RAO UES of Russia will come to the budget Winter without shocks and disasters - this was the leitmotif of yesterday's government meeting. Realizing that the president had actually already identified the problem of preparing for winter as a political one, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko decisively stated that technological difficulties should not be allowed to lead to a socio-political crisis.

DPR reproaches the Union of Right Forces for compradorism and globalism The leader of the Union of Right Forces, Boris Nemtsov, is not too concerned about active attempts to create an alternative party to the Union of Rightist Forces on the right flank. This is the initiative of the Novgorod governor Mikhail Prusak, who decided to lead and recreate the Democratic Party of Russia and the Berezovsky-Yushenkov “Liberal Russia” project. Mr.

Norilsk Nickel plans to reduce spot sales of palladium in the near future in order to achieve an increase in prices for this metal, said the head of Rosbank Evgeny Ivanov. “All long-term contracts will be fulfilled; restrictions are possible only on the spot market,” explained the head of Rosbank, which is part of the Interros group that controls Norilsk Nickel. Palladium prices have more than halved over the past six months - to $441 per troy ounce, Reuters reports.

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Khmelev Khmelev died in 1945. He died the way artists should die - in the theater on the day of the dress rehearsal. The tragedy of Alexei Tolstoy “Difficult Years” was going on. Khmelev played Ivan the Terrible, and, according to eyewitnesses, this role was to become the best in the artist’s repertoire and one of the best in the history of Russian theater.

The Wagner Festival is in full swing The main event of the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, celebrating its 125th anniversary, was the production of the mega-tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelungs”, which was carried out by the authoritative German director Jurgen Flimm. Over the course of a month, the cycle of four operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Twilight of the Gods) will be performed three times - four days in a row, as Wagner himself intended this grandiose performance.

YUKOS and Sibneft met in Chukotka Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky is trying to strengthen the political “buoyancy” of his company thanks to an oil alliance with the Chukotka governor Roman Abramovich. The oligarchs decided to jointly develop oil and gas fields in the north of Chukotka, although, according to experts, making a profit in such a climatically difficult region is unlikely.

Russian track and field athletes added silver The sixth day of the VIII World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, brought the Russian team three more medals, but did not change its position in the standings. Having won 13 medals (two gold, seven silver and four bronze), our team still ranks second, despite the fact that the leaders - the Americans - have almost half as many awards (three gold, three silver and two bronze).

Detectives in retro style are on stream When you get tired of potatoes, you want oranges. When you get tired of oranges, you want something completely strange - avocado, mango, kiwi and other exotic things. Something similar happened with detective stories: having had their fill of translated authors (be it Rex Stout or James Hedley Chase), the Russian reader craved domestically produced thrillers - the high-flying Dotsenko, Pronin, Voronin and other masters of drawing blood.

The Persian emissary in Moscow was reassured Urgent consultations with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani ended yesterday in Moscow. The Tehran emissary rushed to Moscow immediately after the Sochi CIS summit, at which the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan discussed the recent surge in tensions in the Caspian Sea. It was provoked by the forceful actions of the Iranian military, which tried to force Azerbaijan to abandon exploration work on the nearby sea shelf. Mr.

The Interros Group, which now owns more than a 92 percent stake in Rosbank, has decided to reduce its presence in its capital. Interros plans to retain only a controlling stake in Rosbank (51%), and place the remaining shares among third-party shareholders.

Russia and Ukraine are asked not to kill Albanians On Wednesday evening in Ohrid, despite a new outbreak of fighting and the temporary withdrawal of the party of Macedonian Prime Minister Lubco Georgievski from the negotiation process, the Albanian-Macedonian agreement was initialed. The official signing is scheduled for Monday. Meanwhile, unrest among the Slavs has already begun in Skopje, accusing the authorities of compromising and demanding to “deal with” the terrorists.

Yesterday the St. Petersburg sea trade port resumed its work. 19 pilots of the State Pilot Service began piloting the vessels, and on August 7 they were hastily certified by the Ministry of Transport. Therefore, the tension that arose on Tuesday due to the shipowners' strike, when the port practically stopped, subsided somewhat. Yesterday, Deputy Head of the Department of Seaports of the Ministry of Transport Nikolai Khvoshchinsky said that by Friday the congestion in the St.

Russian planes supplanted British ones in the skies over India On Thursday, official Delhi notified London of its refusal to purchase British Hawk aircraft, which were supposed to begin arriving in the Indian Air Force from the end of 2002. The abandonment of the Hawks is a direct consequence of the arms import corruption scandal that rocked the Indian cabinet this spring. The Indian military-political leadership does not like to remember him.

A passenger plane Tu-154 of Dalavia airlines made an emergency landing at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo airport on Thursday night. The airliner was flying from Krasnodar to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and during the flight the crew discovered a malfunction in the hydraulic system. At 00.10 local time, the plane landed safely in Novosibirsk. None of the 122 passengers and crew members were injured during the emergency landing.

Chechen authorities want to reach an agreement with the military through a field commander The Chechen administration continues to claim that Khalid Yamadayev was introduced to military and civilian officials as the deputy military commandant of the republic several days ago, although it is not yet entirely clear whether a formal order has been signed.