investments As Kommersant has learned, the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant unilaterally terminated its partnership with the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) on a project to build a steel plant in Ukraine with a capacity of 3 million tons of steel per year and costing $500 million. Without notifying MMK, the Mining and Processing Plant began alternative negotiations on a partnership with the Austrian Voest- Alpine and Luxembourg-based Arcelor.

3K 26 min. ... Russia could not help but shelter the Slav brothers-the son (on the right) and the wife (second on the right) of Slobodan Milosevich The other day, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia will give a final response to the request of Slobodan Milosevich to let him go to Moscow. If the judges meet the former president of Yugoslavia, he may replenish the ranks of those who found a refuge in Russia after a change of power at home.

FIRST CHANNEL 565 20 minutes. ... 5.00 News 5.05 "First program" 6.00 "Good morning" 9.00 News 9.10 TV series "Deadly Force" (Russia) 10.20 Series “Private investigation lover Dasha Vasilyeva” (Russia) 11.30 "Distorted Mirror" 12.00 News 12.20 TV series "Black Raven" (Russia) 13.20 "Disney Club" 13.50 TV series “Experts are conducting the investigation: Pounds of gold” (Russia) 15.00 News 15.10 "Lolita.

623 4 min. ... Photo: AP Golden Oslo The international consulting agency Economist Intelligence Unit has published data on the cost of living in the world's largest cities. The most expensive place on Earth over the previous two years was the city of Oslo. For the first time since 1991, the palm did not go to the capital of Japan, Tokyo.

Repayment termCoupon (% from nom.) Last (% of nominal)YTM (% year.) Redemption Coupon (% from nom.) Last (% of nominal)YTM (% year.) USA ($) Japan (JPY) 3 months 04.05.06 — 98,904 4,494 05/15/06 — 99,998 0.007 6 months 03.08.06 — 97.755 4.629 10.07.06 — 99,991 0.020 1 year — — — — 20.03.07 2.6 102.77 0.099 2 years 01/31/08 4.375 99,570 4,604 20.03.08 1.9 103.26 0.343 5 years 01/15/11 4.25 98,883 4,504 03/21/11 1.4 102.07 0.974 10 years 11/15/15 4.5 99,688 4.537 12/20/15 1.6 100.09 1,590 30 years

374 3 min. ... Iran's opponents find themselves in a stalemate. A strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would destabilize the entire Middle East and collapse oil prices. The game of diplomacy will be long and will end in vain. Meanwhile, Iran will get what it wants—nuclear weapons. Tehran's stubborn statements about continuing nuclear research have made the world talk about the imminence of a new war in the Persian Gulf.

The dumbest business decisions of 2005 4K 6 min. ... rules of the game At the end of January, the American magazine Business 2.0 published its latest list of the most idiotic business decisions of the past year. Getting caught is the worst thing that can happen to a businessman or company. “For a company to be included in the Business 2.0 list is about the same as for an actor to receive a Golden Raspberry,” complains an employee of one of the companies included in the Business 2.0 rating.

An importer is building a distribution network in major cities 143 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant has learned, one of the largest wine importers, the Svarog company, is going to open 30 wine boutiques in cities with a population of over a million. Investments in opening one boutique will amount to $25-115 thousand, and the entire project will be implemented within 10 years.

A bill on the privatization of Ukrtelecom has been registered On Friday it became known that on February 1, a bill on the specifics of the privatization of a state-owned stake in the authorized capital of OJSC Ukrtelecom was registered in the Verkhovna Rada.

at the festival at Plug & Play 15 2 minutes. ... The Red Club hosted its fourth annual Plug & Play festival. DMITRY PERVUSHIN joined Russian electronic music. Club promoters rarely pay attention to Russian electronics, as well as to the underground in general. This card was played by the curator of the Plug & Play festival Andrey Mukhomorov - the curator of the festival, the owner of the electronic label Cheburec, and part-time art director of Red Club. This year, Mr.

Australian dollar 21.2257 English pound 50.0779 Belarusian ruble** 13.0947 Danish krone* 45.5973 U.S. dollar 28.1732 Euro 34.0389 Icelandic krona*** 44.5990 Kazakh tenge*** 21.4028 Canadian dollar 24.6054 Norwegian krone* 42.3167 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 40.6232 Singapore dollar 17.2482 New Turkish lira 21.1749 Ukrainian hryvnia* 55.0451 Swedish krona* 36.6138 Swiss frank 21.8906 Japanese yen*** 23.7769 *For 10. **For 1000. ***For 100. According to Reuters.

Rosukrenergo received a place in Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities As Ukrainian media reported, Rosukrenergo (RUE, owned on a parity basis by Gazprombank and the Austrian company Raiffeisen Investment) paid NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine $866.25 million for the right to store up to 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas in underground storage facilities (UGS) in 2006-2030. Ukraine.

Marshall Islands joined the IOC The Marshall Islands, which are located in the Pacific Ocean, have become a new member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This is already the 203rd country included in the IOC. Now the Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee will receive $150 thousand annually from the IOC to develop sports in a country with a population of only 60 thousand people. Reuters

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759 7 min. ... Petro Poroshenko opened the doors to Russian capital Victor Yushchenko's godfather sold the bank to Andrey Kostin Vneshtorgbank (VTB) bought Mriya bank from the owner of the Ukrprominvest group, the former secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine and godfather of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. VTB plans to merge its new acquisition with its subsidiary, Vneshtorgbank-Ukraine, by the end of the year.