At the expense of the Chinese partner, AMUR expects to repay debts to creditors Yesterday it became known that CJSC Automobiles and Motors of the Urals (AMUR, Novouralsk), which is on the verge of bankruptcy, plans to pay off creditors within 12 years by creating a joint venture with the Chinese Lifan. According to AMUR, the enterprise will organize an assembly production facility with a capacity of up to 120 thousand cars.

In Volgograd, 10 thousand enterprise workers are brought into the cold for a two-hour rally in support of Vladimir Putin Today, Volgograd trade unions promise to bring 10 thousand people to a rally in support of Vladimir Putin. Workers will be transported on special buses and trains.

The planned heart surgery of Emperor Akihito of Japan began at the hospital at the University of Tokyo, where he was admitted on February 17, RIA Novosti reports, citing the Imperial Household Administration. A cardiac examination conducted over the weekend revealed narrowing of the coronary vessels and deterioration of the blood supply to the monarch's heart. The Emperor will have to undergo bypass surgery of the right coronary artery and the anterior branch of the left coronary artery.

On February 19, Alexander Grigoriev, General Director of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company, turns 49 years old. He is congratulated by the President of the Russian Hockey Federation Vladislav Tretyak: — Dear Alexander Valerievich! Please accept my sincere and heartfelt congratulations on your birthday! In the Russian financial market you are known as an experienced and principled leader who devotes a lot of effort, labor and energy to the development of insurance.

In the final concert of the national selection for Eurovision 2012, Gaitana won with the song Be my guest. The singer received 41 points in the final of the national selection. In second place was Maxim Barskikh with 38 points. The winner was selected by a mixed vote of the jury and television viewers in a 50 to 50 ratio. Each participant from one number can be voted for no more than once. A total of 21 performers took part in the competition.

The Garden Ring is used for auto-campaigning After walking rallies, activists move to cars to express their civic position. This evening, supporters of Vladimir Putin and the United Russia deputies who have joined them will drive along the Garden Ring, who will travel not on official, but on personal transport. And tomorrow afternoon the same route will be repeated by the opposition from the League of Voters, demanding fair presidential elections.

The Kremlin has distributed responsibilities for creating an “open government” The head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, yesterday signed a decree on the distribution of responsibilities in the working group to create an “open government” system in the country. Yesterday the first meeting of the working group on its creation took place. The fight against corruption was eventually identified as the basic task for all areas of work.

Relatives of Semyon Levi are selling a sports complex in the city center The Zhemchuzhina sports and entertainment complex is put up for sale for RUB 250 million. Information about this appeared on several Perm real estate portals at once. However, the owners and management of Zhemchuzhina deny plans to sell the business. Experts note that this is not the first attempt to get rid of the object. Kommersant's interlocutors disagree on how adequate the stated price of the sports complex is.

President - Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the country's Armed Forces Viktor Yanukovych carried out a number of personnel rotations in the top leadership of the army. By his decrees, the president appointed Alexander Oliynik as first deputy minister of defense instead of Vladimir Mozharovsky, who was dismissed from this position.

Japanese Emperor Akihito underwent heart surgery today. Doctors at the University of Tokyo Hospital performed coronary artery bypass surgery on the 78-year-old monarch. According to NHK TV channel, the operation lasted about 5 hours and was completed successfully. The doctors decided to carry out the operation after a series of examinations that revealed ischemic changes in Emperor Akihito.

The head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Ivanov, believes that it is necessary to continue optimizing the work of Russian universities and their merger. “We need to continue work to optimize the education system, including moving from accreditation of universities to accreditation of educational programs,” Mr. Ivanov said at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Investigators have begun an investigation into the death of six people, including an eight-year-old boy, during a fire in a private house in the Tula region, RIA Novosti reports, citing the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The fire occurred in the village of Prudnoye, Leninsky district, Tula region. Six people died, one victim was hospitalized. “Currently, all the circumstances of the incident are being established, including the causes of the fire.

Schoolchildren could take the Unified State Exam (USE) in the Russian language after the ninth grade, and in geography after the tenth, Minister Andrei Fursenko said at a meeting of the board of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. “A number of substantive changes have been proposed for the development of the Unified State Examination, for example, to expand the exam over time and take into account achievements throughout the child’s entire education.

Programmer Sergei Aleinikov, sentenced in the United States to eight years for stealing software codes from the investment bank Goldman Sachs, has been released from custody after the federal appeal court overturned his sentence, RIA Novosti reports, citing the Associated Press. On March 18, 2011, the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York sentenced Aleinikov to eight years and one month in prison, finding him guilty of stealing program codes for the GS trading system.

Unsuccessful launches of the Bulava are associated with the human factor and are a consequence of the unprofessional work of specific people, said Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Nikolai Makarov. “You know that there were a number of unsuccessful Bulava launches. We stopped the test, carefully looked into what the reasons were, and to a large extent it lay in the human factor, where a person did his job unprofessionally.