Election commission member caught taking a bribe 167 4 min. ... In Ivanovo, with the sanction of the regional prosecutor's office, Vladimir Akhlyustin, a member of the Ivanovo Region Election Commission, head of the Ivanovo Foundation for Free Elections, was taken into custody. As Deputy Prosecutor of the Ivanovo Region Viktor Selyunin told Kommersant, the detention of Mr. Akhlyustin is connected with suspicion of receiving a bribe as an official - a member of the regional election commission.

12 1 min. ... Term (days) MIBOR (RUB) LIBOR ($) LIBOR (yen) LIBOR (euro) LIBOR (GBP) LIBOR (CHF) 1 3.62 1.04875 0.03625 2.0625 — — 7 5.64 1.09375 0.0375 2.07013 3.62938 0.18 thirty 8.39 1.12 0.04438 2.09038 3.81156 0.2 60 — 1.17 0.0525 2.16288 3.885 0.2525 90 8.86 1.18 0.05625 2.16638 3.97625 0.26583 180 10.08 1.27 0.07125 2.24913 4.1725 0.36667 360 11.02 1.575 0.09375 2.48163 4.53891 0.66167 According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 205 dated November 11, 2003, p. 18

Deputy Chairman of the Duma faction of the Union of Right Forces Boris Nadezhdin said that 40 State Duma deputies are ready to vouch for Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

with your "untied hands" 28 1 min. ... local elections A scandal is breaking out in Smolensk related to the campaigning for the mayoral elections that began on November 7. The chairman of the city council, Vitaly Vovchenko, complained to the regional prosecutor's office that he was threatened by phone, demanding support in the elections, by one of the mayoral candidates, the former governor of the Smolensk region, Alexander Prokhorov.

gas industry 1K 3 min. ... Yesterday, the president of NGK Itera, Igor Makarov, announced that the company is negotiating with three potential investors about the sale of 25 to 50% of its shares. Earlier, the Financial Times reported that Gazprom was considering the possibility of buying the business of Oil and Gas Company Itera for $500 million, but both companies denied this information yesterday. Mr.

your company 69 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, Deputy Head of Gortekhnadzor of Russia Sergei Subbotin, in his speech at the board of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, announced the amount of economic damage received as a result of the accident at the Zapadnaya mine, part of Rostovugol Company LLC (Rostov region). According to Mr. Subbotin, it amounts to 273.5 million rubles.

under pressure from the investigation 18 2 minutes. ... Another scandalous turn has taken place in the investigation into the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Tolyattinskoye Obozreniye newspaper Alexei Sidorov. The welder Evgeniy Maininger, accused of this crime, renounced his earlier confession, saying that he had incriminated himself. Kommersant spoke in detail about the murder of Alexei Sidorov and the first stage of the investigation into this crime (last time - October 28).

In Moscow, the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Russian Courier”, famous journalist Otto Latsis, was brutally beaten. The journalist received a strong blow to the face as he approached his entrance. Otto Latsis lost consciousness from the blow and was robbed. Mr. Latsis was taken to the hospital with a severe concussion, Gazeta.Ru reports.

Yesterday, trading in Russian shares was rather sluggish. High volatility 21 1 min. ... Yesterday, trading in Russian shares was rather sluggish. The high volatility that characterized the market last week has subsided. The activity of traders decreased: the trading volume on the RTS barely exceeded $50 million, on the MICEX - 7.4 billion rubles. Investors and speculators took a wait-and-see attitude.

Tracking the majors 31 5 minutes. ... Analysis of the activities of the largest oil and gas companies The financial and production indicators of the 20 largest oil and gas companies in 2002 decreased compared to 2000. Why? What to expect in the future? By almost all criteria, fiscal 2000 was a record year for the world's 20 largest oil and gas companies by net sales revenue.

at the festival in Nice 422 4 min. ... festival theater The V Festival of Russian Art and Cinema is taking place in Nice, organized on the Russian side by the Arts Factory, and on the French side by the International Association ACR and the authorities of the main city of the Cote d'Azur. The French eat pancakes, listen to gypsies and wander the untrodden paths of Russian art. TATYANA KUZNETSOVA wanders with them.

Single trading session 17 3 min. ... Currency Delivery Min. (RUB) Max. (rub.) Average weight. (rub.) Closing (rub.) Change. (RUB) Volume (million) USD today 29.75 29.8251 29.8023 29,815 +0.0022 125,984 EUR today 34.31 34.33 34.3187 34.325 +0.165 3.223 MICEX SICEX SPVC RVSE URVB ATMVB NVSE SVSE 78.78 6.11 7.71 1.12 4.92 0.94 0.26 0.16 Exchange Currency Delivery Avg. (rub.) Closing (rub.) Change.

8 2 minutes. ... Index 387.36 Change.

Sergei Shoigu chose a Tuvan candidate from United Russia 26 2 minutes. ... Last Friday, ex-speaker of the Tuvan parliament Sholban Kara-ool announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy for the election of a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Tuvan electoral district No. 28.

to decorate Yekaterinburg 31 2 minutes. ... Yesterday in Yekaterinburg a press conference was held by the Chairman of the Ural Bank of Sberbank of Russia Vladimir Cherkashin. On it, he shared the bank’s plans for the next year, and also told the details of the launch of its own urgent money transfer system. Kommersant correspondent IVAN PERMINOV got acquainted with Sberbank’s plans.