Transneft asks for preferential government loans The state will separately consider the issue of providing preferential financing to Transneft. As it became known yesterday, at the end of last week, at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who oversees the oil and gas industry in the government, the company’s investment program for the next year was discussed.

The Black Sea Fleet can sail from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk The Black Sea Fleet will leave Crimea in 2017 if Russia fails to reach an agreement with the future Ukrainian government to extend the lease agreement. This statement was made in an interview with the British BBC Broadcasting Corporation by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who oversees national defense issues in the government. At the same time, Mr.

Relations between Russia and the West have become cooler due to the crisis in the Caucasus. A number of Eastern European states, led by Poland, insist on exemplary punishment for Moscow for its interference in the situation around South Ossetia.

Russia recorded a record monthly decline in prices for industrial products Prices for domestic industrial producers fell by 5% in September - this is the maximum drop for the entire period of Rosstat observations. Economists believe this could be a sign of an impending recession amid the global financial crisis. Until now, the Russian economy has suffered from excessive increases in producer prices.

Minsk is in no hurry to recognize Sukhumi and Tskhinvali The issue of recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be considered by the new composition of the Belarusian parliament, which will meet for its first session on October 27. Speaker of the Lower House Vadim Popov announced this yesterday at a press conference. Recognition will provide a formal opportunity to include the two small Caucasian republics into the Russian-Belarusian union state.

Industrial enterprises of the Urals begin to reduce production The labor market of the Ural region - together with the banking sector - was among the first to respond to the worsening financial and economic conditions in Russia.

Georgia is looking for money in the West Georgian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Tkeshelashvili flew to Brussels, where tomorrow, October 22, there will be a conference of donors who promised to help Tbilisi overcome the consequences of the August conflict. So much depends on this conference that the Georgian government has even postponed introducing the draft 2009 budget into parliament until after it is completed - its parameters will be adjusted taking into account the generosity of donors.

Half a million Jews died in Belarusian ghettos A funeral ceremony dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the destruction of the Minsk ghetto by the German Nazis took place yesterday in the capital of Belarus. The distinguished guests who gathered at the Minsk memorial complex “Yama” at the site of the mass executions of ghetto Jews were met by the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko.

Russians in the first roles in the NHL Hockey. NHL. Regular season . “Chicago” – “Vancouver” – 4:2, “Anaheim” – “Carolina” – 1:2. After two game weeks of the regular season, the list of the league’s top scorers according to the “goal plus pass” system is headed by two Russians, who scored ten points each. Washington forward Alexander Semin scored six goals and made four assists; Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin had two and eight assists respectively.

The two-year budget of the first phase of Shtokman will be $800 million The board of directors of Shtokman Development AG, registered in Switzerland, chaired by the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, with the participation of the executive director of the Total concern, Christophe de Margerie, and the president of StatoilHydro, Helge Lund, yesterday reviewed the progress of the first phase of the project for the development of the Shtokman gas condensate field and discussed the work program for the

Sberbank denied rumors about restricting banking operations The distrust of private depositors in Russian banks, which has noticeably increased in connection with the financial crisis, also affected Sberbank, on whose deposits a little more than half of the population’s funds are kept. Yesterday he had to officially deny rumors about introducing restrictions on banking operations.

Inter dealt with their main competitor The permanent champion of Italy in recent years, Inter, once again made it clear that, even after replacing the stable Roberto Mancini as head coach with the unpredictable Jose Mourinho, he only counts on first place. Anyone who disagrees with this will face the sad fate of Roma. The capital's "wolves", who dared to say that they were ready to take the Scudetto away from Inter, were defeated at home in the seventh round of the Italian championship - 0:4.

Israelis can't wait for a new government Tzipi Livni , head of Israel's ruling Kadima party, yesterday asked President Shimon Peres to extend the deadline for forming a new government by two weeks. And although Peres granted this request yesterday evening, the very fact of the request indicates that the new cabinet of ministers is being created with great difficulty.

The Public Chamber approved amendments to the law on media The Federal Law “On the Mass Media” in its current version has only a few weeks left to live. The authors of the current version of the “profile” document regulating the activities of the domestic press, secretaries of the Union of Journalists of Russia Yuri Baturin and Mikhail Fedotov, have prepared amendments to “their own” law, which are planned to be submitted to the State Duma for consideration in November.

This year, the medical drug Myrcera (CERA), a new type of erythropoietin (EPO), appeared on the European pharmaceutical market. And recently, after several cyclists from the elite of the world peloton were caught using this drug (including the “mountain king” of the 2008 Tour de France, Austrian Bernard Kohl), the International Olympic Committee ordered to test from 700 to 1000 frozen blood samples donated by participants of the Summer Games in Beijing.