Evo Morales President of Bolivia "The rules set by Bolivia must be respected. But we are open to negotiations." This statement was made by President Evo Morales at a press conference on the nationalization of the country's oil and gas industry. The president announced the nationalization on May 1 this year, giving foreign companies six months to transfer control of their Bolivian operations to the state or leave the country.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko awarded the Chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration Nadezhda Deeva with the Order of Princess Olga, III degree, for “significant personal merits in addressing issues of socio-economic and cultural development of the Dnepropetrovsk region, many years of hard work, and also on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of her birth.”

807 1 min. ... Delivery immediately Delivery in 3 months SettlementPrev. ClosingLastPrev. closing Aluminum 2684 2711.5 2694.5 2715 Copper 7456 7561 7490 7580 Nickel 34010 34350 32350 32550 Zinc 3917 3957 3890 3915 Tin 10330 10457 10100 10400 Lead 1530 1527 1525 1522 London Metal Exchange quotes ($/t). According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine" No. 190 dated 10/25/2006, p. 10

Pavel Borodin was included in the list of candidates for the post of President of Yakutia 108 4 min. ... By the end of the week, the Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD), Kamil Iskhakov, must submit to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation a list of candidates for the post of President of the Republic of Yakutia. As Kommersant learned, the list of candidates proposed for discussion consists of ten names.

37 2 minutes. ... As Kommersant learned, the lawyers of the former chairman of the Krasnodar City Duma, Alexander Kiryushin, sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights about the court’s violation of his right to consider the case within a reasonable time. The consideration of the criminal case on charges of abuse of power against Mr. Kiryushin began in January 2004 and was recently returned by the prosecutor's office for a new consideration “from scratch” for the fourth time.

The competition between the two main channels, First and Rossiya, is becoming more intense and intense. The most eloquent confirmation of this were the indicators of state channels over the past week, which coincided down to a tenth of a percent. Such a tight struggle for viewers and ratings becomes a mirror of intra-corporate television relationships. And here any methods are used.

Liza Kommersant-Novikova Lev Losev's book "Joseph Brodsky" was published in the "Life of Remarkable People" series. And perhaps this is the friendliest and most dispassionate of all Zhezel’s biographies. A lot of materials dedicated to Joseph Brodsky appear every year - from rigorous academic studies to memoirs with a claim to scandalousness. And how many poems are written with an eye on Brodsky - and with no small amount of caution. Sometimes this veneration takes anecdotal forms.

Jeffrey Skilling was given 24 years in prison sentence On the evening of October 23, the District Court of Houston (Texas) sentenced the former CEO of the notorious American corporation Enron to 24 years and four months in prison. The verdict against the main defendant in the Enron case is viewed by the American media as the end of an era in American corporate history.

The license fee will be reduced by 25 times financial markets Yesterday, the State Financial Services Commission published a draft order reducing the cost of a license for pawnshops to provide financial loans using raised funds by 25 times - to UAH 400. As Kommersant found out, the reduction was lobbied by an industry association, which cannot achieve a complete abolition of this licensing.

The spirit of Paris and Berlin in the Frankfurt Schirn-Kunsthalle exhibition Paris and Berlin are two capitals that competed for supremacy in Europe in the 19th century and determined not only the specific directions of urban planning, but also the collective image of the city itself. At the exhibition "Conquest of the Street" in the Frankfurt Schirn-Kunsthalle, dedicated to the new metropolises, Paris and Berlin, the Impressionists and Expressionists, they found themselves on the same scale.

candidates for his place Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Kamil Iskhakov is completing consultations on candidates for the post of President of Yakutia.

Sberbank scared investors with additional issue The Russian stock market continued to be under bearish pressure. As a result of yesterday's trading, the RTS index fell by 0.58%, to 1608.84 points, and during the day it fell below the psychological support level of 1600 points. The MICEX index fell by 0.7%, the Kommersant index added 0.4%. At the same time, the trading volume was small - in the sector of the classic market of the RTS Stock Exchange it amounted to less than $30 million.

TNK-BP British BP's share of the net profit of its Russian joint venture TNK-BP for the first nine months of 2006 will be, according to the company's estimates, $2.581 billion, compared with $1.875 billion for the same period last year, BP said in its report. Thus, the net profit of TNK-BP for the nine months of this year, according to BP estimates, amounted to $5.162 billion, since BP owns a 50 percent share.

Yesterday, the Brazilian mining corporation CVRD (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) announced the completion of a transaction to purchase a 75.66% stake in Canadian Inco for $17.1 billion. Thus, CVRD, the world's largest iron ore producer, will become the world's second largest nickel producer, the leader for the extraction of iron ore, manganese and ferroalloys and the second largest mining company in the world after the Australian-British BHP Billiton.

Today it became known that Bank NRB (Kyiv), which is part of the medium-sized group, attracted a loan from the Russian National Reserve Bank for $5 million. According to Vladislav Kravets, Chairman of the Board of Bank NRB, the amount was provided for a period of 181 days with the possibility of further extension. Bank NRB plans to use the raised funds to increase the volume of lending operations. Vladislav Kravets did not name the financial terms of the loan.