YUKOS transferred 57% of the shares of the Siberian company to their former owners Millhouse Capital, which manages Roman Abramovich's assets, announced last night that a controlling stake (57%) of Sibneft shares had been returned to it. Until yesterday, these securities were listed on the balance sheet of YUKOS, with which it tried to merge last year.

The 38-year-old Frenchman will be seen off at the Japanese Grand Prix It has somehow become commonplace that the months-long marathon called the Formula 1 World Auto Racing Championship ends with the Japanese Grand Prix.

For a long time, the situation in the domestic fishing industry was discussed exclusively in catastrophic terms. The apotheosis of criticism of the industry was the thesis of Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin, who was preparing a report for a meeting of the State Council, that the fishing industry was in a state of agony.

On the eve of the US presidential elections, Israel presented the administration of George W. Bush with an unpleasant surprise. Ariel Sharon's adviser, lawyer Dov Weisglass, said that the plan of unilateral separation from the Palestinians was conceived only to freeze the process of a political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Former head of the Prime Minister's Office Dov Weissglass was one of the initiators of Sharon's disengagement plan with the Palestinians. Mr.

Sergei Stepashin introduced the new owner of football Dynamo The capital's football club Dynamo shared its plans for the coming years. The scope of the Blue and White leadership is impressive. The new owner of the club, Alexey Fedorychev, promised to allocate $150 million for infrastructure development alone. In response, the head of the Dynamo board of trustees, chairman of the Accounts Chamber, Sergei Stepashin promised Mr.

The Russian Orthodox Church will have its own judicial system The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which ends today in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, has become the most successful in the entire period of the post-Soviet history of the Russian Orthodox Church. The main achievement of the Russian bishops was an unprecedented rapprochement with state power.

The unbreakable bloc of Karzai and Bush is counting on their support Tomorrow the first presidential elections will take place in Afghanistan. Of the country's 28 million population, 12 million people have the right to vote.

Samara does not intend to change electricity tariffs The Samara region seems to have decided to create a precedent and not raise electricity tariffs for the next year. As the head of the department for state regulation and control in the electric power industry of the region, Andrei Kesarev, said yesterday at a press conference, 1 kWh in 2005 for the rural population will cost 80 kopecks, and for the urban population - 1 ruble. 15 kopecks, i.e. just like this year. Mr.

Top managers of E.ON-Ruhrgas paid a return visit to Gazprom The leaders of the German energy concern E.ON - Wulf Bernotat and Burkhard Bergmann - held a working meeting with the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, at the Bogorodskoye Reception House near Moscow.

Moscow meets Tibet From October 14 to 31, the capital will host the festival “Tibet: Traditions, Art, Philosophy.” The event is very attractive - in our country, very, very many, if they do not share the religious aspirations of the Tibetans (in Buryatia, Kalmykia and Tuva they profess the Tibetan form of Buddhism), then admire the serene smile of the Buddha, the beauty of Lamaistic rituals and the depths of esoteric teachings.

CLUBS Spitalul de Urgenta (Romania). The end of the tour of the Balkan stars. October 8 at Art Garbage , 23.00. October 9 at the “Club on Brestskaya” , 22.00. October 10 at the Central House of Artists , 19.00. The after-party of the tour will take place on October 10 at the Gogol cafe-club on Arbat and will be combined with the opening of the club in a new status - as a permanent concert venue for the production group Bad Taste.

Moscow House of Music opens its season After all the city's music venues officially opened in September, today the ambitious House of Music will open the season with a concert in memory of conductor Kirill Kondrashin with music by Mahler, Shostakovich and Mozart. A slight delay in the work of the halls in the Red Hills is caused by a large-scale project that has not yet provoked a strong reaction in the music world.

These were oil vouchers Arsenals of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq will never be discovered. This was stated yesterday by the head of the US search group, special adviser to the CIA Charles Delfer at a hearing in the US Senate. The group he led summarized the results of a 17-month search for WMD in Iraq in a substantial (a thousand pages!) document. The experts' conclusion is clear: after 1991, no weapons of mass destruction were produced in Iraq, and no reserves were found. Mr.

Chief designer leaves automaker The chief designer of the German automaker BMW, Chris Bangle, known for his unconventional stylistic solutions, may soon leave the company. Yesterday on the website bmw.carclub.ru, with reference to sources at BMW headquarters in Munich, information appeared that Mr. Bangle will remain in his post only until the launch of the 1st Series (will compete with VW Golf and Opel Astra) this fall.

Hungary has become interested in the Russian housing and construction complex. As Assistant Minister of Industry and Energy of Russia Leonid Chernyshev said yesterday, this country will provide Russia with 100 million euros for the development of mortgages in individual regions. It was decided to test the new mechanism in Chuvashia. Hungarian builders will build houses intended for sale using a mortgage.