Rosneft shares are being tested by the market A month has passed since Rosneft shares entered the market for free circulation. As is known, the placement of securities of the state oil company was “people's”, since Sberbank sold them to all interested individuals who were ready to shell out at least 15 thousand rubles - in the end they were sold shares worth $1.7 billion.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his country “has a full cycle of nuclear fuel production for peaceful needs.” “These are our native technologies, and no one can take them away from us,” he said at a rally in the northwestern city of Ardabil. At the same time, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki made it clear yesterday for the first time that Tehran is ready to discuss with the international community the possibility of suspending uranium enrichment work.

The party presented the hero of the day with “Selected Works” Today marks the 80th anniversary of Jiang Zemin, the Chinese leader of the 90s. After he transferred party, state and military power to the current leader Hu Jintao in 2002-2004, the pensioner Jiang was slowly forgotten in China. The retired politician rarely appeared in public and had no visible influence on government decision-making. These days, Chinese media talk about Jiang Zemin even more often than during his reign.

German Gref will read a report about everything at the government Today's government meeting will open with an unusual report, delivered by Economic Development Minister German Gref. The report will include literally everything: the results of the first half of the year, the final forecast of socio-economic development for 2007 and the next two years, the federal target and investment program. Despite the scope and breadth of the topics, the government apparatus believes that Mr.

The writer spoke about serving in the SS before the release of the Stasi archives The Nobel Committee does not intend to deprive the German writer Günter Grass of the prize in connection with his admission of service in the SS troops. The 78-year-old writer found himself at the center of a loud scandal after he recently admitted that at the age of 17 he enlisted in the elite units of the Waffen-SS. Grass claims he didn't fire a single shot.

The customs union will be created by Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus A customs union within the EurAsEC is needed and will be created. True, later than expected - not earlier than mid-2007. And so far there is a truncated composition of only three of the six member countries of the Eurasian Economic Community - Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

BP shareholders filed a lawsuit against the company's president, Lord Brown, over the accident in Alaska. The accident at the Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska, as a result of which the operation of the oil pipeline was stopped, could result in big troubles for the project operator, the BP company.

Following the artists, professors have gone to court to protect copyrights. Mathematicians from St. Petersburg University want the court to see the creative soul behind their problems and equations. Scientists, having discovered that their works had been published without permission in one of the textbooks, went to court for copyright protection.

American interceptor missiles do not need referendums The United States considers Great Britain as the most likely site for the deployment of a missile defense system, the British newspaper The Times reported yesterday. The United States' intention to deploy missile defense bases in one or more European countries became known in July 2005. The talk was about installing ten missiles that should protect the United States and Europe from a possible attack from Iran.

Chronicle of sporting events Suspicions of doping have been cleared from Russian track and field athletes. The drugs found by police in a trash container near the hotels where the Russian national team athletes stayed and whose labels contained inscriptions in Russian are not prohibited. “It looks innocent because it’s just vitamins.

EU interior ministers worry about liquid explosives and Muslim radicalism After the events of August 10 in London, when British intelligence services managed to foil an attempt to destroy a dozen passenger planes in the air, European countries will need to update their methods of countering terrorists. This was the conclusion reached yesterday by the EU home affairs ministers who gathered in the British capital.

Hiddink and Pogrebnyak celebrated their debuts with victory The Russian national team led by Guus Hiddink played its first test match. It is also the last one - the next game of the Russian team with the Croats on September 6 will become the official and starting qualifying round for Euro 2008. Yesterday's rehearsal can be considered successful: the Russian team beat the Latvian team with a score of 1:0.

New rules will radically change the game It's been a year since the richest and supposedly most progressive league in the world, the NHL, has introduced new rules. They, according to the innovators, must seriously reform hockey, make it more spectacular and productive. And indeed, last season confirmed that performance in the NHL has increased significantly.

The new party of Sergei Mironov should become the “left leg” of the Kremlin The Party of Life is ready to occupy the left flank of Russian politics and hopes to receive up to 15% of the votes in the parliamentary elections, Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov said yesterday. If we add to this the electoral ambitions of the Rodina party, with which the Russian Orthodox Church promises to unite, the picture turns out to be quite rosy.

CLUBS Vitaly Golovnev (trumpet), Miki Hayama (piano; USA), Jason Brown (drums; USA), Andrey Dudchenko (double bass). Vitaly Golovnev is a young trumpeter who began his jazz career not just anywhere, but in the orchestras of Oleg Lundstrem and Igor Butman. Now Golovnev lives and works in New York. He invited American drummer Jason Brown and a jazz emigrant like himself to Moscow.