Viktor Vekselberg is “conducting a dialogue” about the fate of his main gas field There is a month left before the expiration of Rosnedra’s “ultimatum” to the owner of the rights to develop the Kovykta gas field in the Irkutsk region to eliminate violations of the license agreement.

Yesterday at 15:00 local time, a two-seat German Air Force Tornado fighter crashed in the mountains near the Swiss town of Stechelberg. The causes of the crash are unknown, one of the pilots was found with serious injuries, and the other pilot died. An official representative of the Swiss Air Force noted that the German fighter was making a scheduled training flight from the island of Corsica.

Interest rates are expected to rise in Europe and the US The European Central Bank yesterday left the discount rate unchanged at 3.75% per annum. Speaking after the meeting, ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet gave a cautious comment on the situation in the eurozone. Russian analysts believe that the European Central Bank does not want to give traders a reason to continue to play for an increase in the euro , which has already reached frightening heights.

Foreign NGOs learn the intricacies of Russian bureaucracy Foreign non-governmental organizations working in Russia are taking another “survival test.” By the end of this week, or more precisely, until April 15, all NGOs must report on their financial activities to the Federal Registration Service and tax authorities, as required by the new legislation.

Large financial and industrial groups will divide the parliament of the enlarged Krasnoyarsk Territory On Sunday, April 15, the first elections to the legislative assembly will be held in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, united with Taimyr and Evenkia . The relatively quiet campaign with the obvious dominance of United Russia was in the end revived by the initiation of a criminal case against the Union of Right Forces and the refusal of the two parties to agree on fair elections.

The head of the World Bank is paying for his “mistake” The press conference of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, preceding the traditional “spring meetings” in Washington of the governing bodies of the IMF and the World Bank, was sold out yesterday. The full house was caused not by the current problems of global development and the bank's role in solving them, but by the scandal surrounding Mr. Wolfowitz himself .

The US still has a chance to keep Russia out of the WTO Unexpected statements by US Presidential Trade Representative Susan Schwab that Russia is “not yet ready” to join the World Trade Organization again call into question the realism of forecasts for our country’s accession to this organization by the end of the year . Moreover, the United States still has legal opportunities to seriously complicate Russia’s process of joining the WTO.

Liverpool will face Chelsea again A more than impressive victory with a score of 3:0 in Eindhoven was quite enough for Rafael Benitez, who decided to send a semi-reserve squad for the return match with PSV. In Munich, Bayern were powerless against Milan's defensive redoubts.

German expert blames US President for China's success The 21st century will be neither Chinese nor Asian, since the Celestial Empire does not yet have the most important attributes of a highly developed industrial power, says Professor Eberhard Sandschneider, head of the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy (GOVP) in Berlin.

Sergei Ivanov celebrated Cosmonautics Day in a politically intelligent manner Contrary to his rules, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov devoted yesterday not to numerous matters, but to a protocol trip to Star City and the Mission Control Center (MCC). At the Cosmonaut Training Center, Mr.

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Today Russia will continue to withdraw its bases from Georgia . A convoy with equipment and property of the 62nd Akhalkalaki Russian military base will head to Armenia, where the 102nd Russian base is stationed in the city of Gyumri. As Andrei Popov, commander of the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia (GRVZ), told Vremya Novostey, the base in Akhalkalaki will close by July 1. By this time, five convoys will leave for Armenia.

The Ministry of Industry and Energy reported on the status of PSA projects Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko yesterday presented the text of a report to the government on the implementation of production sharing agreements in 2006. On 76 pages, it sets out in detail and systematizes all the numerous problems of the three projects that Russia handed over to consortia (mainly foreign investors) in the form of PSAs in the mid-90s.

JANUARY TENNIS. 15--28. Australian Open. Melbourne. Russian tennis players had a great two weeks leading up to the first Grand Slam tournament of the season. Dmitry Tursunov and Nadezhda Petrova won the Hopman Cup in Australia - an unofficial world championship among mixed teams, Dinara Safina won the Gold Coast there, on the Green Continent, Anna Chakvetadze won against Vasilisa Bardina in the Russian final at the competition in Hobart.

The leader of the presidential election race in France, former Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, denied allegations that he allegedly promised current President Jacques Chirac protection from criminal prosecution. Sarkozy called such allegations “grotesque, offensive and untrue.” The French satirical weekly Canard Enchen reported that Nicolas Sarkozy has made a deal with the current owner of the Elysee Palace.