The Kremlin is not satisfied with the draft constitutional act of the Russian-Belarusian Union and will not allow a referendum on this issue until the fall of 2006, when the presidential election will be held in Belarus. This was announced by the newspaper.gzt.ru senior source in the Kremlin. According to him, the main problem is “the absence of a document in the draft (constitutional act.

Rafik Hariri. Photo from the site www.mignews.com The Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services were involved in the murder of former Prime Minister Livan Rafik Hariri with a high degree of probability. This is stated in the report of the head of the International Commission for the Investigation of the German Prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, which he transferred on Friday to the UN Secretary General of CoFi Annan at the headquarters of the organization in New York, ar said.

Explosion According to preliminary data, as a result of the explosion in the west of Azerbaijan, three people died, at least 30 were injured. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". The explosion occurred on Friday in the non -metal acceptance workshop in the vicinity of the city of Akstafa, located approximately 460 kilometers west of Baku. According to the Lider channel from the scene, more than 30 wounded were delivered to the Central District Hospital.

On Jamaica, the hurricane 'Vilma' caused a flood. Photo by ar In connection with the approach of the Vilm tropical hurricane, a state of emergency has been announced in Florida. According to Reuters, the National Guard of the state has been transferred to the enhanced service regime. Meanwhile, as experts from the National Center for Observation of Hurricanes in Miami notes, in the last hours the hurricane has weakened a little, but still poses a serious danger.

Picket against Ilyumzhinov. The "mummy" of Kalmykia. Photo from the website of IA Mick The Yabloko party on Thursday held a picket in Moscow against the appointment of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov by the President of the Republic of Kalmykia. The shares were held on the Revolution Square opposite the State Duma building. About 50 party activists participated in it, the REGNUM IA in the press service of Yabloko told.

Henry Padva. Photo from the site www.inter.su Lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky hope on Monday to meet him in a correctional colony in the Chita region. This was announced on Friday by one of his defenders Henry Padva, RIA Novosti reports. “We intend to go there in the near future and on Monday we hope to be there,” he said, not excluding that Inna’s wife will come to the colony along with lawyers.