The cartel is waiting for Iraq to resume oil exports At an extraordinary OPEC session held last Wednesday in Doha (Qatar), as expected, oil ministers agreed not to reduce oil production quotas. However, given that oil exports from Iraq may soon begin, members of the organization decided to play it safe and meet again not on September 24, but on July 31 in Vienna. And perhaps this time reduce the cartel's production volume. “We leave the ceiling.

Severstal and Evrazholding want to gain independence from Gazprom Chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal Alexey Mordashov and President of Evrazholding Alexander Abramov celebrated Russia Day by concluding a major deal in the pipe industry. Last Wednesday, company executives signed a master agreement to combine their projects to build large-diameter pipe (LDP) plants. The new project will make it possible to produce cheaper products, Mr. Abramov explained.

The warring parts of “Liberal Russia” held party events Over the weekend, opposing parts of the Liberal Russia party continued the practice of excluding each other from party ranks and mutual accusations of illegitimacy. Supporters of Boris Berezovsky gathered for an extraordinary party congress at the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow. The main decision of the congress was the transfer of the powers of the leader of “Liberal Russia” to the oligarch.

“Phone Booth” on Moscow screens Name: Joel Schumacher. Profession: stage director. Films: “Batman Forever”, “I’ve Enough!”, “A Time to Kill”, “8mm”, “Without a Flaw”, “Tigerland”... Vocation: speculator. Recipe: finely chop a topical topic that Americans are so enamored with (traffic jams, pedophilia, the underground porn industry, racial problems, disabled people and transvestites), and sprinkle in some spicy spices to fight off the smell of rotten meat.

Conductor Evgeny Kolobov passed away The brightest conductor, artistic director of the New Opera Theater Evgeny Kolobov died suddenly on Sunday from a heart attack. He was 57 years old. Without Kolobov it is impossible to imagine the Russian opera and symphony stage of recent decades. Her entire image, her lines of force and fundamental points were formed to a large extent precisely by his artistic individuality.

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For the first time in ten years, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry visited Islamabad The current, first working visit of the Russian Foreign Minister to Pakistan in ten years (the last time Islamabad was visited by Andrei Kozyrev) lasted only one day. The head of Russian diplomacy met with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Kasuri, President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

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72 members of the left-wing rebel organization FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia) were killed in government airstrikes. This was stated by the commander of the Colombian Air Force, General Hector Fabio Velasco. An airstrike in the Cauca department destroyed a rebel camp containing 37 people, including a field commander nicknamed Zeppelin. The strike in the Meta department destroyed a truck carrying 30 rebels.

Residents of Irkutsk were advised to wear respirators for walks In the Irkutsk region, all holidays were held under a state of emergency declared by Governor Boris Govorin in most of the territory under his control in the middle of last week. The fires that engulfed the taiga and peat bogs, fanned by strong winds in 30-degree heat, practically paralyzed the life of 19 districts of the region and Irkutsk itself.

CLUBS Sergey Manukyan (keyboards, vocals). One of the weekly concerts of a famous jazz musician who can ignite any audience with overflowing fun and energy. Cool Train, 21.00. Big band of Igor Butman. Le Club, 20.00. "Picasso". Performance by the State Puppet Theater "Ognivo". Directed by Marta Cifrinovich. Not a single word is spoken in the play. All the action develops around the demonstrated paintings by Pablo Picasso. On stage “B2”, 20.00. "Metropolis" (Germany, 1927).

The traffic police announced a total inspection of Gazelles On the eve of the holidays, “Operation Gazelle” was declared as an emergency in Moscow. After a terrible accident involving this minibus , which occurred on June 10 at the 60th kilometer of the Kiev highway, during which nine of its passengers died, the traffic police promised to check all minibuses within ten days.

It's been a year since the first Russian entertainment channel STS is headed by Alexander RODNYANSKY. At one time, he brought channel “1+1” to the forefront of Ukrainian television. Now he is trying to repeat his success in the Russian television space. Mr. Rodnyansky spoke to the correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, Maxim BALUTENKO, about the results of his first year at STS, about the prospects for the development of Russian entertainment television.

Spartak dedicated the victory to Oleg Romantsev Having won the final match of the Russian Cup against Rostov 1:0, Moscow Spartak added to its already extensive list of won trophies. The victory for Romantsev's team was brought by an accurate shot from Yegor Titov in the middle of the first half, and the Rostovites, despite all their efforts, were unable to win back, although they had plenty of opportunities to do so.