The second round of Tolyatti mayoral elections will take place without video cameras As Georgy Bashkirov, chairman of the Avtozavodskaya TEC, noted yesterday at a meeting at the Togliatti mayor's office, during the second round of elections for the mayor of the city, there will be no video surveillance at polling stations, unlike the presidential elections. There are also no plans to install ballot processing systems. Polling stations will be open from 8.00 to 22.00.

The head of the Renova group, Viktor Vekselberg, announced his resignation from the post of chairman of the board of directors of Rusal, the general director and main shareholder of which is Oleg Deripaska. Mr. Vekselberg explained his demarche by saying that the company is in a “deep crisis” due to the actions of management. In response, Rusal accused him of improper performance of his duties. Independent director Barry Cheung was elected as the new chairman of the company's board of directors.

An observation procedure has been launched regarding Trivectra NPO Trivektr, whose activities became public due to a scandal with the State Drug Control Service, has begun bankruptcy proceedings. At the same time, the owner of the company, Pavel Kudryavtsev, put up his production premises for sale. The owner of Trivectra says that he no longer intends to engage in entrepreneurial activities in the field of chemistry.

FSUE Perm Airlines (PAL, manages Bolshoye Savino Airport) summed up the financial results of its work in 2011. As Kommersant was told by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, revenue for the reporting period amounted to 545 million rubles. (in 2010 - 430 million rubles, growth - 26%). The revenue target for 2011 was approved at RUB 475 million. and exceeded by 14%. Revenue increased due to the volume of airport ground services, PAL explained to Kommersant.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow again convicted businessman Alexei Kozlov for fraudulent theft of shares in the Iskozh company. The new term turned out to be less than the previous one, but nevertheless it is associated with imprisonment. Thus, the opposition, which spoke at rallies in support of Mr. Kozlov, failed to convince the court of his innocence

Shareholders promised record-breaking payouts in history Minority shareholders of Sberbank achieved their goal. Dividends for 2011 will be set at 15.3% of net profit. They will not only double last year’s payments, but will also become a record in the bank’s recent history. Such generosity of the country's largest bank is largely explained by the desire of its management to win over investors against the backdrop of another attempt to privatize part of the state stake in Sberbank.

Four American senators put forward an initiative to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment regarding Russia in exchange for the Senate's acceptance of the Magnitsky list. Four influential members of the US Senate John McCain, Roger Wicker, Benjamin Cardin and Joseph Lieberman sent their proposal to the head of the Finance Committee Max Backus, RIA Novosti reports.

Zenit won with a score of 5:1 Russian Football Championship The 35th round of the Russian Championship started yesterday. In his first match, Zenit scored an unexpectedly large 5:1 victory over Dynamo on the road, having already scored three unanswered goals against the opponent by the end of the first hour of the meeting. The wave of draws in the matches of the first eight (in the new year, six of the eight meetings ended in a division of points) managed to teach us that any win is an event.

"King Lear. Prologue" at the Golden Mask festival Festival theater On the stage of the Meyerhold Center, the Kiev Center for Contemporary Art "Dakh" showed Vladislav Troitsky's performance "King Lear. Prologue". Narrated by ROMAN DOLZHANSKY. The title of the play in the Golden Mask program was given three explanations - with the participation of the ethno-chaos group "DakhaBrakha", as part of the project "Mystical Ukraine", the third part of the Shakespearean cycle.

The murder of a person detained for theft at the Kazan police station sparked protests, but did not lead to the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, Asgat Safarov. The general got off with a reprimand. At the same time, a similar story that happened in February in St. Petersburg put an end to the career in law enforcement of the head of the city Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mikhail Sukhodolsky.

The Bank of Russia expanded the powers of the Samara department The Main Directorate of the Bank of Russia for the Samara Region received the right to destroy old banknotes of the national currency. Currently, money received from credit institutions is processed on special high-speed counting and sorting machines, which separate out the most dilapidated ones and immediately cut them into small pieces.

Sergei Zhvachkin took office as governor of the Tomsk region, replacing Victor Kress, who headed the region for more than 20 years. He took the oath at the inauguration ceremony at a ceremonial meeting of the regional parliament at the Tomsk Drama Theater. The new governor said that he will not make programmatic statements yet - first, he intends to study the state of affairs in the region. “I understand that my first actions will be assessed according to Kress for the first time...

The Ministry of Justice is ready to restore the registration of the Republican Party The Ministry of Justice is ready to restore the official registration of the Republican Party of Russia (RPR). As the department noted, he was prompted to abandon his demands by “consultations” carried out on behalf of President Dmitry Medvedev with party leader Vladimir Ryzhkov. Mr.

Vladislav Kovalev, convicted of an explosion in the Minsk metro, was sentenced to death. Vladislav Kovalev’s mother told RIA Novosti that she received notification of her son’s execution on Saturday. “The notice was dated by the Supreme Court on March 16. This means that perhaps they shot him earlier. Perhaps on March 15,” said Lyubov Kovaleva. Let us remind you that another defendant in the case, Dmitry Konovalov, who was the main defendant in the case, was also sentenced to death.

The organizers of the rally “For Fair Elections” in Tyumen, Alexander Cherepanov and Mikhail Savelkov, intend to appeal the decision of the Central District Court of the regional center finding them guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation “Violation of the established procedure for holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing” and the appointment They are punished in the amount of 1 thousand rubles.