Rosneft President Sergey Bogdanchikov admitted on Wednesday in Paris that the company is negotiating the purchase of Sales of Yukos with Unitex LLC - the winner of the auction. According to him, Rosneft will complete the consolidation of the acquired assets of Yukos in July. The head of Rosneft did not specify whose interests represented by Unitex: “This is not a question for me,” he said.

The Government of Ukraine approved on Wednesday the draft law on the allocation of 365 million hryvnias (more than 70 million dollars) of the CEC for elections. This was announced to reporters by the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Nikolai Azarov after the government meeting, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance, the government on Wednesday will send a bill to parliament.

20 tanks of the Turkish army left the location in Mardin near the Turkish-Syrian border and headed to the Turkish-Iraq border, the Iranian English-language television channel Press TV reports.

Russian Igor Andreev left behind the open championship of the French tennis the third racket of the tournament Andy Roddik from the USA. On Tuesday, in the match of the first round, the Russian in four sets sensationally outplayed the American tennis player with a score of 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 3. For victory, Andreev needed a little less than three hours. The tennis player from Russia surpassed the opponent in the number of Ais made by Ais: 8 versus 5.

The Israeli company Anyway was chosen by the Madagascar government to implement a national project worth $ 300 million, reports Newsru Israel . Anyway is the world leader in the field of soil stabilization (soil erosion in recent decades has accepted the scale of natural disaster in Madagascar). In addition, the company has unique technologies for the processing of construction waste.

The seller of ordinary shares of the Bank of VTB Bank for the Basic issue, according to which the MICEX stock exchange was forced to suspend bidding on Monday due to growth of more than one and a half times, turned out to be the Fincom. This was confirmed by the agency "Interfax" the head of the "Finkom" Radislav Mironov.

A large fire broke out on Wednesday in the Central Commercial Center of the Indian city of Kanpur. Firefighters saved a total of about 300 people from fire, 10 of them were insignificant and were hospitalized, Express India reports. Fire anxiety was raised at about 18:00 local time. A 8-story building was embraced by fire, in which about 300 people were blocked, local authorities said. Earlier, The Times on India reported 60 people cut off by fire.

The commercial boss of the World Cups in the Formula-1 Classes of Machines Bernie Ecclestone warned McLaren about possible sanctions, if the stable was found guilty of using team tactics at the Monaco Grand Prix of the Grand Prix of Grand Prix .

In the "Short List" the largest national literary prize "Big Book", announced by the Council of Experts under the chairmanship of the prose writer Mikhail Butov, there were 12 authors. For the title of laureate, the prize will fight: 1. Dmitry Bykov (novel "railway"), 2. Alexey Varlamov (the book "Alexei Tolstoy" from the series "Life of wonderful people"), 3. Andrey of the hair (collection of stories "Alphabet"), 4. Victor Pelevin (novel "Empire V"), 5.

In the village of Surskoye, the Ulyanovsk region, four houses, outbuildings, as well as various property, including the VAZ-2106 car, completely burned on Tuesday. As Interfax was told in the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, the alleged cause of the fire is the careless handling of the child’s fire. "A 12 -year -old boy repaired a moped in the barn of one of the houses, poured gasoline, then decided to start a moped, check if there was a spark.

The leader of the Fair Russia, the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, said that the party will not unite with the Communists before the parliamentary elections in the country. He informed on Wednesday to reporters that the party would go to the elections of different columns, but will unite after the elections, RIA Novosti reports.

In Nizhny Novgorod, police officers detained the patient of the regional psychiatric hospital N1, who escaped from a medical institution on Monday morning. According to the Nizhny Novgorod RUVD, a 38-year-old man suffering from schizophrenia and convicted of compulsory medical measures under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder) was detained on Wednesday in his apartment. At the same time, two more patients who escaped from the clinic are wanted.

All large trading, processing, construction and other enterprises of Russia are registered with the inter -regional tax incessation number 3. Until now, the Third Interregional Inspectorate controlled only the company of alcoholic and tobacco sectors - now it significantly strengthens its influence and becomes intersectoral. In addition, this means that now all large companies are registered in ten interregional specialized inspections.

Russian Marat Safin dropped out of the struggle at the French open championship in the tennis, which takes place these days in Paris, in the second round of the tournament. The Russian Giant could not win a single set in the confrontation with the Serbian tennis player Yanko Tsyarevich - 4: 6, 4: 6, 5: 7. Nikolai Davydenko won the Austrian Werner Ashauer with a score of 7: 5, 6: 3, 6: 1 and went into the third round. His next rival will be Nicholas Almagro or Michelle Llor.

The Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences began writing the history of Russian Orthodox foreign countries. “This is a huge layer of world history, the history of the Russian people and the history of Orthodoxy in general, which should be known to the general public,” the director of the institute, a member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Academician Alexander Chubaryan, said at a press conference in Moscow.