By the end of the week, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy will conclude a merger of the confluence of Yukos and Sibneft companies, said the head of MAP Ilya Yuzhanov. "There are no obstacles to the merger of companies, although there are issues in a number of markets regarding the strengthening of dominance in certain regions of the Russian Federation," the minister said.

Large shopping and entertainment complexes are planned to be built in the near future in the center of Moscow in the squares of the Paveletsky Station, Sukharevskaya, Bolotnaya and Sadovo-Spasskaya streets. The corresponding resolution was signed by the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the city administration.

In St. Petersburg, late in the evening of Tuesday, an attack on the vice-governor, chairman of the city’s health committee Anatoly Kagan was attacked. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, the crime occurred in the Moscow district of St. Petersburg at the entrance of the house in which the vice-governor lives. The attackers inflicted several blows to the Kagan on the head.

The honored veteran of the acting workshop Marlon Brando, it is possible, may turn out to be the grandfather of the American rock star Courtney Love. In any case, it is in this capacity that he is presented in the new book of the mother of the ex -wife of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain, psychologist Linda Carroll. According to Carroll, she has already passed the DNA analysis to confirm that she is the daughter of the star of the "godfather".

One of the most famous criminals in the United States, Theodor Kachinski appealed to the court with a request to return his property to him, including one of his bombs, Reuters reports. Kachinski wants the government to return to him books, personal papers and chemical reagents that he used to make bombs.

The structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will create a special center “T” to combat terrorism, sources in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Wednesday. According to this information, on August 12, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Boris Gryzlov signed an order to create the Center "T" in the structure of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime. It will be entrusted with coordination of all actions to combat terrorism in Russia.

Russia sent all the necessary materials to the UN member countries and the interpol member countries in the “black lists” of militants, which are part of the so-called “Congress of the peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan,” Movladi Udugov, which was recognized by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with a terrorist organization.

The appearance in the forest massif of the northern suburbs of Beirut - the village of Rabia - a two -meter lizard of a rare type of "punch" plunged many Lebanos into a state of affect. This was reported on Wednesday by the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustakbal. Residents of Rabia, who began to fear for their lives and especially their children, having a “monster” in the neighborhood, told the city authorities about the appearance of a “strange animal, large size, outwardly similar to a crocodile”.

The ability to politely chat with his colleagues, which is so necessary when working in any office, is not innate, and it can be developed in itself. The glossary of the necessary phrases and replicas publishes The Wall Street Journal (translation on the website inopressa.ru ). Don Ryd hates people's question "How are you?" Otherwise, the 65-year-old insurance manager of the construction company is worried, his colleagues may have the impression that he really wants to hear the answer.

On August 13, all left -handed people can arrange a holiday for themselves. The fact is that today is the International Day of the Left. The international club of the left -handed person, whose members around the world are 28 thousand people, supports this event in every possible way. Motto: "Lefts of all countries, connect and show these right -handed people!" Our world was created for right -handedness, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes today (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

The religious situation in Azerbaijan, despite individual negative phenomena, remains relatively stable. This was announced today by Interfax-Azerbaijan to the head of the Azerbaijan State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations Rafik Aliyev. "Of course, the emergence of any excesses cannot be completely denied, but the state is in force to deal with them.

One million dollars was promised by the head of state sports Vyacheslav Fetisov to each Olympian who will win a gold medal at 2004 games in Athens. In this regard, criticism from the Olympic Committee of Russia has already collapsed on Fetisov. According to the representative of Fetisov, Goskomport for a long time thought how to help the Russian Olympians.

A huge landslide is moving into the center of Saratov, Interfax reports. The first signs of soil shift appeared last Sunday, and the length of the movement was, according to the specialists of the city engineering protection service, 9 centimeters. During Monday, the sliding speed increased three times - up to 27 centimeters per day.

A homemade explosive device was seized on the area of ​​three stations of the capital from a non -working resident of the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow region, sources in the Central Department of Internal Affairs said on Wednesday. The 53-year-old man was detained the day before, near the Kazan station. He found an explosive device consisting of a tin can filled with pyroxilin gunpowder with a total weight of 180 grams, and an electric -sprayer. Links on the topic

Japanese scientists discovered a new elementary particle, which may have "participated" in the creation of the universe. On Wednesday, Tokyo has published the results of experiments on the high energy accelerator B-Factory in the city of Tsukuba, where the Japanese in cooperation with foreign colleagues pushed the flows of electrons and positrons to obtain particles and antiparticles.