Today, the Ural Industrial - Ural Polar Corporation, the government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and OJSC Rusnano signed a shareholder agreement on the Polar Quartz project, according to which Rusnano's share in it will be 31%. The document stipulates that the state corporation will invest 1.29 billion rubles in the enterprise. The management team will also be strengthened and capacity in Nyagan for processing quartz concentrate will be completed.

Today, June 16, at about 4 am, a Porsche 911 Carrera 4 S crashed and burned on the Stolichnoye Highway in Kyiv, killing three people. The car was moving at high speed along the Stolichnoye Highway from the village of Koncha-Zaspa in the direction of Nauki Avenue - South Bridge.

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In Bashkiria, 442 million rubles were allocated for the intensive development of meat and dairy farming, the press service of the republican government reported yesterday. The corresponding order was signed by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Azamat Ilimbetov. “Financing will be carried out in three main areas: procurement of feed, purchase of agricultural equipment and fuels and lubricants.

VTB has decided on candidates for the board of directors of Transcreditbank (TCB), in which it now owns 43.2%. In mid-July, JSC Russian Railways will sell almost another 30% of the bank to VTB Group; in addition, by the end of the year, TKB will conduct an additional issue of 7 billion rubles, which will also increase VTB’s share to 93.3%. As a result, there will be only three representatives from Russian Railways on the board of directors of Transcreditbank, and six from VTB.

Today, June 16, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading the draft law “On Amendments to the Tax Code and Certain Other Legislative Acts” (regarding a simplified system of taxation, accounting and reporting of small businesses). 258 out of 379 people's deputies registered in the session hall voted for this decision.

The Russian Peace Foundation awarded heads of religious denominations with commemorative gold medals. The awards were received by Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, Chief Rabbi of Russia Adolf Shaevich and Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin. The award ceremony took place in the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Russian Peace Foundation.

The main military prosecutor's office revealed damage worth 70 million The Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee has opened new cases regarding the supply of tomographs in the Ministry of Defense system. The basis was the results of an inspection of the department by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office.

The regional government is looking for ways to spend money on its development Having asked the federal center for 500 billion rubles. for the development of Chechnya, the government of the republic decided to develop a development strategy until 2025. The program, which includes a comprehensive study of the socio-economic situation in Chechnya, should be ready by September and will cost the budget approximately 7 million rubles.

The corporation has made a number of improvements to its services Google yesterday introduced new search tools. Now users of the Chrome browser will have access to voice search and image search, and users of mobile devices will be offered search results that take into account the subscriber's location. The company's competitors are also moving in this direction; Yandex is currently preparing similar services. Yesterday at a conference in San Francisco, Google introduced new search tools.

Camp "Antiseliger-2011" opens Tomorrow the opposition forum "Antiseliger-2011" will begin in the Khimki forest. The organizers named it this way in defiance of the camp, which is held every summer on Seliger by the Nashi movement and the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh).

The Moscow Department of Culture plans to test the devices of employees supervising government procurement. Officials plan to fight kickbacks and bribes, but this initiative itself may contain a corruption component, political scientists note. Police methods will be used against officials responsible for culture. The Moscow Department of Culture proposed testing the executives in charge of government procurement with a lie detector.

Only air traffic controllers are not on strike In Athens yesterday there was a general strike and mass protests against the government initiative to sharply reduce budget spending. “Belt-tightening” is a condition of the EU and the IMF for transferring the next tranche of the loan to Athens. However, more and more doubts are arising in Europe about the advisability of providing further financial assistance to Greece on the same terms.

Today, June 16, it became known that Lenovo is going to release at least three new tablet computers during this year. The president of the Chinese company and its chief operating officer, Rory Reid, said that two devices running on the Google Android operating system will go on sale in the summer, and another one, but based on Microsoft Windows, will go on sale towards the end of this year. The display diagonal of all three gadgets will be 10 inches.

Today, June 16, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Veterinary Medicine” (regarding the production and circulation of veterinary drugs).” 248 out of 398 people's deputies registered in the session hall voted for this decision.