The holding will issue bonds for 1.5 billion rubles 22 2 minutes. ... The management of Agrokom Group Management Company LLC decided on the debut issue of five-year bonds in the amount of 1.5 billion rubles. As the press service of the holding told Kommersant yesterday, the funds raised will be used to develop the land it owns in the center of Rostov, as well as for the construction of a large pig farm for 200 thousand heads.

A French citizen committed suicide in the Moscow region. On May 6, at about 9:00 Moscow time, in the city of Khimki, in the courtyard of house 19/2 on Moskovskaya Street, passers-by noticed a man who had hanged himself on a carpet beating frame. It was established that the deceased was a French citizen and worked at the French Embassy in Moscow. At about 7:00 Moscow time, the diplomat arrived in Khimki to visit his friend; he was heavily intoxicated.

Candidates nominated for the title of the best NHL players hockey Three Russian hockey players can win individual prizes at the end of the NHL championship. Alexander Ovechkin is nominated for the title of best newcomer and best player according to the hockey players, Sergei Zubov is the best defender, and Pavel Datsyuk is among the nominees for the prize awarded to a hockey player who behaves exemplarily on and off the court. An individual trophy is the dream of every NHL player.

Today, for the 89th time in history, the Giro Italy cycling race starts, in which four representatives of Ukraine will take part - Sergei Gonchar (T-mobile team), Yuri Krivtsov (AG2R Prevoyance), Sergei Matveev (Ceramica Panaria-Navigare), Vladimir Gustov (CSC). The 2006 Giro Italia starts in Serenga, Belgium and ends on May 28 in Milan, Italy.

The Chukotka court acquitted the world travelers Yesterday, the Chukotka District Court overturned the decision of the Chukotka District Court on the administrative expulsion from Russia of travelers - Briton Karl Bushby and American Dimitri Kiefer, detained by border guards on April 1.

The company will become an investor-developer of the railway urban planning policy As Kommersant has learned, four pilot projects for the reconstruction of territories owned by Russian Railways OJSC (RZD) in Moscow are currently being considered. One of them is the construction of an office and residential microdistrict on a section of the Kyiv-direction railway adjacent to Poklonnaya Gora, the other three involve the reconstruction of the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway.

The New York Times Washington officials say Cheney's speech was carefully calibrated and coordinated, making it a reflection of the administration's attitude toward Russia today. This speech sets new benchmarks in relations between the two countries, which have become quite tense and may worsen significantly in the coming months... Although Cheney has always been more skeptical of Russia than his boss George W. Bush, this speech demonstrates the deepening gulf between the two countries. ..

As reported today by the Ministry of Industrial Policy, JSC Electrometallurgical Plant Dneprospetsstal (Zaporozhye) in January-April of this year reduced production volumes of finished rolled products by 8.4% compared to the same period last year - to 98 thousand tons, steel - by 3.5% (up to 167 thousand tons). In April, 30 thousand tons of finished rolled products and 47 thousand tons of steel were produced, the Ministry of Industrial Policy reported.

in the port of Vysotsk 68 2 minutes. ... Yesterday it became known that the Interdepartmental Commission (IMC) of the Leningrad Region has allocated a site for the construction of a methanol transshipment terminal in the port of Vysotsk. The investor, Baltic Initiative 'Vyborg' LLC, plans for $25 million to build facilities designed to export 450 thousand tons of alcohol per year.

190 2 minutes. ... Oil ($/barrel)Petroleum products ($/t) Title, terms deliveriesRegionSequence demandPrev. closed Name, terms of delivery RegionSequence demandPrev. closed Brent, F.O.B. NW 71.66 72.38 High octane gasoline (95), CIF M 721 715 Cabinda, F.O.B. M 68.56 69.28 High octane gasoline (95), CIF NW 715 709 Bonny Light, FOB M 72.61 73.33 High octane gasoline (95), FOB M 706 700 Kirkuk, FOB M 63.86 64.58 Nafta, CIF M 611 606 Oseberg, F.O.B.

Private carriers have declared war on municipal buses 25 2 minutes. ... Astrakhan minibus owners intend to thwart the plans of the regional government and Russian Buses OJSC to oust private operators from the city streets. Yesterday, the Astrakhan Regional Association of Car Owners joined the agreement of the city's largest private carriers not to raise fares to the maximum allowed by the regional government of 9 rubles.

Officials accuse housing builders of unauthorized land grabs 32 3 min. ... City authorities conducted a massive audit of compliance with land legislation during housing construction. According to the Department of Real Estate (DN), 23 construction organizations in Omsk have arbitrarily seized sites for new buildings. Officials threaten guilty builders with fines, and illegally seized land plots are promised to be put up for auction.

Permenergo demands 33 million rubles from the energy sales company 12 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant learned, Permenergo OJSC filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of the Sverdlovsk Region against Energy Sales Company Vostok OJSC and VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation OJSC. Perm power engineers claim that Vostok owes them 33 million rubles due to the fact that it refused to pay for Permenergo’s services for transmitting electricity to a titanium plant.

After the initiation of the case about the school of warrant officers 337 1 min. ... As Kommersant learned yesterday, there have been personnel changes in the Krasnorechensk Military Garrison Prosecutor's Office - instead of Igor Nagibin, the prosecutor's office was headed by the former prosecutor of the Yakut garrison prosecutor's office, Vladimir Voloshin.

May 7 marks the 55th anniversary of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District Ilya Klebanov Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Pekhtin congratulates him on his birthday: - Dear Ilya Iosifovich! Please accept my heartiest congratulations on your birthday! You have long established yourself not only as an experienced professional, but also as an extraordinary politician.