Estonian Bauhof is curtailing its activities in Ukraine Following development companies, retailers began to leave the Ukrainian market. As Kommersant has learned, the Estonian DIY chain Bauhof will close its Ukrainian subsidiary in November. The retailer, which promised to open 16 construction supermarkets in Ukraine by 2013, abandoned expansion due to crises: financial in Europe and political in Ukraine.

Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant began production of pickup trucks 72 3 min. ... The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, part of the SOLLERS automobile holding, announced the start of mass production of the new UAZ Pickup car. Automakers believe that new products will be in great demand, since they have no domestic competitors, and in comparison with foreign ones, the Ulyanovsk pickup truck has price advantages and a sufficient level of quality.

Today, October 2, the plane of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko made an emergency landing at Boryspil airport. The press secretary of the head of state, Irina Vannikova, reported this to RBC-Ukraine . She also said that the plane was in the air for about 30 minutes. Now a reserve plane is being prepared for the president, which will take him to Lvov. Due to technical malfunctions of the aircraft, the visit program to Lviv will be shortened.

Search teams found the wreckage of a plane in California, possibly belonging to the famous traveler and millionaire Stephen Fossett, who disappeared a year ago, RIA Novosti reported on October 2. The wreckage of a small plane was discovered on October 1 in the Sierra Nevada mountain range at an altitude of 3.2 thousand meters. Representatives of the American police have already announced the discovery of a possible crash site of Stephen Fossett's plane.

The hotel construction project in Yekaterinburg is on the verge of failure 93 2 minutes. ... Construction of the four-star Marriott hotel in Yekaterinburg may never begin. The investor and project developer, the Uralmash engineering corporation, explains this by saying that the need to include two architectural monuments in the complex, which are located on the territory of the future hotel, will increase the cost of the project by 200 million rubles.

The company can carry out a buy back The Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), following the example of Severstal and MMC Norilsk Nickel, announced the possibility of conducting a buy back - repurchasing its own shares from the market.

Norilsk Nickel has found investors abroad Participants in the Russian stock market failed to maintain a positive mood in yesterday's trading. At the end of the trading session, the RTS index lost 1.88% and closed at 1189.06 points. The MICEX index fell by 1% to 1017.17 points. Lack of liquidity and lack of ideas affects investor activity. In the classic market sector of the RTS exchange, trading volume amounted to $11 million, which is half as much as Tuesday ($23 million).

At a meeting on October 2, the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship decided to create an anti-crisis working group. She will study the impact of the global crisis on the Russian economy.

Boris Efimov died Obituary Russia's oldest artist, cartoonist Boris Efimov, died in Moscow at the age of 108. Last year Boris Efimov had a large exhibition at the New Manege. He gave me an interview - at his home, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. He heard very poorly, a large hearing aid did not help, so the interview, one might say, did not work out. But I received the image of a man. Quite rare. Old people suffer from loneliness. Boris Efimov suffered from attention. Everyone needed something from him.

The only flight from Yekaterinburg to London is closed 124 3 min. ... Air traffic between Yekaterinburg and the UK is closed. Yesterday, BMI, which operates flights to and from London, announced it was ceasing flights “for commercial reasons.” Market participants, on the one hand, talk about an acceptable load of 60-70% of the British flight, on the other hand, they point to possible problems with the formation of the main passenger flow - transit passengers in the USA.

Igor Sechin's subordinates sued the apartment building from the capital government Former lawyers of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), who bankrupted YUKOS, won the first case in court regarding the assets of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), the board of directors of which is headed by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. USC sued the premises in the center of Moscow from the capital's government and companies involved in the reconstruction of the building.

The retailer launched three new retail projects The largest Russian clothing retailer in terms of number of stores, Sela, has launched three new retail projects: Fruit&Foot shoe stores, Sela Mix accessories stores, and Sela Kids children's goods stores. Since the summer, Sela has been negotiating the sale of a blocking stake to Capital International, Templeton and Aurora Russia funds, and new formats can make it more attractive to investors, experts say.

Overcoming the resistance of the Russian military The implementation of agreements between Russia and the European Union on Georgia turned out to be seriously difficult. The EU observer mission, deployed yesterday along the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in accordance with the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, ran into problems in the face of the Russian military. The parties still disagree on whether observers should be stationed on the territory of the two republics.

Apart from steel companies and Hong Kong, no one has been harmed there so far The weakest link in the Chinese economy in the context of the global financial crisis turned out to be the metallurgical sector - in August, steel production in China decreased by 5%, partly due to a decrease in export demand, partly due to restrictions imposed on the industry during the Beijing Olympics. The Chinese banking sector is not yet experiencing problems similar to those in the US, EU and Russia.

So that she does not fall into the arms of Russia The Belarusian Central Election Commission announced yesterday that the country's new parliament will meet for its first meeting on October 27. Neither the US nor the EU recognized the elections held in Belarus as free and democratic. Nevertheless, they expressed their readiness not only to continue cooperation with Minsk, but also to suspend sanctions against senior Belarusian officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko.