Vice-President of LUKOIL Sergei Kukura, answering yesterday the question whether the holding’s managers are negotiating with the American ConocoPhilips about the sale of part of the shares of the Russian company, said: “Negotiations are underway, I don’t know their specifics,” Interfax reports his words. The manager did not specify whether we are talking about shares owned by LUKOIL managers or a 7.6% stake owned by the government, but which is going to be sold this year.

For the Russian team, the European Championship is almost over. All that remains is to play a match with the Greek national team that means nothing to us. But our team goalkeeper Sergei OVCHINNIKOV, who was sent off in the meeting with Portugal, will not be able to take part in it either. And the main goalkeeper of the Russian national team can already sum up the results of Euro 2004. - Sergey, what happened in that ill-fated episode when you were sent off the field?

Economic diplomacy and support for domestic business abroad is an important area of ​​work for the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Russia was the first to finish the fight at the European Championships The continental championship ended ahead of schedule for Russia. After the defeat in the second match from the Portuguese national team with a score of 0:2, we were not even given the opportunity to do our favorite thing - to calculate the scanty chances of leaving the group before the last round.

CLUBS "The Sound and the Fury" International festival of noise music. For two days, the “House” will become a kingdom of noise and electronics - hellish grinding, clanging, roaring and frantic screams will be heard in the peaceful surrounding courtyards. On Friday, Andrey Kirichenko (Kharkov), Kotra (Kiev), Adam Ebringer (Australia), Cisfinitum and Kaet (Moscow) will perform.

Forecast for the coming days The first half of June on the European territory of Russia passed in anticipation of summer. The cold cyclone, which has been standing over the north of European territory for a long time, is leaving for even more northern latitudes. And from the west a fine and very warm anticyclone has already rushed towards us. In the northwestern regions on Friday +14...+19оС, short-term rains.

Sverdlovsk veterans are ready to start a war against the monetization of benefits If the federal government decides to replace benefits with monetary compensation, Sverdlovsk pensioners and veterans will take to the streets and stage mass protests. This warning was included in the text of their open letters to the regional and federal authorities by the heads of veterans' organizations of the Sverdlovsk region, who gathered in Yekaterinburg to discuss new initiatives of the federal government.

The Vremya publishing house, with the support of the bookselling company Book Club 36.6, announces the start of the free transfer of its book texts to online libraries. The first books, the texts of which will be provided to any free online library, are the works of Andrei Zhvalevsky and Igor Mytko “Porri Gutter and the Stone Philosopher”, “Personal File of Mergiona” and “Nine Labors of Sen Asli”.

The Hamburg Ballet shows its “Ballet Days in Hamburg” is a traditional June festival, the poster of which compresses the seasonal achievements of one of the best troupes in the world into several weeks. This year the festival is special, double anniversary. It is 30 years since John Neumeier took charge of the theatre, and the Hamburg Ballet School is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

"Gosinkor case" closed The scandalous case of fraud involving 300 tons of silver allocated by the authorities to the State Investment Corporation (Gosinkor), according to the newspaper Vremya Novostey, was recently closed by the Prosecutor General's Office. Investigators suspected that, in violation of the president's instructions, the management of Gosinkor sold the precious metal, and Guta Bank received a percentage of the transaction.

Metropolitan policeman accused of murdering detainee Another scandal broke out in the capital's police yesterday. The Moscow Metro prosecutor's office obtained a court sanction for the arrest of senior police sergeant Sergei Basorgin. An employee of the 8th department of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the metro, Basorgin, is accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of Zolottsev, a 27-year-old unemployed resident of the Moscow region. The young man died on June 11.

Screenings of the phantasmagoric show “Krakatuk” began in St. Petersburg The play “Krakatuk” (a variation on the theme of Hoffmann’s fairy tale), staged by director Andrei Moguchiy, is an ambitious spectacle and made with the expectation of success, an “a-a-ah” that makes a potential viewer immediately run for a ticket. This theater-show-circus performance is played in St.

The European Union is closer to adopting a constitution At the European Union summit that opened yesterday in Brussels, the historic task of adopting a European constitution will be resolved. The Basic Law of the United Europe, the draft of which was proposed by a special forum - the Convention headed by the elder of the European political club Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - was going to be adopted back in December 2003. It is impossible to delay the matter any further.

Tax officials counted at least 11 thousand legal millionaires in Russia The Ministry of Taxes and Duties is actively summing up the results of the 2003 declaration campaign. The results cannot but rejoice. Russians are living richer and richer. According to the tax department, the number of legal millionaires with taxable income in the amount of 1 to 10 million rubles. compared to 2002, it increased by 30%, and with an income of more than 10 million - by as much as 64%.

Philip Kirkorov does not yet know that intemperance will result in a trial for him It took almost a month for Philip Kirkorov’s demarche during a tour in Rostov-on-Don to finally move from the category of scandalous chronicle to the legal sphere.