Two of the three appraisers of the Gazprom and Rosneft promotion transaction - Morgan Stanley and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW) - transferred their reports to the customers. The third appraiser, the Russian company "2K Audit - business consultations", has not yet completed the assessment.

In Moscow, a policeman was detained, who, as part of an organized criminal group, tried to kidnap the citizen of Azerbaijan. According to law enforcement agencies of the capital, on December 14, the senior police sergeant Renat Yakupov, born in 1973, was detained on Bolshaya Semenovskaya Street in the East District.

In the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church), they do not agree with the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation prohibiting the creation of parties on a religious basis.

US President George Bush signed a secret directive prescribing US Department of Defense and National Security to temporarily blocking the American GPS satellite navigation system in case of terrorist attacks or other emergency or crisis situations. This was announced on Wednesday in Washington a senior official representative of the White House, according to which the blocking of the GPS system will not allow terrorists to use its navigation capabilities.

The Central Electoral Commission of Palestine published on Thursday a list of candidates for the post of chairman of the Palestinian National Administration (PNU), which remained seven names. Independent candidates of ABD AS-SATTAR KASIM, Marvan Barguti, serving life imprisonment in an Israeli prison, and Hassan Khureish, acting as a speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, refused to participate in the elections on January 9, 2005, RIA Novosti reports.

The problems of Russian sport are largely associated with the irresponsibility of people who have received authority and have not been responsible for anything, on Thursday the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports Vyacheslav Fetisov said.

The "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine brought New Year's fashion for orange Christmas trees. Their release was established by the Lutsk plastic factory. Fire-yellow Christmas trees are bought instantly.

One person died and two were seriously injured as a result of the collapse of a light passenger aircraft off the coast of New Zealand, New Zealand media reported on Thursday. The Cessna-172 aircraft of the local Solt Air airline fell into the water 100 meters from the coast near the city of Kaitaia at the northern tip of the northern island of New Zealand. At the same time, a Swiss tourist who was on board died.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has denied the information that was widespread on Thursday by a Near Media about the supposedly “tightened” tanks to the Ukrainian capital. This was stated by the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. "Today, December 16, some electronic media reported that from the southwestern direction to the Kiev on the tractors, they proceeded T-80 tanks.

Employees of the Federal Drug Control Service near the Perm General Post Office detained a resident of the city with a parcel in which there were drugs. As it turned out, he received the parcel by mail from abroad. During the inspection of the contents of the parcel, drug police found 25 packages with hemp seeds and 1000 ecstasy tablets. In addition, in the package there were booklets that promote the use of drugs, and poster with the image of hemp.

Sharon Stone filed a lawsuit against a plastic surgeon from the clinic in Beverly Hills Renato Calabria. The famous Hollywood actress accuses the doctor of giving false information, saying that she was his patient. Sharon claims that she never resorted to the help of plastic surgery. The lawsuit was registered in the Supreme Court of Los Angeles, reports CBS . In the lawsuit, Sharon Stone indicates that on the website of Dr.

The other day, the Volgograd "United Russia" drew attention to the alarming situation that develops in the region with sexually transmitted diseases. Caring for the shaken health of citizens, they made a call to legalize prostitution, new news reports . - legalization of prostitution. Foreign experience For ten months of 2004, about 6 thousand people infected with sexually transmitted infections became patients of the Volgograd dine-venereological dispensary.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II hopes that the new leadership of Palestine will put at the forefront of not momentary benefit, but the benefit of the Palestinian people. “At one time, Yasir Arafat was one of the initiators of the beginning of the Middle Eastern settlement. The new leaders should become worthy successors of this process.

In the court of bankruptcy cases of the Southern District of Texas in Houston today at 19:30 Moscow time, hearings in the Yukos case are renewed. This was announced by ITAR-TASS CLALS. The task of Yukos’s lawyers is to achieve the judge of the company's urgent request for the temporary suspension of the conduct of the auction for the sale of Yuganskneftegaz in Russia on the next Sunday.

The head of the mininform communications Leonid Reiman does not mind the possible corporatization of the Russian television and radio broadcasting network - a state -owned enterprise engaged in the spread of television and radio signals throughout the country. It is, in particular, that controls the Ostankino TV tower. “I am not against corporatization, but we must do it carefully, develop the right approaches,” said the Minister on Thursday RIA Novosti .