The UAOC files a lawsuit against the Kyiv Patriarchate denominations Yesterday, representatives of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) announced that they were filing a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) for ownership of the building and property of the community of the Cathedral of St. George the Victorious in Odessa.

reorganization Alfa Group yesterday announced the merger of its asset management and private equity businesses. Management companies Alfa Capital and Alfa Capital Partners will be united under the Alfa Asset Management (AAM) brand. At the same time, there was a change in leadership. Alfa Capital will be headed by Mikhail Khabarov, and strategic management, instead of the American Bernard Sucher, will be carried out by a member of the board of directors of Alfa Bank, Andrei Kosogov.

112 2 minutes. ... Yesterday we celebrated Republic Day in Kazan. Barely keeping up with Mintimer Shaimiev, GALINA KIRILLOVICH tried to make out the athletes, horses and hats. For any Tatarstan citizen, August 30 is Republic Day, celebrated on the occasion of the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty. Only once - last year - when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited, the authorities decided to soften the wording, focusing on the 1000th anniversary of Kazan.

Kuban and Stavropol region have found a competitor in the tourism business 32 3 min. ... Yesterday in Karachaevsk (Karachay-Cherkess Republic) an agreement was signed on the accession of eight municipalities of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, including the resorts Teberda and Dombay, to the Golden Arc of Southern Auto Tourism project.

A Czech company will build a glass container production plant in Omsk for 45 million euros 306 3 min. ... As Kommersant learned, the Czech company Sklostroy has appointed a contractor for the construction of a glass beer bottle plant in Omsk. The investment capacity of this project will be E45 million; the launch of the new production will be carried out by Klin-Steklotara CJSC (Moscow region).

Hockey Tournament in memory of Pavel Belyaev in Cherepovets First tour. "Dynamo" - SKA 3:2. "Torpedo" (Nizhny Novgorod) - "Severstal" 4:2. Second round. "Severstal" - "Dynamo" 6:3. SKA-HC MVD 3:1. Tournament in memory of Viktor Blinov in Omsk First tour. "Siberia" - "Metallurg" (NK) 5:4 (overtime). "Avangard" - "Neftekhimik" 6:4. Second round. "Avangard" - "Metallurg" 4:3. "Neftekhimik" - "Sibir" 3:0. Tournament in memory of Ivan Romazan in Magnitogorsk Second round.

Immediately after the end of the Moscow Motor Show, many of the new products presented at it will become scarce. Oskar Akhmedov, CEO of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC, told Kommersant-Auto about when the queues for cars will end, what will happen to prices on the secondary car market in a few years, and when car service will become inexpensive and of high quality. — Already, some importers of foreign cars have surpassed the 100,000 sales mark, and this is a serious indicator for any car market.

Today, the Council of Ministers of Crimea held a meeting of the working group to verify compliance with the rules of trade carried out on the plateau of Mount Ai-Petri (Yalta). As Kommersant was told by the press service of the Council of Ministers of Crimea, members of the working group noted a number of violations in the conduct of trade on the plateau.

Sergey Bleskun, Sergey Bleskun, General Director of the Overline concern, at a press conference, will announce the results of the concern's work in the first half of 2006, and will also announce plans for the development of the company in the near future. Nikolai Rudkovsky and Vladimir Kozak, the Minister of Transport and Communications and the General Director of Ukrzaliznytsia will acquaint journalists with the results of spring-summer rail transportation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on his birthday. The congratulations, in particular, say: “In Russia you are known as a supporter of the development of Russian-Belarusian cooperation, deepening integration processes in the CIS. I am convinced that your active and fruitful activities will continue to contribute to the strengthening of relations between our countries and the further rapprochement of the two fraternal peoples."

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On February 17, 2005, at a hearing in the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on “Russia’s Departure from the Principles of Democracy,” the head of the committee, Republican Senator Richard Lugar, said that “the Kremlin unsuccessfully attempted to influence the outcome of the elections in Ukraine and support the separatist regions of Georgia.” He noted “Russia’s support for President Lukashenko’s aspirations to retain power in Belarus and assistance to the governments of Central Asia in their

He will be tried, the rest will be returned to their homeland Japanese fishermen's case Two fishermen from the vessel Kissin Maru-31, detained by Sakhalin border guards on August 16, 2006 in the area of ​​the Lesser Kuril Islands, were returned to Japan yesterday. Investigators concluded that they did not know they were trespassing. The captain of the vessel, Nabor Sakasita, who had previously been prosecuted for poaching in Russian territorial waters, faces imprisonment.

case of the head of Khakassia The Chairman of the Government of Khakassia, Alexey Lebed, filed a lawsuit against the Khakass Technical Institute demanding the return of 134.4 thousand rubles, which Mr. Lebed allegedly overpaid to the university in 1999 to finance his trips to the USA and Australia. The government of the republic does not officially say why Mr.