Presidential adviser was not allowed to speak at Davos freedom of speech The World Economic Forum (WEF) begins today in Davos. This time his main topic will be the dollar, its bleak present and difficult to predict future. It is clear that Russia in this context is on the periphery of the agenda (see Kommersant of January 20). Nevertheless, even before the forum began, the first loud scandal occurred there. At the center of it was the adviser to the Russian president, Andrei Illarionov.

Militants promise to drown Iraq in blood Iraq crisis Yesterday, leaflets appeared in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities in which the leaders of the resistance movement promise to “flood the streets” of Iraqi cities with blood on the day of the upcoming parliamentary elections on January 30. However, the militants began to prepare for this in advance. Just yesterday, six American troops, 11 police officers and several officials of the new regime were killed in Iraq.

The trial for "Fargus" has begun intellectual property Yesterday, the Moscow Arbitration Court began hearings on the claim of Fargus-M LLC against entrepreneur Sergei Polovko, accused of illegally using the Fargus brand. The case is inherently unprecedented; after all, “Fargus” is considered one of the most famous pirated trademarks in Russia - discs with this marking are constantly confiscated during anti-piracy raids.

arbitrage practice The Cologne Regional Court upheld the claim of Adidas Salomon AG against the American sports goods manufacturer Nike and the German clothing manufacturer Tom Tailor. The court ordered Nike to cease production and remove from sale sweatpants with two parallel stripes along the seam, and Tom Tailor - jackets with similar trim along the sleeves, recognizing this as an exploitation of the Adidas trademark - three stripes on a contrasting background.

and began exporting Dmitry Bulykin to England football Dmitry Bulykin may soon become a player in the English Portsmouth. Head coach of the blue and white Oleg Romantsev does not see a place for him in the main team of his team. The British are ready to buy the forward of the Russian national team. This was announced yesterday at a press conference organized by the Dynamo management before leaving for the third training camp this off-season.

The Gastronom Economy chain was sold to Discount Center retail As Kommersant has learned, the Planet Management company, which manages the Gastronom Economy retail chain, has been sold to Discount Center CJSC. Just a year and a half ago, Planet Management announced plans to create a national chain of 500 stores. However, after this transaction it became obvious: non-core investors are leaving the budget store segment.

The company's office buildings were purchased at a 15% discount asset Management As Kommersant has learned, AK SIBUR has completed a deal to buy out the last of the controversial assets - a complex of buildings in Moscow - from the structures of the company’s ex-president Yakov Goldovsky. As a result of months of bargaining for 22.2 thousand sq. m. m of office space, SIBUR paid $41 million, $6 million less than their market value.

Movladi Udugov is dissatisfied with the PACE initiative on the Chechen settlement counter-propaganda The Kavkaz Center website published an interview with the head of the external subcommittee of the information committee of the State Defense Committee-Majlisul Shura of Ichkeria, Movladi Udugov, in which he accused the West of trying to break the Chechen resistance, and Russia of being unable to control the situation in the North Caucasus.

The tenth ISS crew managed to complete all planned work in outer space and return safely back to the station. Thus, the first spacewalk of Salizhan Sharipov and Leroy Chiao in Orlan spacesuits, during which the ISS remained uninhabited for 5.5 hours, was successful, reports the Novosti-Ukraine news agency. The crew’s task was to “launch” the German robot “ROCKVISS” into space and install it on the outer surface of the station.

Georgy Polishchuk vacates the position of deputy head of the FKA personnel Yesterday it became known that by order of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov, 64-year-old Lieutenant General of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Georgy Polishchuk was relieved of his post as deputy head of the Federal Space Agency (FKA).

The number of tsunami victims in Asia exceeded 280 thousand people As it became known yesterday, the total death toll as a result of the tsunami that hit the countries of Southeast Asia on December 26 exceeded 280 thousand people. Authorities in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the disaster, reported that the number of dead or missing people had reached 228,429.

Adviser to the Chairman of the Federation Council approved as Vice-Governor of the KAO 78 3 min. ... Yesterday, a two-day meeting of the Legislative Duma of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug (KAO) ended. At the meeting, parliamentarians by a majority vote approved Oleg Kozhemyako, an adviser to the speaker of the Federation Council and ex-senator from the Primorsky Territory, to the post of vice-governor of the KAO. 9 out of 12 elected deputies of the district duma voted for his candidacy.

Their employees have already been warned about dismissal 490 2 minutes. ... On Monday, employees of the St. Petersburg traffic police working in commercial MREOs received notices of impending dismissal due to the abolition of their positions.

Lieutenant Colonel Zavadsky intends to challenge the conviction in the Supreme Court military commissar's case Yesterday, the court of the Volga-Ural Military District (PUrVO) rejected the cassation appeal of military commissar Vladimir Zavadsky, who was sentenced to four years probation for abuse of power, which resulted in the death of eleventh-grader Alexander Bochanov at a military training camp.

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