Middle management of Rosneft will celebrate a housewarming in the former YUKOS building in September State-owned Rosneft will move to the former Yukos building on Dubininskaya Street in Moscow in September. In the meantime, the new owners got rid of the main symbols of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's former empire - the logo on the roof and the large copper plate with the name of the YUKOS company attached to the central column in front of the main entrance to the building.

Fortum sold the majority of its shares to Lenenergo Integrated Energy Systems (IES), owned by the structures of Viktor Vekselberg and his associates, are going to create a large electric grid company in St. Petersburg. Several sources close to RAO UES of Russia and the city administration reported this to Vremya Novostei.

The Russian state is ready to invest in new settlement of the Far East The Far East can be called the stepson of Russia. The gigantic region on the Pacific borders of the power has been considered the most lagging behind in recent years. The population is gradually leaving for other regions of the country. Nearby is rapidly growing China, which is often cited as a potential threat to neighboring Russian territories.

The film festival “Window to Europe” ended in Vyborg A special feature of “Window to Europe” is the atmosphere of goodwill and a kind of tranquility: the passions that boil at other festivals barely smolder here, and by the time the prizes are awarded, contrary to all logic, they completely subside.

The Olympics in Sochi will be prepared according to the least risky scheme Contrary to popular belief, the future Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 is not yet the most expensive in the history of these sporting competitions. In terms of costs at the moment - the budget for seven years can still be adjusted upward - it ranks only fifth in the recent history of Olympism. Although, of course, the Sochi Olympics are very expensive. The most expensive among winter ones.

Yuri Luzhkov is ready to hire 200 thousand migrant workers from Tajikistan The Moscow authorities decided to be the first to put into practice the selective principle of selecting labor resources. Convinced that Moscow employers are not able to determine how many workers of which specialties and from which countries they need, Moscow officials decided to independently select the contingent of labor migrants.

The global oil market is watching a hurricane approaching the Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Dean, which will approach the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula today or tomorrow, has already made oil traders seriously nervous. After all, production of raw materials in the Gulf of Mexico (where the United States receives a third of total oil production and 15% of gas) fell by 0.8% just last Friday, and all leading oil companies reported the beginning of the evacuation of personnel.

Ekaterina Belyaeva talks with Mikhail Messerer -- “Class Concert” opened the evening of one-act ballets and at the same time the last, shock block of the Bolshoi Theater tour in London. In your opinion, is there any special concept in constructing an evening of three completely different performances? -- The concept is simple. The Bolshoi Theater wants to demonstrate the different facets of the troupe's capabilities and is doing this in the wake of the last premieres of the past season.

Georgian missile wings failed to convince Russian experts The missile, discovered on August 6 in the village of Tsitelubani , Gori region, 65 km northwest of Tbilisi, has become the subject of research by foreign specialists. Consensus could not be reached. The conclusion of Russian experts who worked in Tbilisi and at the site of the incident on August 16 and 17 destroys the version of the Georgian side and a group of Western experts about the “Russian trace”.

Import duties on fur coats have been reduced in Russia For the winter season, the Russian government has prepared a pleasant surprise for connoisseurs of fur clothing. Duty rates on imported fur clothing have been halved - from 20 to 10%, duties on children's clothing will be even lower - 7.5%. Transporting fur coats across the border will become cheaper from September 15, from the moment the government decree comes into force.

Turkish plane hijacking resulted in no casualties The arrest of two attackers ended on Saturday at the airport in the Turkish resort of Antalya a farce that played out for four and a half hours on board a Turkish airline Atlas Jet with 136 passengers flying from Northern Cyprus to Istanbul. Half an hour after takeoff from Yerkan Airport in northern Cyprus, two hijackers demanded that the pilots change their route and land in Iran or Syria.

Nazarbayev will have a one-party parliament It took Kazakhstan 16 years to, having made a new round of the historical spiral, return to Soviet conquests. The country's new parliament, as in Soviet times, will be one-party. Perhaps even more one-party than the Supreme Council of the KazSSR. At that time, deputies from the bloc of communists and non-party members still sat there.

Aeroflot revealed the real price of long-haul aircraft Aeroflot has disclosed information about the real prices at which it buys long-haul aircraft from the world's leading manufacturers - Boeing and Airbus. According to the tradition that has developed in the global aircraft manufacturing business, the amount of contracts with buyers is considered a commercial secret. Aircraft manufacturers publish only so-called catalog (maximum) price lists for their products.

Nikolay Davydenko was unable to overcome an awkward opponent Another week of overseas “tours” of Russian tennis players did not add joyful emotions to domestic fans. None of our players who participated in two prestigious tournaments - women's (Toronto) and men's (Cincinnati) - made it to the finals. The best result among the Russians was shown by Nikolay Davydenko, who reached the semifinals in the USA, where he lost to the host of the court, James Blake - 4:6, 2:6.

New production launched in Orsk On Friday, in the Orenburg region, a ceremony was held to launch production at the modernized Orsk refrigerator plant. This event is notable for the fact that the project is international in nature and is being implemented with the support of the state corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs” recently created on the basis of Vnesheconombank.