The global championship was affected by the financial crisis World Rally Championship The World Rally Championship starts today in Ireland. Formally, this is the second most prestigious auto racing series after Formula 1. But the financial crisis affected it in such a way that the status of the rally championship, which was invariably won by the Frenchman Sebastien Lob in a Citroen for five previous seasons, has become not very clear today.

The company disposes of assets before launching new production OJSC "Talvis" (Tambov), part of Yuri Shefler's SPI Group, on the eve of the commissioning of the distillery in Novaya Lyada, is selling two of the four operating ones - Volkovsky (1.2 million decaliters per year) and Sosnovsky (589 thousand decaliters per year).

At the auction for the sale of the property of the Belgorod CJSC Kristall-Group, which is in the stage of bankruptcy proceedings, not a single application was submitted for the purchase of the main asset of the company - the Chernyansky sugar plant, CJSC Kristall-Bel. The starting price of the enterprise is 569.7 million rubles, the auction organizer is the regional state property fund.

The Sverdlovsk government plans to create a working group to prevent bankruptcies of industrial enterprises in the region. It will collect and analyze information about enterprises with debt. In particular, if the plant has growth prospects, the working group will look for opportunities to provide it with a deferment of tax and other payments.

358 1 min. ... English Championship 23rd round. West Ham 2-0 Hull City (di Michele 33; Carlton Cole 51). Chelsea 2-0 Middlesbrough (Kalu 57, 81). Everton - Arsenal 1:1 (Cahill, 61 - van Persie, 90+2). Manchester City 2-1 Newcastle (Wright-Phillips 17; Bellamy 77 - Carroll 81). "Wigan" - "Liverpool" 1:1 (Mido, 83 (pen) - Benayoun, 41). Blackburn 2-2 Bolton (Warnock 66; McCarthy 87 - Taylor 15; Davis 35). Team position. 1. Manchester United - 50 points (after 22 matches). 2. Chelsea - 48. 3.

Igor Shuvalov's commission will consider the rescue plan for Oleg Deripaska's group Next week, a government commission headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will consider a plan for anti-crisis support for one of the large enterprises. According to unofficial information, we are talking about the GAZ group, owned by Oleg Deripaska, which requires at least $1.6 billion.

"Road of Change" Richard Yates St. Petersburg: Azbuka-Classics, 2009 The release of the Russian translation of Yates' novel is obviously timed to coincide with the premiere of its film adaptation, which was directed by Sam Mendes, who once made "American Beauty." The pair formed in this way must be broken up. So let's say right away: the book is much better than the movie.

Results of the XIX Salon of Watchmaking in Geneva let down by Ekaterina Istomina and Alexey Tarkhanov Last weekend, the 19th Salon of Watchmaking (Salon de la Haute Horlogerie, SIHH) completed its work at the Geneva exhibition complex Palexpo.

Yesterday, the government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug decided to make changes to the district program for improving the living conditions of the population in terms of implementing provisions on the provision of preferential mortgage loans. They relate to the possibility of obtaining a preferential mortgage loan only for new, built, or under construction housing.

As Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko stated, the Ukrainian government is taking full control of the situation that has developed at the Artek international children's center. Running since the 1930s, the children's camp recently closed for the first time due to a lack of funding. Earlier, the mother of an American girl, Samantha Smith, who visited Artek in 1983, wrote an open letter in his defense.

Oil industry At a forum in Davos, LUKOIL head Vagit Alekperov said yesterday that the company is ready to buy from BP 46% in their joint venture LUKARCO BV, which owns 12.5% ​​in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. “BP has made an offer to us, but BP has not yet made a final decision. If such a decision is made, LUKOIL will buy out its share in CPC,” he said.

The Party of Regions is ready to exclude the head of the State Committee for Entrepreneurship from its ranks The Party of Regions (PR) intends to exclude Alexandra Kuzhel, recently appointed head of the State Committee on Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship, from its ranks. This decision is due to the fact that Ms. Kuzhel publicly expressed support for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KamAZ will stop the main conveyor as of January 29 and will continue assembling vehicles already in production for two days. As sources at the enterprise told Interfax, this is due to the lack of demand for cars. “It’s a dead market. The experience of past years shows that it won’t wake up before April,” noted one of the agency’s interlocutors, adding that the company currently has about 3 thousand cars in its warehouses.

Sergei Khodnev about Rossini's "Touchstone" "Touchstone" (sometimes in Russian this opera is also called the old word "Touchstone") - there is nothing to say, a very apt name for the very first opera commissioned from the composer Rossini by the La Scala theater. By the way, the composer Rossini is only twenty at this moment; By the way, the year is 1812, although the characters in the opera have absolutely nothing to do with the Emperor of the French. They are busy.

Russian aid will total $630 million Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin visited Kyrgyzstan. The results of his negotiations with President Kurmanbek Bakiyev indicate that Russia is ready to write off Kyrgyzstan’s external debt in the amount of $180 million and provide it with financial assistance totaling $450 million. Now Moscow has the right to count on a favorable decision by Bishkek on the fate of the American military base on the territory of Kyrgyzstan .