Members of the board of LUKOIL OJSC Sergey Kukura and Lyubov Hoba left the shareholders of OJSC RITEK, in which they owned 0.29% and 0.28% of the authorized capital, respectively. A week ago, it became known about the sale by the president of the company Vagit Alekperov 0.41% of RITEC shares.

Victor Yushchenko, who won the presidential election in Ukraine, signed an appeal to politicians and public figures to create a new Ukrainian party. About this agency "Ukrainian News" was connected in the press service of the Central Staff of Yushchenko.

Yesterday, in Nizhny Novgorod, employees of the regional FSB seized working documentation from the office of the Society of Russian -Chechen Friendship (ORCHD) - a human rights organization that distributes daily news reports on the situation with human rights in Chechnya. Human rights activists are threatened by criminal prosecution, the statement received by Polit.ru is noted.

We publish a fragment of Yegor Gaidar's book “ For a long time. Russia in the world: Essays on Economic History ”, published on January 18 in the “business” . This is the fundamental work of the author of the "Revolution of the 90s", designed to set a great historical coverage and strategic horizons for economic growth policy .

The new President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko prepared the projects of his first decrees. These decrees relate to the recall of the Ukrainian military from Iraq, a reduction in the service life in the army, and later - since 2010 - the abolition of the draft. In the project, Decree Yushchenko instructs the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Defense to develop a schedule for withdrawing the Ukrainian contingent from Iraq.

The Far Eastern Military District Court sentenced the deserter Andrei Troshaev, who shot two people in the Amur Region, by 22 years in prison with serving a sentence in strict regime, RIA Novosti reports. Troshaev was found guilty of desertion with weapons entrusted to the service, intentionally killing two people, robbery, theft, as well as theft and illegal wearing of weapons and ammunition.

“It is impossible to allow the law on replacing benefits to turn out to be humiliating walking in instances for citizens,” Ustinov said, speaking on Friday at the collegium of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation with a demand from subordinates to control the situation with the fulfillment of the law on preferential payments.

The newly elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko will visit Russia on a visit on January 24, 2005. This was reported by the press service of the President of Russia. Yesterday, Vladimir Putin, like other world leaders, congratulated Yushchenko on the victory in the elections, emphasizing that the development of good -neighborly and equal relations with Ukraine is one of the most important national priorities in Russia.

** Themes of the day ** At the federal level, the theme of the day for the central media was the meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation , which began yesterday with the sore issue - with the implementation of the law on preferential payments. Prime Minister M. Fradkov emphasized that "there is a daily, intensive work taking into account criticism of the president." The media noted that in the conclusion of M.

On the satellite of Saturn - titanium - ice, lakes and rivers from liquid methane were found, reports Reuters . Such information appeared after a week study of the materials of the Guygens space probe. According to the scientist Toby Owen, which was made at a press conference in the rear of the European Space Agency in Paris, Titan is an “explosive world”. The Huygens probe, flying to Saturn aboard the Kassini carrier, separated in December and began to fall into the titanium.

The Supreme Representative of the European Union on Foreign Policy and Security Policy Javier Solan will arrive in Kyiv today to meet with the elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. Solan will also hold a meeting with Leonid Kuchma and parliamentary chairman Vladimir Litvin, RIA Novosti reports.

The project of the new Constitution of Japan, published by the Government Committee of Political Studies "World around the world", provides for the creation of a "defensive army" instead of the forces of self -defense, as well as a significant expansion of the powers of the prime minister, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Yomiuri newspaper.

Alexander Daniel The other day, a scandalous trial was resumed in the Tagansky district court of Moscow in the case of the art exhibition “Caution: Religion!”. It makes no sense to retell in detail all the vicissitudes of this ugly (but not ugly) history; Let me remind you only the main milestones. In January 2003, a group of avant-garde artists put up within the walls of the museum and the public center. Sakharov’s exhibition of his works on ...

A process that for some reason is not over hooligans, defeating the exhibition "Caution, religion!" And not over their shepherds who instructed such “spiritual exploits”, but over the organizers and participants of this exhibition, forced part of the cultural public to carefully look at what was happening. The gaze highlighted very familiar features.

"It is believed that Yulia Tymoshenko will be an anti -Russian prime minister, but this is a continuation of the same mythologized attitudes that our glorious political strategists developed during the election campaign, the expert of the international technology of political technologies Andrei Piontkovsky believes. - This is the Russian prosecutor's office against Tymoshenko, which was clearly part of the election campaign.