Türkiye does not want to sue, but Gazprom is ready to meet it halfway Tomorrow the next round of negotiations will begin between Gazprom and the Turkish government regarding gas supplies via Blue Stream. The parties have already exchanged peace-loving statements, which are not worth anything yet, since they have been voiced more than once before. However, one circumstance gives hope for a more fruitful conversation in Ankara.

Yesterday evening sensational reports arrived from Iraq. American CNN announced that two sons of Saddam Hussein, who disappeared after the April fall of Baghdad, 37-year-old Qusay and 39-year-old Uday, could have been killed in the north. American officials were bursting with delight, but they were clearly afraid of jinxing it. “Almost certainly, well, almost certainly among those killed are Saddam’s sons,” one of the American officials in Iraq repeated like a mantra.

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The correctness of the German proverb “The past is yet to come” was recently confirmed by weightlifters who, a year before the start of the 2004 Olympics, risked replacing their leader, when instead of 40-year-old Yuri Zakharevich, who had completely discredited himself. The Russian Weightlifting Federation is headed by the most experienced 68-year-old specialist Nikolai Parkhomenko.

Despite the summer ban on testing in Formula 1, the Italian team Minardi is still going to test this week. The pilot has changed in the stable - the place of Justin Wilson, who left for Jaguar, was taken by Dane Nicholas Chiesa. Now the new driver, who has competed in Formula 3000 and has not even sat in an F1 car, needs to be tested, which is what Minardi plans to do on Thursday and Friday.

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President He proposed that the State Duma finalize the draft amendments to the Forestry Code, which were approved by the lower house of parliament in the first reading in June.

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Terrorists are driving tourists out of Spain again Yesterday, explosive devices went off in two hotels in the resort towns of Alicante and Benidorm on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Fortunately, no one was killed. 13 people were injured: tourists and four police officers. Explosive devices were carried into hotels in bags. Authorities blame the extremist Basque separatist organization ETA for the attack.

And threatened with an outflow of investment The clarification of relations between the Ministry of Natural Resources (MPR) and the owner of the license for the Salym group of fields - the Salym Petroleum Development (SPD) company - continues.

The story of the deportation of the intelligentsia in 1922 was told in photographs and documents Another exhibition opened in the hall of the State Archives on Pirogovka: after a detailed story about the last year of Stalin’s life, 1953, the archive turned to the beginning of Soviet history and offered the viewer one of the most striking actions (as an archivist from the FSB, operations, professionally called it) “ early Bolsheviks. The exhibition is called “Philosophical Ship.

Kleiner will defend himself against Sberbank in federal arbitration Member of the supervisory board of Sberbank Vadim Kleiner is appealing to the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District the court decisions of June 19 and June 20 that statements about abuses by Sberbank management are untrue and discredit the bank’s business reputation. According to him, he will go straight to the federal court, bypassing the appellate instance of the Moscow Arbitration Court.

Party for the Revival of Article 7 of the Constitution Participants in the upcoming parliamentary race continue to prepare for the fight for the people's love. Yesterday in Moscow an expanded political council of the Russian Revival Party (RRP) was held, dedicated to the upcoming elections. The “revivalists” have not yet decided whether to run in the elections alone or as part of a coalition. According to the party leader, Mr.

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American AES is going to sell Tbilisi energy networks to Russia Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, at a meeting yesterday with the US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles and Minister of Fuel and Energy David Mirtskhulava, discussed the possibility of the American energy corporation AES selling a 75% stake in Tbilisi's energy networks. AES, as Georgian Deputy State Minister Akaki Zoidze told reporters, is negotiating with RAO UES of Russia on the sale of these shares.