On March 6, Ukrainian Fashion Week opened in Kyiv. Over six days, designers will demonstrate their new collections.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to form a national research center for light industry by the end of 2013, the head of the ministry, Denis Manturov, said on March 7 at a meeting on the situation in this area, held in Vologda by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “One innovation center, I think we, together with the Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Property Management Agency, must complete all procedures for its formation by the end of the year,” the minister said.

The conditions of house arrest for Evgenia Vasilyeva, suspected of embezzlement from the state budget, were tightened, and the defendant’s property was also seized as part of the case. If Vasilyeva’s guilt is proven, the property will go under the hammer, and the amount will be used to compensate for the damage caused to the state, lawyers explain. Photo: Press service of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow Ringed and arrested.

The international rating agency Fitch has withdrawn the planned issue of Eurobonds for $500 million by Ferrexpo (UK), which controls the Poltava Mining and Processing Plant, with a preliminary rating of B(exp) , Fitch said in a statement. Fitch has withdrawn the expected B(exp) rating on Ferrexpo Finance plc's guaranteed notes following the company's announcement that it would not proceed with its planned placement. Ferrexpo plc has long-term and short-term issuer default ratings of B.

Patrice Leconte's film "Suicide Shop" Movie premiere Previous photo Next photo 1 / 4 Patrice Leconte combined the atmosphere of old French cinema with modern 3D animation The author of "Girls on the Bridge"'s first experience in the field of hand-drawn cinema - a bizarre mix of French poetic realism and experimental animation - gave ANDREY PLAKHOV an unexpected feeling of déjà vu. How beautiful the French province is and how terrible it is!

Pyongyang will correctly accept the new sanctions of the UN Security Council (SC), adopted on March 7, and will abandon further nuclear development and all military missile programs, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expects. “We hope that Pyongyang will correctly perceive the consolidated will of the international community expressed in the resolution and will abandon further developments in the field of nuclear weapons and all military missile programs.

Participants in the Levada Center study noted the need to give Russian women more opportunities to express themselves in politics. Sociologists conclude that people are dissatisfied with the current situation in this area. However, the presidential chair is hardly suitable for a woman, Kommersant FM interlocutors believe. Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant / buy photo A woman should become the President of Russia, according to 43% of the country's residents.

Evgenia Vasilyeva was taken under electronic control Law enforcement officers refused to return the friend of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Evgenia Vasilyeva, accused in the high-profile criminal case of Oboronservis, the money and jewelry seized during the search, and even forced her to wear a bracelet with electronic filling that recorded her position in space. In turn, Ms.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the West Siberian District upheld the decision of the Omsk Arbitration Court on the claim of the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (UFAS) for the Omsk Region against the regional legislative assembly. Antimonopoly activists challenged a number of provisions of Law No. 1426 “On Amendments to Certain Laws of the Omsk Region.” In February last year, the regional parliament established until 2017 reduced tax rates of 0.01% (the maximum amount is 2.2%.

A criminal case for fraud has been initiated against the general director of Karachay-Cherkess Hydrogenerating Company OJSC, Grigor Saratikyan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he committed an illegal alienation of property, causing damage to the state in the amount of more than 340 million rubles.

The government decided to accustom Ukrainians to sports Yesterday, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the national social program for the development of physical culture and sports for 2013-2017. The document provides for the development of sports infrastructure and an increase in physical activity of children and youth up to 12 hours a week. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov promised that gyms will return to every educational institution.

Muscovites received an original gift for March 8 from a stranger. The day before, in the area of ​​the Kursky railway station, passersby watched a strange man who stood in the middle of the busy Garden Ring and raised his hands to the sky. The man was completely naked, his clothes lay nearby on the road median. Doctors are encouraging: there will be many more such surprises in the coming weeks. With details - Svetlana Belova.

Law enforcement agencies detained a resident of the Donetsk region on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the judge of the Frunzensky District Court of Kharkov Vladimir Trofimov and his family in Kharkov on December 15, 2012, said Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko. “Now the circle of people who may be involved in the crime has narrowed. These are several people.

PJSC Concern Stirol, part of Group DF of Dmitry Firtash, based on the results of work in 2012, received a net loss of UAH 2.245 billion according to Ukrainian accounting standards, which is 6.4 times more than a year earlier (349.67 million UAH). As stated in the company's announcement of the annual meeting on April 10, the retained loss was equal to the net loss at the end of 2012, whereas a year ago it was UAH 740.34 million. Based on materials from Interfax-Ukraine news agency

The last verdict in the case of Yekaterinburg nationalists has been handed down The Sverdlovsk Regional Court convicted one of the leaders of the Volkssturm youth nationalist group, Alexander Solovyov, and an ordinary member of the group, Alexander Minin. According to investigators, the Volkssturm was involved in 26 attacks and murders of citizens of Asian republics during 2006–2008 in Yekaterinburg.