TTK began an audit of the Wimax operator Transtelecom, a subsidiary of OJSC Russian Railways (TTK), has begun due diligence of the Wimax operator Freshtel. As Kommersant has learned, if Freshtel is purchased, TTK’s settlement with the sellers—structures of Suleiman Kerimov and Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk—could take two years, and the final price will depend on Freshtel’s performance indicators.

Rospotrebnadzor will check the quality of flour confectionery products produced in Ukraine, said the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko. “When we were dealing with Ukrainian cheese, one of the conditions was that if they did not create a product quality control system, then we would periodically return to this in some segments of trade turnover. As soon as the topic of cheese went aside, they immediately forgot about this topic, and today confectionery products.

People's deputies Igor Miroshnichenko and Alexander Mirny (Svoboda faction) registered a bill in the Verkhovna Rada proposing to make passenger transportation in the Kiev metro 24 hours a day. According to information on the parliament website , bill No. 3040 was registered today. “A draft law on amendments to Article 5 of the Law “On Urban Electric Transport” regarding the introduction of round-the-clock transportation of passengers by the Kyiv Metro,” the title of the document says.

The authorities of Sochi have intensified the implementation of the program for the demolition of illegally erected objects on the territory of the resort city; 811 buildings were recognized by the court as illegal and will be demolished by November of this year, the press service of the city administration reported. The chief bailiff of Russia, Artur Parfenchikov, organized working trips to Sochi in order to monitor the organization of enforcement proceedings.

The former mayor of Kungur, Amir Makhmudov, who was nominated by the Russian National Union (RUS) party for the head of the city, was denied registration as a candidate. Mr. Makhmudov himself told Kommersant about this. “The reason, as last time, is the discrepancy between the data on the authorized person from the ROS party. We presented the minutes of the meeting of June 29 on the election of a new chairman and attached it to the documents,” explained Kommersant’s interlocutor.

26 1 min. ... Tennis ATP tournament in Washington (USA). Prize fund: $1.3 million First circle . Radek Stepanek (Czech Republic) - Steve Johnson (USA) 7:6 (7:3), 6:3. Mardy Fish (USA)--Matthew Ebden (Australia) 2:6, 6:1, 6:3. Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) - Santiago Giraldo (Colombia) 6:3, 6:4. David Goffin (Belgium) - Lu Yansun (Taiwan) 6:4, 6:4. Marinko Matosevic (Australia) - James Blake (USA) 6:2, 7:6 (8:6). ATP tournament in Kitzbühel (Austria). Prize fund - 468 thousand euros First round.

Four cars collided on a highway in the Penza region, killing five people and injuring two. “At 17:16 (Moscow time) on July 31, 2013, on the 547th kilometer of the M-5 Ural highway in the Nizhnelomovsky district of the Penza region, an accident occurred involving two trucks and two cars. As a result of the accident, seven people were injured, five of whom died.

Context 338 1 min. ... The fight for the largest plot of land in Nizhny has spilled over into the criminal sphere. The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow confirmed the arrest of Mansur Sadekov. A Nizhny Novgorod entrepreneur, general director of a network of gas stations, was arrested by the Presnensky District Court of the capital on charges of commercial bribery of representatives of Vektron CJSC for actions in favor of the Ingradstroy company.

The Cyprus government and the country's central bank announced the final terms of bank restructuring and the level of losses for their large depositors, ending a period of uncertainty over the fate of frozen deposits that has lasted since March. The level of write-offs for deposits exceeding 100 thousand euros will be 47.5%, the central bank and the Ministry of Finance said in a statement.

On July 23, the National Joint Stock Company (NAK) Naftogaz of Ukraine signed an agreement with White&Case LLP (USA) to represent the interests of the Ukrainian company in the Svea Court of Appeal (Sweden) in the framework of litigation with Italia Ukraina Gas Spa (IUGAS, Italy), reported on the website portal "Public Procurement". The purchase was carried out according to a procedure with one participant, the cost of the services of the American company was $0.25 million (excluding VAT).

The court returned the case of one of the Kushchevsky criminal groups to the prosecutor The Krasnodar Regional Court sent to the prosecutor's office a criminal case against the group of Alexey Gurov (Beaver Sr.) and four of his accomplices, accused of causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death, rape, theft, robbery and extortion committed in the Kushchevsky district.

The court sided with the oppositionist On July 30, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Primorsky Regional Court overturned as illegal the decision of the court of first instance to dismiss the leader of the Primorsky Drug Russians, Igor Popov, from the post of sound engineer at the Puppet Theater.

Governor of the Lipetsk region Oleg Korolev told local media about his intention to build a metro in Lipetsk at a press conference yesterday. “It is impossible to ensure a strict linkage of the satellite city (obviously, we are talking about the satellite city of Romanovo for 80-100 thousand people with an area of ​​50 sq. km - Kommersant), the city of the future, using traditional delivery means. Therefore, in 2014 we are starting to develop a metro project.

Deputies plan to punish for swearing online Words that constitute insult and slander in real life should be classified in the same way online. This was stated yesterday by the First Deputy Committee on Family, Women and Children, Olga Batalina. The head of the committee, Elena Mizulina, suggested thinking about installing appropriate filters.

The head of the Israeli delegation to the negotiations with the Palestinians in the United States, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, positively characterized their first round, giving an interview to one of the Israeli radio stations. “I was quite inspired... when I left the first meeting. It is important that this was the first meeting after several months during which the Americans mediated between us, and we did not all gather together,” Interfax quotes Ms. Livni.