History of the Chinese goods smuggling case On April 1, 2005, the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case into the detention of 29 wagons of goods from China. The investigation established that the goods arrived at the warehouse of one of the FSB units near Moscow. In total, in 2004-2006, 9118 tons of goods worth 1.41 billion rubles were imported.

Sensational news about the impending assassination attempt on Badri Patarkatsishvili was reported yesterday by the British newspaper Sunday Times. An almost 46-minute audio recording was posted on the website timesonline.co.uk, in which two unknown people discuss the details of the impending murder. According to the Sunday Times, a certain Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs official and the alleged organizer of the assassination attempt, Chechen militant Uvas Akhmadov, are talking on tape.

The Moscow City Election Commission condemned "Moscow Correspondent" for expert statements On Friday, the magistrate of the Presnensky district of Moscow, German Bugynin, fined him 30 thousand rubles. newspaper "Moscow Correspondent" at the request of the Moscow City Election Commission (MGIK). By his decision, the magistrate actually equated the publication of expert opinions with the publication of the results of public opinion polls.

In 2008, mandatory testing of students for drug use may be introduced in Moscow. Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Service for Drug Control (FSKN) Vladimir Zubrin told reporters about this on December 24. “The initiative to introduce such testing was jointly put forward by the capital’s department of the Federal Drug Control Service and the Moscow government.

83 1 min. ... The Ultra Electronics company does not want to repent and promise that it will never trade in confiscated goods again. Such persistence has turned almost the entire market against her. Failures of the year At the end of November, the Association of Computer and Information Technology Enterprises (AP KIT) addressed all participants in the information technology market with a recommendation to terminate business relations with the Ultra Electronics company.

In June 2001, the first online supermarket XXL.ru was “closed for reconstruction”. He never came out of his coma. Not long before this, XXL.ru’s online grocery retail competitors, Lozhka.ru and Bystrono.ru, also died. As a result, an opinion arose that grocery retail on the Internet is an unprofitable and unpromising business. However, now it seems the time has come to change it.

180 1 min. ... Investors usually learn that the placement was unsuccessful during the course of the placement. The IPO of the Euroservice holding, a leader in the agricultural market, failed at the stage of team formation. Failures of the year At the end of 2006, the chairman of the board of the Euroservice Meat Corporation, Igor Kofman, announced that Euroservice was going to hold an IPO in the first half of 2007.

381 2 minutes. ... “Vlast” continues to publish a quarterly ranking of the global popularity of Russian companies. We offer a rating for the fourth quarter of 2007, calculated on the basis of mentions of Russian companies in the world press. Gazprom and Rosneft have maintained their positions in the rankings for the umpteenth time in a row, remaining the most mentioned Russian companies in the world. And they were not always mentioned in a purely business context.

Hugo Chavez offers barter to neighbors At the end of last week, the summit of member countries of the Petrocaribe oil alliance ended in Cuba. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened Washington with the creation of a “new oil geopolitics” that would allow Caracas to significantly expand its influence in the region. As part of one of the schemes, Venezuela intends to supply oil to its neighbors in exchange for food products - bananas, sugar and rice.

The Ministry of Finance will not be able to cover the budget deficit with its loan Last Thursday, the World Bank decided to allocate $300 million to Ukraine to finance this year’s state budget deficit instead of the $500 million planned by the government of Viktor Yanukovych.

The main trend of the past year on the Russian stock market was a sharp change in investors' priorities: their interest moved from the oil and gas and financial sectors to the consumer sector and industrial production. The latter was caused by the actions of the state, whose industrial policy will apparently continue next year.

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On December 24, the Leninsky Court of Vladivostok sentenced the mayor of the city, Vladimir Nikolaev, to four and a half years of suspended imprisonment on charges of “abuse of official powers” ​​(Part 2 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and “exceeding official powers” ​​(Part 2 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) RF). The mayor, who was removed from office in February of this year, was also deprived of the right to hold leadership positions for three years.

Today, December 24, a memorial plaque was solemnly opened in Sumy in honor of the hero of Ukraine Vyacheslav Chornovil on the 70th anniversary of his birth. Representatives of political parties, authorities and the public, as well as his like-minded people, came to honor the memory of Vyacheslav Chornovil.

The former head of Image Bank was suspected of stealing money from a YUKOS subsidiary Details of the criminal case being investigated by the investigative committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office against the former chairman of the board of directors of Image Bank Valery Motkin have become known (Kommersant reported about this case on December 22).