President of Rosneft Sergey Bogdanchikov yesterday received a statement of claim from American minority shareholders of Yukos, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Moscow Times. The papers were awarded to him in London, where he performed at a conference on energy. Rosneft has not yet given official evidence of this fact. Bogdanchikov is the third person involved in the claim of foreign shareholders of Yukos, who received a notification.

At the next World Congress on 3GSM, representatives of the GSM Association Association (GSMA) and Intel corporations presented a program for integrating mobile technologies, including the new HSDPA broad -lean access technology, laptops, and ensuring direct connection of global mobile communication networks with “intellectual” roaming, according to C-News .

The Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with the Legislation in the field of mass communications and the protection of cultural heritage warns that in the event that any Russian media publishes materials that insult the religious feelings of believers, then measures provided for by the legislation of Russia will be immediately applied, up to deprivation of registration, RIA Novosti reports.

About a hundred inhabitants located in the east of Indonesia Papua province became victims of cold weather, RIA Novosti reports. The immediate cause of death of 95 people were acute respiratory diseases.

The British NTL provider, together with the BitTorrent file - sharing network, will conduct the world's first broadband Internet channel in April with the World Mbith RS RS speeds in April, reports RS RRO . Tests will take place in the city of Eshford, County Kent. Currently, British providers usually provide a 2-altogether service with an extension of up to 8, and ADSL2+-up to about 20 Mbit/s.

The editors of the Komsomolskaya Pravda and Tribuna newspapers, whose premises were seriously injured as a result of a fire, will be temporarily accommodated in the building of the former clinic of the Press Publishing House, RIA Novosti reports.

During a demonstration in Tehran, against a caricature in the German newspaper Tagespiegel , in which Iranian football players in the huts of the Shahids and the German team in the form of Bundeswehr were depicted with a good German sense of humor, the German embassy was cast by bottles with a combustible mixture (Molotov’s cocktail). In addition, Iranian students, according to the DPA agency, chanted the slogans: “The Death of Germany” “Fascists” and “Sionism Service”.

Conducting hockey matches of the Olympic tournament under the threat of a breakdown, reports the "newspaper .ru " with reference to ITAR-TASS. The Organizing Committee said that two of the three ice compressors in the Torino-Easion arena at once failed. The ice was thawed. In the first two meetings of the preliminary stage of the competition, hockey players had to drive a puck in the water. The national teams of Russia and Slovakia will meet in the arena after half an hour.

The Frenchman Nicolas Vanya, traveling around Russia on a dog team, increased the speed of movement from 50 to 250 kilometers per hour, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, Vanya is currently moving along the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug with a very high speed. 50 kilometers were planned, but the Frenchman now passes 250 kilometers a day.

Russian deputies are preparing a response to the decision of Georgia to replace Russian peacekeepers in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, the Echo of Moscow reports the head of the State Duma committee on the CIS and ties with compatriots Andrei Kokoshin. According to him, the decision made by the Georgian side destabilizes the situation in the Caucasus.

** Themes of the day ** From the federal level news, the central media noted the beginning of the visit to Russia by the Prime Minister of France Dominic de Wilpen , whom some call the potential shifter J. Shirak. The press talks about his meetings with Russian President V. Putin, Prime Minister M. Fradkov. "We are considering France as a reliable partner in building relations between Russia and the European Union," the Russian leader told his guest.

In Russia, its own caricature scandal initiated by United Russia begins. Given the current situation in the world, the party considered that the drawing in the Volgograd newspaper “City News”, given as an illustration of the article “Racists, is not a place in power”, is an insult to the feelings of believers. The figure shows Jesus Christ, Moses, Buddha and Muhammad who watch TV.

At the Mariinsky Theater of St. Petersburg on February 15 and 16, the premiere of the opera Giuseppe Verdi Falstaf will be held, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the theater, so far this last masterpiece of Verdi has only once been put in Mariinka. Now he will return to the famous scene of the Northern capital after almost a century: in 1894, Petersburgers first applauded the production of the opera, which took place just a year after the world premiere in La Scala.

The explosion in the entrance of a residential building thundered in Vladivostok on Kirov Street, RIA Novosti reports. This morning, in one of the entrances of an apartment building, an unidentified type device exploded. The explosion destroyed a significant part of the stairs on the ground floor. The man was seriously injured, he was hospitalized. The investigation group works.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov today warned the federal authorities against joining the WTO, RBC reports. The mayor of the capital announced this today at a meeting on the results of the implementation of the integrated program of industrial activities in Moscow for 2004-2006. According to Luzhkov, only those enterprises that are engaged in the primary production of products can win from the entry into the WTO.