Nikkei 225 8793.05 (-48.17) RTS 1546.59 (-19.23) FTSE 100* 5656.86 (-76.59) DAX 30* 6427.51 (-84.47) DJIA* 12548.79 (-111.67) NASDAQ Composite* 2787.8 (-28.75) *At 19:27. According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 16 dated January 31, 2012, page 9

projects The issue of creating a plant for the production of dimethyl ether and methanol in the Khabarovsk Territory was discussed at a trilateral meeting in the regional Ministry of Economic Development and Foreign Relations by representatives of the regional government, the head office of the South Korean state corporation Kogaz and the American Exxon Neftegaz Ltd (operator of the Sakhalin-1 shelf project).

Firefighters managed to localize a fire in shopping pavilions at a market in the south-west of Moscow, RIA Novosti reported on January 31, citing Evgeniy Bobylev, a representative of the press service of the capital’s Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “At 22.10 the fire was localized to an area of ​​100 square meters. m,” said Mr. Bobylev. Trade pavilions covered with siding caught fire at 21.05 at the market located on Profsoyuznaya Street.

New car sales results summed up Yekaterinburg was among the top five Russian cities in terms of sales of new passenger cars at the end of 2011. As follows from the report of the analytical agency "Auto-Dealer-Ekaterinburg", the growth was 60%, ahead of the all-Russian rate, estimated at 39%. However, experts believe that growth will be insignificant in 2012 due to the fact that the car market has reached saturation.

Enterprises of Ukraine's largest private vertically integrated energy holding, DTEK, increased coal production in 2011 by 19.7%, or 3.772 million tons, compared to 2010 - to 22.937 million tons. According to the holding's exchange announcement on Tuesday, processing of raw coal increased by 0.3% to 12.523 million tons, concentrate production increased by 2.5% to 7.935 million tons.

The prosecutor's office returned him to the Investigative Committee again For the second time, the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region did not approve the indictment in the case of the mayor of the science city Koltsovo, Nikolai Krasnikov, accused of a number of official crimes. As in March last year, the case was returned to the Investigative Committee for additional investigation and elimination of violations.

CONTEXT The Moscow City Court refused to satisfy the lawyers of the former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former owner of the MFO MENATEP Platon Lebedev in satisfying the appeal against the verdict in the second criminal case, said court official Anna Usacheva. “According to the response of the chairman of the Moscow City Court, the lawyers of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were denied satisfaction of the complaint,” said Ms. Usacheva.

Last year, construction of a plant for the production of passenger hybrid “E-mobiles” began in St. Petersburg. The main investor of the project, billionaire and presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov promises to start selling new budget cars this year. An agreement on the construction in the St.

Today, Mineral Fertilizers OJSC announced the decision of the board of directors to appoint Grigory Popov, the current chief engineer of the plant, as the new general director of the company. The former top manager of the joint-stock company, Gennady Shilov, wrote a letter of resignation effective February 1st. Let us recall that last week the UralChem holding of Dmitry Mazepin completed a deal to purchase a controlling stake in the Perm chemical plant from SIBUR, its cost was $250 million.

91 2 minutes. ... The market has started its engine Following global sentiment, the local stock market opened yesterday with sales of shares. The reason was the events of the end of last week. Late on Friday, Fitch downgraded the credit ratings of Italy, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia and Cyprus, assigning a negative rating outlook. In addition to this, Greece was unable to successfully complete negotiations with creditors.

Context 2K 1 min. ... The Syrian authorities agreed to Russia's proposal to hold negotiations in Moscow with the opposition on a peaceful resolution of the conflict. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced this yesterday. They hope that opponents of Bashar al-Assad will also accept Russian mediation and agree to send their delegation to Moscow.

From February 1, classes are suspended in all schools, colleges and technical colleges, as well as municipal universities of I-II levels of accreditation. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, classes are suspended until February 5 due to a strong drop in temperature in Kyiv. The Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration, Alexander Popov, signed a corresponding order the day before. Mr. Popov noted that if the frosts do not subside within a week, the holidays will be extended.

Changes in the electricity market that occurred in 2011 affected almost all market participants. The share of electricity sold at free prices for generating companies has reached 100%. A number of network enterprises switched to the RAB tariff regulation system, and at the end of the year the state cut the income of sales companies. Since the beginning of last year, liberalization of the electricity market has reached 100%.

His double brought Juventus victory over Udinese Eurofootball Last weekend, Juventus won an important victory in the Italian Championship. The Turin team defeated Udinese at home with a score of 2:1, maintaining their leadership in Serie A. In Spain, Barcelona drew 0:0 away with Villarreal and allowed first-place Real to go seven points ahead. In Germany, all contenders for the title won. And in England, Liverpool knocked Manchester United out of the national cup.

A new Trojan built into Android applications could infect up to 5 million users. This is one of the largest companies producing malware, warns Symantec. Software development company Symantec has discovered malware distributed along with Android applications. This program, which Symantec has given the name Android.Counterclank, can come to the smartphone along with 13 different applications available on the Android Market, such as Sexy Girls Puzzle and Counter Strike Ground Force.