July 20, 2010, 19:06 Business Jet not great Competition among mid-range aircraft manufacturers is intensifying Andrey Kovalevsky Competition between manufacturers of medium-range aircraft is intensifying. Today at Farnborough, the British carrier Flybe ordered 140 aircraft worth $5 billion from the Brazilian Embraer. The success of the Russian new Superjet, the engine of which is still being finalized, is much more modest: the company has managed to sell 30 aircraft so far.

July 20, 2010, 05:47 Sports Parise: Kovalchuk will be more comfortable than last season New Jersey leader Zach Parise is confident that Russian striker Ilya Kovalchuk will be more comfortable with the Devils in the coming season than in the past. And he shared his opinion on the reasons for signing such a highly paid player. “This is important. It’s always difficult to move to a new team in the middle of the season,” AP quotes Parise as saying .

July 20, 2010, 22:06 Sports Salzburg reached the third qualifying round of the Champions League The return matches of the second qualifying round of the Champions League take place on Tuesday. The Tórshavn club (Faroe Islands) hosted the Austrian Salzburg and won with a score of 1:0. Goal: S. Samuelsen 73. The first match also ended with the victory of Salzburg (5:0), which in the third qualifying round Omonia will meet with the Cypriot Omonia.

July 20, 2010, 04:12 Business Kommersant: Magnitogorsk will not build a plant in Oregon Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) abandoned the project to build a steel plant in the US state of Oregon, writes Kommersant . The company no longer believes in a recovery in demand for steel in the United States. Experts consider the decision justified. But other Russian metallurgists - Severstal and Evraz - are not losing hope for a successful recovery of demand in the United States.

July 20, 2010, 16:41 News The organizer of the march of SS veterans filed a lawsuit against the Latvian authorities The organizer of the march of Latvian SS veterans, Uldis Freimanis, sued the mayor of Riga Nils Ushakovs , the country's Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis , as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs Aivis Ronis.

Venezuelan oil is safer than Russian — 20.07.10 14:40 — TEXT: Denis Lavnikevich (Minsk), Igor Bakharev PHOTO: ITAR-TASS Belarus is looking for oil and gas suppliers alternative to Russia, as stated in the Concept of National Security of Belarus, agreed upon by Alexander Lukashenko. However, the statements are of a political nature: there is no one to buy energy resources from cheaper than Russia, experts say.

July 20, 2010, 16:06 Business PepsiCo's profit declines due to bottler purchases The profit of one of the largest producers of soft drinks and food products, PepsiCo, decreased by 3.4% in the second quarter amid acquisitions of large bottlers, reports Bloomberg . The company's net income fell to $1.6 billion, or $0.98 per share, PepsiCo said in a statement. This includes spending $155 million on the purchase of bottlers.

In Moscow, the Simonovsky District Court sentenced the storekeepers of the Moscow Jewelry Factory OJSC, who embezzled 35 thousand diamonds and gold items, to three and five years in prison, the press service of the capital's prosecutor's office reported on Tuesday.

In Omsk, after several hours of fighting the fire, firefighters extinguished a fire in the large Geomart hypermarket, which caught fire on Tuesday night, a representative of the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . “The fire in the hypermarket has been extinguished. Currently, the investigation team is establishing the damage and possible causes,” the source said.

July 20, 2010, 15:29 Business Nicaragua cancels visas for Abkhazia The Presidents of Abkhazia and Nicaragua Sergei Bagapsh and Daniel Ortega will sign on Tuesday in Managua a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation and an Agreement on visa-free visits to Nicaragua and Abkhazia by citizens of the two countries, presidential spokesman Christian Bzhania told reporters by telephone from Managua.

July 20, 2010, 10:54 Gleb Cherkasov Review of legislative achievements Gleb Cherkasov Deputy editor-in-chief of the Kommersant newspaper The idea of ​​a group of deputies from the LDPR, formalized in the bill, to put a special mark on the hands of caught corrupt officials - both in essence and in form, of course, is pure Middle Ages.

July 20, 2010, 15:33 Sports Eduardo arrived in Donetsk On Tuesday, Croatian striker of London Arsenal Eduardo da Silva arrived in Donetsk. If he successfully passes a thorough medical examination, Shakhtar Donetsk will sign a contract with the 27-year-old football player for three years. In England, Eduardo has already undergone a medical examination and, judging by his arrival in Donetsk, it was successful, reports “Terricon” .

20 July 2010, 09:43 Cars Toyota settled the conflict with an emigrant from the USSR Corporation Toyota Motor has settled a six-year conflict with the American company Paice LLC , which accused the corporation of stealing technology used to produce the Prius hybrid, Bloomberg reports . According to the agency, a Toyota representative officially announced the conclusion of a settlement agreement, without providing details.

July 20, 2010, 04:29 Sports A. Medvedev: The KHL will find $1 million for matches with NHL clubs President of the Continental League Alexander Medvedev does not give up hope of acquiring an NHL club. “We discussed this idea. Moreover, it was wider. So that Russian, American and Canadian investors would jointly own one of the NHL and KHL clubs. That is, integration would take place at the level of financial co-ownership,” Medvedev told Soviet Sport .

Business Siemens and Russian Railways may sign a service contract for Desiro worth €2.2 billion The Siemens concern plans to conclude a contract with the Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways for the maintenance of Desiro electric trains, Siemens President in Russia and Central Asia Dietrich Möller told reporters on Tuesday. According to him, the cost of maintaining one train for 20 years is approximately equal to the cost of one train.