The Millhouse Capital management company received 57% of the shares of Sibneft, previously owned by the Yukos NK. This is stated in the press release of Millhouse Capital, representing the interests of Roman Abramovich and his partners.

The Committee of the American Film Academy, engaged in the award of the most prestigious movie in the Oscar, confirmed that the tape "driver for faith" fell into the circle of applicants in the nomination "Best Foreign Film". The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine received official confirmation about this, reports ICTV . According to the rules of the Oscars, the country can apply for this award if the presented tape was in the film distribution and Ukrainians worked on it.

In Moscow, the deputy director of the school stole 300 thousand rubles intended for the payment of wages to teachers. According to the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the day before, the 46-year-old deputy director of the secondary school N79 turned to the police. The woman said that near house 12, building 1 on Artamonov Street two unknown in black masks pulled out a bag of money from her and disappeared.

Last night, 42-year-old Elena Parfenova was killed in Moscow, from which certificates of the Deputy Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship of the Republic of Altai and an assistant to one of the members of the Federation Council were discovered.

Pope John Pavel II has published a new book, which is presented these days at the Frankfurt Book Fair. According to the head of the Holy Service Service Hoacin Navarro Waltz, the new work of the pontiff is called "Memory and Identity". According to him, this is a philosophical and historical work in which dad reflects on the fate of Europe, paying special attention to the problems of modern democracy and protecting human rights. John Pavel II took up the work on this work about 20 years ago.

The head of Gazprom Alexei Miller made a number of statements indicating that the state is going to concentrate diverse energy acts in this largest gas holding. In particular, on the air of the NTV television channel, Miller announced that Gazprom has already owed more than 10% of RAO UES. He did not specify the Gazprom stake in Mosenergo OJSC, calling it significant. “We are building a multidisciplinary energy company.

In Iraq, a Kazakhstani soldier from the peacekeeping battalion, which is part of the multinational stabilization forces of the coalition, was wounded, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan told RIA Novosti. "The Peacemaker was wounded by personal negligence, he received a slight injury to his hand. He was provided with first medical care on the spot," the press service of the republic’s defense department said.

The backbone of illegal armed groups in Chechnya is 600-900 people. This was announced by President of Chechnya ALU Alkhanov, speaking at a press conference at the Strasbourg Palace of Europe, RIA Novosti reports. "Most of these people, unfortunately, are representatives of the Chechen nationality," he said.

Within the framework of the Nobel Week, the commission of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday will announce the 2004 Nobel Prize laureate in literature. According to the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, the world laureate will be called the Norwegian Nobel Committee on October 8. The Commission of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences will announce the winner of the Economics Prize on October 11. For each direction, a bonus of 10 million Swedish crowns (about $ 1 million) is provided.

The name of Admiral Feodor Ushakov (1745-1817), who was revered for three years was revered as a local Holy Saran Diocese, was entered into the holy of the Russian Orthodox Church . Such a decision was made by the Bishop Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, which, together with the admiral, ranked 13 more ascetics of the XIV-XX centuries, revered as local murmurs, who were more than 13 ascetics of the faith of the XIV-XX.

Criminal investigators detained a 23-year-old citizen on Krasnonskaya Street of Moscow without a specific place of residence. As it turned out, the detainee in November 2002 was on the federal wanted list for the unauthorized abandonment of the military unit, according to Thursday on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A special dial with Poland Prime Minister Marec Squirrel on board, which was sent on Thursday for the Asia-European summit, made an emergency landing in South China. Fuel began to flow out of the aircraft when the board was on the runway at Kunmin Airport, PAP, adviser to the Poland Embassy in China Peter Stajynsky told the Polish news agency. All passengers were forced to leave the plane.

The Moscow City Court confirmed the legality of the arrest of the money of two subsidiaries of Yukos - Yuganskneftegaz, which produces over 60% of Yukos oil, as well as Tomskneft -VNK. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of the lawyers of these companies and confirmed the legality of the arrest imposed on August 31 by decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

At least six people were injured as a result of an earthquake of 5.7 points on the Richter scale, which occurred in the areas of the Great Tokyo and the Canto area adjacent to it. According to the Japanese meteorological service, the epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 66 km from the earth's surface, south of the Ibaraki Prefecture (northeast of Tokyo). Because of him, the movement of trains and electric trains in the capital of Japan and the environs was interrupted, Interfax reports.

In Veliky Novgorod during the youth campaign "Throw Smoking!" Cigarettes will be changed to fruits, sweets and sports equipment. An unusual action to combat smoking will begin on Friday, October 8, at 16.00 Moscow time. The action will be held at the Humanitarian Institute of the Novgorod State University named after Yaroslav the Wise at the student holiday "Fresh Day".