Voronezh Mechanical Plant (VMZ), a branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Space Research and Production Center named after M.V. Khrunichev", has begun creating the RD-0110R steering engine for the Soyuz2-1V launch vehicle. According to the deputy chief engineer of the enterprise, Viktor Birkin, we are talking about an engine for controlling a rocket in flight. As Mr.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) today officially notified FC Amkar that the club is directly qualifying for the semi-finals of the current Russian Cup. This was reported by the press service of the “red-blacks”. This decision of the RFU was expected, since Amkar’s quarterfinal rival FC Moscow, by decision of the club’s owners, ceased to exist due to financial problems and withdrew from domestic Russian competitions.

Unknown Dmitry Shostakovich and Nikolai Roslavets in St. Petersburg Classic concert In the Great Hall of the Philharmonic at the 19th festival “From the Avant-garde to the Present Day”, two rarities of Soviet symphonic music were performed by the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg and the youth choir “Petersburg Voices” - Nikolai Roslavets’s cantata “October” and Dmitry’s “Symphonic fragment of 1945” Shostakovich. This was the second performance of both works in the world.

Phoenix Capital--bank "Forum" IC Phoenix Capital downgraded its recommendation for shares of Forum Bank (ticker: FORM) from hold to sell with a target price of $0.95. In anticipation of an increase in the authorized capital and the acquisition of full control by Commerzbank, the bank's shares have increased by 59% since the beginning of the year.

The court fined the operator for being a content provider The Arbitration Court of the Magadan Region found the mobile operator MTS guilty of illegally debiting funds from a subscriber's account when using short SMS numbers. Until now, liability in similar situations was borne by content providers who rented such numbers from operators.

The CSTO will at least in some ways become almost like NATO Moscow, dreaming of turning the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) into a full-fledged alternative to NATO, has achieved its recognition by the world community. Tomorrow, the UN and CSTO secretaries general Ban Ki-moon and Nikolai Bordyuzha will sign a declaration of cooperation, the contents of which have become known to Kommersant.

Today, March 17, the general director of the Evrotek Retail Company CJSC (Kyiv) and co-owner of the Evrotek group of companies, Mikhail Veselsky, announced that the CJSC, the management company of the Evrotek group of companies, which is developing the Fresh retail chain, as well as the chain of stores, whose operating business was purchased in 2009 from the Soyuz company (Chernigov) and the Intermarket trading company (Lvov), pledged to pay part of the credit debt of these companies to banks,

Today, March 17, Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou assured the EU that his country will not abandon the single European currency. “The possibility of (Greece) leaving the eurozone is zero,” the Greek prime minister said after a bilateral meeting in Brussels with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

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Yesterday, the Trans-Urals Election Commission summed up the final results of the elections to the Kurgan Regional Duma. According to official data, 294 thousand 113 voters (38.15%) took part in the voting. According to the voting results, United Russia received 41.23%; Communist Party of the Russian Federation - 25.21%, or 74 thousand 143 votes; “A Just Russia” - 17.2%; LDPR - 12.66%.

Today, March 17, it became known that the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (Venice Commission) recommends that Ukraine transfer the functions of the Council of Judges to the High Council of Justice when reforming the judicial system. This is stated in a message from the press service of Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Party of Regions faction, chairman of the parliamentary committee on justice Sergei Kivalov.

On March 17, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Leonid Ivlev spoke about the results of monitoring coverage in state media of the activities of State Duma parties. He said that in general the principle of “equality of coverage of parties” was observed, but there were exceptions.

Today, March 17, about 5 thousand people are holding a rally near the building of the Lviv Regional Council demanding the resignation of the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Tabachnik.

Dmitry Medvedev is concerned about the quality of interaction with the government President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday officially announced the essence of the claims against the government regarding the execution of its instructions. The number of instructions from the Kremlin to the White House, according to statistics from the President's Main Control Office (GCU), in 2009 grew faster than executive discipline.

New performance by William Forsyth Premiere dance On the outskirts of Dresden, in Hellerau, a visiting premiere of William Forsythe's latest work "I don`t believe in outer space" took place. TATYANA KUZNETSOVA understood the world order of the play. Choreographer Forsythe settled in Dresden after six years ago, the city fathers of Frankfurt am Main asked him to stage not only experimental plays on the stage of the main municipal theater or to share the space with some less radical troupe.