Interview with three-time European luge champion Tatyana Ivanova The leader of Russian luge, three-time European champion Tatyana Ivanova, in an interview with Kommersant correspondent VALERIYA MIRONOVA, spoke about the intricacies of her profession and what she expects from the Games in Sochi. – Why was your success last year not confirmed this year?

South Korea's Nuclear Safety Commission was forced to shut down two nuclear reactors and also suspend some operations at two other reactors due to substandard parts used in them, Yonhap news agency reported. The Nuclear Safety Commission announced the closure of the Shin Corey Reactor 2 and Shin Wolson Reactor 1 after learning that some parts used in their construction had fraudulent quality certificates.

Hollywood is making efforts to retain its title as the premier location for big-budget blockbusters, while Canada and several U.S. states are offering a range of tax incentives for producers who are willing to shoot films outside the traditional studios of Los Angeles, California, Bloomberg writes. Photo: Roman Yarovitsyn, Kommersant According to IMDb.com, the world's largest film website, 12 films will be released between May and September that could gross more than $100 million.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the leadership of the American television channel CNN of trying to destabilize the situation in the country and of inciting a coup. “CNN in Spanish is a network controlled by people who want to destabilize the country and openly call for people to stage a coup in Venezuela,” Mr. Maduro said on state television.

The annual meeting of shareholders of JSC Priargunskoye Production Mining and Chemical Association (PPMCU) will be held on June 28 in Krasnokamensk, the company reported. The Board of Directors of PIMCU recommended that shareholders decide not to pay dividends for 2012 due to a net loss of 1.162 billion rubles. PIMCU shareholders will also have to approve the enterprise’s annual report, elect a board of directors, an audit commission and approve an auditor.

The former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense, Evgenia Vasilyeva, faces a new criminal case for the sale of land on Vasilyevsky Island, the Izvestia newspaper reports. According to the newspaper, a criminal case has been opened in St. Petersburg under Art.

Norwegian chocolate manufacturers complained to St. Petersburg deputies about competitors Deputies of the St. Petersburg parliament decided to intervene in the conflict between two players in the confectionery market - the Moscow holding United Confectioners (OK) and the St. Petersburg OJSC Orkla Brands Russia (OBR), a division of the Norwegian corporation Orkla.

Incidents As the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Khabarovsk Territory reported, late at night last Sunday, a 57-year-old woman, driving a Nissan Note, hit an investigator of the police department No. 4 of the Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Khabarovsk. The policeman was crossing the roadway within the visibility zone of the pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Pavel Morozov and Radishchev streets.

The procedure for transferring a telephone number when changing a cellular operator will take no more than 9 days, Vartan Khachaturov, Deputy Director of the Department of Infrastructure Projects of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, said at the ENOG 5 conference. This period is reserved for checking the subscriber’s possible debts and other formal procedures. At the same time, the subscriber will lose connection only for about half an hour, reports RIA Novosti .

In Leipzig (Germany), the second strike of employees of the world's largest online retailer Amazon took place this month. Employees of the German division demand that management increase salaries for various categories of employees. Representatives of the German trade union Ver.di said that about 500 employees of the company's logistics center went on a one-day strike. Amazon's staff in Germany numbers about 9 thousand people.

The Presidium of the All-Russian Union of Insurers (VSU) unanimously recommended Igor Yurgens as a single candidate for president of the union, Interfax reports. The former head of the Supreme Soviet, Andrei Kigim, now heads the Federal Social Insurance Fund. Mr. Jurgens was already president of the BCC from 1998 to 2002. In 2001-2005 he was vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Since January 2005 - First Vice President of Renaissance Capital CJSC.

In Novosibirsk, the Central District Court pronounced a verdict in the case of the former head of the West Siberian Interregional Directorate of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Borisov, who was accused of fraud. As stated in the case, Mr. Borisov, during his working hours, performed flights at Siberia Airlines OJSC, where he worked part-time as an aircraft commander and instructor pilot.

The head of Smolensk, Alexander Danilyuk, came under investigation on suspicion of exceeding official powers when dismissing the head of the city administration, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports. “According to the investigation, on May 22, 2013, Alexander Danilyuk (illegally) issued an order to impose a penalty in the form of dismissal on the head of the Smolensk administration Nikolai Alasheev and to terminate the contract with him.

Mordovian Bacon CJSC (part of the Talina group of companies) intends to quadruple pork production by 2016 to 66 thousand tons per year. The general director of the agricultural holding, Viktor Biryukov, spoke about this during a meeting with the head of the Republic of Mordovia, Vladimir Volkov.

The European Commission has canceled anti-dumping duties on the import of ironing boards from Ukraine. And since protective measures against Chinese products are simultaneously preserved, Ukrainian manufacturers are given a chance to return to the EU market. Photo: Dmitry Brushko, Kommersant / buy photo Ukraine has obtained from the European Commission (EC) the removal of anti-dumping duties on the import of ironing boards.