Mikhail Men may become Ivanovo governor vertical of power As Kommersant learned yesterday, the most likely contender for the post of governor of the Ivanovo region is Deputy Mayor of Moscow Mikhail Men. If confirmed in the new post, he will become the third member of “Luzhkov’s team” to recently move to the governor’s post. Ivanovo politicians have already assured Kommersant that Mr.

The first rock festival in the North Caucasus, “Phoenix. Revival of Life,” will take place in Grozny on November 7. This was announced on September 29 by the Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic Sergei Abramov. According to him, the date of the musical festival has been agreed upon with all interested parties.

man/rejuvenation Maybe we just don’t notice that we ourselves are no longer in our early youth. But here’s a strange thing: as soon as you stop associating your vacation with hitchhiking in India or dancing until dawn in Ibiza, you find yourself surrounded by elderly gentlemen. The range of possibilities narrows incredibly: lying on the beach with a platinum blonde, going on a yacht with a platinum blonde, or visiting a spa with the same or another, same platinum blonde.

Sergei Bazarevich headed the CSK VVS The famous former basketball player Sergei Bazarevich led the Samara team CSK VVS, which plays in Super League B of the Russian championship. Recently he coached the team of the CSKA children's and youth basketball league. Last season, Bazarevich’s team won gold medals in the children’s and youth basketball league and the youth Euroleague.

entrusted the Legislative Assembly with Smolny officials 12 2 minutes. ... Yesterday the second reading of the program for the socio-economic development of St. Petersburg for 2005-2008 took place in the city Legislative Assembly. During the discussion, deputies revised a number of key parameters of the document.

food industry As Kommersant has learned, the International Grain Company (IGC), owned by the world's largest grain trader Glencore, yesterday completed the acquisition of Peschanokopsky KHP LLC and will soon become the owner of two more elevators. This is the second large-scale transaction in the past month for a transnational trader to acquire grain storage and transshipment facilities in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with authorized representatives in the federal districts. On the agenda is the participation of plenipotentiary representatives in the implementation of social programs and the reform of local self-government, RIA Novosti reports. “We understand that both the first and second topics are very closely related.

Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov visited Khabarovsk. During the trip, he proposed a tough fight against rising fuel prices on the domestic market, including the adoption of amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation. The speaker stated that “the unjustified increase in fuel prices was the result of a cartel agreement,” and proposed punishing “unmotivated price increases with the ruble.”

The second case against Guantanamo Bay prisoners falls apart verdict In the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, jurors yesterday acquitted former captives of the US military base in Guantanamo Timur Ishmuradov and Ravil Gumarov, as well as their friend Fanis Shaikhutdinov, accused of terrorism (Kommersant last wrote about this case on September 26). The FSB believed that it was they who blew up the gas pipeline in Bugulma in January of this year.

after the completion of its reconstruction 109 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, city officials inspected the progress of work on the reconstruction of the Omsk Organ Hall. By the end of the year, one of the three buildings of the organ complex will be put into operation. Builders expect to complete the reconstruction in 2006. In total, the project will require 200 million rubles. Kommersant The Hall of Organ and Chamber Music of the Omsk Philharmonic was opened in Omsk in 1983 in St.

Gazprom's media assets will be fully controlled by Gazprombank deal As Kommersant has learned, negotiations are currently close to completion, as a result of which stakes in several companies included in the Gazprom-Media media holding will transfer from the Eurofinance Mosnarbank bank to the full control of Gazprombank.

8 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, the Yekaterinburg mayor's office stated that, despite the prosecutor's office canceling the rates at which developers paid into the infrastructure development fund, the rules of the game for construction companies will not change.

scandal award The singer announced that she was refusing the Russian Music Awards (RMA), the award ceremony of which took place on September 21 at Vasilyevsky Spusk (see Kommersant on September 23). The singer actually accused the company of fraud, telling the press that she knew the voting results before the ceremony. BORIS BARABANOV found out the reaction to the singer’s statement from her colleagues, the management of the company publishing her discs and MTV itself.

He became the initiator of criminal cases against the governor of the Tver region and the mayor of Tver Alexander Anikin 59 3 min. ... Yesterday, the Legislative Assembly (LA) of the Primorsky Territory approved the candidacy of Alexander Anikin, proposed by Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov for the post of prosecutor of the region. All deputies who took part in the voting spoke in support of Mr. Anikin, who previously headed the prosecutor’s office of the Tver region.

It took Dalenergo workers about half an hour to eliminate a major power accident in the center of Vladivostok. On September 29, due to an accident at a substation, the radio transmission center, the Vladivostok Duma and some residential buildings were left without electricity. As Dalenergo reported, the reliability of power supply to the city center will be increased in a few days, when the reconstructed power line is put into operation.