Bolivian armed forces, backed by police, have seized the country's largest airport in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The decision to take over the airport came after its administration began illegally collecting fees from airlines. According to ITAR-TASS, some airlines, including American Airlines, canceled flights to Santa Cruz de la Sierra in protest. The Bolivian military seized the airport at dawn on October 18, arresting its workers, some of whom put up armed resistance.

To avoid getting confused in checks Representatives of Russian control bodies who gathered yesterday in the Kremlin declared their readiness to work according to a single plan - under the supervision of the presidential administration. About 40 control structures, conducting up to 10 million inspections a year, want to coordinate their efforts in order to eliminate the current duplication of inspections and cause fewer problems for those being inspected.

Yesterday announced that the price of Russian gas for Belarus in 2008 will be close to $125 per thousand cubic meters. According to Ambassador Alexander Surikov, the final gas price for Belarus in 2008 will be determined in December. At the same time, he considers the gas price at $150-170 per thousand cubic meters unrealistic. The ambassador also recalled that, in accordance with the contract concluded in December 2006, the gas price for Belarus should be 67% of the average European price. Mr.

Is Guus Hiddink a magician? Valery Shantsev, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region: “It’s more like a team learning magic.” Ivan Savvidi, State Duma deputy, president of FC SKA (Rostov-on-Don): - A good psychologist. He helped the guys play the game to their best. The team did not play, but worked. I'm glad that Pavlyuchenko scored the decisive goal. If Kerzhakov had done this, then skeptics would have said that he had raised his level in Europe and the goal could not be considered Russian.

Today, October 18, deputies of five factions of the Zhytomyr Regional Council disrupted the holding of an extraordinary session by failing to appear at the meeting. The initiators of the extraordinary session of the regional council were two factions - BYuT and “Our Ukraine”. On this occasion, an order was issued to convene a session by the chairman of the regional council, Irina Sinyavskaya. A third of the regional council deputies attended the session.

On Tuesday evening, as part of Ukrainian Fashion Week, the second show of the collection of the social brand Fashion AID, created by the Elena Franchuk Anti-AIDS Foundation, took place. Especially for this collection, Ukrainian designers participating in the project created almost 60 models of men's and women's clothing, mostly white.

TSN — 19.30 The main story is that EMERCOM teams are trying to demolish the wall of a house in Dnepropetrovsk. Genre: reportage. The intonation is worried. The presenters report that six people still remain under the rubble, two of whom are children. Next - direct broadcast from Dnepropetrovsk. “Four attempts to demolish the wall did not yield anything. Now the Emergency Situations Ministry teams are consulting on how to do this,” says the correspondent.

67 1 min. ... Delivery immediately Delivery in 3 months SettlementPrev. ClosingLastPrev. closing Aluminum 2441.5 2448.25 2499.5 2495 Copper 7991 8099 7955 8065 Nickel 31155 31450 31899.5 31800 Zinc 2965 3039 2965 3045 Tin 16205 16345 16450 16500 Lead 3620 3702 3560 3655 London Metal Exchange quotes ($/t). According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 191 dated 10/18/2007, p. 16

market conditions The management company KIT Fortis Investment Management, affiliated with the KIT Finance bank, yesterday sent a letter to shareholders of the RTS stock exchange with an offer to sell 16,760 shares of the exchange (1.0475%). In fact, this was a reaction to a publication by Kommersant (see issue dated October 17), which noted that the KIT Finance group still controls 11% of the exchange, despite the shareholders’ agreement to be limited to a 10% stake.

The court released the president of Diamond 45 3 min. ... The panel of the Volgograd Regional Court overturned the decision of the Central District Court of Volgograd on the arrest of the head of the regional branch of the A Just Russia party and the president of the Diamant Group of Companies, Oleg Mikheev.

based on the tourist zone in Buryatia thirty 2 minutes. ... The new owner of Mukhino Airport (Ulan-Ude), Meinl Airports International (MAI), officially presented the concept for its development. The investor plans to modernize the airport terminal, build a hotel, and reconstruct the runway. MAI is ready to invest up to €100 million of its own funds in the development of Mukhino.

Today actor Sergei Bezrukov turns 34 years old Member of the SPS Council Boris Nemtsov congratulates him on his birthday: — I am pleased to congratulate Sergei on his birthday, it is a great honor for me. He is a wonderful person and a talented actor - it often happens that these are not the same thing. And no matter how much “Brigade” is criticized, I am sure that it is a very cool film. It’s great that the director chose Bezrukov for the role of Bely.

The size of the loan portfolio of Russian banks will reach $190 billion by 2010. This statement was made on October 18 by the managing director of the retail business unit of the National Bank Trust, Elena Rechkalova. As PRIME-TASS reports, Ms. Rechkalova’s statement was made during a speech at the “Retail Financial Business of Russia: Project 2010” conference taking place in Moscow. According to Ms.

JSC Zvezda is creating a joint venture for the production of engines with an Italian company 59 3 min. ... By the end of 2007, St. Petersburg OJSC Zvezda intends to create a joint venture with the Italian company CRM Motori. The new joint venture will produce engines for high-speed civil vessels. With new products, Italian-St. Petersburg manufacturers intend to enter the European shipbuilding markets.

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