Today, July 29, PR manager of the Georgian Taoprivatbank (formerly Taobank) Nino Evgenidze reported that Ukraine's largest PrivatBank (Dnepropetrovsk) has increased its share in the Georgian subsidiary from 75% to 98.78%.

The decline in the share of state-owned enterprises in the economy has slowed down The economic crisis stopped the downward trend in the share of the public sector in the economy. In 2008, it remained virtually unchanged compared to the previous year—then the share of state-owned enterprises decreased by more than 5 percentage points. The growth of the share of private business will resume no earlier than 2010, experts say.

Social activists intend to prove his involvement in soldier slavery The Khabarovsk District Court sentenced local entrepreneur-photographer Konstantin Laptev to five years in prison, who, according to investigators, for several months, with the assistance of the deputy commander of one of the military units, Gennady Prokhorov, kept conscript Alexander Ziborov in slavery, forcing him to help him in his business. The court considered it proven that Laptev attempted to extort 300 thousand rubles.

Network name Quantity shops on JulyRevenue for first half year 2009 year (including VAT, billion rubles) Revenue for first half year 2008 year (including VAT, billion rubles) Change revenue (%) M Video 162 38,442 34,463 +11.6 El Dorado 356 37,794 53,532 -29.4 Technosila 124 n/a 18.5** n/a World 56 7 9.44 -25.8

On July 29, deputies of the Altai Regional Legislative Assembly voted to vest the current head of the region, Alexander Karlin, with gubernatorial powers. His candidacy was submitted to deputies for consideration by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on July 17. The inauguration ceremony is scheduled for August 25. The candidacy of Alexander Karlin was presented by the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District Anatoly Kvashnin.

Accounts of Khimform CJSC were frozen By decision of the tax authority, all accounts of Khimform CJSC (Balakovo) placed with TransCreditBank OJSC were blocked. The decision to issue a collection was made in order to limit monetary transactions and ensure priority in the payment of the plant's accounts payable within the framework of the bankruptcy procedure introduced on April 27.

Today, the heads of four large non-profit partnerships in Perm - NP Avtolikon, NP Avtoalliance, NP United Union of Carriers and NP Avtolider (serve at least 90% of road transportation in Perm) announced that they will not participate in the distribution competition route network. As Igor Sasunov, director of NP Avtolikon, explained, the carriers intend to achieve the cancellation of the competition.

Alexey Pukach’s information about the burial place of the journalist’s remains was confirmed Yesterday, investigators from the Prosecutor General's Office reported that they had found fragments of the skull of murdered journalist Georgy Gongadze.

Max Greenfeld has been appointed as the new general director of the Swedish Malka Oil AB (which, through its subsidiary STS-Service LLC, has licenses to develop three oil fields in the Tomsk region), the company said in a statement. The company was previously headed by Fredrik Svinhufvud.

Today, July 29, Patriarch Kirill of Movskovsky and All Rus' will visit the Donetsk region as part of his visit to Ukraine. As the head of the public security department of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Donetsk region, Alexander Moskalenko, told Ukrainian News, public order during the stay of Patriarch Kirill in the Donetsk region on July 29-31 will be ensured by about 2.2 thousand police officers and 600 volunteers.

Oleg Lisogor failed to defend his world title Swimming Yesterday in Rome at the World Swimming Championships, Ukraine lost its last hope of winning a medal. Champion and former world record holder in the 50m breaststroke Oleg Lisogor failed to make it to the finals, showing only 11th result in the half. Another Ukrainian, Igor Borisik, did not even qualify for the same distance. In the overall standings, Borisik took 18th place.

The Chelyabinsk activist of the democratic movement “Solidarity” decided to challenge the appointment of a special representative of the governor in the city of Zlatoust, as he considers “inadmissible interference of the regional government in the activities of local governments.” The Coordination Council of the regional branch intends to send a corresponding statement to the prosecutor of the Chelyabinsk region, Alexander Voitovich.

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The Drozhzhanovsky district became the first in Tatarstan and in Russia as a whole where a new project is being implemented - the installation of automatic fire alarms at socially significant objects, connected directly to the control panel of the EMERCOM duty officer. “The system is currently being tested at three social facilities - the Central District Hospital, the Warm House social shelter for children and adolescents and secondary school N1.