Moscow's 100 most beautiful people to be announce on Sunday.

MOSCOW, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The names of Moscow's 100 most beautiful
people will be announced here on Sunday within the framework of the 12th
May Fashion festival.
"Traditionally, our beauty festival is held in late May. It attracts
Russian movie and theatre stars, ballet dancers, athletes, musicians and
journalists," producer Andrei Fomin, the festival's organizer, told
Itar-Tass.
"The Top-100 includes brilliant people, heroes of this year's media
publications, distinguished for their outstanding achievements, who helped
other people," he said. "This way we state once more that beauty will save
the world."
Among these top-100 are Grigory Dobrygin, a Berlin film festival
laureate, actress Chulpan Khamatova, the founder of the Podari Zhizn
charity foundation helping children with cancer, Filipp Yankovsky,
Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Yekaterina Andreyeva, and others.

.Oil & gas fields might be in private hands but controlled by
state-Shafranik.

MOSCOW, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's potential in the fuel and
energy sector "should be under aegis of the state," head of the Union of
Oil and Gas Producers of Russia Yuri Shafranik said at the news conference
Russia's Energy Diplomacy: Goals and Means.
"A field might be in private hands but under strict state control.
Flexible and developed state control should be extended to servicing," he
said.
According to Shafranik, "Russia already has serious players who should
ensure stability and development on the domestic market and be active on
foreign markets."
"We must learn to make optimal use of our resources - this is the
first and foremost task for our energy specialists. Second, it is
necessary to boost internal efficiency of our companies, since they lag
behind western companies in many parameters," he noted and called for a
more flexible taxation system in the energy sector.
Russian companies, he said, are not engaged in oil and gas production
outside the country. "Not more than 0.1 percent of the desired number of
our power companies are active in other countries," Shafranik noted. In
this context, he hailed the entry to the Latin American market. "We should
not allow Europe's monopsony" (single buyer monopoly), he stressed.

.Moldova's communists hold protest actions in 3 big cities.

CHISINAU, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Moldova's opposition communist party
held mass protest rallies in the country's three biggest cities of Cahul,
Balti and Orhei on Saturday demanding early elections.
About 15,000 people took part in the Social March against the ruling
Liberal-Democratic coalition.
"These actions will be continued because the bulk of society has no
other instruments of democratic pressure on the current authorities, which
spare no effort to keep their posts in defiance of the Constitution,"
member of the national parliament Mark Tkachuk told journalists.
The situation in Moldova has been unstable since the spring of 2009,
when the opposition challenged the victory in the parliamentary elections
of communists, who had been in power for the last eight years. The protest
actions grew into riots and assaults on the parliament house and
presidential residence. Since then, the lawmakers cannot elect the head of
state. Last spring, elections were blocked by the opposition, but
following the July 2009 early elections, communists, who found themselves
in opposition, have been refraining from taking part in the election of
the head of state.

.China's Xian to adopt Moscow's experience in metro construction.

XIAN, China's Shenxi province, May 30 (Itar-Tass) -- China's ancient
capital, the city of Xian, is set to adopt Moscow's experience in the
construction metro transport system, the city's deputy mayor Dong Zun told
Russian journalists on Sunday.
"In September 2010, I will head a city government delegation that will
leave for Moscow to study the metro construction experience," he said.
"China and Russia have a long and rich history of bilateral ties. Xian'
s cooperation and contacts with Russian cities in various spheres are
constantly expanding," he stressed. In his words, Russian delegations
often visit Xian and more than 20 delegations from Xian visit Russian
cities annually.
Russia's interest to Xian is proved by the fact that a Russian
delegation took part in a recent Eurasian forum in Xian, and by active
participation of Russian representatives in other international
conferences in the city.
According to Dong Zun, the city, one of China's biggest tourist
attraction, is visited by about one million tourists, including from
Russia, a year.
"I hope Xian's contacts with other cities of the world, including with
Russian cities, will only grow," he summarized.
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