50 dollars per barrel is almost a reality Perhaps today the price of oil will overcome the psychological mark of $50 per barrel. On Friday, the cost of a barrel of WTI oil in America under futures contracts for September reached $49.4.

The pension reform schedule is being disrupted again The authorities continue to adjust the pension reform “on the fly.” Last week, the head of the Russian Pension Fund, Gennady Batanov, said that the State Duma is considering a bill to postpone by three months the deadline for submitting information to the Pension Fund on the selection of a management company to manage the funded part of the pension and non-state pension fund.

The company was accused of destroying sand and melting ice At the peak of the popularity of Japanese cars and their sales in the most attractive markets in the world, representatives of the Western scientific community spoke out against Toyota SUVs (and they make up more than a third of the company’s overall sales structure).

Our fans were almost sent to prison Two Russian fans attempted to enter the Olympic Village. Sports fans used a truck for this purpose. However, vigilant security guards intercepted the impromptu capture team and arrested the fans. "The Russians said they just wanted to spend the night," said a spokesman for the Olympic Village's paramilitary security. Soon the Russian fans appeared before a Greek court, which sentenced them to two months in prison.

RAO UES wants to build power plants in Kyrgyzstan RAO UES of Russia continues to implement its strategy to conquer the energy sector of neighboring countries.

The return of Henin-Hardenne dashed the Russians' hopes The Olympic tennis tournament ended unsuccessfully for the Russian team. In four types of the program, our athletes were unable to win a single medal. Despite the incredible efforts of Anastasia Myskina, she failed to defeat the Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne in the semifinals. And the bronze medal match, by and large, no longer mattered to her. There is no other place for Nastya except the first one.

Registering ships in our country is still unprofitable The Russian flag, whose day was celebrated in our country yesterday, is seen less and less every year in the World Ocean. Statistics from the Ministry of Transport show that in the last decade the number of Russian ships that prefer to sail under so-called “flags of convenience” has only been increasing. The Russian flag cannot compete with “convenient” ones due to the strict tax regime existing in our country.

The Federal Financial Markets Service does not want to understand the scandal on the Gazprom share market The scandal that erupted on August 18 on the Gazprom stock market gradually received the expected continuation.

Sakhalin gas is on its way to the USA Gas from the Sakhalin-2 project may be fully contracted in the near future. Negotiations to sign a contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced on Sakhalin by Sakhalin Energy to the west coast of Mexico and the United States are at a “very, very advanced stage,” a manager at an unnamed corporation in Sakhalin told The New York Times. Last week, the Korean monopolist Kogas announced its high interest in purchasing “close” Sakhalin gas.

They demand a lot of awards from our athletes Before going to the Olympics in Athens, Russian track and field athletes planned to win four gold, four silver and four bronze medals at the Games. However, the leaders of the Olympic Committee really hope that there may be several more awards, including gold ones. In the first two days of the competition we have two victories - Irina Korzhanenko in the shot put and Natalia Sadova in the discus throw.

“Machines for producing happiness” continue to operate at STS This year, too, the STS channel put on a whole show out of routinely announcing its plans for the new season. The channel's general director, Alexander Rodnyansky, made a report very similar in form to the reports of large Western companies to shareholders - accompanied by slides, diagrams, videos of new or updated programs.

The President of Russia holds resort meetings with colleagues in the CIS non-stop Last Friday, following Leonid Kuchma, a new guest from neighboring countries arrived to Vladimir Putin in Sochi - Armenian President Robert Kocharyan. The meeting at the residence of the President of Russia “Bocharov Ruchey” was successful.

A new grain capital has appeared in Russia How long have you seen crowds of happy, smiling pensioners? And chicken eggs cost 9 rubles. for a dozen, potatoes for 4 rubles. per kg? Those who travel not in foreign cars, but in public transport and go to the market to buy food themselves, will understand how exotic these social and food phenomena are in modern times. Nevertheless, last week there was an abundance of both: Rostov celebrated a record grain harvest for all post-Soviet times.

Masters of rowing Sergei FEDOROVTSEV, Igor KRAVTSOV, Alexey SVIRIN and Nikolai SPINEV gave Russian fans a real surprise by winning the final race of the fours. Vremya Novostei correspondent Vladimir ILYIN was waiting for the champions on the shore, asking our rowers about their first impressions of the unexpected success. Nikolai Spinev: - They believed in themselves, although they understood that they were not favorites. We were just hoping for a good race, but it turned out as you see!

Igor Yusufov again replaced Viktor Kalyuzhny Igor Yusufov, who served as Minister of Energy from June 2001 to March 2004, became Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, overseeing the Caspian direction and energy issues. Unlike his predecessor, the special representative of the Russian President for the settlement of the status of the Caspian Sea, Viktor Kalyuzhny, Mr. Yusufov was not included in the number of deputy ministers of foreign affairs.