UEFA is concerned about prices in Ukrainian hotels UEFA was concerned about the high prices for accommodation of guests of the Euro 2012 football championship in Ukrainian hotels. Yesterday the organization called on the country's authorities to influence hotel owners. Ukrainian officials note that they have repeatedly called on hoteliers to reduce the cost of their services, but there are no legal mechanisms to force them to do this.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Buryatia handed over to military investigators the materials of the pre-investigation investigation into the death of 36-year-old artist of the State Buryat Academic Drama Theater Sayan Ayusheev, the press service of the Republican Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee reported yesterday.

The Perm Regional Court will today begin to consider the complaint of representatives of the “December 24 Council”. They intend to challenge the organization of polling stations for the presidential elections on March 4 at several industrial enterprises in the region, LLC Kamkabel, LLC LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez, Perm Pulp and Paper Mill and OJSC Azot in Berezniki. The number of employees who will be employed in production on election day varies from 300 to 700 people.

Throughout 2011, the strategy for the development of the banking sector was actively discussed in Russia, which provides for a progressive increase in the minimum amount of equity capital of credit institutions. From January 1, 2012, this limit has already been increased to 180 million rubles, and from 2015 it will increase to 300 million rubles. Analysts warn that the adopted changes could lead to the liquidation of a number of small regional banks.

According to a survey conducted by Kommersant FM, the overwhelming majority of listeners are confident that the message about the assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin is connected with his election campaign. There have indeed been attempts on the prime minister’s life more than once, political scientists note, but they started talking about it openly only on the eve of the elections.

The debts of the Voronezh enterprise were bought by the Atlantic company Sberbank Capital LLC sold the rights of claim to Pavlovskgranit OJSC in the amount of 5.69 billion rubles. little-known Atlantic LLC. It was not possible to find out details about the buyer yesterday. According to Kommersant, Atlantic paid 4.14 billion rubles for Pavlovskgranit’s debt.

For three days Yesterday, the Avtozavodsky District Court of Togliatti refused to remove the leader of the “December” movement, Sergei Andreev, from the election campaign as a candidate for mayor of the city. His competitor, self-nominated city Duma deputy Borislav Grinblat, demanded that his registration be cancelled, who accused Mr. Andreev of violating copyrights and bribing voters.

The head of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Kondrashov told Guide “Results of the Year” about his relationship with deputies, budget increases and lost illusions. Guide: Last year we said that in five years the budget of Nizhny Novgorod will be increased threefold. At the end of 2011, we actually managed to increase the city budget by 10 billion rubles.

The influx of foreign investment into the Russian economy in 2011 increased by 66.1% compared to 2010 - up to $190.6 billion. Of this, foreign direct investment amounted to $18.415 billion (an increase of 33.3% compared to 2010). The volume of repaid investments that previously came to Russia from abroad amounted to $165.2 billion last year, exceeding the previous year by 36.7%.

The Severstal hockey club terminated the contract with head coach Dmitry Kvartalnov the day before the team started in the playoffs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). On February 29, Severstal will play the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Gagarin Cup against Atlant in Mytishchi. Alexander Smirnov was appointed acting head coach, under whose leadership the Cherepovets club will enter the match with Atlant in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reports.

Reform of the military-industrial complex became the main topic of Dmitry Rogozin’s speech to State Duma deputies. The Deputy Prime Minister also explained the problem of the space industry in Russia and announced plans to increase funding for the defense industry. Kommersant FM correspondent Natalya Zhdanova told Andrey Norkin the details.

Yesterday in Sevastopol at the Belbek airfield a meeting was held between the Ministers of Defense of Ukraine and Russia Dmitry Salamatin and Anatoly Serdyukov as part of their working visits to the facilities of the Ukrainian Navy (Navy Forces) and the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation (Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation).

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, often called the “Nobel Prize for architects,” has announced its 2012 winner. He became 49-year-old Chinese Wang Shu. The prize, which has been awarded since 1979 and whose owners include Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and other stars of modern architecture, has never been awarded to a citizen of the People's Republic of China (1983 laureate Bei Yuming, also known in our country as Yo Ming Pei, is a US citizen).

Residents of five constituent entities of the Russian Federation have more forms for voting outside their place of residence The Central Election Commission (CEC) yesterday again allocated absentee ballots from its reserve to the regions. This time, batches of forms went to the Voronezh, Kostroma, Orenburg, Lipetsk regions, as well as the largest, 15 thousand copies, to the Rostov region.

Several meetings of supporters of Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov were held in the Altai Republic. At one of them, a decision was made to create a movement of supporters of the candidate in the region, the leader of which was elected vice-mayor of Gorno-Altaisk Ezher Tatin. As Mr. Tatin said at a press conference in Gorno-Altaisk, in the next month and a half the republic will host a founding conference to create a regional branch of Mr. Prokhorov’s party.