The organizer of an opposition forum was attacked On Tuesday night in Samara, human rights activist Alexander Lashmankin, organizer of the opposition alter-globalization forum, which is to be held during the upcoming Russia-EU summit, was beaten. His colleagues call the attack a “political provocation,” but the police insist that “this is pure robbery” and the raiders will soon be caught.

Today it became known that the French group Bel will invest more than $10 million over the next three years in the development of the Ukrainian cheese producer OJSC Shostka City Milk Plant. According to the director of the Bel division in Central and Eastern Europe, Philippe Champlon, the investment program that is planned to be implemented at the enterprise is designed for 10 years, but the main investments (60%) will be made in the first three years. Mr.

on the day of the bank guards' funeral 34 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, Deputy Prosecutor of the Chita Region Vladimir Kandakov announced the arrest of five suspects in the case of the Saturday robbery of the Chita branch of the Baikal Sberbank. Their names have not been disclosed. According to the prosecutor's office, one of the two murdered bank security guards was among the robbers' accomplices.

The Ministry of Natural Resources will prohibit foreigners from reselling strategic deposits Amendments to the current law “On Subsoil”, limiting the access of foreign investors to strategic deposits, have been sent by the Ministry of Natural Resources to the government. According to Kommersant, as in the case of the law on limiting investments in strategic sectors, the Federal Security Service is demanding that the amendments be tightened.

Yakut rescuers did not completely prevent the flood 34 2 minutes. ... In Yakutia, due to the spring flood, an emergency situation was declared: more than 300 residential buildings in four settlements of the republic were flooded.

Jan Lashtuvka returns from Fulham to Shakhtar Fulham refused the right to buy out the contract of Shakhtar's Czech goalkeeper Jan Lashtuvka, who played for the London team on loan in the second part of the season. According to Sky Sport, Fulham management was not satisfied with the transfer amount - 4 million euros. Lashtuvka played 12 matches for the Londoners, replacing the injured Anti Niemi. The Czech's contract with Shakhtar, signed in the summer of 2004, expires in two years.

As it became known today, the Economic Court of the Vinnytsia Region has opened a bankruptcy case against the state-owned enterprise Vinnytsia Distillery (VLVZ). Mikhail Sokolvak, appointed arbitration manager, said that the court opened the bankruptcy case of the enterprise based on the claim of the State Tax Inspectorate. The tax debt of the enterprise is about 400 thousand hryvnia.

wireless Internet Tired of wires, the capital is eager for a new wireless life - and is doing it very successfully. At the end of last year, the number of Internet access points using Wi-Fi technology in Russia exceeded 8.5-9 thousand, while a year ago there were only 650. The market was blown up by the project to build a wireless network by the Golden Telecom provider, which postponed Wi-Fi from cafes to ordinary apartments.

The monopoly will make good money at the expense of shippers As Kommersant has learned, tariffs for freight transportation by rail in Russia by 2010 will increase much more significantly than previously thought. As a result, OJSC Russian Railways (RZD) will receive total income of 3.5 trillion rubles over three years. and will finish 2008-2010 with a profit, ensuring, according to analysts, a good debt to EBITDA ratio.

About 160 servicemen of the Siberian Military District staged a group fight on the Chita-Chelyabinsk train. As RIA Novosti reported on May 16, to pacify the hooligans, Buryatia police units with a total number of 250 people were assembled at the Ulan-Ude station at 2.00 Moscow time. More than 20 military personnel were detained, some of whom are graduates of the school of warrant officers of the Siberian Military District. An investigation is underway.

cellular In April of this year, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications (Rossvyaznadzor) issued a license to the mobile operator MegaFon-Moscow to broadcast television programs in Moscow and the Moscow region. The company will use it to organize television broadcasting to cell phones.

The currency of Europe occupies the best places in gold and foreign exchange reserves The gold and foreign exchange reserves of states have grown by 150% since 2001, and a significant component of this growth is ensured by the growing share of the euro in world gold and foreign exchange reserves.

Swiss Credit Suisse is trying to reopen a bank in Ukraine strategy The Swiss bank Credit Suisse announced yesterday the start of work in Ukraine of its new representative office, as well as its intention to open a subsidiary bank. Bankers believe that the Credit Suisse representative office will search for clients for the future bank among large financial and industrial groups.

Igor Makeev sells Veta to the Voronezh Chamber of Commerce and Industry 120 2 minutes. ... The Voronezh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) announced the purchase of the leader of the regional exhibition market, Veta Exhibition Company LLC, from businessman Igor Makeev. The transaction amount may be 1-3 million rubles.

Today Kommersant informs readers that the head of the board of PrivatBank, Alexander Dubilet, and the chairman of the supervisory board of the Georgian Tao Bank, Vladimir Ugulava, signed an agreement yesterday to join forces for development in the Georgian market.