Gasprom formed operative crew in order to provide Europe with gas through Ukraine. The crew consists of directors and experts of all profile departments of company. Analogous crews have been formed at all daughter enterprises of Gasprom, responsible for transportation of natural gas to Ukrainian frontier.
Ukraine is going to be consistent with its obligation towards the Russian Black Sea Fleet sojourn on the Ukrainian territory, informed the chief of Ministry of Foreign Affairs press-cutting service Vasiliy Filipchuk. "If proceed from the normal course of relationship between Ukraine and its partners, we are going to keep to the existing terms of bilateral treaty," noted the press-cutting service chief.
TNK-BP and "Rusneft" has come to agreement on the sale of "Saratovneftegas". The amount of transaction is expected to constitute $600 million, and it will be bought in by the end of the year.
Saudi Arabia officially entered World Trade Organization and became its 149-th member.
Russian company "Russneft" will win auction of subsidiary TNK company -"Saratovneftegas" - purchase for $600 millions.
Russia signed the Treaty about economical cooperation with Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) during meeting of ministers of foreign affairs in Malaysian capital.
In the course of a search of business bank "Neftyanoi" that was conducted on Thursday confirmatory materials were seized which show, investigators think, connection of that credit institution with illegal banking operations and legalization of bankroll.
This was announced by the head of Russian United Energetic System Anatoly Chubais.
Such conclusion gives a research based on the poll of first-rate world companies’ executives by the international consulting company "AT Kearney".
Since January 2006 trip by overland public transport will become more expensive in Moscow.
Premier-minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov will negotiate with representatives of European Committee in Brussels, will meet with Belgium premier-minister and European businessmen.
The chairman of Russian Council Sergei Mironov and the chairman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Litvin will discuss possibility to raise the price of gas supplied to Ukraine from Russia. "We’ll touch upon this question" - said Mironov. He also expressed assurance that Russian an Ukrainian sides would manage to agree on this question. "Europe has also become agitated in view of possible problems with Russian gas supply to Europe", added Mironov.
2 large Russian-Syrian agreements in gas field, at the cost of $370 millions, were signed in Damask.
Federal space agency and government of Omskaya oblast assumed mutual obligations about reconstruction of "Polet" enterprise and resuming of "Cosmos-3M" missile-carriers production. This agreement was reached as a result of meeting between the Ruscosmos head Anatoly Perminov and governor of Omskaya oblast Leonid Polezhaev.
AvtoVAZ has made a decision to increase volume of output of old "Niva" VAZ-21214 regardless of agreement with General Motors, IA "LADAONLINE" reported.
In the context of the scale agreement on armament delivery to Iran Russia also agreed with Teheran on modernization of Iranian military planes SU-24 and MIG-29 of Soviet production, informs the newspaper "Vedomosty".
Among the four leaders of the most sold on the territory of Russia foreign cars according to 9 months results of the current year, only
Russia will "morally and financially" support projects, directed at development of Palestinian economics.
Unfavorable weather forecast caused increase of futures prices on oil at leading world markets.
First estimates of damage, caused to town by cyclone, were calculated in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski.
From December 2 Ukraine removed a ban on chicken meat import from Russia, which was introduced in August of current year in the view of bird flu.
The external debt of Russia has been cut down in dollar expression by 24% - down to $86.8 b and in euro expression by 14.1% - down to 71.9 b euros. The official report of Ministry of Finance informs about that.
Russian people’s working day has increased. Federal service of statistics (Rosstat) announced the data today.
An American newspaper reports about obstacles for foreign oil companies in Russia.
Unified Energy System CEO Anatoly Chubais guaranteed heat and power supply in Moscow in winter 2005-2006. "Moscow won’t be left without heating and lighting this winter", - commented Chubais words of Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov, who said that Chubais in fact admitted the failure of Unified Energy System chief executives work.