Yulia Tymoshenko limits Viktor Yushchenko's funds As Kommersant has learned, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko refused to include almost all of President Viktor Yushchenko’s proposals in the state budget - totaling UAH 23 billion. She justified her refusal by the fact that more than 150 billion UAH are needed to finance current problems, in particular to compensate for the losses of agricultural producers in connection with joining the WTO and increasing social payments.

Dmitry Tratas, independent expert Prices of most commodity assets still remain at high levels and do not show any downward trends. For gold and platinum, this state of affairs is not surprising - these metals are mainly a means of storage, and not an industrial product. The rise in prices of these precious metals is due to the desire of investors to protect themselves from inflation by investing money not in stocks, but in “tangible” assets.

The jewelry chain wants to increase the number of stores in the region sixfold 111 3 min. ... The federal jewelry chain "585" plans to increase the number of stores in the Nizhny Novgorod region sixfold by the end of 2010 - up to 30 points of sale. Investments in development will amount to $5 million.

A representative of Roscosmos has been approved as the general director of the plant, but Oboronprom will manage the plant 115 3 min. ... Yesterday, the shareholders of Motorostroitel OJSC at an extraordinary general meeting approved the resignation of General Director Igor Shitarev and voted for the appointment of Roscosmos representative Dmitry Nosov to this post.

Nizhny Novgorod sales company is again suing Volgaenergosbyt 110 3 min. ... Another conflict between energy traders is developing in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The Nizhny Novgorod Sales Company (NSK) believes that Volgaenergosbyt illegally supplies its subscribers with 940 million kW/h generated by the Avtozavodskaya CHPP, which is why by the end of 2008 the NSC may lose almost 150 million rubles.

Shareholders will allocate $1 billion to increase their share in the retail market Investsberbank announced its desire to occupy 30% of the retail services market in Russia in four years. To this end, the Hungarian OTP Bank will provide its Russian subsidiary with an unprecedented loan of $1 billion this year.

A circle of young anti-fascists in the film "We are from the Future" 399 3 min. ... Today, a military-patriotic film for young people, “We are from the Future,” is being released in St. Petersburg: in it, four “black” trackers travel from modern times to 1942, from where they are exposed to the immorality of their occupation. LIDIA MASLOVA found the authors' laudable attempt to rebrand the Great Patriotic War in the minds of the younger generation not radical enough.

Today, February 20, the National Constitutional Council held its first meeting. As the Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Secretary of the National Constitutional Council Marina Stavniychuk said at a briefing after the meeting, a working group was formed today that will directly develop the concept of amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine and the draft of a new edition of this document. The working group included 15 people. According to Ms.

Repayment termCoupon (% from nom.) Last (% of nominal)YTM (% year.) Redemption Coupon (% from nom.) Last (% of nominal)YTM (% year.) USA ($) Japan (JPY) 3 months 05/15/08 - 99.482 2,211 05/19/08 - 99.866 0.560 6 months 08/14/08 - 98,995 2,094 10.07.08 - 99.776 0.535 1 year - - - - 20.03.09 1.9 101.46 0.525 2 years 01/31/10 2.125 100,258 1,990 03/22/10 1.8 102.48 0.590 5 years 01/31/13 2.875 100,156 2,844 20.03.13 0.8 99.27 0.950 10 years 02/15/18 3.5 97.234 3.838 12/20/17 1.5 100.30 1.465 30

And they invite other religious organizations with them The Congress of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJC) came up with a number of high-profile initiatives yesterday. In particular, Jewish leaders are asking legislators to exempt religious organizations from property taxes, as well as provide tax benefits to business donors. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is ready to support certain proposals of the Jews.

The Federal Property Management Agency summed up the results of privatization for four years Over the past four years, the number of federal state unitary enterprises (FSUE) has decreased by 43%. This is one of the results of the privatization campaign - the Federal Property Management Agency summed them up yesterday. Economists are surprised by the result: it contradicts popular belief about the growing role of the state in the economy.

Today, February 20, it became known that the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom intends to sign a contract in April with the Westinghouse Electric Company (USA) on commercial supplies of nuclear fuel for 2010 for Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

Today, February 20, based on the results of counting more than 85% of the ballots in the presidential elections in Armenia, the current Prime Minister and ally of the outgoing head of state Robert Kocharyan, Serge Sargsyan, is in the lead. Meanwhile, opposition candidates do not agree with the official results and intend to hold a protest today, accusing the authorities of massive violations and falsification of the voting results.

According to an employee of the environmental department, the head of Rosprirodnadzor Vladimir Kirillov on February 20 sent a proposal to the Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev about the resignation of his deputy Oleg Mitvol. A few hours earlier, Oleg Mitvol turned to Trutnev with a request to cancel his boss’s decision to reduce the powers of his deputies.

The company refused to invest in the Emelino substation 95 3 min. ... The new owner of Maxi-Group OJSC, Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK), abandoned the construction of an electric steelmaking complex in Nizhniye Sergi (Sverdlovsk region). This became known from a letter sent to the branch of JSC FGC UES - Main Electric Networks of the Urals, with the withdrawal of the application for participation in the project for the construction of the 500 kV substation "Emelino".