Eduard Khudainatov becomes Rosneft President.

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MOSCOW, September 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Rosneft's Board of Directors
appointed Eduard Khudainatov the company's President.
"In line with the order of Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and the
decision of the government, Rosneft's Board of Directors appointed Eduard
Khudainatov the company's President," a source in the company said on
Sunday. "He will enter upon his duties on September 6, 2010."
From 2008, Khudainatov was the company's Deputy President and later -
its First Deputy President. He was responsible for prospecting, production
and for realisation of strategic projects. Earlier, from 2003, he run the
Severneftegazprom Company, a Gazprom's subsidiary, "where he supervised
the beginning of production at the South-Russian oil and gas deposit," the
source said. Before that, he used to work at different authorities,
including the presidential administration.
"Rosneft is a leader in Russia's oil industry," Deputy Prime Minister
Igor Sechin said on Sunday. "I am convinced that the experience and
knowledge will let Khudainatov develop further the company."
On Saturday, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev met with Khudainatov,
and ordered the government to have the candidature of Khudainatov to the
position of Rosneft's President.
From 1998, Sergei Bogdanchikov ran the company. In late June, his
contract expired, and there was no information about its prolongation. On
September 3, the company informed that Bogdanchikov was on a business trip
and Khudainatov was replacing him.

.Medvedev to meet with Nazarbayev, participate in forum.

MOSCOW, September 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev
starts on Monday a two-day working visit to Kazakhstan. In the afternoon,
he will come to Ust-Kamenogorsk to meet with Kazakhstan's President
Nursultan Nazarbayev. On Tuesday, the two presidents will take part in the
VII Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan.
The two leaders will have their eighth meeting over the current year.
"This proves the importance, Russia and Kazakhstan pay to the further
improvement and development of the mutually advantageous cooperation in
politics, trade, the economy, education, culture and other spheres,"
Russia's presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said. "Presently, the
bilateral relations are at their highest level."
Medvedev and Nazarbayev "will discuss interregional cooperation and
interaction in trade and the economy," he said. "They will touch upon the
plan for mutual action for 2009-2010, cooperation in space, energy,
nuclear sector, the defence-technical cooperation, interaction in the
framework of the CSTO, SCO, bilateral and international issues, including
Russia's presiding role in the CIS, analysis of the Customs Union and the
United Economic Space, and joint control at the Customs Union's joint
border."
"Participants in the VII Forum of Interregional Cooperation between
Russia and Kazakhstan will discuss traditionally the issues of regional
trade, cooperation in the fuel and energy complex, transport, agriculture,
education, culture," Prikhodko said. The sides will not discuss supplies
of grain, he added.
The topic of this year's forum is Cooperation in the sphere of stable
development and high technologies. There will be an international
exhibition - Innovative technologies in municipal utilities, a Kazakhstan
- Russia investment business forum and a series of "sector sections."
The sides are expected to sign a set of documents over the forum.
"From the very beginning, the forum was supposed to be a trans-border
event, but later on Russia's many regions, which actively cooperate with
Kazakhstan in trade, the economy and culture, joined the event, and the
forum became an interregional one," Prikhodko said. "This forum is a most
effective one in solving practical issues, customs and border regulations,
implementation of transport projects and direct supplies, students'
exchange programmes."
"Every forum brings good results," he added.
"We do not set any specific tasks for the forum, as it is an acting
mechanism," Prikhodko said. "Usually, the forum results in orders to the
government and various authorities."
"The participants will have to discuss many topics, including
cooperation with Russia's EMERCOM in the frontier territories, which is
especially important following the latest events," he said. "Other topics
include cooperation in nature's protection and reconstruction of roads and
railroads."
"Lately, regional chambers of commerce in frontier territories in
Russia and Kazakhstan trend to have agreements between themselves," he
continued. "Trans-border cooperation is regulated by the Programme between
the two countries and by several intergovernmental agreements."
"Russia's 76 territories have trade and economic relations with
counterparts in Kazakhstan," Prikhodko said. "Trans-border trade makes
about 40 percent of the bilateral trade turnover, and about 70 percent are
contributed by interregional trade."

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