Dozens of former Yukos employees are moving to Rosneft The ranks of Rosneft managers have been replenished with another ex-YUKOS employee. Yesterday, the state-owned company officially announced that the former vice president for transport and logistics of YUKOS RM (the division responsible for refining and marketing of products), Alexander Sapronov, will take a similar position at Rosneft - vice president for logistics, refining and sales.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs defended the defendant Ivankov from friends, artists and journalists Yesterday in the Moscow City Court, with the participation of a panel of jurors, the trial of the famous thief in law Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, who is accused of murdering two Turkish citizens, began. At the first hearing, the prosecution began presenting its evidence. Unexpectedly for everyone, the process was declared closed.

The President of Belarus took part in a disco and a roller ski race Late in the evening of July 3, Alexander Lukashenko, dressed in a bright blue jacket, arrived at a concert on the occasion of Belarusian Independence Day, held on Oktyabrskaya Square in the center of Minsk. According to the presidential press service, more than 100 thousand people attended the concert.

A little over a year after the start of administrative reform - in the form of a change in the structure of the government - it is already clear to everyone that carrying out transformations of government bodies is much more difficult than it seemed. The reform developers' calculations face a lot of subjective and objective problems.

The official winner of the Albanian parliamentary elections held on Sunday will be known today. But without waiting for the announcement of the election commission, both parties vying for leadership in parliament - the Socialist, led by the current Prime Minister Fatos Nano, and the Democratic, led by ex-President Sali Berisha - are celebrating their victory. According to preliminary results, the Democrats were ahead of the Socialists by 1%, which is commensurate with the margin of error.

At the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, a “fake” applicant dressed in a woman’s dress was exposed The art of impersonation is a very subtle thing, it does not tolerate falsehood and overacting. Inattention to this well-known rule recently deprived an applicant from the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University of the opportunity to enter the most famous university in the country this year.

In a week, Kyrgyzstan will receive a president There are six days left before the early presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, and few doubt that the current acting head of state will be elected as the new head of state in the first round on July 10. President, Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Confidence in the outcome of the elections arose after the conclusion of an agreement in May between Bakiyev and the second main contender for the presidency, Felix Kulov.

Policemen answer for rampant terrorism in Dagestan The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Adilgerey Magomedtagirov, yesterday fired almost the entire leadership of the Makhachkala police. It paid for the fact that, according to the minister, it “could not give an adequate response” to the terrorists who have been continuously attacking local authorities for the last six months.

CLUBS DJ Aki Nawaz , aka Propa-Gandhi (UK). Dub party from the patriarch of the Asian underground style, producer Asian Dub Foundation. Suzy Wong Bar , 22.00. "Marimba Plus" A mixture of academic, jazz and ethnic music performed by graduates of the Conservatory. Jazz Town , 21.00. Simba Vibration. A new project by the former vocalist of the Markscheider Kunst group Seraphim Selenge-Makangila. Cheerful summer music. Bilingua , 22.00.

The SCO is looking for new methods to combat terrorism It is difficult to get rid of the feeling that there is some kind of “cultural” intrigue hidden in the program of the 10th anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which opens today in the capital of Kazakhstan.

At the current G8 summit, Russia should officially assume the powers of chairman of this organization for the coming year. The situation causes a lot of contradictory comments.

Militants detonate five bombs in Baghdad The less time remains before the parliamentary elections in Iraq scheduled for January 30, the more daring the militants' antics become. Yesterday, Baghdad was overwhelmed by a wave of terrorist attacks - five car bomb explosions occurred in the capital. At least 30 people died on the spot and died from their wounds. They are all Iraqis, most of them law enforcement officers.

What does the inauguration of the US President look like from a diplomat's point of view? Yuli VORONTSOV, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States in 1994-1998, a participant in meetings and negotiations between Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton, shared his memories with Vremya Novostei. - The main event of the inauguration is the taking of the oath. The Russian Ambassador is invited to it along with the entire diplomatic corps.

The next stage of the Russian Beach Volleyball Championship - the Sport TV Channel Cup - was won in Belgorod by the country's strongest men's pair, Roman Arkaev (Norilsk) - Dmitry Barsuk (Krasnodar). This team recently performed well at the World Championships in Berlin, where they were classified in ninth place. In order to participate in the Belgorod tournament, Arkaev and Barsuk deliberately missed the World Series stage in Stavanger, Norway.

Forecast for the coming days In the northwestern regions, it will be moderately warm over the next two days; on Tuesday, short-term rains will occur only in the Pskov region, and on Wednesday they are possible in some places throughout the region. July 5 at night +7...+12оС, during the day +21...+26оС. The central region will still be on the far outskirts of the cyclone, which has gone into Siberia.