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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three-time world champion retires The third World Aquabike Championship ended in the French resort town of Golfe-Juan. Unlike the two previous world forums, the Russian team was left without gold medals. The competition took place in the waters of the local port, where, judging by the number of masts, there were much more yachts moored than there were buildings in Golf Juan itself. In this situation, it is quite natural that the majority of the audience were vacationers on the Cote d'Azur.

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”.

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.

In relations between Belarus and Russia today there are no issues that need to be discussed at the highest level. Alexander Lukashenko said this on Friday, commenting on media reports about upcoming negotiations with Vladimir Putin. Rumors about a meeting between Lukashenko and Putin planned for August 22 appeared against the backdrop of heated disputes that broke out at the end of July over the Belarusian debt for Russian gas supplies.

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.

The Fed urgently cut the discount rate The financial crisis that broke out in the world due to problems with American mortgages forced the US Federal Reserve to take emergency measures. On Friday, the Federal Reserve urgently reduced the discount rate (at which it provides resources to banks) from 6.25 to 5.75%, while the base interest rate (the benchmark for the interbank market) remained at 5.25% per annum.

CLUBS Davlat (percussion), Lenz and DJ Yakob. The musicians, sometimes performing under the name Los Barabanos, and now members of the “Tandem” project in “Chinese Pilot”, are two first-class percussionists playing oriental and Latin American drums, and one DJ. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. CONCERTS "Four centuries of Belarusian vocal music." Elena Zolova-Gavrilchik (soprano), Tatyana Molokova (piano). Rachmaninov Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00. MOVIE "The Simpsons Movie" (2007).