In Moscow today they are held - behind closed doors - negotiations of the Prime Minister of Russia Kiriyenko with the chairman of the board of Gazprom JSC Vyakhirev. Earlier, Vyakhirev said that he intends to offer Kiriyenko to discuss the draft new agreement, which provides for a more flexible payment scheme. The head of Gazprom, in particular, believes that receipts to the state budget should directly depend on the "living" money received by the joint -stock company.

On Sunday, the Center for Sports events moved from Moscow to New York. In Moscow, the Luzhniki stadium took place in the closing ceremony of the World Youth Games. And in New York, the fourth games of goodwill started. Their founder, American billionaire Ted Turner announced that the fifth games will be held in 2001 in Australian Brisben. Five gold medals won Russian athletes on the first day of the competition.

Rheumatoid arthritis weaken the immune system and increase the likelihood of the formation of malignant tumors of the spleen and lymph glands. This conclusion was reached by Swedish researchers from the University of Uppsal, who analyzed the history of the disease of twelve thousand people suffering from chronic arthritis. According to scientists, in order to prevent, such patients should take medications that increase the functional activity of the immune system and reduce the chances of lymph.

The leadership of the International Monetary Fund should today make the final decision on the provision of an additional loan in the amount of 5 billion 600 million dollars. The fund led this to the State Duma approval of the package of anti -crisis measures proposed by the government. Anatoly Chubais, a special representative of the Russian president, went to Washington to participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors of the IMF.

On July 20, it turned 60 years old to the outstanding Russian film director Alexei German. The son of the famous Soviet writer Yuri German, he was born in Leningrad, graduated from the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema, worked for George Tovstonogov. He wrote to the cinema. The first directorial work in the cinema is the film "Seventh Sputnik" in the 68th year.

The Russian government has accepted a statement about privatization policy today, Vice Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko said. Until the end of this year, certain packages of state shares of companies as oil, Rosneft and Slavneft can be sold; Electric power industry RAO "UES of Russia", as well as telecommunication - "Svyazinvest". In addition, according to Khristenko, more than 2 thousand industrial enterprises that had previously had strategic status can be subjected to privatization.