As Kommersant was informed today by Yuzhinformatika LLC, the Zaporozhye Titanium-Magnesium Plant (ZTMC) in April reduced production volumes in comparative prices by 8.3%, or by 4.4 million hryvnia, compared to the previous month - up to 48.7 million hryvnia. In March, the plant produced products worth 53.1 million hryvnia. According to the data, in 2005 ZTMC produced products worth 246 million hryvnia.

Today, representatives of the State Department of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine reported that specialist inspectors from the Russian Federation arrived in Ukraine to conduct an audit of the work of the Ukrainian veterinary service and enterprises producing meat and dairy products. The Russian delegation intends to check the process of eliminating deficiencies at Ukrainian milk processing enterprises, discovered by Russian specialists during an audit in February of this year.

Oil company Yukos will sell a majority stake in the Lithuanian oil refinery Mazeikiu Nafta to the Polish company PKN Orlen . Reuters reported this on May 23, citing Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas. “The Prime Minister said that the agreement between YUKOS and PKN Orlen is ready, but has not yet been signed,” said the Prime Minister’s representative Nemira Pampriskaitė. YUKOS has been negotiating the sale of a 53.7% stake in Mazeikiu Nafta for several months.

Damien Hirst's chess set the Art Moscow box office contemporary art fair The tenth international fair of contemporary art "Art-Moscow" has ended in Moscow. As one might expect, the fair celebrated its anniversary not only on a record scale - 68 galleries took part in it. Total sales were $3,150,000 plus $1,270,000 in reservations, up from last year's $2,138,000 in sales and $677,000 in reservations. IRINA KULIK talks about who sold what at Art Moscow.

The general director of the Volgograd airport was fired 79 2 minutes. ... There has been a change in management at JSC Volgograd International Airport (MAV). Representatives of the main owner of the enterprise, the Federal Property Management Agency, explain the resignation of MAV General Director Yuri Dmitriev due to ineffective management of the enterprise. Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies draw a direct parallel between the dismissal of Mr.

Kyiv, May 24. At 9.30 at 19 Skovorody Street (Podol Plaza business center) a press breakfast will be held with Microsoft on the topic “Presentation of Microsoft’s initiatives to protect intellectual property rights (Genuine Software Initiative) on the Ukrainian market.” The press conference will be attended by: - General Director of Microsoft Ukraine Valery Lanovenko; - software legalization manager Evgeniy Sozansky; - Regional Director of IDC Ukraine Vladimir Pozdnyakov.

in the dock 31 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, in the Pervomaisky District Court of the city of Penza, hearings began in the case of two Samara and two Penza air traffic controllers of the Unified Air Traffic Management System (USORVD), who are accused of violating international flight rules.

The Oryol party cell was headed by an opposition figure to the governor 32 3 min. ... Marina Ivashina was elected as the leader of the Oryol regional organization of the Rodina party, who is actually the only oppositionist in the region to the current governor Yegor Stroev. Local Rodinys hope that with Mrs. Ivashina the party will get a good result in the elections to the regional council, which will be held next spring, and in the State Duma elections.

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Entertaining Economics Formula 1 is, of course, more of a show than a sport, especially in the last seven years, when even before the start it was clear that many would compete and Michael Schumacher would win. As befits a show, life is constantly in full swing around him, where racing is just a pretext for intrigue, myths, small and large businesses. The behind-the-scenes life of F1 was studied by Kommersant-Auto correspondent LAYSAN YUMAGUZINA.

Today in Kyiv, captain of the Ukrainian national football team Andrei Shevchenko held his last press conference before the World Cup in Germany. In particular, reporters were interested in which team Mr.

Skylink will be headed by a top manager from Tele2 27 2 minutes. ... Alexander Nesterov, who previously headed the Nizhny Novgorod office of Tele2, will become the new general director of Skylink CJSC. Mr. Nesterov will have to complete a difficult task - by the end of the year, increase the number of Skylink subscribers by 150 thousand, bringing the total subscriber base to 500 thousand people.

Today in Lviv, near the monument to Taras Shevchenko, a protest rally by the association of trade unions of the Lviv region took place, which brought together 8 thousand people. The reason for the protest was the increase in prices for gas and electricity for the population. Trade unions are convinced that an increase in the price of electricity will automatically lead to an increase in food prices, and the standard of living of the population will decrease.

Recognizing small enterprises that employ up to 250 people economic policy As Kommersant has learned, on Wednesday at a government meeting, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development (MEDT) German Gref will present a new bill on small and medium-sized businesses, changing the criteria for defining small businesses by the state. This will not affect the tax regime of companies, but for a number of small companies it will expand access to federal programs to support small businesses.

Vinokurov Stanislav Georgievich was born on September 30, 1974 in Novosibirsk. Graduated from the Moscow Academy of Finance and Law. In 2003, he was appointed general director of the Samara branch of the YUKOS-M trading house. In October 2005, he left the post of general director and headed the YUKOS-M trading house in Moscow. In March 2006, he was appointed first vice-president of YUKOS RM for commercial issues.