Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash is negotiating with TNK-BP about the purchase of the Lisichansky Oil Refinery (private JSC LINIK, Lugansk region), Interfax reports , citing a statement by the head of the Lugansk region, Vladimir Pristyuk. Pristyuk previously said that two investors are interested in acquiring LINIK. According to his forecasts, the plant will soon change its owner and begin the process of resuming production in mid-August.

The Arbitration Court of the Tyumen Region partially satisfied the claim of TNK-BP minority shareholder Andrey Prokhorov against the British shareholders of the holding. The plaintiff demanded compensation for losses in the amount of 288 billion rubles from BP Russian Investments Limited (shareholder of TNK-BP Limited) and BP plc (parent company of BP Russian Investments Limited). The court decided to pay 100.4 billion rubles according to the claim.

July 27, 2012, 17:34 Business Apple buys fingerprint sensor manufacturer for $356 million Apple is buying fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for $356 million. AuthenTec is considered one of the leading companies in the field of information security on computers and mobile devices. AuthenTec's clients include Samsung, Lenovo, Dell and Nokia.

Russia is exploring the possibility of basing Navy ships in Cuba, Seychelles and Vietnam, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov , said in an interview with RIA Novosti . Previously, the USSR (Russian) Navy had bases in Vietnam (Cam Ranh) and Syria (Tartus). Now only the base in Tartus remains. “Indeed, we continue to work to ensure the basing of naval forces outside the Russian Federation.

The leader of one of the largest drug cartels, Zetas, Mauricio Guizar, has been arrested in southern Mexico, Reuters reports . Marines carried out an operation to capture Guizar, known as El Amarillo, from a hotel in a small town in Pueblo state, where he was hiding with an arsenal of 20 grenades, an anti-tank grenade launcher and a submachine gun. Guizar is suspected of killing four soldiers in Veracruz state in April.

Sport Text size A A A Hungary will enjoy some rain Rain forecast during the Hungarian Grand Prix Ruslan Aliev close 100% The Hungaroring Circuit will host the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix. Rain will keep the race unpredictable. The first practice took place under the complete dominance of McLaren, whose pilots showed the best results. And the Russian Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov was 19th.

Physicists from the University of Texas (Austin, USA), together with colleagues from Taiwan, using nanotechnology methods, have created the world's smallest semiconductor laser, which can be used in a variety of fields of technology - from high-speed data transmission and processing to medicine, RIA Novosti reports. " with reference to a publication in the journal Science.

July 27, 2012, 07:36 Society Unknown assailants shot a teacher at a religious school in Dagestan of the republic told Interfax A teacher of a madrasah (Muslim religious school) was killed on Friday night in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . “Four unknown persons fired at Saidakhmed Imanov from machine guns. The teacher died, the attackers fled,” the press service said.

Sakhalin customs officers detained at the port of the city of Korsakov in the south of the island another batch of radioactive goods from Japan, identified using portable dosimeters during radiation monitoring, the department’s press service reports. “This is a body from a minibus, a truck cabin, an engine combined with the chassis of a car and a Mazda Demio car.

In the newly annexed territories of the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative districts of Moscow, 31 unauthorized construction sites have been identified, the press service of Mosgosstroynadzor reports. The committee reported that two of the identified objects are the largest with an area of ​​over 1.5 thousand square meters. m. This is a residential development with houses of a blocked type in the village of Sosenskoye, uch.

July 27, 2012, 17:38 Society X-ray revealed bribes The ex-husband of the ex-head of the Ministry of Agriculture Skrynnik was given seven years for bribery Anastasia Berseneva , Yegor Rodnenkov close 100% In Chelyabinsk, the former husband of the former head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Sergei Skrynnik, was sentenced to seven years. The court found him guilty of receiving two bribes - 1.3 million rubles and 15 thousand rubles.

German luxury car maker Porsche AG increased first-half profits by 21%. This is largely due to the growth in sales of the 911 and Panamera models. In the first six months of 2012, sales of the seventh-generation Porsche 911 sports car soared by 43%, the Panamera by 31%, and the Cayenne by 25%. Porsche's operating profit in the January-June period rose to 1.26 billion euros, compared with 1.05 billion euros in the same period last year.

On Friday, at a meeting of the KHL, a decision was made on the entry of new clubs into the Youth Hockey League, the MHL press service reports. Opening the meeting, KHL President, Chairman of the MHL Board Alexander Medvedev noted that the next season is just around the corner, wished the clubs good luck, interesting matches, and young players to realize their opportunities, which will be given to them to the fullest.

— 27.07.2012 14:40 — Shares in British bank Barclays rose 5% to £151.35 per share after the bank reported a 13% increase in half-year profit, exceeding analysts' expectations, writes the Financial Times . Net profit for six months amounted to £4.23 billion. Experts predicted only £3.82 billion profit. They expected the bank's reporting to be negatively affected by the LIBOR manipulation scandal.

Sport “No need to imitate China” Rogge on the ban on Lukashenko’s entry into the UK Rustam Sharafutdinov (London) close 100% IOC President Jacques Rogge, before the opening of the Olympic Games in London, said that he does not know who will light the Olympic flame, respects the decision of the European Commission, which blocked Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko from entering the UK, and boasted of the results of the fight against doping.