The government separates the interests of Rosneft and Gazprom from the interests of other energy companies It is obvious that the government today will not be able to immediately put an end to all controversial issues relating to the development of oil and gas fields in Eastern Siberia and the construction of pipelines. However, on at least two fronts today his point of view will be expressed.

The new structure created by British BP and the shareholders of the Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) will be called TNK-BP. As stated in the joint press release of the two companies, this decision was made at the first meeting of the supervisory board of the new structure, which was held yesterday in Moscow.

But only by land Over the next six months, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are going to prepare a draft framework intergovernmental agreement on the creation of the Aktau-Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil transport system.

Due to the unstable political situation in the Middle East - the deepening Iraqi crisis - the cancellation of major sporting events that were originally scheduled to take place in the region continues. The International Swimming Federation has canceled the second stage of the Marathon World Cup scheduled for March 14 in Dubai (UAE). Most likely, the third stage on March 20 in neighboring Abu Dhabi will suffer the same fate.

The champion of Russia in basketball among women's teams, Ekaterinburg UMMC, suffered an away defeat from the Polish "Gdynia" in the first match of the quarterfinal stage of the Euroleague - 71:78, and the fate of the match was decided in an additional five minutes. This is the first failure of UMMC since the moment when the team was headed by Yugoslav specialist Zoran Vesic at the end of December last year.

The Senate adopted laws on the electricity sector The long epic of bills on electricity reform moving through the corridors of the legislative branch has ended. Yesterday, the Federation Council approved all documents except one concerning amendments to the law “On Energy Saving”. Now on the way to the package is Vladimir Putin.

Prime Minister Erdogan promises to do everything the way the US wants Secret and overt agreements with the United States are fraught with serious consequences for the leadership of Turkey, the majority of whose population actively opposes the Iraq war. The upcoming landing of the Yankees had already led yesterday to a massive anti-American demonstration in the port of Iskenderun, to disperse which the gendarmes had to shoot in the air and use batons.

The government is establishing export routes The Russian government today, for the first time, intends to consider the development of the oil and gas complex of Eastern Siberia and the Far East. The state has been approaching this problem for years, if not decades.

To create a new petrochemical company The Gazprom board will discuss SIBUR's business plan today. The holding's vice president for finance, Yuri Menbaev, is preparing to make a report, although almost all of SIBUR's top managers, including the new president Alexander Dyukov, will be present at the meeting. The main problem that the concern's board has to solve is to decide on the form of capitalization of the subsidiary's debts to Gazprom.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Washington" - "Orlando" - 106:105, "Cleveland" - "Miami" - 75:77, "Indiana" - "New Orleans" - 71:81, "New York" - - Memphis - 85:87, Milwaukee - San Antonio - 102:105, Chicago - Los Angeles Lakers - 116:99, Denver - Toronto "- 95:87, "Seattle" - "Portland" - 77:92, "Golden State" - "Phoenix" - 113:98.

In Krasnoyarsk, Igor Zakharov, one of the comrades of Governor General Alexander Lebed, who died a year ago, was seriously wounded. The chairman of the regional branch of the Honor and Motherland movement, a deputy of the legislative assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, was stabbed three times and is now in intensive care. The attack happened late Tuesday evening. Igor Zakharov usually returned from work at the same time. The attacker took advantage of this. He followed Mr.

The temporary suspension of Evgeniy Nazdratenko has ended Today the fate of the disgraced head of the State Fisheries Committee, Evgeniy Nazdratenko, should be finally decided. Exactly a month ago, he was temporarily removed from office by order of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov. Throughout this entire period, the country's main fisherman regularly went to work, but was deprived of the main happiness of an official - the right to sign documents.

The 12th Russian Football Championship starts on Saturday and ends on November 1. Not only coaches and football players will compete in the eight-month marathon. The Russian Championship today is, first of all, a race of ambitions that presidents and owners of football clubs have in abundance. It depends on them how capital the team is and how fully it will be financed. "Locomotive". Valery Filatov has been the permanent president of the club for the past 14 years.

Poker around Germany's largest television concern, owned by bankrupt Bavarian multimillionaire Leo Kirch, is nearing its end. At the same time, by all indications, the darkest assumptions of the pessimists will come true. After many months of struggle with contenders for the “loin” fragments of this media empire, mired under a debt mountain of many billions of euros, the winner is 58-year-old multi-billionaire from the United States Haim Saban.

The Portuguese were afraid of their own cooperation with the United States Portuguese Prime Minister Durao Barroso said he would support Washington's military actions against Saddam Hussein, regardless of whether they are approved by the UN Security Council or not: “The United States is our ally, a democratic country, and Iraq is neither one nor the other.” .