A criminal case has been initiated against the head of the Uchilinsky rural settlement of the Arsky district of Tatarstan, 54-year-old Radik Shayakhmetov. As the Investigation Department (ID) of the Investigative Committee for the Republic reported yesterday, he is suspected under Part 2 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers by the head of a local government body). According to investigators, Mr.

The foreign ministers of Russia and France did not agree on Syria. The reason for the disagreement was the previously published UN report, which confirmed the use of chemical weapons in the country. Sergei Lavrov criticized the document, while Laurent Fabius considered it completely objective. Columnist for the Kommersant newspaper Maxim Yusin wondered why France is the most persistent in seeking the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.

An employee of the Center for Combating Extremism was killed in the capital of Dagestan. He was wounded as a result of an armed attack and died from his injuries in the hospital, the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti . As a Rosbalt source reported, the victim was on the so-called “hit lists” of the underground gang.

The state enterprise NAEK Energoatom attracted a revolving credit line from Prominvestbank for UAH 70 million. According to the NAEC message on the “Public Procurement” web portal, the agreement between the parties was signed on September 11, 2013. Loan funds are attracted for a period of 1 year from the date of signing the loan agreement. The intended purpose of the credit resources planned to be attracted is not specified in the tender documentation.

The ex-president of his company is accused of embezzling over $10 million The owner of the investment holding Finstar, Oleg Boyko, after an audit of his development business, lost $19 million in assets. The businessman accused the ex-president of the Finstroy company, Ilya Surkov, of fraud. The former top manager, who is now under house arrest, denies all accusations.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko announced the bankruptcy of OJSC Uralkali and ordered that the London and Moscow stock exchanges, on which the shares of the Russian company are listed, be notified about this. “There is information that they have a minus of $12 billion, and a plus of only $2 billion. If this is so, then it turns out that the information that they disseminated around the world is fake. Uralkali is a public company listed on the London and Moscow stock exchanges.

Tropical Storm Manuel has strengthened to hurricane strength off the coast of Mexico, the US National Hurricane Center reports. Manuel is located approximately 30 km southwest of the city of Altata, and wind gusts within the disaster area reach 34 m/sec. Earlier it was reported about 80 dead and 58 missing as a result of the natural disaster.

One of the most experienced managers of Ufa International Airport (UIA), Wilhelm Kapp, has decided to leave the company, sources at the airport told Kommersant. The position of Deputy General Director for Commerce and Social Issues, which Mr. Kapp held, was not included in the new approved structure of the company, the interlocutors said.

164 6 min. ... In November 2013, Transcreditbank (TCB) will merge with VTB24. This is VTB Group's third and largest merger deal. The branch manager of Transcreditbank OJSC in St. Petersburg, ELENA KONDRATYUK, told Kommersant-Bank correspondent DARIA SIMONOVA about how integration is taking place, what tasks have already been completed and what was most difficult in this process. Photo: Sergey Semenov, Kommersant / buy photo — TKB’s merger with VTB24 will end in November.

Three participants in the protest against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences were released from the police station on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Gazeta.Ru reports, citing eyewitnesses. One of the detained young people was released without charges, the other two face a fine of 20 to 30 thousand rubles, the online publication reports on September 19.

According to the press service of the Sverdlovsk government, the Regional Energy Commission (REC) of the Sverdlovsk region has approved a tariff for thermal energy for the Bogoslovskaya CHPP (owned by UC Rusal). “The Board of the REC Commission supported the proposal to establish a tariff for Krasnoturinsk consumers for 2013 at a level not exceeding the tariffs of OJSC Territorial Generating Company No. 9 (TGK-9),” the press service said in a statement.

Today, Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin held a meeting on the construction of a surgical building for an oncology clinic in Tomsk, the press service of the regional administration reported. According to her, at the meeting the possibility of constructing a facility with installment payment was discussed.

Ukraine meets Croatia in the quarterfinals of the European Championship EuroBasket 2013 Photo: Ukrainian photo Today in Ljubljana (Slovenia) the Ukrainian national team will play in the quarterfinals of the European Championship with Croatia. Regardless of its outcome, Mike Fratello's team, which became the main discovery of the tournament, will stay in the championship and will play two more matches. Today's EuroBasket quarterfinals are undoubtedly the highest peak for the Ukrainian men's team.

CIS countries promised compensation for losses from market closures The EU leadership is ready to intervene in trade wars between Russia and the former Soviet republics. The first step could be Brussels increasing quotas for the import of Moldovan wine. The goal is to compensate Chisinau for the losses it has suffered and will continue to suffer from the closure of the Russian market.

The former president of the largest manufacturer of video games and game consoles Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, died of pneumonia at the age of 85 in Kyoto, the company said in an official statement . The deceased's fortune is estimated at $2.1 billion. Hiroshi Yamauchi became the head of Nintendo in 1949 without graduating from university, and in 2002 he transferred control of the company to Satoru Iwata.