Yesterday on the London Oil Exchange, the price of North Sea oil fell by 58 cents to $31.80 per barrel, falling below the psychological level of $32. As a result, in two days the cost of different types of oil decreased by 2-3 dollars per barrel, and this trend continues. According to an expert at the investment bank Goldman Sachs, cited by IRNA, oil prices will remain above $30 per barrel for at least another year.

Hitler's diarist dies Yesterday in Stuttgart, Konrad Kuyau, a famous master of forgery, if not a genius of this genre, died. In 1983, Kuyau, at that time a 44-year-old criminal-literary talent, managed to master the way of thinking, writing style and character of Adolf Hitler so well that he wrote about fifty diary books for the Fuhrer without much difficulty.

Spartacists assessed their success critically Fans look forward to each start of European Cups with special interest. Still, by and large, this is the only opportunity to find out the real strength of our football, comparing it with the play of representatives of other countries. Therefore, it is not surprising that almost 65 thousand spectators gathered for the game of Spartak Moscow in the Champions League against Bayer.

The shareholders of Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (YANOS) - Slavneft and the Tyumen Oil Company - have different interpretations of the decision of the Yaroslavl Arbitration Court on the issue of electing members of the board of directors of YANOS. Each side believes that it was the one who won. And the court’s verdict itself is as follows: the decision of the board of directors that nominated candidates for the new board of directors of YANOS was declared invalid.

The oldest US banks are merging - Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan In the United States, the country's two oldest banks are merging: yesterday, world news agencies reported in red news about the imminent merger of the American Chase Manhattan Corp. and JP Morgan & Co., founded in 1862 and 1877, respectively. Until recently, JPMorgan was in talks to sell its shares to Deutsche Bank. However, this deal never materialized.

On ethical boundaries in modern cinema I've always been a liberal movie watcher. I laughed when a father killed his son with two well-aimed shots in Luis Buñuel's The Golden Age, applauded when Michael Madsen's character cut off a policeman's ear in Reservoir Dogs, and rejoiced at the cruel antics of Takeshi Kitano in Fireworks. But over the past year I've learned something new about myself - there is a limit to my tolerance.

The rental of cultural monuments will be controlled by the mayor's office Finally, it became completely clear who in Moscow will set the rules for leasing architectural monuments. The corresponding law “On the protection and use of immovable historical and cultural monuments” was adopted yesterday in its final version by the Moscow City Duma.

Zemfira's concert cost her Yakut fans dearly The concert of the popular group “Zemfira” that took place in Yakutsk on September 12 ended tragically. As a result of the stampede, nineteen people were injured, including three police officers. Two people are in intensive care in serious condition; According to preliminary information, one death was recorded. The concert, held at the city stadium, attracted approximately 13 thousand spectators.

De Beers will increase its impact on the minds of luxury lovers Not only the top officials of the corporation itself (chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and executive director Gary Reif) and its partner, ALROSA (president Vyacheslav Shtyrov), but also the president of Yakutia, Mikhail Nikolaev, came to the presentation of the new strategy of De Beers at the Moscow President Hotel. the head of Gokhran Valery Rudakov, governors, employees of the embassies of diamond-mining countries, etc.

The Russian fleet mastered the first work on lifting large ships using divers during the Russo-Japanese War. In February 1904, Japanese torpedoes sank (in whole or in part) the battleships Tsesarevich and Retvizan and the cruiser Pallada. Divers sealed the damaged compartments, the water was pumped out of them, after which the ships were placed on an even keel using pontoons and had already been repaired by June.

Its presenter told Vremya Novostey correspondent Arina BORODINA how the situation with the “Author’s Program of Sergei Dorenko” might develop in the near future. - How is the situation now, will your program be released on Saturday? -- No way. Kostya Ernst (Konstantin Ernst - ORT general director - Ed. ) is hiding from me. —Are you expecting clarification from him about the upcoming broadcast? -- Certainly. After all, my people are alive, how can they work? - Mr.

According to the RUBOP, the capital's casinos are exchanging chips for cuffs A huge scandal is brewing in the capital's gambling business. Yesterday, representatives of the Moscow Department for Combating Organized Crime (RUBOP) announced that they were able to discover facts of the most brazen deception of casino customers, when establishments openly refused to pay large winnings to successful players.

Deputies of the legislative assembly of the Rostov region, concerned about the scale of the spread of drug addiction in the Don, came up with an unusual initiative. They decided, together with the police and the prosecutor's office, to check the local courts, which, in their opinion, are too liberal with drug dealers and drug couriers. According to Don parliamentarians, “spreaders of infection” should be judged much more strictly.

“About 5-6 thousand foreign non-Chechen fighters, that is, foreign mercenaries, are fighting on the territory of Chechnya against Russian troops. These are Russians, Ukrainians, Balts, and Arabs,” said Dmitry Rogozin, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, in New York. In a conversation with a correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, he added that a year ago the total number of militants was 40 thousand, and 14 thousand were killed in a year. According to Mr.

Between Rosbank and Russian Aluminum Rosbank opened an annual credit line for the Russian Aluminum company in the amount of $50 million. In early September, Rosbank presented the first tranche of $10 million from this amount. As the head of the press service of Russian Aluminum, Vladislav Vershinin, told the correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, this is the first “credit contact” of Rusal with Rosbank. In the future, the company's management expects to expand cooperation with the bank.