Kuban assets of Yukos will be offered to Rosneft The company of LUKOIL top managers , Promregion Holding, will definitely not receive the southern assets of YUKOS , despite the fact that on May 3 it won the corresponding auction, offering 4.9 billion rubles. As is known, the FAS did not allow her to carry out the transaction due to the fact that, in the service’s opinion, unreliable information was presented about the economic activities of Promregion Holding.

EWE lost control of the VNG supervisory board On the eve of the annual conference of the largest East German gas company VNG, a coup took place on its supervisory board. Dissatisfied with the policy of the largest (owning 47.9% of shares) shareholder - the utility concern EWE, the remaining owners of securities, including the Russian Gazprom, agreed and elected their chairman of the supervisory board. Typically in Germany this post goes to a delegate from the main shareholder.

After 2012 Yesterday, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev ( pictured ) invited deputies of both houses of parliament to approve the program of democratic reforms he had long promised .

The Utah club reached the Western Conference finals Russian national team forward Andrei Kirilenko set a season personal scoring record (21 points) in the fifth match of the Utah-Golden State series, where the Jazzmen reached the Western Conference finals for the first time since 1998, winning 100:87.

The Art Moscow fair opened in the capital's Central House of Artists Contemporary art is in high esteem today. Eleven years ago, during the first “Art Moscow”, which existed as an experimental model of a market that did not yet exist, several galleries sold artists’ works at prices that now would not buy their own handwriting on restaurant bills.

Social movements in defense of historical monuments are gaining strength The Moscow City Duma Commission on Culture and Mass Communications reviewed a project proposed by residents of the Moscow Biryulyovo district to revive the historical dacha of the first chairman of the Russian parliament, Sergei Muromtsev, in Tsaritsyn.

Despite the fact that from all sides the World Bank is being called on to resolve the scandalous situation with the head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, as soon as possible, the matter is dragging on. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper predicted yesterday , the board of directors of the bank, which began Moscow time on Wednesday night, ended only in the morning, and to no avail.

In the material “They laid the stone and solved all the problems,” published in yesterday’s issue of Vremya Novostey, the company “Ilim Pulp” was mistakenly indicated. At the end of the second paragraph it should be read: “However, the main opponent of increasing the height was Mr. Deripaska: the flood zone included roads and forests that are used by the pulp and paper mills and forestry plants controlled by him.”

President Berdymukhammedov erases Niyazov's traces The removal from office of the head of the personal security service of the President of Turkmenistan, General Akmurat Rejepov, carried out on May 15 by the current Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, may be the beginning of a large-scale campaign to purge the Turkmen nomenklatura of Niyazov cadres.

Warrant officers celebrated their graduation party with a mass brawl on the train Fast train No. 11 will arrive in Chelyabinsk today, which will deliver contract military personnel to their place of duty, who the day before managed to become famous throughout the country not for their military exploits, but for their participation in a mass drunken brawl.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. Semi-final. “Anaheim” – “Detroit” – 0:5 (series score 1:2). The 42-year-old Red Wings veteran Dominik Hasek had an excellent match - the Czech goalkeeper made 29 saves. The greatest burden fell on him in the first and third periods, but in the second 20 minutes the Anaheim forwards made only two shots on target at the Dominator goal.

For the first time in two years, an increase in demand for gold was recorded In the first quarter of this year, for the first time in recent times, there was an increase in demand for gold on the world market, according to the World Gold Council, by 4%, to 831.7 tons. In dollar terms - by 22%, to $17.377 billion compared to the same quarter of the previous year.

What needs to be done to overcome the current difficulties in relations between Russia and the EU? Harald LIEBRECHT, a member of the Bundestag and a foreign policy expert of the faction of the opposition Free Democratic Party of Germany, told Vremya Novostei about this. — The West has recently taken a number of unilateral steps that have caused hostility in Moscow. In particular, this concerns plans to deploy elements of the American missile defense system in Europe.

Emigrants of recent decades have erased the differences between Russian Orthodox churches The territorial division of Orthodox churches, recorded in their names, has long no longer accurately reflected the differences between them. The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad has long been active not only abroad; it also has several parishes in Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is also not an internal matter of Russia.

Miller headed the board of the “alien” Gazfond Alexey Miller added an unexpected position to his track record. Gazprom's report for the first quarter of 2007 reported that the chairman of the concern's board became head of the board of Gazfond, a non-state pension fund. As is known, as a result of the movement of assets within the Gazprom group throughout the past year, Gazfond became the owner of a serious business.