The meeting of shareholders of the Tyumen Oil Company yesterday elected as many as three governors to the board of directors - Tyumen Sergei Sobyanin (he became chairman of the board), Khanty-Mansi Alexander Filippenko and Ryazan Vyacheslav Lyubimov. Prime Minister of Karelia Sergei Katanandov also joined the council.

A new route is being prepared for Russian gas Today in Warsaw, where Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov arrived on a visit, the months-long negotiations on the construction of a gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine may be put to an end. This is the most realistic of the projects to diversify Russian gas supplies, which are being discussed within the framework of the Russia-EU energy dialogue. Mr.

Reconstruction of the fourth power unit at LNPP has been completed On Wednesday, the fourth power unit, built in 1981, was launched at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant - after a three-year overhaul. The unit, which was to be decommissioned in the coming years, will now be able to operate for about another ten years or even more, if Gosatomnadzor gives the go-ahead. Three other blocks of the Leningrad NPP were reconstructed in the 90s.

Instead of drunken civilians, a construction battalion was ordered to save Lensk Yesterday, “extraordinary” Minister Sergei Shoigu demonstrated his intention to restore order in the restoration of Lensk, destroyed by the flood, with a firm hand. At a meeting held in Lensk, he sharply criticized the local authorities and the State Construction Committee of Russia for the actual failure of restoration work and announced that from now on he himself would control everything.

Tokyo and Seoul argue over the Southern Kuril Islands Despite strong opposition from Japan, Russia and South Korea nevertheless agreed on the fishing of South Kuril saury by South Korean fishermen. The other day in Moscow it was finally determined that 26 Korean trawlers will be allowed to extract up to 15 thousand tons of saury from mid-July to mid-November in the Southern Kuril Islands.

The film “Mademoiselle” was obviously included in the competition program because it starred Sandrine BONNER, a famous French actress familiar to Russian viewers from Regis Warnier’s film “East-West.” - You received your first award - the Cesar Award - when you were only 16 years old. What feelings did you experience then? -- I received a Cesar for the main role in Maurice Pialat’s film “For Our Love.” At the time I had no idea what this award meant.

The St. Petersburg Severnaya Verf, a controlling stake of which belongs to the New Programs and Concepts (NPK) holding company, which is close to Interros, is negotiating with the Czech Republic on the construction of merchant ships for it.

Plans of capital clubs for the additional application campaign After the 15th round, which will take place on June 30, there is a break in the Russian Football Championship between the first and second rounds. However, the time for big negotiations is coming for club presidents. After all, along with the break, the pre-registration campaign begins, during which many teams plan to strengthen their rosters. CSKA has developed the most activity in the transfer market.

The “boss” of the Old World, Göran Persson , Prime Minister of Sweden, which currently holds the EU presidency, answers questions from Energy Europe. - The Swedish presidency of the EU has, perhaps, no analogues in terms of contacts with Russia - they were unprecedentedly active. Are you satisfied with the level achieved? -- Developing ties with Russia is one of Sweden's priorities as chairman of the European Union.

The criminal case of a swindler who managed to deceive many people was brought to court yesterday by the capital's prosecutor's office. Investigators found that Zhanneta Petrichenko had been active since 1992. She “worked” on trust, borrowing large sums or promising to place them in a bank at high interest rates. Having received the money, Petrichenko disappeared without a trace. In addition, the swindler often introduced herself as the head of the parental home charity organization.

Deputies of the Moscow City Duma increased the election funds of candidates in the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma, the mayor and vice-mayor of Moscow, as well as councilors of district assemblies.

ARCO is going to put up for auction 22.5% of the bank's shares The Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO), together with two other shareholders of Sobinbank, is going to sell a 22.5 percent stake in the bank. This is the agency’s second attempt to find an interested buyer after the April auction for the sale of an 8% stake in Sobinbank was declared invalid. Analysts believe that the new ARCO experiment is unlikely to be more successful.

The Criminal Code interfered with the fight against capital laundering The fight against money laundering will begin at least a week later than the government planned. The Duma yesterday was unable to proceed to the second reading of the draft anti-money laundering law, having decided to do so on July 4th.

And Agassi advised not to meddle in other people's affairs The brilliant performance of Russian tennis players at the start of the Wimbledon tournament made even the prim British, who are usually only interested in their athletes, admire them. Wimbledon-74 finalist Olga MOROZOVA, reporting for Russian television from London, told Vremya Novostey correspondent Elena SIGMUND about this: - The fact that Marat Safin and Yevgeny Kafelnikov passed the first round, of course, did not surprise anyone.

At the annual meeting of KamAZ shareholders, held yesterday in Naberezhnye Chelny, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov was again elected chairman of the board of directors. The post of general director remained with Ivan Kostin. Sales volumes of trucks increased by 1.5 times (22.3 thousand) compared to 1999, and sales of cars - by 1.2 times (33.6 thousand). A clear success of last year was the expansion of sales of heavy trucks in the domestic market.