NOVATEK will share its experience and infrastructure with the concern’s oil subsidiary Gazprom Neft and NOVATEK announced that they have established a joint venture - Yamal Development LLC - to implement joint projects for the development of oil and gas condensate fields in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The company is registered on a parity basis and does not yet have a front line of work.

The organizer of the Youtube portal composition competition, Google in Russia, spoke with the public and the contestants After videos of the compositions of the finalists of the online composition competition appeared on YouTube on July 15, of which there were 13 instead of the expected ten, a scandal broke out among the competition participants, bloggers and musicians.

Today the 12th round of international discussions on security in the Caucasus will take place in Geneva. The meetings are held after the hostilities in the Caucasus in 2008, and involve representatives of the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the UN, Moscow, Tbilisi, Washington, Sukhumi and Tskhinvali. The South Ossetian delegation went to Geneva to once again raise the issue of concluding a document on the non-use of force in the Caucasus region.

"Archstoyanie-2010" in Nikola-Lenivets The curator of the current landscape art festival in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga province, Oleg Kulik, chose St. Christopher, a martyr saint who lived in the 3rd century, as his patron. The martyr, who was a warrior in the world and bore the name Reprev, had the appearance of a cinemacephalus - a man with a dog's head.

Forty years ago, one of Europe's dictators died Among those whom historians and journalists called “the dictators of Europe” in the twentieth century, the Portuguese ruler Salazar was a true political long-liver. In fact, he came to power even before Hitler’s accession to Germany and parted with it after Khrushchev’s removal from power in the USSR...

The Russian men's team won silver in the World League The “Final Six” of the largest commercial competition with the participation of the strongest teams on the planet - the World League - ended in the Argentine city of Cordoba. Led by Italian specialist Daniele Bagnoli, the Russian team showed a decent result, winning silver.

Vladimir Putin was plunged into the 10th century Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent Monday in Veliky Novgorod, where he tried to understand the problems of archeology - a science that seemed infinitely far from the professional and official interests of the head of government. Nevertheless, Mr.

There are no changes on the European territory of Russia. The anticyclone continues to experience heat from the Baltic to the Urals. In the North-Western region there are intermittent rain, thunderstorms, wind of 13--18 m/s, and the temperature continues to rise, at night +18...+24оС, in the afternoon +31...+37оС. In the Central region on Tuesday, localized rains are possible in places, temperatures at night will be +20...+25оС, in the afternoon +33...+38оС.

Ruslan Ponomarev won the tournament in Dortmund The chess super tournament of six grandmasters has ended in Dortmund. Contrary to forecasts, Vladimir Kramnik, on whom, in fact, the tournament rests, performed unsuccessfully. The final 50% result cannot be attributed to the ex-world champion; he played worse here only five years ago.

CONCERTS Jeff Beck (Great Britain). Five-time Grammy Award winner, member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame club, legendary guitarist at Crocus City Hall , 20.00. "Tender age" New heroes of teen rock. “16 tons” , 20.00. Ivan Farmakovsky Trio with a program of selected melodies from Soviet films in jazz arrangement. Igor Butman Club , 20.30. CLASSIC Ensemble of soloists "Hermitage" conducted by A. Utkin (oboe). A. Vivaldi, J. McLaughlin. Taking part in the concert are I.

The market chooses the positive Global markets generally reacted positively to the results of stress tests of European banks. Now investors are focusing on corporate reports of the largest companies that are showing good results. As a result, stock markets and the European currency showed moderate growth yesterday. Asian markets have been growing since the morning. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.6%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 0.12%.

The head of the metro measured the temperature of passengers The management of the Moscow Metro confirms the extreme slowness of the city’s transport system to changes in the external environment. Yesterday at a press conference, the head of the Moscow Metro State Unitary Enterprise Dmitry Gaev made it clear that metro passengers can only wait for the abnormal heat to subside. “I think that in the next years there will be no such effect,” Mr.

The Russian pharmaceutical market is collectively searching for a definition of a domestic medicine Against the backdrop of increasing proposals from officials and market participants to strengthen government support for Russian drug manufacturers, the question of formulation is becoming increasingly pressing: which manufacturers can be called truly domestic and which cannot, which products can be considered Russian and which cannot.

The car plant's assets and accounts were seized due to debts Yesterday it became known that the property of the Taganrog Automobile Plant (TagAZ) plant was arrested in connection with large claims by its creditor Sberbank.

Bulgaria returns $4.88 million to Transneft Transneft managed to achieve progress in negotiations with the government of Bulgaria, which is the company's partner in the project to build the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline. At a meeting in Sofia, Transneft was able to convince Deputy Prime Minister Simeon Dzhankov that his country should pay the Russian company’s debt of $4.88 million.