The company Irkutskenergo, which is not part of RAO UES of Russia, was able to reach an agreement with RAO and today will begin supplying electricity to Kazakhstan. About this newspaper The energy holding reported, but refused to disclose details, citing corporate ethics. Director of Public Relations of Irkutskenergo Alexander Ptashkin also did not name the parameters of the transaction and the purchasing company, since this information, according to him, is a commercial secret.

Olympic champion of the Games in Atlanta and winner of the last Russian cycling championship in the time trial race Zulfiya Zabirova won the third stage of the women's multi-day Grand Boucle race, beating Olga Slyusareva in a tough finishing confrontation. “Winning the Big Loop stage was one of my goals this season, but now I’m starting to wonder if I should aim for the overall win?” - Zabirova said after the award ceremony.

Russia increases oil exports Russia is going to increase oil exports from seaports in January with a slight reduction in its shipments through the Transneft system. This will lead to the fact that in the first month of the new year, shipments of raw materials abroad could reach 11 million tons, while in December Russia exported 10.4 million tons of oil.

The President is dissatisfied with the work of the Ministry of Agriculture At yesterday's meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev had to hear a lot of unpleasant things. First of all, the president was interested in why the Ministry of Agriculture “underused” 41 million rubles at the end of the first half of the year. out of 78.3 million budgeted for public investment in agriculture.

The head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Rostov Region, Major General Vitaly Shevchenko, finally officially admitted that a new serial killer was operating in the Don. The specially created investigative team is still finding it difficult to say exactly how many victims there are. Nevertheless, operatives attribute at least five murders of young girls to the newly-minted maniac. For the Rostov region, maniacs are a signature anomaly.

Austrians regret Russian planes Yesterday, 600 thousand Austrians signed a petition against the largest military deal since the Second World War. A month ago, the ruling center-right coalition announced that it would buy 24 of the latest Anglo-German-Italian-Spanish fighter jets for $1.8 billion.

The South Ossetian authorities decided to shoot down Mi-8 and Iroquois helicopters without identification marks, which appear every now and then in the airspace of the republic.

On Wednesday, 65 border guards ended up in a hospital bed as a result of an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal infection in the Nakhodka border detachment. The condition of nine soldiers is assessed by doctors as serious. Military epidemiologists still cannot determine the cause of infection.

There is a fight for the premiership in the White House The heads of some influential departments today are extremely irritated by the way the White House apparatus is working. They are supported by certain senior government officials. One of them said yesterday: “Lately, a hardware revolution has been taking place, conceptual documents (prepared by ministries and departments - Ed.

The question is who is considered a Jew? Chief Rabbi of Russia Adolf Shaevich believes that about a million Jews live in Russia. He stated this yesterday at a press conference specially convened by the State Statistics Committee, which is actively promoting the population census. True, at the same time, Shaevich made a reservation that we are talking only about halakhic Jews, that is, about those who have Jewish roots on their mother’s side.

Yuri Luzhkov explained to Roman Abramovich who is the boss in the capital Yesterday afternoon, as the Vremya Novostei newspaper learned, on the stretch of road from the Moscow region town of Mytishchi to the Moscow Ring Road, not a single gas station was operating. This happened the day after the Moscow Refinery reduced its raw material processing volumes to a minimum. In this direction there are gas stations operating under the flags of Slavneft, TNK and LUKOIL.

The Moscow Garrison Military Court yesterday declared illegal the filing of a new charge against the former head of the Main Directorate of the Military Budget and Financing of the Ministry of Defense (GUVBiF), Colonel General Georgy Oleynik. His lawyers argued that the investigators of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP) violated their client's right to defense, since they assigned Mr. Oleynik a different lawyer, and not the one whom the accused himself asked to call.

On the birthday of the President of Ukraine Today, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma arrives in Moscow for a two-day visit. For a working meeting with the Russian president, he exchanged rivers of champagne, tables laden with food, and rich gifts from loyal subjects. All this was supposed to be in Kyiv tomorrow, on Kuchma’s birthday. He turns 64 years old. But the president chose to spend the holiday in the Kremlin, in the company of Putin, discussing energy and customs problems.

Tatyana Paramonova guarantees trouble for “dishonest” banks First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Tatyana Paramonova promised yesterday that during the transition of the Russian banking system to international financial reporting standards (IFRS), the Central Bank will severely punish “dishonest” banks that try to distort their indicators. According to Ms.

Acting Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexander Ananenkov spent a meeting of managers of the concern and subsidiaries, at which issues related to the preparation of facilities of the unified gas supply system for operation in the autumn-winter period were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the implementation of plans for major repairs and reconstruction of system facilities.