Rumors about the resignation of Herman Gref have been going on for a long time. Related to the so -called group of "St. Petersburg liberals" - unlike "St. Petersburg security forces", German Gref personified the course on consistent market reforms of the economy. The central topic of confrontation was a gas monopoly - Gref intended to reform it according to the European model: to dismember it of two parts - transport and several extracting companies - and create a gas market in this way.

The UES RAO Holding will be liquidated by the end of 2006, said the Minister of Industry and Energy of Russia Viktor Khristenko during the meeting of the working group for the reform of the electric power complex of Russia, Gazeta.ru reports. “All the tasks that were set for RAO UES are fulfilled. There are time shifts, but it is 2-3 months, ”the minister said. “To date, the issues of cross -subsidizing and the functioning of heat stations are not fully resolved in legal terms.

On December 10, the opening of the annual international festival of films about human rights “Stalker”, conducted by the Guild of filmmakers of Russia, will take place. This festival is the tenth in a row. The festival takes place in the House of Cinema SK Russia. The program of the film festival: premieres of Russian gaming and documentaries, meetings with their creators, round tables and press conferences on various aspects of human rights protection.

In the presidential election in Ukraine, the opposition was preparing in advance to implement the scenario of non-recognition of the results of the second tour of the authorities of the authorities of their falsification, Interfax-Ukraine reports. The opposition, led by Viktor Yushchenko, was preparing to get the presidential post through democratic procedures, however, in case of defeat, she would reject the results of the elections as a result of violence and fraud in polling stations.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to work without days off, reports Interfax-Ukraine . This decision was supported by 293 deputies with the necessary 226. The corresponding proposal was made to the parliament by the coordinator of the our Ukraine faction Viktor Pinzenik. The decision to work without days off - on Saturday and Sunday - is made in connection with a difficult political and economic situation in the country.

All victims of the Persttsovoye field, which belongs to Gazprom OJSC, are currently at home, the Newsprom.ru correspondent was told in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Civil Defense and Emergency Authority of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Their condition is still assessed as satisfactory.

Member of the CEC of Ukraine Andrei Mager believes that the CEC can “really meet the deadlines” determined by the Supreme Court for re -voting on the presidential election - December 26, RIA Novosti reports . If Yanukovych takes off his candidacy more than 10 days before the day of re -voting, then a candidate will be included in the ballot, who took third place in the elections in the first round.

The financial difficulties in the Ukrainian energy system due to the domestic political crisis led to an arrears of $ 18 million in the National Nuclear Energy Energy Energy Company Energoatu by the Russian OJSC TVEL for nuclear fuel, RBC reports. This statement was made yesterday by the Minister of Fuel and Energy, President of Energoatom Sergey Tulub at a meeting with President Leonid Kuchma in a country residence in Koncha-Zasp near Kiev. “I am negotiating with TV,” Tulub said.

According to the source of Polit.ru in state bodies, the resignation of German Gref, the liberal Minister of Economic Development and Trade from the St. Petersburg environment of President Putin, was a foregone conclusion. As the source noted, Gref’s opposition to Gazprom to absorb Yuganskneftegaz and become a supermonopoly caused the discontent of the president’s closest environment: the head of the administration Dmitry Medvedev and the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia instituted a case on the grounds of violation of Visa International Service Association of the Law "On Protection of Competition in the Financial Services Market" (Articles 5 and 6). A special commission was created, reports " Gazeta.Ru ". Visa is accused of abusing the dominant position in the market of the Russian plastic maps.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin began an official visit to Delhi with a meeting with the Foreign Minister of India N. Singhu , during which it was about key issues of bilateral relations, and interaction in the international arena. According to the results of the negotiations, a joint declaration was adopted, which, in particular, states that India decisively supports the speedy entry of the Russian Federation to the WTO.

Yesterday it became known that the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation managed to agree with his Belarusian colleagues on extradition to Moscow Kazbek Dukuzov and Valid Agaev. One of them is suspected of killing the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine in Russia Paul Khlebnikov, and the second in the abduction of the entrepreneur Ahmed Pasha Aliyev and the extortion of money from him.

The representative of the presidential candidate from the opposition, Viktor Yushchenko, Nikolai Katerinchuk, expresses satisfaction with the verdict of the Supreme Court , reports Interfax-Ukraine . Katerinchuk noted that Ukraine is approaching democratic standards, and the court decision must be respected. This decision, he noted, will contribute to the relief in society and the exit from the crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin began an official visit to India with a meeting with India Foreign Minister Nannya Singhu, Interfax reports.

President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma holds a conciliation council in Konch-Zasp with the participation of factions and groups of parliament and government representatives, Interfax-Ukraine reports. In this regard, at 16.00 local time, the planned evening meeting of the parliament will open, but its break will be immediately announced until 17.00.