Sibirtelecom launches a new generation network 34 2 minutes. ... In February 2006, Sibirtelecom OJSC will launch commercial operation of the new generation data transmission network NGN in Omsk. The use of this technology will increase the capacity of the telephone network by 23 thousand numbers and Internet ports.

Represented by the founder of Kvazar-Micro, Evgeniy Utkin personnel Kommersant has learned the name of the new general director of Russia's largest electronic concern Sitronics - he will be the head of the Kvazar-Micro company, Evgeniy Utkin. He will replace Alexander Goncharuk in this post, who was recently offered to head AFK Sistema. The range of tasks that Mr. Utkin will have to solve in his new position is approximately known.

David Andersen underwent successful surgery On Monday, CSKA center David Andersen was discharged from an Australian hospital, where he recently underwent surgery. According to the press service of the Moscow club, the operation, carried out under the guidance of Professor David Young, was successful and the player did not even have to apply a plaster cast. The doctors decided to limit themselves to a special fixation “boot”.

North European Gas Pipeline 269 1 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant has learned, the first deputy general director of the FSUE Rosmorport, Gennady Batalin, left his post to head the St. Petersburg FSUE Hydrographic Enterprise. Market participants indicate that it is this Federal State Unitary Enterprise that will take an active part in the construction of the North European Gas Pipeline, and therefore link the appointment of Mr.

IOC fights for gender equality The International Olympic Committee continues to strive to ensure that approximately equal numbers of men and women take part in the Olympic Games. The IOC decided to add several disciplines for the fair sex to the program of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As a result, 128 more athletes will be able to compete in China than in Athens in 2004. In Greece, women made up 42% of the total number of Olympians.

23 3 min. ... At the end of last week, the Novosibirsk authorities and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences approved the concept of a technology park in Akademgorodok. If the initial program for creating a technology park assumed a narrow production profile (information technology), then its final version talks about high technology in general. Environmentalists expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that they have so far been excluded from discussing the project.

The prosecutor asks for three years for the death sentence against Valentina Matvienko debate The Smolninsky Court of St. Petersburg yesterday held a debate in the case of St. Petersburg resident Alexander Vtulkin, who, according to investigators, in the summer of 2004, via the Internet, threatened the city governor Valentina Matvienko with violence for her alleged “anti-Russian policy.” The prosecutor asked to find Alexander Vtulkin guilty and sentence him to three years in a penal colony.

Convincing Australia to abandon high quotas towards the WTO Yesterday, Deputy Minister of Economy Valery Pyatnitsky flew to Brussels for negotiations with European Commission officials on the issue of creating a free trade area with the EU and discussing the process of Ukraine's accession to the WTO.

European handball championship The European Handball Championship ended in Switzerland on Sunday. Gold went to the French team, which defeated the Spaniards in the final - 31:23. The Russian team took sixth place in the tournament. The French were not considered the main favorites before this championship. Why is clear. Many handball teams have significantly updated their rosters over the past two years after the Athens Olympics. The update of French was not just significant - almost complete.

for all its telecommunications companies telecommunications As Kommersant has learned, Russia's largest service holding, AFK Sistema, intends to introduce a new unified brand for all its telecommunications companies. This will be a so-called end-to-end brand, which will appear in the name of each telecom operator owned by the holding.

The Omsk representative office of the Russian Foreign Ministry will receive a new head 100 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant has learned, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Omsk, Alexander Minzhurenko, has been appointed first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Armenia.

34 1 min. ... Last Sunday, Omsk ski lovers went to the start of the “Ski Tracks of Russia 2006”. For several hours, the stadium of the regional ski center resembled a huge anthill - almost 15 thousand skiers took part in the Omsk stage, a third more than last year. The good weather also added to the enthusiasm of those gathered - for the first time in a long time, it was a sunny and relatively warm day in Omsk.

Moscow will not have enough housing The management of the Moscow construction complex announced the results of its work last year. The numbers look impressive. In 2005, Moscow builders commissioned 5.244 million square meters of housing, which is 109% compared to the previous year. Of these, 4.644 million square meters are located directly in the capital. m (the rest are in other cities in accordance with the interregional program of the Moscow government).

The George W. Bush administration called on all those who are outraged by European anti-Islamic cartoons to also condemn anti-Semitic and anti-Christian cartoons and publications in the Arab world, RIA Novosti reports. White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan made a corresponding statement on February 6 in Washington.

and continues to grow currency market Macroeconomic data for the US published yesterday turned out to be noticeably better than European data, as a result of which the dollar rose to its highest level in the last five weeks. And until the meeting of the G8 finance ministers in Moscow, according to analysts, it will remain at the achieved values. Yesterday, the dollar-euro exchange rate on the world market rose to $1.1944 per euro - the maximum since January 3 of this year.