The Russian oil concern Yukos intends to double oil sales to China - from 500 thousand to 1 million tons. The head of the concern, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, began negotiations in Beijing on Monday with the Chinese National Oil Company on increasing supplies of Russian oil. In addition to the issue of increasing supplies, the problem of transporting oil by rail is also being discussed, RIA Novosti reports.

Last Sunday, the Basque terrorist organization ETA announced that it was abandoning the indefinite truce announced on September 17 last year. ETA said in a communiqué that it would resume armed struggle as of December 3. The ETA leadership motivates this decision by the fact that “peace negotiations were blocked due to the fault of the government - it did not want to listen to their demands and continued repressions against Basque activists,” RIA Novosti reports.

According to the Federal Migration Service of Russia, as of November 25, 233 thousand 400 temporary migrants arrived from Chechnya, of which 219 thousand 400 people are registered in Ingushetia, the head of the Federal Migration Service Vladimir Kalamanov said today at a briefing. As RBC reports, he noted that the number of Chechen residents returning home is now at least 1,000 people a day.

Since 2000, all electric trains purchased by the Moscow Railway will be equipped with climate control systems. This decision was made by the head of the road, Gennady Fadeev, reports RIA Novosti. Thus, the Ministry of Railways intends to combat the theft of carriage property. Nowadays, electric furnaces are installed in the carriages of electric trains, and they are stolen all the time. For example, this year 2,158 pieces were stolen, and the damage caused amounted to 434 thousand 550 rubles.

When considering amendments to the third reading of the draft budget 2000, the State Duma, in particular, supported the government amendment, according to which the Central Bank of Russia is allowed to purchase government securities during their initial placement in the amount of 30 billion rubles. As indicated in the text of the adopted document, proceeds from the sale of these securities will be used to repay and service the state internal debt.

Employees of the Sverdlovsk department of private security neutralized a gang of raiders who were robbing apartments in Moscow. RIA Novosti reported this to the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate on Monday. The criminal group consisted of four men and a woman. All of them are citizens of Georgia. The robbers used a Moskvich car with a red cross and the name of a health insurance company.

Next year, the Moscow City Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (MGFOMS) plans to spend over six billion (6,117,009 thousand) rubles on its needs. One of the leaders of the Fund, Alexander Reshetnikov, reported this on November 29 at a meeting of the budget and financial commission of the Moscow City Duma, RIA Novosti reports. Of this amount, 5.769 billion rubles will be allocated to finance the city’s compulsory health insurance program.

On Monday, at an operational meeting with the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation decided to petition the President of Russia to remove Nikolai Kulikov, head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, from his post.

On December 1 at 19.00 Moscow time, Internet users will be able to take part in the first Internet conference of the former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and now the leader of the Fatherland - All Russia bloc, Yevgeny Primakov. The conference will take place in the MSNBC.com chat room , where online meetings with famous politicians, journalists and other “stars” are traditionally held. In particular, in September an online conference of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was held here.

Richard Posner, the US Federal Court of Appeals judge appointed to mediate the out-of-court settlement between Microsoft and the US Justice Department over an antitrust lawsuit, will meet with stakeholders on Tuesday in Chicago. According to Reuters, citing an unnamed person aware of the developments, the meeting will last less than one day. As a reminder, a mediator was appointed by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on November 19th.

General parliamentary elections have begun in Malaysia. Polling stations opened on Monday at eight o'clock in the morning local time. There are 9.5 million citizens over the age of 18 registered in the country with the right to vote. Observers say the majority of Malaysians will vote for supporters of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has been in power for the past 18 years. In the country's history, the ruling Barisan coalition has never lost a general election.

The amendment to Article 26 of the federal law on the budget for 2000, adopted on Monday by the State Duma, exempts from next year the Ministries of Defense, Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information, the Federal Security Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Federal Border Service of Russia and other state structures that have troops and military formations at their disposal are exempt from paying contributions to

On November 29 in St. Petersburg, during an inspection of a KamAZ truck, 21 kilograms of heroin were found. The task force of the Department for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking found a cache in two containers under the bottom of a truck arriving from Tajikistan. The cost of the found “product” on the black market is about 500 thousand dollars. The driver of the KamAZ, a resident of Tajikistan, has already been found. He admitted that on November 23 he delivered heroin to St.

On Monday, the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, arrived in Moscow. The main purpose of his visit is to discuss with Russian leaders issues of resolving the conflict in the Middle East, determining the status of Palestine, as well as problems of bilateral relations.

Over the past two days, federal aviation made more than 100 sorties to the Chechen region, and combat helicopters took to the air 113 times. This was reported by the Military News Agency with reference to the headquarters of the United Group of Russian Forces. According to preliminary data, 25 enemy strongholds, nine terrorist camps, three headquarters, two communications centers were destroyed, nine sections of mountain roads were mined, and seven bridges and crossings were damaged.