The board of directors of OJSC NTV-Plus decided to early terminate the powers of the company's general director Dmitry Samokhin and appoint Alexey Kukolevsky in his place. The latter previously held the position of first deputy general director. Samokhin, in turn, was elected chairman of the board of directors of the television company, RIA Novosti reports .

The passport of State Duma deputy from the LDPR Ashot Yeghiazaryan was declared invalid. The document was issued at a time when the parliamentarian was abroad, which is a violation, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established . Let us remind you that a criminal case is currently being investigated against the deputy under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).

An internal audit at the capital's Kuntsevo Court found that assistant judge Nadezhda Sakharova had forged a number of judge's decisions. In this regard, the management of the Moscow City Court has already appealed to the investigative authorities with a request to verify the identified facts and make a decision to initiate a criminal case.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Tuesday agreed to release on bail activist of the Voina art group Leonid Nikolaev, accused of hooliganism. A day earlier, a similar decision was made regarding another arrested “War” participant, Oleg Vorotnikov. The amount of bail in both cases is 300,000 rubles - this is exactly the level that the defense asked to set, reminds RIA Novosti .

At the end of 2011, at an oil price of $93 per barrel, Russia's reserve fund may increase to 1.454 trillion rubles.

Monopolies appear on the Internet one after another - Google, Amazon, Facebook. Who else will conquer the world? The world has been talking lately about the value of Facebook. Could a social network really be worth $60 billion, $80 billion, $100 billion? Conversations like this seem to resemble something. Namely Google seven years ago. Shortly before the company went public in 2004, observers were equally dismissive of its potential.

OJSC Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (NLMK) filed a new claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the former owner of OJSC Maxi-Group, Nikolai Maximov, for 583 million rubles. The third parties in the case are Maxi Group and Alfa Bank. According to an Interfax source familiar with the lawsuit, the funds were paid by Maxi Group to Alfa Bank for services provided personally to Maximov.

The National Reserve Bank (NRB) has reduced its shares in the authorized capital of Aeroflot OJSC and Ilyushin Finance Co OJSC, according to a press release from the credit institution. The share in Aeroflot decreased from 12.17% to 9.7%. Share in IFC – from 18.96% to 8.65%. NRB's stakes in Aeroflot and IFC have been reduced since February 16.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, increased profit from continuing operations in the fiscal fourth quarter by 27% to $6.06 billion, or $1.7 per share, from $4.76 billion, or $1. .25 per share for the same period last year. According to the company's press release, earnings before tax benefits for the period ended January 31, 2011 were $1.34 per share. The retailer's revenue increased by 2.4% to $116.36 billion.

BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's largest mining company, is buying Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s stake. in the project to develop the Fayetteville shale gas field in the US state of Arkansas for $4.75 billion, according to a BHP press release . The assets being acquired include approximately 487,000 acres of producing gas properties. “The Fayetteville Shale assets represent world-class natural gas reserves,” said BHP Billiton Petroleum Chief Executive Officer Michael Yeager.

The Commission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia on Tuesday determined the amount of fines for the Big Three mobile operators - MTS, VimpelCom and Megafon. As Interfax reports with reference to the FAS press service, the agency applied the largest fine to MTS - 21.892 million rubles. The antimonopoly service imposed sanctions on VimpelCom in the amount of 12.018 million rubles, Megafon – 4.194 million.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee in Vladikavkaz on Tuesday. The head of state arrived in the capital of North Ossetia on an unscheduled visit just a few days after militants attacked tourists from Moscow in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

How Hungarian and Russian officials missed out on almost $100 million and why they won’t get anything for it Viktor Vekselberg (No. 16 in the Golden Hundred ) pulled off a surprisingly profitable operation. First, one of his structures purchased a building on Krasnaya Presnya, 3 (17,000 sq.

The Russian government has decided to distribute all feed grain from the intervention fund according to requests from regions that are in dire need of it. This decision of the Cabinet of Ministers was announced on Tuesday by First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Zubkov.

Inflation in Russia, which was at least 0.2% per week at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, will begin to slow down in the second half of the year and will amount to 7-8% at the end of 2011. This forecast was made by Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina on Tuesday during the “government hour” in the State Duma.