The board of directors of the German concern Daimler AG may consider increasing the share of shares in KamAZ OJSC at a meeting scheduled for the second half of May, said KamAZ General Director Sergei Kogogin. He did not specify what options and terms of a possible transaction are being discussed. Earlier it was reported that the Federal Antimonopoly Service allowed Daimler AG to acquire 10% plus 1 share of KamAZ and bring its stake in the Russian automobile plant to a blocking stake.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's confirmed the long-term credit rating of Lviv at the level of ССС+ and the national scale rating at the level of uaBB. The ratings outlook is “stable”. “We also assigned the issue of 3-year bonds in the amount of UAH 90 million, which the city plans to place in 2012 to refinance bonds maturing in 2014, a long-term credit rating on the international scale CCC+ and a rating on the national scale uaBB.

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation considered it impossible to hold a referendum in the country on Russia's accession to the WTO, agreeing with a negative conclusion on the corresponding initiative of the commission's expert group. “Submitting (this issue) to a referendum does not comply with the requirements of the federal constitutional law,” RIA Novosti quotes the conclusion released on April 13.

Ekaterina Istomina about Le Negresco in Nice Hotel Le Negresco in Nice is more than a hotel. The pink dome of this building is the main symbol of the resort. Inside the hotel there is a small historical museum, like no other on the Cote d'Azur. Le Negresco has a majestic status: it is a monument of historical and cultural significance.

Regulations The Professional Basketball League (PBL) rejected the protest of St. Petersburg Spartak against refereeing in the match with Triumph near Moscow due to a violation of the document submission procedure, the PBL press service reported.

The Turin-Kostroma United Company (two of the project participants live in Kostroma and form the Dialogue Dance company, two are artists from the Turin Zerogrammi) - the second and last nominee of the “mask” competition in the “contemporary dance” section (about the first, Yekaterinburg “Eccentric” -ballet", read last Weekend).

The American group This Will Destroy You was formed in 2005 - and it was courage bordering on madness. Starting to play post-rock in 2005 is like starting to write blues-rock in 1977, when the best albums in this style had already been recorded, and the best bands had broken up or switched to searching for a new sound.

The traffic police denied information about a “human shield” from cars in the April special operation on the Moscow Ring Road. However, the participants in the accident that occurred then insist that they were forced to park their cars across the highway. If the inspectors are proven guilty, they face criminal liability, experts say. The traffic police denies that it set up a “human shield” on the Moscow Ring Road in early April to stop a drunk driver in a Mercedes.

Since 2008, the English band Little Barrie has been able to back up its retro-rock ambitions with bare facts: drummer Virgil Howe, the son of the guitarist of the legendary Yes group Steve Howe, joined the ensemble, and thus the connection between times was established even at the personnel level.

M. Ward Bella Union In recent years, Oregon singer-songwriter Matthew Ward has been talked about mainly in the context of his collaborations with Zooey Deschanel (She & Him) and the Monsters of Folk. Having rested after the successful promotional campaign for the She & Him album "A Very She & Him Christmas", which was sold in all Starbucks, M. Ward finally returned to self-employment. Technically speaking, M.

The authorities of the Rostov region will allocate 374 million rubles in 2012. for major repairs, construction and reconstruction of water supply and sewerage facilities (WSS) and heat power engineering, said the regional Minister of Housing and Communal Services Sergei Sidash at a meeting of the regional government.

Euro 2012 President of the European Football Union (UEFA) Michel Platini sharply criticized the owners of Ukrainian hotels who inflate prices for services during the 2012 European Football Championship. The UEFA President made a corresponding statement yesterday at the opening ceremony of the terminal at the new Lviv airport. “It’s annoying that a lot of work goes down the drain.

Viktor Yanukovych took up the development of Western Ukraine Yesterday, President Viktor Yanukovych visited Lviv, where he met with UEFA President Michel Platini, opened a new airport terminal and held a meeting on the preparation of a bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in Ukraine. As part of the trip, Mr. Yanukovych also met with representatives of the Lviv intelligentsia.

Experts consider the top 100 Russian cities a “formality” In the ranking of the best Russian cities for 2012, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk sharply improved their performance compared to last year. Thus, Vladivostok rose from 101st place to 69th, and Khabarovsk from 66th to 40th.

Nikolai Parshin has become the new head of the municipal enterprise (MP) “Combine of Ritual Services”. This became known yesterday at a meeting of the City Duma Commission on Social Policy. The former head of the enterprise, Vladimir Voroshikha, was appointed director of the newly created municipal government department (MKU) “Management of Municipal Cemeteries”.