Although the Bitel scandal reduced its profits by $150 million Yesterday, the largest Russian cellular operator OJSC Mobile Telesystems (MTS) summed up its results for 2006. Revenue and profit were higher than market forecasts. Although the operator's net profit could have grown by 23.4% instead of 10.6%, if not for the write-off at the end of last year of $150 million spent back in 2005 on the purchase of the Kyrgyz mobile operator Bitel.

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19 Kyiv cinemas will be included in "Kievkinofilm" Yesterday, a draft decision on the creation of the Kievkinofilm utility enterprise was registered in the Kiev City Council. The document provides for the reorganization of 19 communal cinemas by merging them with Kievkinofilm as structural divisions.

Despite the caustic ridicule of ordinary people that the updated Gelaendewagen does not even qualify for a facelift, there are still changes in the new “cube”. They're just so delicate that you won't notice them right away. To see the exterior updates, you need to go to the rear of the car and look at the rear lights (LED).

BankShare as of January 1 2007, % UkrSibbank 18.1 Raiffeisen Bank Aval 14.1 Ukrsotsbank 13.8 OTP Bank 10.29 PrivatBank 9.3 Pravex-bank 5.1 Kreditprombank 4.6 Nadra 3.57 Finance and Credit 3.5 TAS-Commerzbank 2.2 Other 15.44

Metallurgists are building three power plants in the Urals The Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) begins to develop its own energy sector. Yesterday it became known that UMMC will build three coal-fired power plants in the Sverdlovsk region with a total capacity of up to 1 thousand MW and a cost of $1.2 billion. UMMC's partner will be the French Alstom.

State fire inspectors in Primorye have begun unscheduled inspections of nursing home boarding houses. As the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Primorsky Territory reported on March 22, the decision to conduct unscheduled comprehensive inspections was made in connection with a fire in a nursing home in the Krasnodar Territory on March 20, which killed 63 people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), ITAR-TASS reported on March 22, citing the Kremlin press service. USC will unite state financial assets in shipbuilding - both 100 percent in federal state unitary enterprises and small assets in private companies. As First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov previously stated, all existing design and engineering assets will be poured into it.

"Soup house" in Lugansk can start working again Yesterday it became known that the owner of the Lugansk fast food "Soup House" Irina Rybalko filed a complaint with the regional Economic Court against the actions of the mayor of Lugansk Sergei Kravchenko. Let us recall (see Kommersant of February 5) that on February 3, gas cylinders exploded in the kitchen of a fast food restaurant. As a result of the explosion, two people died on the spot, and three more died from burns in intensive care.

Today, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Yuri Polyachenko from the post of Minister of Health due to a transfer to another job and appointed Yuri Gaidaev as the new head of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. 249 people's deputies out of 256 voted for the dismissal of Yuri Polyachenko. 252 out of 256 voted for the appointment of Yuri Gaidaev. BYuT and Our Ukraine did not take part in the voting. Mr.

The commander of the Tu-134 did not see where he was landing The first results of the investigation into the UTair Tu-134 crash on March 17 in Samara became known yesterday. As reported by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), decoding the data from the flight recorders showed that before the accident, all the aircraft’s systems were operating normally, but the crew was descending too quickly, and also could not see the runway.

As it became known today, the board of directors of the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor has decided to temporarily stop consolidating the results of Kyivstar GSM CJSC in the company’s financial statements. According to the message released by Telenor, now the 56.51% stake in Kyivstar will be accounted by Telenor as an investment, and not as a controlled asset.

The presence of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) at the International Uranium Enrichment Center in Angarsk, Irkutsk Region, will be as large as is convenient for the agency. “We are interested in having as large a presence of the IAEA at the plant as is convenient for the agency,” RIA Novosti quoted Deputy Head of Rosatom Nikolai Spassky as saying on March 22.

Andrey Shokin’s company has become the TVC’s Samara partner 114 4 min. ... Samara LLC RBE-Media acquired 100% of LLC TV Company Forum, a network partner of the TV Center television company in Samara. In addition to her, according to Kommersant, the SOK Group of Companies and the city administration, which currently does not have its own television channel, showed interest in the media asset.

Former Bosnian Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic, wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ), was guaranteed security in exchange for removal from public life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As AFP reported on March 22, the signatures on the corresponding document in June 1996 were put by Mr. Karadzic himself and the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who at that time held the post of US envoy to the Balkans.