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Context President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday carried out a planned rotation of the composition of the Presidium of the State Council of the Russian Federation. According to the text of the order published on the Kremlin website, the head of state approved for new positions the Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeev, the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the Governor of the Amur Region Oleg Kozhemyako, the Governor of St.

after the attack of unknown persons on Khanabad The Uzbek authorities yesterday closed the border with neighboring Kyrgyzstan. According to eyewitnesses, the night before, a group of unknown persons fired at the Khanabad customs post, located on Uzbek territory. According to other information, unknown persons tried to seize the buildings of law enforcement agencies in the Uzbek city of Khanabad. However, the Uzbek authorities only admit the shelling of a police patrol in Khanabad.

Nizhny Novgorod authorities will not support the idle project The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region refuses to support the GAZ group for the Volga Siber project. Due to the fact that since March 2009 the conveyor belt of the Gorky Automobile Plant for the production of passenger cars has been idle, the authorities are not going to include the enterprise in the program for compensating two-thirds of the interest rate on car loans.

The mayor's office is suing KTV OJSC The Volgograd mayor's office is seeking through the court payment of compensation in the amount of 141 million rubles from the city's former utility operator, OJSC KTV. The company did not agree with the amount of “unjust enrichment” calculated by the municipality, and is preparing to make counterclaims for compensation of lost revenue of 400 million rubles.

On May 26, the largest protest rally of the local opposition in recent times took place in Tbilisi, on Georgia’s independence day. More than 60 thousand people gathered at the central stadium of the capital to express dissatisfaction with the power of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Oil and gas prices may rise after the crisis due to the suspension of production projects, said Didier Houssin, director of oil markets at the International Energy Agency (IEA). According to him, over the past six months, projects with a total capacity of 2 million barrels per day and 1 billion cubic meters. m of gas were canceled and cut, and about 30 projects for 2.5 million barrels per day and 2.6 billion cubic meters. m of gas were revised or suspended.

Today, May 27, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ukraine Ronald Keller announced that the country's government will allocate about 500 thousand euros to finance the project "MediaNext: Development of new media in Ukraine." The project is designed for 2009-2011 and will be implemented by two partner public organizations: from the Dutch side - the European Journalism Center, from the Ukrainian side - the international public organization Internews-Ukraine.

BPPM stopped work on the reclamation of sludge ponds The environmental prosecutor's office, together with Rosprirodnadzor and Rostekhnadzor, yesterday began an inspection of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill in order to calculate the volumes of substances hazardous to the ecology of Baikal that have accumulated on the territory of the enterprise over the 40 years of its operation.

Members of United Russia received eight of 11 mandates in the city council of Igarka (Krasnoyarsk Territory) following the results of the elections held on Sunday. Three self-nominated candidates also elected to the City Council. However, as Yevgeny Nikitin, chairman of the Igarka election commission, said yesterday, two independent deputies have already decided to join the United Russia faction.

Deputy Sergei Glebov may lose his seat in parliament In the Ulyanovsk region, the procedure for recalling the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region, United Russia member Sergei Glebov, who presented a fake diploma to the election commission, has begun. The regional political council of United Russia does not intend to defend its deputy, but experts note that the 40% voter turnout for the recall vote established by regional law is almost impossible to maintain, and Mr.

Metallurgists in the Black Earth Region are gradually improving their positions after the most difficult fourth quarter of 2008. The Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK) launched all five domains, increased the production volume of the Metalloinvest holding company, and agreed to restructure the debt of the Lipetsk Metallurgical Plant (LMZ) Svobodny Sokol.

Last Monday, an auction to select a general contractor for the first stage of reconstruction of a city-wide highway on the street did not take place in Omsk. 21st Amurskaya in the Central District, including the construction of an overpass across the railway tracks.

Today, May 27, the 17th International Auto Show SIA'2009 opened in Kyiv on the territory of the International Exhibition Center, which this year is combined with the auto show of trucks and commercial vehicles TIR'2009.

Interview Andrey Danilenko, president and owner of the Russian Farms group of companies, chairman of the board of the National Union of Milk Producers, believes that in the current conditions of the dairy industry it is extremely dangerous to rely on borrowed funds. GUIDE: Despite the unanimous definition of the dairy farming market situation by both its participants and analysts as difficult, new projects continue to be actively implemented. How can you explain this?