Today, May 25, the Cabinet of Ministers instructed the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Nikolai Prisyazhnyuk to sign a protocol with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on the conditions for opening its branch in Ukraine.

Today, May 25, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it had issued an order to the head of the State Financial Monitoring Service for non-compliance with the requirements of the law “On Access to Public Information”. In particular, the General Prosecutor's Office, when carrying out human rights activities, checked the state of compliance with the requirements of the law “On Access to Public Information” in the activities of the State Financial Monitoring Service.

Today, May 25, the press service of ProCredit Bank (Kyiv) announced the successful placement of Series G bonds totaling UAH 100 million. “The demand for bonds exceeded the issue volume by 2.5 times. The bonds were sold to Ukrainian investors and non-residents. The investors were banks, investment and insurance companies. The yield on the placement was 13% per annum,” the press service reported.

in the case of mass riots in Minsk 258 1 min. ... The President of Belarus made this statement today in Astana, where he is on a visit. His reasoning was simple: “there’s no point in wasting state money and eating up bread.” Belarusian political scientist Alexander Feduta answered questions from host Andrei Norkin about Lukashenko’s statements. — Could you explain what Alexander Lukashenko means?

Tomorrow in the building of the river station there will be a forum for representatives of business and government “Entrepreneur Day - 2011”. The event was initiated by the Ministry of Entrepreneurship Development and Trade of the Perm Territory and the Perm branch of the social movement "Support of Russia". Several round tables and master classes will be held as part of the program.

Prosecutors are trying to restrict access to suicide websites The prosecutor of the Rostov region, Valery Kuznetsov, filed a lawsuit against the Southern branch of Comstar-Regions CJSC to restrict access to a number of Internet sites promoting suicide in the region. Experts note that there is no federal law establishing such a restriction.

An engineer from South Africa became the company's top manager OJSC Polyus Gold of Mikhail Prokhorov and Suleiman Kerimov entrusted production to a foreigner. The former top manager of the Canadian SNC-Lavalin, James Nieuwenhuis, was appointed chief operating officer of the company, under whom this position was created. The task of the new top manager will be to double Polyus' gold production by 2014, and in the future - to develop the largest gold deposit in Eurasia, Sukhoi Log.

Daniil Egorov, who until recently headed the pre-trial audit department of the service, has been appointed as the new deputy head of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), the FTS reported. The seventh deputy will oversee the work of the tax department. Instead, Lyudmila Vasilyeva, deputy head of this division, will be appointed head of the pre-trial audit department.

As part of the privatization program, the Bank of Russia begins the selection of banks - financial consultants for the sale of 7.58% of Sberbank shares. At the moment, the Bank of Russia owns a share of 57.58% of the authorized capital in Sberbank. According to the privatization program for 2011-2013, the Central Bank must sell 7.58% of the shares it owns and increase its stake in Sberbank to 50% plus one voting share.

More than one and a half hundred lots from the collection of the Russian Auction House will go under the hammer on June 2. The declared cost of the lots is 150 million rubles. At the pre-auction exhibition, saxophonists played and a wonderful selection of works by Nikolai Tarkhov was shown, said Dmitry Butkevich. In St. Petersburg, in the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum, the leaders of the Russian Auction House presented their second auction collection. The auction will take place on June 2.

Bob Dylan's 70th birthday Rock music anniversary Bob Dylan, the poet and musician who laid the foundations of protest rock and spent his entire life trying to get rid of the image of a rebel singer, turned 70. BORIS BARABANOV reports. On the eve of his 70th birthday, the progressive international community once again accused Bob Dylan of betraying the ideals of the 60s.

Yesterday, at a regular meeting, deputies of the Voronezh Regional Duma introduced the position of second vice-speaker of parliament and voted to approve Vladimir Netesov, the head of the OGUP Voronezhoblizing, for it. He will oversee the social block, as well as “current political issues.” Chairman of the Duma Vladimir Klyuchnikov explained that the daily range of issues does not allow him to do without a second deputy. It is worth noting that Mr.

They want to turn the port of Poronaysk into the largest transport hub of Sakhalin The Sakhalin company SAS-Service plans to raise at least $400 million for the development of the seaport of Poronaysk. Modernization of its infrastructure, the company believes, will make it possible to attract cargo flows associated with the implementation of oil and gas projects on the shelf and the development of fields in the central part of the island.

As it became known on May 25, the EBRD refuses to support the Belarusian authorities and stops financing projects in the public sector. At the same time, the credit institution will continue to provide assistance to private entrepreneurs. “There is no support for the Belarusian central government,” RIA Novosti quotes the bank’s message. It is clarified that the EBRD will not finance previously planned projects in the public energy sector, including renewable energy and transport infrastructure.

The authorities of Bashkiria are betting on the development of the chemical industry, believing that the potential of the traditional economic growth points for the republic - oil production and oil refining - has already been exhausted.