Richard Grasso believes he was underpaid The scandalous case of the former head of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Richard Grasso is taking a new turn. After Grasso had to resign because of his high salary, and the new management of the exchange had to review the management system of the largest trading platform, only a week ago New York prosecutor Eliot Spitzer brought charges against Grasso. But yesterday the prosecutor's office announced Mr.

LUKOIL will begin industrial production of hydrocarbons in the Northern Caspian Sea in 2008 and over the course of 15-20 years will produce about 10 billion cubic meters of gas and 4 million tons of oil per year, the company's press service reported. According to the holding, the total recoverable resources of the Russian sector of the Caspian Sea amount to 4.5 billion tons of standard fuel.

The Miss Universe elections took place this year at the equator The representative of the country, the kangaroo, won the main beauty contest on the planet, Miss Universe 2004. The awarding of the title to 20-year-old Australian Jennifer Hawkins, a choreographer from Sydney, came as a surprise not only to the audience, but also to the participant herself. No one considered the blue-eyed blonde Hawkins the favorite.

Departments The Ministry of Economic Development agreed to maintain licensing of drug production activities in Russia, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrei Sharonov. According to him, companies that have an international certificate for the production of medicines will be able to obtain licenses under a simplified system.

Ukrainian pipes ask for Azerbaijani oil Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is visiting Ukraine on his first official visit. The opening ceremony of the monuments of his parents, Zarifa and Heydar Aliyev, is timed to coincide with the arrival of the dear guest. Aliyev will then speak face to face with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, and will also meet with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and Rada Speaker Vladimir Lytvyn.

Oil prices will remain high even if OPEC lifts all production restrictions Today, oil ministers from OPEC member states will gather in Beirut to discuss whether the organization will raise production quotas. Moreover, on the eve of the summit there were calls to temporarily abandon the production quota system altogether. In any case, analysts are unanimous in their assessments: neither raising quotas nor canceling them will be able to significantly reduce world oil prices.

The Khakassia prosecutor's office demands that the ex-director of the Yeniseiskaya mine be fined half his monthly salary It is possible that today in the city of Chernogorsk (Republic of Khakassia) the verdict will be announced in the case of the former director of the Yeniseiskaya mine, Ten Yen Tak, who is accused of delaying wages by an employee of the enterprise for ten months. Let us recall that after the April hunger strike of the miners, Mr.

The state will punish bosses who skimp on salaries On the eve of the holiday period, the situation with the payment of salaries to public sector employees may worsen. This statement was made yesterday at the government hour in the State Duma by the Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov. He promised that the center is again ready to help the regions pay off state employees.

The government will limit the rights of sanitary and epidemiological stations Administrative reform does not depend on a change in the cabinet of ministers. That is, it continues. At its meeting today, the government of Mikhail Fradkov intends to approve amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences. It is assumed that control and supervisory authorities will not be able to terminate the production activities of a particular economic entity without a court decision.

Lukashenko is jealous of Russia's WTO Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko yesterday criticized the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) during a meeting in Minsk with the secretary general of this organization Grigory Rapota. “For me, it is important: will the EurAsEC continue to work effectively or will everything continue as it is now. And now the situation in the EurAsEC is worse than in the CIS,” Lukashenko said.

A major advertiser is not yet planning to leave NTV following Parfenov In connection with the closure of Namedni and the departure of Leonid Parfenov, one of NTV’s largest advertisers, the Tinkoff company, has not yet decided whether it will change its advertising campaign on the channel.

The XXVI Moscow International Film Festival will open on June 18 with the Russian premiere of “Kill Bill. Film 2". The official press conference will be held on June 8, where the competition program will be announced. Not all issues have yet been resolved, changes can occur at the very last moment, but program director Kirill RAZLOGOV shared with the Vremya Novostey newspaper his impressions of the general progress of preparations for the festival.

This coming Wednesday, the Federation Council will officially approve the candidacy of a new senator from the Voronezh region. He will be the president of the mini-football club "Dynamo" (Moscow) - the champion of Russia for the last two years - Konstantin EREMENKO. Why exactly the Voronezh region entrusted the best player in the history of Russian mini-football to represent its interests in the upper house of parliament and how Mr.

60 years since the opening of the second front On Sunday, June 6, the West will mark the 60th anniversary of the most famous Allied military operation in World War II. In 1944, on this day, the landing of American, British and Canadian troops in Normandy began - the anti-Hitler coalition opened a second front. For the Allies, this date is perhaps the second most important event of the war after V-Day, Victory Day, celebrated there on May 8th.

The problem of opening a second front was the most acute in inter-allied relations With the landing in Normandy, Germany was squeezed in the grip of two fronts - from the east and west. The beginning of interaction between the Red Army and the armed forces of the Western allies was the joint entry of British and Soviet troops into Iran in 1941. At the same time, a squadron of the British Air Force was covering Murmansk.