Gazprom received two licenses in Kyrgyzstan and promised to invest $300 million On the way from Iran to Moscow, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, made a stop in Bishkek to ceremoniously receive two licenses to conduct geological exploration in Kyrgyzstan. Miller announced the concern's intention to become a strategic investor and invest $300 million in the republic's economy. For a country that has only 6 billion cubic meters of reserves, these are truly Napoleonic plans.

Triumph lost in the tiny German town of Quakenbrück The first matches of the opening round of the ULEB Cup playoffs, the second most important continental club tournament, took place in different European cities. Based on the results of the group stage, where 54 teams were divided into nine groups, all four Russian participants reached the knockout tournament, and all of them have good chances of making it to the 1/8 finals.

Friedrichshafen dealt with Dynamo according to the proven scheme A participant in the Final Four of the Champions League in the previous two seasons, the capital's Dynamo has stopped fighting for the trophy in the current edition.

Criminal cases have been initiated against companies from the structure of RAO UES Yesterday the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia criticized the reform of the Russian electric power industry. Over the past six months, the police have carried out “comprehensive measures to ensure the security of the country’s electrical grid complex,” the DEB press release says, and opened five criminal cases totaling about 1 billion rubles.

Yulia Tymoshenko did not offer Russia a personal gas plan Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, who yesterday came to Russia for the first time since her second coming to this post, yielded to Vladimir Putin on the gas issue . What Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko could not do, the Russian President successfully accomplished. Namely: to convince Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliy Tymoshenko to pay debts to Gazprom.

Yuri Khrzhanovsky at the Museum of Personal Collections The case of Yuri Khrzhanovsky (1905-1987) is unique: in painting he had the opportunity to combine the Russian avant-garde, fragments of the Silver Age and the Soviet Great Style, and in life - the talents of a musician, artist and actor. A rare combination of talents forced Khrzhanovsky to constantly choose between painting and performing arts.

Aviation design bureaus will gather in one center Vladimir Putin yesterday visited the town of Zhukovsky near Moscow for the sixth time during his work as president of Russia. On the same day, Mr. Putin signed a decree establishing a national aircraft manufacturing center there. The attitude of aircraft manufacturers themselves to this idea can be described as ambivalent at best.

The unrecognized republics expect bold decisions from Moscow Today, as Vremya Novostey has learned, the president of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (PMR) Igor Smirnov should make a statement that in the world, with the proclamation and recognition of the independence of Kosovo, a new model of conflict resolution has been established , based on the priority of the people’s right to self-determination.

The 90th anniversary of the creation of the Red Army is an occasion to think about what, in fact, was created in February 1918. The Bolsheviks proclaimed themselves the creators of an unprecedented, first proletarian state in the world. What kind of army should this state have? And what kind of army did it actually turn out to be?

“The trial, which could have cleared poaching charges against the spouses Vladimir and Kristina Efremenko, has been postponed for a week,” the Russian Embassy in Madagascar told Vremya Novostey yesterday.

Vladimir Nekrasov, according to his lawyers, was promised to be enrolled in a criminal community Lawyers for the owner of the Arbat Prestige perfume chain, Vladimir Nekrasov, who was arrested on January 23 on charges of tax evasion , yesterday held a press conference at which they told the details of the scandalous case and their version of what happened. As already reported, Mr.

Oleg Mitvol may pay for public criticism of management The conflict within the leadership of Rosprirodnadzor seems to have entered a decisive stage. As Interfax learned, the new head of the environmental department, Vladimir Kirillov, approached the Minister of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, with the idea of ​​dismissing his deputy Oleg Mitvol , who again allowed himself to openly criticize the boss. Having decided to build a clear vertical of power in the department, Mr.

The Bank of Russia is preparing for a decrease in liquidity in March and April In March, the Central Bank began providing loans secured by non-marketable assets. This was stated in yesterday's Bulletin of the Bank of Russia. Thus, the promise of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Alexei Ulyukaev, who in early February announced the regulator’s plans to expand refinancing opportunities for banks in this way, has been fulfilled.

Abkhazians invite Russians to study the experience of Kosovo and Taiwan Abkhazia will hold a meeting of its security council at the end of the week to decide how to follow the “Kosovo fairway”. The unrecognized republic believes that it has no less rights to recognition than the breakaway region of Kosovo from Serbia . And here the Abkhazians are counting on Moscow’s sympathy. This will certainly complicate today's negotiations in Moscow between the presidents of Russia and Georgia.

FAS supported the lifting of the ban on beer advertising in stadiums The Federal Antimonopoly Service supported the initiative to return advertising of brewing companies to sporting events. Last week, the president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) and senator from St. Petersburg, Vitaly Mutko, came up with such a proposal.