S&P upgraded Ukraine's ratings to 2008 levels The resumption of Ukraine's cooperation with the IMF led to an increase in its ratings. For the third time this year, Standard & Poor's has raised the country's long-term ratings in foreign and national currencies. The constant improvement of Ukraine's credit ratings increases the possibilities for attracting debt capital by both the state and private companies, experts say.

On August 10, a new cable channel, the Disney Channel, begins broadcasting in Russia. On the eve of the debut of Ogonyok, he met with the General Director of the Russian office of Disney, Marina Zhigalova-Ozkan, who also heads the Disney Channel in Russia — The products of the Walt Disney Company are well known and loved here, they are widely represented on Russian airwaves, on almost every TV channel - be it meter, even UHF, or cable. Tell me, why also have your own special channel?

Number 20 generals left their jobs in the FSIN system after inspections in penitentiary institutions. Their work was assessed on 15 indicators, and on 14 their work was considered unsatisfactory. Among the most serious violations is the presence of a large number of prohibited items in secure institutions. The inspectors removed from there about 100 trucks with televisions, tape recorders, telephones, and sharp objects.

Conjuncture 466 1 min. ... The Federal Antimonopoly Service granted the request of OJSC "Group of Companies "Victoria"" (grocery chains "Deshevo", "Kvartal", "Victoria", revenue in 2009 - 32.89 billion rubles) to purchase 100% of LLC "Morgan and Company" , which owns the Family Piggy Bank chain (more than 40 stores in Tula, revenue in 2009 - 3.37 billion rubles).

Central Russia flared up even more Over the past weekend, fires in central Russia became even stronger, and the damage from them amounted to more than 4.6 billion rubles. There is heavy smog in Voronezh, Ryazan, Tula and a number of other cities; fires have also been recorded in the Far East. In Tolyatti, they fought a strong fire within the city for two days. The AvtoVAZ plant was forced to announce the shutdown of the assembly line until August 8.

The Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) on Friday reported on the results of an investigation into the appeal of the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, who announced the use of law enforcement agencies in political processes. Mr. Kravchuk cited as an example the detention on June 23 and July 9 of the ex-head of the State Border Service Anatoly Makarenko and the former first deputy chairman of the board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Igor Didenko, respectively.

They elected the site’s supervisory board and lost its head The Russian MICEX, which gained control over the Ukrainian PFTS, achieved the formation of a supervisory board composition acceptable to it. On Friday, PFTS shareholders without any problems included 8 representatives of the MICEX and Russian banks on the board, giving the remaining 7 positions to other market participants.

Almost half of company executives noted an improvement in the situation KPMG, an international network of firms providing audit, tax and consulting services, has summed up the results of a study of the construction market of St. Petersburg for the first half of 2010. The study is devoted to the activities and plans of construction and development companies operating in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

The consequences of a fire are being cleared up in the Voronezh region The Voronezh region is experiencing the consequences of a fire that destroyed more than 3 thousand hectares of forest, more than 100 residential buildings on the outskirts of the regional center and more than 150 houses in the region. The victims of the fire are settled in state-owned hotels, receive compensation from the authorities and look for those responsible for what happened.

Viktor Yanukovych intends to introduce a new tax levy Importers of fishery products and plant protection products may be required to pay a new fee of 10% of the tax base. On Friday, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy published a bill by President Viktor Yanukovych, in which he proposed to raise funds to pay subsidies to meat and fish producers. The introduction of the fee will lead to higher prices for fish and crop products, market participants are confident.

The Russian state is increasingly introducing itself into the sphere of high-tech media services, the development of which throughout the world is the prerogative of private business. A national cellular operator of the 4G standard, an “ideologically correct” search system worth more than 3 billion rubles are examples of the most significant state IT and telecom projects of recent times.

Newspaper "Kommersant", No. 135 (4435), 07/28/2010 TEXT COMMENTS: 17 Seliger is not friends with heads Installation in the Nashi camp caused a scandal The organizers of the camp on Seliger decorated the territory with a palisade of enemy heads Photo: Anti-Fascist Committee of Finland (AKF)/antifasistit.blogspot.com The closure of the youth camp on Lake Seliger, which was organized by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement, was marked by a scandal.

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Vladimir Putin held an emergency meeting with the governors of the burning regions On Saturday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a conference call at the situation center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on fighting fires. Kommersant special correspondent ANDREY KOLESNIKOV believes that the fight against the fire has acquired all the signs of large-scale military operations on Russian territory.

It won't seem enough The damage from the fire at the All-Russian Art Research and Restoration Center named after Academician Grabar has been officially named for the first time: according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office (SKP), it exceeded the amount of 100 million rubles. The SKP considers the head of the department of support and operation of the building of the Grabar center and two workers who carried out roof repair work responsible for the damage.