Ukraine and Türkiye held the first round of negotiations on an FTA Türkiye does not share Ukraine’s desire to create the most free conditions for bilateral trade. The very first round of negotiations on this issue confirmed the fears of the Ukrainian side that Ankara is not ready to open its market for Ukrainian agricultural products and insists only on liberalizing the supply of industrial goods.

In 2012, industrial enterprises of the Kemerovo region plan to build water treatment facilities with a total cost of 1.5 billion rubles. versus RUB 423 million in 2011, said Vice-Governor for Ecology and Natural Resources Nina Vashlaeva. Basically, treatment facilities are planned at coal enterprises. Last year they were built by the Guryevsky mine as part of OJSC Evrazruda, Southern Kuzbass, Kuzbassrazrezugol, and Kuzbass Fuel Company. According to Ms.

Deputies are in no hurry to change the format of the report of the head of the region, adding elements of dialogue to it Deputies of the Samara Provincial Duma did not promptly change the format of the governor’s report. Last week, deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia proposed not only hearing the report of the head of the region, but also discussing and evaluating it.

The online store Rozetka.Ua intends to resume delivery of orders starting next week, the store said in a statement. “Dear users, we will be able to start shipping orders from Monday-Tuesday, possibly earlier. First of all, we will serve orders with prepayment,” the message noted. As reported, on April 19, the operation of the online electronics store Rozetka.Ua was suspended due to a search conducted by the Tax Police.

Legislation circumvention schemes are becoming a thing of the past. The microfinance organization "City Savings Bank", which circumvented the restriction on attracting large volumes of citizens' funds, after an inspection by the Federal Financial Markets Service, stopped using the scheme. Such a precedent will make the market more transparent, but there is still a long way to go before all schemes are eradicated, experts warn.

The Nizhny Novgorod department of the FAS Russia summed up the results of the advertising market in the Nizhny Novgorod region in 2011 and predicts its further growth. This year, all segments of the region’s advertising market have grown, notes Olga Shvetsova, head of the department for control of financial markets, advertising and unfair competition of the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

After the situation in Astrakhan, where the Socialist-Revolutionary Oleg Shein announced numerous violations in the mayoral elections, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation decided to organize webcasts of the upcoming voting in the mayoral elections of Omsk and Krasnoyarsk.

Alisher Usmanov creates a new holding The richest Russian businessman decided, together with his partners, to combine numerous assets. Analysts suggest that in this way entrepreneurs will be able to manage their companies more efficiently. Alisher Usmanov, the richest entrepreneur in Russia according to Forbes magazine, will create a new holding. As the businessman said, he and his partners plan to combine all their assets.

Chelsea defeated the Catalans - 1:0 Football / Champions League The first semi-final match of the Champions League between Chelsea and Barcelona ended in triumph for the Londoners. After surviving a barrage of 24 shots, hitting the post and crossbar, the English won thanks to a single shot on target in the Barcelona goal. Didier Drogba struck at the end of the first half. Immediately after the final whistle, which announced Chelsea's victory, the camera caught the owner of the Londoners.

Viktor Yanukovych signed a new edition of the Customs Code President Viktor Yanukovych signed a new edition of the Customs Code despite the fact that parliament did not take into account all of its requirements for the document. The Code will come into force in June of this year, but the presidential administration is already declaring its readiness to accept all comments from experts and businesses and instruct the Verkhovna Rada to finalize customs regulations.

The tragedy occurred during the landing of the plane near the international airport of the capital of Pakistan. The cause of the disaster could have been weather conditions: at that time the city was in the zone of an active thunderstorm front, meteorologists say. 127 people were killed in a plane crash in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. The passenger airliner crashed while landing.

New registration rules bring back old names In the near future, a decision may be made to restore the Union of Right Forces (SPS). President of the Russian Financial Corporation bank Andrei Nechaev, formerly Minister of Economy in the government of Yegor Gaidar, also decided to engage in party building. Experts note that his party may face not only competition on the democratic flank, but also rejection from society: only 14% of Russians have no complaints about the reformers of the 1990s.

The National Bank (NBU) in March 2012, after a three-month break, increased the physical volume of gold in international reserves by 4% - to 0.939 million troy ounces, the regulator said in a statement. At the same time, the nominal value of gold in the reserves of the National Bank in March decreased from $1.599 billion to $1.554 billion, and the share of gold also decreased from 5.15% to 4.99%.

The United States has specific plans to strike Iran, Pentanon head Leon Panetta admitted, Interfax reported on April 20. “I can assure you that we have such plans,” he said in an interview with CNN in response to a question raised twice about whether the Pentagon was developing plans to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. At first, Mr.

The designer of the facilities of Nizhny Novgorod International Airport OJSC (MANN) will be the St. Petersburg-based JSC Ramboll (a subsidiary of the Danish Ramboll Group). This is stated in official airport documents. The company won the tender announced by MANN, offering the shortest period for completing the work - less than one year and the lowest bid price - 70.98 million rubles.