In the Kurgan region, 14 new production facilities are preparing to open, which will be launched this year and next, the governor’s press service reports. The Shadrinsky Metal Structures Plant, the Shadrinsky Automotive Aggregate Plant (a project for the repair and modernization of shunting diesel locomotives), Uralelectroshield, Kurganspetsarmatura and others will be launched.

The Murmansk Regional Court postponed consideration of the complaint against the arrest of a citizen of Ukraine - cook from the Arctic Sunrise vessel Ruslan Yakushev, the environmental organization Greenpeace reported on its microblog on Twitter. “In Murmansk, the appeal of the cook with Arctic Sunrise was supposed to be considered, but the meeting was postponed: Ruslan and his lawyer are getting acquainted with the case.

Kazan restaurateurs are seeking to lift the parking ban near their establishments Kazan restaurateurs insist on changing parking rules in the historical center of the city. They propose to remove the “no stopping” sign near their establishments in the evening, noting that the fight against traffic jams has led to “the disappearance of people in this part of the city” and “as a result, a strong blow to business.” They believe these offerings will allow them to win back customers.

For the murder of the head of the association of women entrepreneurs, the perpetrator and the customer received 13 years each The Moscow City Court, based on a jury's guilty verdict, yesterday sentenced to 13 years in prison the former vice-president of the public organization "Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Russia" Lyudmila Kachalova and her accomplice, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia Evgeniy Chetvertny, found guilty of murdering the president of this association Tatyana Malyutina.

The cost of the project to launch the first Ukrainian telecommunications satellite “Lybid” is $260.5 million, Chairman of the State Space Agency Yuri Alekseev said today at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers. “The cost of the project is about $260.5 million. This is a project of the Canadian company Endiay under the guarantees of the Ukrainian government.

The opposition launched a mass protest in Tunisia demanding the resignation of the current government, Sky News Arabia reports. The Federation of Workers' Trade Unions, the country's largest trade union organization, called for the action, which takes place on the central street named after Habib Bourguiba in the capital.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed former chairman of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko as assistant to the head of government. According to the Prime Minister's press secretary Natalya Timakova, this decision was made in connection with the expiration of a fixed-term one-year contract concluded with Gennady Onishchenko upon reaching the age of 60.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a convicted member of the punk group Pussy Riot, was sent to a Chuvash colony on Wednesday, her husband Pyotr Verzilov told Interfax . “The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia chose Chuvashia as the region for serving Tolokonnikova’s sentence: she is now in Chuvashia at a special stage on the way to IK-2 in the city of Alatyr,” said Mr. Verzilov.

The court arrested an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, suspected of extorting and receiving a bribe from a palm reading company, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court reported on Tuesday. According to the investigation, the 24-year-old policeman threatened the director of Seven Gates LLC with criminal prosecution under Art.

The Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) paid 125.6 thousand rubles to repay the eleventh coupon of bonds of the third series, Interfax reports. For one security with a face value of 1 thousand rubles, 39.89 rubles were paid based on the coupon rate of 8% per annum. In 2008, ChTPZ placed on the MICEX Stock Exchange 7-year bonds of the 3rd series for 8 billion rubles with a first coupon rate of 10% per annum. Kommersant-Online

Last night's presentation of Apple's new products brought several expected hardware innovations, including an iPad mini with Retina display , as well as a pleasant surprise. Photo: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/Reuters Most of Apple's flagship apps, including the MacOS X Mavericks update, iLife suite (iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand) and iWork suite (Pages, Tables, Keynote) are now free. This gesture of generosity cannot be underestimated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his visit to Ufa yesterday, held a meeting of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Interethnic Relations in the capital of the republic. The main topic of the meeting is the implementation of state ethnic policy in the constituent entities of Russia.

The agency wants to take tax on purchases in foreign online stores The Federal Customs Service (FCS) proposes to introduce a tax on postal parcels from abroad, popular among Russians, worth up to €1,000. If this measure had been in effect last year, the budget, according to the agency’s estimates, would have been replenished by €280 million. Initiative customs will lead to discrimination against buyers who cannot afford the usual shopping abroad, foreign retailers warn.

Ukraine has overpaid up to $20 billion for Russian gas in 3 years, says Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. “The protracted decline in demand for our goods in traditional markets and the decrease in prices for Ukrainian export goods over the past 3 years have been accompanied by the devastating impact of the highest gas price in Europe on entire sectors of our economy.

The bankruptcy management procedure for the NP “Football Club “Nizhny Novgorod”” has been completed as part of the bankruptcy case initiated last year. As stated in the court materials, the bankruptcy trustee Igor Kuznetsov presented the court with a report on the results of the bankruptcy proceedings. The football club's accounts payable were estimated at 93.89 million rubles, while the income received from the sale of the FC's property amounted to 763.59 thousand rubles.