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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fifth Asia-Europe Forum (ASEM) opens today in Hanoi. It was created in 1996 on the initiative of France and Singapore for informal discussion of political, economic and cultural interaction. EU countries intended to boycott the current forum, opposing the admission of Myanmar (Burma), which is ruled by a military junta, into the organization.

Grigory Berezkin sold his stake in RAO UES of Russia Last week Gazprom doubled its stake in RAO UES of Russia. As the head of the concern, Alexey Miller, said on Wednesday evening, the gas monopolist now owns approximately 10.5% of the shares of the energy complex. And the press secretary of the ESN group, Mikhail Vatin, said yesterday that it was Grigory Berezkin who sold his entire stake in RAO - just over 5% - to Gazprom.

Abu Haws - Al-Qaeda's financial manager in the Caucasus Russian special services, as Vremya Novostei learned, recently managed to obtain a photo and fairly detailed information about the identity of a representative of the international terrorist network Al-Qaeda in Chechnya, known as Abu Havs.

Adviser to the Russian President criticizes the government's economic policy In yesterday's issue, the British Financial Times published two materials with statements and comments from Andrei Illarionov, Vladimir Putin's adviser on economic issues. “Andrei Illarionov,” the newspaper writes, “is so proud of the fact that he freely expresses his opinion that a copy of the official reprimand for violating the rules of communication with the press hangs near the door of his office in the Kremlin.

There are more and more of us in Prague By the end of February, the Czech Republic will introduce a new type of visa for Russians, “similar to Schengen.” The first secretary of the Czech embassy in Moscow, Frantisek Jirasek, told the Vremya Novostey newspaper yesterday. True, the new visas, unlike the classic Schengen ones, will not give the right to enter European countries other than the Czech Republic itself.

The Russian team should be wary of the Luxembourg team Tomorrow the Russian team will play its next match in the qualifying round of the 2006 World Cup. And although our team’s opponent, the Luxembourg national team, can’t even be considered among the middle peasants of European football, our souls are not very calm: more than once we have been burned by “football dwarfs”.

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