18 1 min. ... The management of Tomskneft OJSC, a subsidiary of Yukos Oil Company, claims that it does not yet need to open additional bank accounts to ensure the current activities of the enterprise. As Olga Dmitrieva, financial director of Tomskneft, told Kommersant yesterday, the seizure of the company’s accounts in several Moscow banks created “some inconvenience for its work, but they are not fatal.” The company has several more accounts in Moscow and Tomsk banks.

To enter the pool of federal cellular operators 32 3 min. ... Yesterday, commercial director of Uralsvyazinform OJSC Andrei Belobokov revealed the company’s strategy for entering the cellular communications market of the Middle Urals. According to him, a single roaming-free network will be a trump card over local competitors.

Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transnefteproduct JSC. Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors became Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation Andrei Reus. RBC reports this with reference to the press service of Transnefteproduct.

351 1 min. ... Executive Director of Volkswagen do Brazil and General Director of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC will take part in the presentation on the Russian market of the VW Pointer compact car, produced in Brazil under the VW Gol brand. Valery Graifer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC LUKOIL, will take part in the V Congress of Russian Oil and Gas Industrialists in Kazan.

675 1 min. ... News 20.00 The main story is that an anti-terrorist rally was held in Moscow. Genre: reportage. The intonation is approving. “An hour before the start of the rally there was no longer any free space on Vasilievsky Spusk,” the journalist reports. “Today there was no pretentious scene: there were several trucks on which those who wanted to express what had accumulated were climbing on,” he notes. Fragments of interviews with people who came to Vasilyevsky Spusk are given.

On September 8, the Federal Security Service offered a reward of more than $10 million for information about the whereabouts of the criminals. Information can be provided by phone in Moscow (914-43-69) or in Chechnya (8-(8712)-222-762, 8-(928)-290-06-10, 8-(8712)-222-510) . And also contact the territorial bodies of the FSB in Russia.

Typhoon Songda in southwestern Japan killed 10 people, injured 628, and 21 are considered missing, RIA Novosti reports. On the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, as well as in the Chugoku area of ​​the main island of Honshu, transport is completely paralyzed. More than 20 thousand people were evacuated. About 1.8 million people in Japan were temporarily left without electricity.

On September 8, the Riga City Legislative Assembly took up the issue of renaming the street named after the late Chechen separatist leader Dzhokhar Dudayev. Vice-Mayor of Riga Sergei Dolgopolov said in an interview with ITAR-TASS : “After what happened in North Ossetia, it is simply indecent to have such a street in the city.” He also said that the initiator of the renaming of Dudayev Street is his “Other Politics” faction.

He doesn’t need a public investigation into the tragedy 2K 2 minutes. ... counter-propaganda On Monday evening, President Vladimir Putin received a group of foreign scientists and journalists studying Russia at his Novo-Ogaryovo country residence.

10 1 min. ... Morning fix ($/troy oz.) Afternoon fix ($/troy oz.) Chg. (%) Buy/Sell ($/troy oz.) Gold 401.8 398.1 -0.87 398.45 / 399.2 Silver — 6,515 -0.38 6.25 / 6.28 Platinum 850 847 +0.06 842 / 847 Palladium 211 209 -1.9 207 / 212 Rhodium — — — 1160 / 1240 According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 166 dated 09/08/2004, p. 8

The Italian government has asked Iran to assist in the release of two Italian hostages - Simone Toretta and Simone Pari. As stated in a communiqué issued by the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini called the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Kamal Kharrazi and asked for help to save the two women, ITAR-TASS reports.

Acting Rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory announced 192 2 minutes. ... music footage Yesterday, composer and director of the Moscow Philharmonic, Alexander Tchaikovsky, was appointed acting rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The former rector, cellist Sergei Roldugin, resigned with the wording “in connection with a transfer to another job.” Alexander Tchaikovsky became the third head of the conservatory in the last two years.

138 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, a large delegation of the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater flew to Thailand to participate in the Sixth International Music and Dance Festival, which opens today. Among the 205 artists and employees of the theater, its chief director Alexei Stepanyuk was not found. Due to a conflict with the chief conductor Teodor Currentzis, caused by different approaches to the orchestral performance of Carmen, he decided to stay in Russia.

banking technologies 1K 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant has learned, Bank Manager, owned by the managers of Soyuzobschemashbank, has stopped depositing funds from both private clients and legal entities. At Soyuzobschemashbank itself, depositors are not directly refused, but are politely recommended to keep their money at home. And for legal entities, they have come up with a new service: interest is charged on suspended payments, as on funds deposited.

Hotels went at starting price 15 1 min. ... Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Property Fund auctioned off three state-owned stakes in city hotels. However, there was no bargaining between potential buyers - the shares of Vyborgskaya, Kievskaya and Chaika were sold at their starting prices.