Foreigners want to invest in Russia much more than they can Monitoring Liberalization of currency legislation may become a new incentive for the growth of foreign investment in Russia, the authors of the OECD report "Russian Investment Policy 2006" are confident. True, with the traditional caveat: the Russian government must take steps to improve administration.

The national airline has another competitor 12 2 minutes. ... Siberian UTair began selling tickets for the flight Kazan - Vnukovo (Moscow). General Director of Tatarstan Airlines Magomed Zakarzhaev believes that the Ministry of Transport and Road Facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Kazan International Airport acted “thoughtlessly” by scheduling a UTair flight to Moscow just half an hour after a similar flight of the national airline.

On the eve of the meeting between US and Georgian Presidents George W. Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili, US Deputy Secretary of State MATTHEW BRYZA answered questions from Kommersant correspondent GALINA GOTUA. — What results do you expect from the meeting between the presidents of the United States and Georgia? — We do not expect concrete results from this meeting. We just want to show everyone - in Europe, Russia and Georgia - that lately Georgia has been on the right path.

amendments The Russian government and Moscow authorities have recognized the existence of legislative problems that caused a loud scandal around the village of Yuzhnoye Butovo, and are ready to solve them. Today the government will consider amendments to the Land Code describing the rules for reserving land for state and municipal needs.

life on wheels In Europe, holidays on wheels have long been considered an independent type of individual tourism - with all the expensive infrastructure that entails. In Russia, non-advanced tourists still believe that traveling in a motorhome is a way to save on hotels. EKATERINA EMELYANOVA found out what a road trip in Russia is like. Massive nonsense Traveling by motorhome is now such a fashionable entertainment for those tired of the Dominican and Thai sun.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov. The socio-economic situation in Russia was discussed.

On July 5, the Russian government appointed Igor Romashov as head of the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor). PRIME-TASS reports this. Previously, Mr. Romashov held the position of General Director of Transoil LLC (St. Petersburg). Before him, the acting head of Roszheldor was Konstantin Shenfeldt. The Federal Agency for Railway Transport was founded in 2004. The main function of the agency is the implementation of state policy in the field of railway transport.

On June 6, former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz went on a hunger strike. He is protesting against the refusal of the prison authorities where he is being held to give him permission to meet with a lawyer, AFP reports. Tariq Aziz's lawyer, Izzat Rabih Aref, said his client must sign an official document allowing his case to be sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

City Hall is in no hurry to introduce auctions for advertising space 9 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant learned, the mayor’s office has submitted to the Perm City Duma a draft of a new regulation on the distribution of outdoor advertising. A fundamental point of the document is the method of distributing advertising spaces in the city. It was assumed that according to the new provision, advertising spaces would be distributed at auctions.

793 5 minutes. ... Thursday 6 July This is generally a good day for health. It is useful to be more active to prevent stagnation in the body. Avoid alcohol and aggression, be careful with equipment, chemicals and fire. There are many different aspects in the sky today. In the morning the Moon is in conflict with Saturn and Venus with Uranus. This situation indicates difficulties in financial matters and in working with documents in the early hours, before 11 am Moscow time.

The hands of the regional administration are reaching out to Khimprom The struggle for control over the Volgograd OJSC Khimprom began again. The governor of the Volgograd region, Nikolai Maksyuta, prepared a letter to the head of the Russian government, Mikhail Fradkov, with a request to transfer 51% of the state shares of the OJSC from the federal administration of the region. The governor motivates this with a desire to prevent the plant from going bankrupt.

Sergey Kommersant-Strokan reviewer The Taepodong missile, which is flying to no one knows where, no one knows why and will fall on someone’s head, can serve as the personification of the entire North Korean policy, impulsive, unpredictable, demonstratively opposing itself to the world and therefore representing an absolute danger to it. But the Pyongyang hermit Kim Jong Il is far from the only headless horseman in modern geopolitics.

135 2 minutes. ... Oil ($/barrel)Petroleum products ($/t) Title, terms deliveriesRegionSequence demandPrev. closed Name, terms of delivery RegionSequence demandPrev. closed Brent, F.O.B. NW 73.33 73.66 High octane gasoline (95), CIF M 746 740 Cabinda, F.O.B. M 69.13 69.06 High octane gasoline (95), CIF NW 755 749 Bonny Light, FOB M 74.23 74.16 High octane gasoline (95), FOB M 735 729 Kirkuk, FOB M 66.73 66.66 Nafta, CIF M 645 644 Oseberg, F.O.B.

The value of half the bank exceeded its assets records Yesterday it became known that the International Mortgage Bank (IIB) conducted a private placement of 45% of its shares, for which it received $30 million. This transaction may become another record for the Ukrainian market, since the transaction amount turned out to be twice as high as the bank’s assets. Market participants believe the high price paid for the small bank means the deal may have been non-market in nature.

from sweeping accusations of dishonesty government and business The Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court generally approved the draft resolution of the plenum on the bad faith of taxpayers. The latest version of the document became more favorable for them, entrenching the presumption of good faith, and was significantly increased in status. This will be a resolution of the plenum, binding on all arbitration courts.