A meeting scheduled for yesterday with Vladimir Putin on reforming the gas industry with the participation of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development German Gref and the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller (see Vremya Novostey on January 15) did not take place. According to our information, it was canceled shortly before it began, and the new date is still unknown.

Moscow Cellular Communications announced the election of a new board of directors, which included: deputy general director, financial director of Rostelecom Vladimir Androsik, chief accountant of Rostelecom Alexander Lutskoy, first deputy general director of the Sistema Telecom holding Alexander Vronets, first deputy general director for finance and investments of Sistema Telecom Vasily Sidorov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of RTDC Timur Khusainov, General Director of Gamma Capital Dmitry

America improves financial reporting rules The National Financial Accounting Standards Board and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have taken another step to tighten accounting rules. Representatives of these major U.S. financial reporting watchdogs announced Wednesday new rules designed to prevent firms from hiding debts and assets from shareholders, the New York Times reported.

A slow-moving cyclone, which over the next two days will be located over the southwest of the central region, and its atmospheric fronts will determine the weather in the center of the European territory of Russia. Therefore, on Tuesday and Wednesday in the central regions there will be rain, heavy in places, with thunderstorms and increased wind with thunderstorms up to 15-20 m/sec. The established heat will subside, the temperature in the daytime on July 8 will be +22...+28oC.

Doctors separating conjoined twins express 'cautious optimism' Yesterday in Singapore, a unique operation to separate conjoined twins - 29-year-old sisters Lala and Ladan Bijani from Iran - continued all day. The sisters have a rare anomaly: their skulls are fused at the ears, but in the common head there are two fused but separate brains. This means two personalities, two characters, two destinies.

Samsung employees were banned from using the handsets they produce In South Korea and Japan, as well as in a number of Western countries, a mobile phone with a lens has long been a part of everyday life, just like the Internet or digital format in electronic technology. The popularity of these “toys” alarms particularly vigilant citizens of these countries.

CIA hands over files on all Stasi employees to Germany Yesterday there were reports that the CIA had transferred files with the names of 50 thousand employees of the main intelligence department of the GDR MGB (Stasi) to the German authorities. This action will make the hearts of previously unofficially undisclosed former non-staff Stasi employees, sitting, for example, in the Bundestag or in public service, beat faster.

Yesterday, the first group of American military specialists - 20 people - arrived in Liberia to assess the situation. The Americans are deciding whether or not to send troops to this African country where there is a civil war. The Americans declared the voluntary resignation of Liberian President Charles Taylor as a condition for their participation in peacekeeping. And just yesterday he announced that he would still leave power and leave the country.

Channel 6 has new owners After numerous court decisions confirming the right of the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MNVK) to the sixth button, only Boris Berezovsky prevented its return to the air. More precisely, the fact that he controlled 75% of the company's shares. However, this issue was removed yesterday.

Gazprom wants to continue working in South Pars Participation in the gas project in Iran has not yet brought material dividends to Gazprom. As you know, negotiations are currently underway on the form and volume of return of funds that were invested by the participants of the consortium to commission the second and third stages of one of the world's largest gas fields, South Pars. Its reserves are estimated at 12.6 trillion cubic meters of gas (almost half of Gazprom's reserves).

And they will be able to sue the Moscow mayor's office The capital's authorities are ready, starting today, to begin paying compensation to the victims and families of those killed in the terrorist attack at the Tushinsky airfield on July 5. This was announced by the First Deputy Mayor of Moscow, head of the social sphere complex Lyudmila Shvetsova. The corresponding resolution was signed yesterday by Yuri Luzhkov. Material assistance to the victims will also come from the Russian government.

Special services ordered to “pick out and destroy” terrorists In Moscow today, by order of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, mourning has been declared for the victims of the terrorist attacks carried out on Saturday by two Chechen female kamikazes near the Tushinsky airfield during the Wings rock festival. All entertainment events and concerts have been canceled in the city, and broadcasts of relevant programs have been canceled on the Stolitsa and TVC channels.

RAO UES of Russia Group published one of the latest joyful financial statements RAO UES of Russia yesterday pleased investors and analysts with good performance results last year, compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers according to international financial reporting standards. However, experts believe that next year the indicators will noticeably worsen, since the positive effect is based primarily on the high growth of tariffs, which were increased twice last year.

Finally, we have Michel Houellebecq's first novel out. In domestic book publishing, everything is topsy-turvy. “Expanding the space of struggle” (Foreigner-BSG-Press, translation by Nina Kulish) is the work with which the scandalous talk show under the name “Houellebecq” began. The Russian reader, as usual, watched it in the recording, and first “ate” the ending, and then figured out what the point was.

Top managers of Interros and TNK will confront Gazprom in Irkutsk Shareholders of RUSIA Petroleum, which is the operator of the Kovykta gas condensate field development project in the Irkutsk region, yesterday elected a new board of directors.