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.

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.

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 English Football Federation is looking for someone to borrow from In October last year, Adam Crozier was sacked as chief executive of the English Football Federation. As a result of his unsuccessful leadership, the federation is in a severe financial crisis, its debt is 106 million pounds. There are six candidates in the election for a new head of English football this year, including FIFA Secretary General Michael Zen-Rufinnen.

At the end of this year, new elections for the President of the Russian Football Union are coming in Russian football. However, it is possible that the current head of the RFU, Vyacheslav Koloskov, will decide to again nominate his candidacy for the post he has held for the past two decades. The position of the 61-year-old official is very strong not only in Russia, but also in FIFA, so another leader of Russian football will appear only if the current president of the RFU really wants it.

Some numbers of subscribers of the Bee Line network (a trademark of the VimpelCom company) were blocked for three days. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper was told by the company's press service, this happened as a result of a failure in one of the billing software modules during the installation of its new version, which was carried out on the night of March 9-10. As a result, the phones of 49 thousand Bee Line contract subscribers in the Moscow region were blocked.

Capital legislators have limited their rights The last days are left for the deputies of the Moscow Duma to say goodbye to parliamentary immunity. Yesterday they adopted the final version of changes to the law “On the status of a deputy of the Moscow City Duma.” In ten days the document will come into force. According to the previously valid version of the document, the capital’s parliamentarians could lose their immunity only with the consent of the Moscow City Duma.

The death of Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic threatens stability in the Balkans In the context of already heightened international tension because of Iraq, the world received another headache. The situation in the Balkans has deteriorated again. Yesterday afternoon in Belgrade, on the threshold of the Government House, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was fatally wounded by two shots.

President Held a working meeting with Viktor Cherkesov, who by presidential decree was appointed chairman of the new State Committee for Control of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances . At the meeting, issues of organizing the work of the new department were discussed.

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.

Azerbaijani “1001 Nights” on the Moscow stage For a one-day tour at the Bolshoi Theater, the Azerbaijani ballet chose “1001 Nights” by Fikret Amirov, the last successful performance of the Soviet years. This ballet was first staged by Nailya Nazirova in Baku in 1978. Provincial theaters of the USSR immediately rushed to dance it with a passion that was then incomprehensible.

The sixth national exhibition-fair “Books of Russia” is a modest event. Just like, let’s face it, the five previous ones.