| August 2006 |
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Rosneft [LSE: ROSN] said Thursday its board of directors had approved a decision to issue additional stock by converting ordinary and preferred shares of the company's 12 subsidiaries to Rosneft shares. 
Relatives of those killed in a Russian airliner crash have visited the site of the tragedy, Ukrainian television said Thursday. At least 170 people were killed, including 45 children, when a three-engine Tu-154 jet came down en route from a Black Sea resort to St. Petersburg in stormy weather 30 miles north of the regional center of Donetsk Tuesday.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov left Moscow on a five-day working visit to the Russian Far East and the United States, a ministry spokesman said Thursday. Ivanov, who is also a deputy prime minister, will meet August 27 with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, in Fairbanks, Alaska. 
Chinese authorities have provided Russia with detailed information about an incident at a chemical plant and ensuing toxic spill into the Amur tributary, a Russian diplomat said. 
Four interior ministry servicemen have been killed and one wounded in an explosion at a garrison located near a television tower in the Chechen capital, local police said Thursday. 
Lukoil Americas, a subsidiary of Russian oil giant LUKoil (RTS: LKON), will start building an ethanol plant in Pennsylvania in the first quarter of 2007, jointly with Massachusetts-based BioEnergy International, the biotechnology company said Thursday. 



