The head of the Yukos Semen Cukes denies in the near future the possibility of negotiations on a merger with large Western oil companies. In an interview with the BBC television company, he confirmed that the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky negotiated with the American oil company Exxonmobil. According to Kukess, now the situation has changed and in the near future sensations should not be expected.

In the foreseeable future, the conclusion of the reactors of the Kurchatov Institute from Moscow is almost impossible. This was announced today by the vice-president of the Russian Scientific Center "Kurchatov Institute" Academician Nikolai Ponomarev-steppe.

Political persecution and the ominous development of the situation called the Mosgorsud’s decision to leave Mikhail Khodorkovsky in custody American philanthropist-multimillioner George Soros, speaking at the Russian-American business symposium in Boston, Lenta.Ru reports with reference to the Associated Press. Soros noted that the decision to leave Khodorkovsky in custody or his release is the prerogative of the court.

Two police officers died as a result of shelling in Chechnya, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic. The attack was made on Wednesday in the Central Market in the city of Argun. Unknown people fired at a police patrol from automatic weapons. The sergeant and the Private Police of V employees of the local GOVD were killed from the wounds. In addition, a 67-year-old local resident who accidentally fell under fire was injured.

The Institute of Economics of the City Foundation distributed a statement in which he formulated his position on the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The authors of the statement on the example of the “case of Yukos” analyzed the current state of business relationships, not only large, and authorities.

Council for the sage Russian President shared his thoughts with the mayor of Moscow Towards the election Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin in Novo-Ogarev met with Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who recently instructed to become the co-chair of the Council of the sages of Russia and Japan. According to Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov, judging by the enthusiasm, both participants in the meeting emphasized that Mr.

Lists of candidates for deputies of United Russia open the names of more than three dozen persons who do not need deputy mandates, the newspaper publication writes today. These are ministers, governors, presidents of the republics, mayors of V for their own deputy do not matter, but their authority needs the party, so they head its lists. The voter sees a beautiful facade and casts a voice for those whom he knows.

About 200 members of the National Consent Bloc, headed by the former Minister of Finance of Georgia in the government of ex-president Zviada Gamsakhurdia, Guram Alzandze, breaking through the police cordon, occupied the first floor of the administration in the city of Zugdidi in the west of Georgia, Interfax reports.

The British actress Vanessa Redrheiv, who was the guarantor and guarantor of Ahmed Zakayev, welcomed the decision of the London Magistratian court, refused to issue a former representative Aslan Maskhadov, the Sky News website reports. “This is the greatest victory of the Chechen people, Ahmed Zakayev and all the Russians who fought for the truth during this process,” V said Redgrave.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov announced his intention to bring out the city of the Kurchatov Institute in the near future. According to RIA Novosti, to the question of journalists about how much the institution will still be located in the capital, Luzhkov, who is on the pre -election vacation, replied: “A maximum of a couple more years, and this whole site will be free.” Yuri Luzhkov is preoccupied, of course, and the issue of ecology.

A joint meeting of the Security Council and the Presidium of the State Council at the meeting will be held with the participation of the President will discuss the issue “On the state of protection of critical objects of infrastructure and the country's population from threats of technogenic, natural nature and terrorist manifestations”. Moreover, we will talk about objects that are not only in state property.

Today's government meeting will be devoted to the progress of pension reform. Among the speakers are Chairman of the Board of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) Mikhail Zurabov, Deputy Minister of Finance Bella Zlatkis, who oversees pension reform issues in her ministry, and Minister of Labor and Social Development Alexander Pochinok.

There are 164 residential buildings on Sakhalin without heating, in which 12 thousand people live. This was reported by the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies. In the four areas of the Sakhalin region, where the most critical situation has developed, an emergency may be announced. Operational groups of the regional center of the Ministry of Emergencies are directed to these areas.

He declared war on Irukan, he himself led the army to the border, drowned it in the swamps and lost it in the forests. For such blunders, any minister would have been hanged by his feet at the top of the Merry Tower, but Don Reba somehow remained in power.

Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law “On Amendments and Additions to the Federal Law of Citizenship of the Russian Federation”, adopted by the State Duma on October 17, 2003. And approved by the Federation Council on October 29, 2003, the press service of the head of the Russian state said today.