Well-known lawyer Mikhail Berestenko was unanimously elected chairman of the Vladivostok municipal election commission. Before this, for two months after the departure of Tatyana Shklyarova, the election commission was headed by the deputy chairman of the commission, Nikolai Kichatov. “According to the regulations, after the chairman resigned, the commission had to elect a new chairman within 15 days. We waited two months and made a decision,” said Mr. Berestenko.

According to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Chelyabinsk Region, last night in the general regime correctional colony No. 25 in Zlatoust, 29 prisoners staged an “action of mass disobedience.” “During a search of the premises, one of the prisoners was found to have a cell phone, which a prison officer tried to seize. The prisoner did not comply, after which he left the detachment’s premises, and the convicts barricaded the entrance.

They were not allowed into Glory Square and were sent to the CSK VVS palace Last Sunday in Samara, about 2.5-3 thousand people took part in a protest against the results of the December 4 elections. Those gathered demanded that the head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, resign and new elections be called. The second rally could take place on December 17 or 24.

Citroen DS5 Now it’s clear why from time to time Citroen releases faceless models like the C5. So that they set off design masterpieces - such as DS5. This “station wagon with Grand Tourismo features” takes us into a bright Citroen future, where aestheticism, celebration and travel rule the world. "Chevrons" have always been out of this world.

Restoration of pre-accident production volumes is delayed OJSC Raspadskaya, which has already changed its production plans twice this year, has presented a new work schedule for 2012. The company expects to produce 10.5 million tons of coal, which is 18% lower than previously announced forecasts. The time frame for restoring pre-accident production volumes has also been shifted. But now Raspadskaya shareholders have the opportunity to earn more from dividends.

Grain production in Ukraine in weight after refinement in 2011 exceeded 55 million tons, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Nikolai Prisyazhnyuk. “The bunker weight is 58 million tons,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv. The minister also emphasized that for the first time the average yield of grain crops was obtained at the level of 38 c/ha. At the same time, the corn yield was 64 c/ha, which is 20 c/ha more than last year.

The traffic police will connect all traffic cameras by the New Year On Tuesday, the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate promised to launch “in full” a photo-video recording system for traffic violations by the end of 2011. Kommersant previously reported that fines are sent out from only a third of installed cameras. The State Traffic Inspectorate assured that by the New Year, “letters of happiness” will begin to arrive to drivers from all 150 complexes for recording violations.

Reverence for technology has become commonplace: we use smartphones and dozens of software applications every day. As a user, a modern business manager sees the speed and quality with which IT services—cloud services and applications—can be provided. General Director of HP in Russia ALEXANDER MIKOYAN spoke about changes in the field of IT innovations. BUSINESS GUIDE: What are the factors and prerequisites for changes in the understanding of the place of IT in a company’s business?

Vladivostok Air owes $11.5 million for leasing six aircraft The aviation leasing company Ilyushin Finance plans to recover $11.5 million in compensation from Vladivostok Air for leasing six Tu-204-300 aircraft. At the same time, the parties intend to maintain “friendly relations.” Experts believe that Vladivostok Air will pay off its debts, but Aeroflot is unlikely to provide financial assistance to its subsidiary.

Governor Ipatov promised to start a Twitter Last Saturday, two posts appeared on Twitter by the governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, mentioning the head of the Saratov region, Pavel Ipatov. Judging by the records, the heads of the constituent entities of the Volga Federal District, among whom were also the governors of the Perm Territory and the Ulyanovsk Region Oleg Chirkunov and Sergei Morozov, were flying together on a plane to some event.

Members of the LDPR at the congress on December 13 nominated their leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky as the party's candidate for the presidential election. Previously, he stated that he would vote against his candidacy at the congress so as not to be elected unanimously. The XXIV LDPR Congress is taking place in the Forum Hall on Paveletskaya, RIA Novosti reports. The main issue on the agenda is the nomination of a candidate for President of the Russian Federation from the LDPR.

"Carnage" by Roman Polanski The fact that the action of Roman Polanski’s new film is hermetically sealed in the space of one Brooklyn apartment is tempting to connect with the director’s recent prison and then home confinement, in which he almost spent the rest of his stormy life. But such a connection is unlikely to be true, fears ANDREY PLAKHOV.

Former FSS official will be tried for inappropriate expenses In Tatarstan, the criminal case of the former director of a branch of the Social Insurance Fund, Farida Valiullina, has been brought to court. According to investigators, she illegally spent more than 11.7 million rubles. fund, most of which are with the goal of “reducing negative performance indicators.” Ms. Valiullina did not admit her guilt.

The general director of Kommersant Holding CJSC Andrei Galiev and the editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Power magazine were dismissed by the owner of the publishing house Alisher Usmanov. The general director of Kommersant Holding CJSC Andrei Galiev and the chief editor of the Kommersant Power magazine Maxim Kovalsky were dismissed from their posts. This decision was made by the owner of the Kommersant publishing house Alisher Usmanov.

The court extended the arrest of the former deputy minister of investment policy until February 15 The Oktyabrsky District Court of Saratov on Monday extended until February 15, 2012 the detention period of the former first deputy minister of investment policy of the region, Gelena Alekseeva, who became one of the defendants in the criminal case of commercial bribery, said the ex-official’s lawyer Taimuraz Totikov.