The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) allowed Alkemi Ld (Cyprus), a minority shareholder of PJSC TAS Insurance Group from the TAS group, to acquire control over Taskombank, which is part of the same group. “Alkemi Ltd has been granted permission to purchase shares of PJSC Taskombank, which ensures that it exceeds 50% of the votes in the highest management body of the company,” the AMCU said in a statement.

At today's meeting of the government of the Saratov region, Governor Valery Radaev called on specialists from the economic bloc to step up efforts to create conditions for attracting large businesses to the region. The governor made this statement during a discussion of the issue of replenishing the revenue side of the regional budget.

Yulia Bondareva was relieved of her post as deputy head of the Federal Financial Markets Service due to the liquidation of the department. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday, RIA Novosti reports. In July, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree abolishing the Federal Service for Financial Markets from September 1.

Governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov on Thursday invited Pavel Gusev to leave the post of chairman of the region's Public Chamber, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the head of the Moscow region. The reasons for the decision have not yet been reported.

Government soldiers clashed with opposition fighters in the suburbs of the Syrian capital Muadamiyah al-Sham, Interfax reports, citing local media. Clashes resumed after soldiers opened fire on rebel positions. At the moment, additional forces of the Syrian army are being gathered at Muadamiyah al-Sham. Earlier on Thursday it became known that the Syrian military and rebels had concluded a truce for food supplies. The agreement came into force the day before and was supposed to last 72 hours.

In 2013, Sapsan high-speed electric trains increased the volume of passenger transportation between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod by 7.9% compared to 2012 - up to 712.5 thousand people. This was reported by the Gorky Railway (GZD, a branch of Russian Railways OJSC). In 2012, 660.6 thousand people used the services of Sapsan. At the moment, the travel time to the capital on the Sapsan is 3 hours 50 minutes.

The law on renaming the post of head of the republic was adopted in the first reading The Parliament of Bashkortostan (Kurultai) today adopted in the first reading amendments to the republican Constitution, renaming the position of the head of the region from “president” to “head”. The name of this position in the Bashkir language sounds like “bashlygy” and may still become a subject of debate. Bashkir social activists are against renaming the position.

There are not enough government funds for the railway As Kommersant has learned, the Ministry of Transport is considering a scheme for implementing the Northern Latitudinal Railway project (NSH), designed to redistribute cargo flows in Western Siberia and stimulate field development. Construction will cost 134 billion rubles, with 73.7 billion rubles. it is proposed to attract from Gazprom, Russian Railways and Development Corporation.

The court released Olesya Grigorieva from punishment for the accident Yesterday, the Omsk regional court granted amnesty to Olesya Grigorieva, a deputy of the legislative assembly of the Omsk region, who was found guilty of violating traffic rules and causing grievous bodily harm. The court released the deputy from punishment of two years of restriction of freedom, but retained the payment of a fine of 1.068 million rubles to the injured party. The presidential amnesty freed Ms.

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science plans to create a special Internet portal where it will be possible to monitor the work of dissertation councils, simplify the submission of documents for scientific degrees, and discuss dissertations. “We are launching an electronic information and analytical system that will allow us to build a process of certification and receipt of documents,” Interfax quotes deputy head of the department Lyudmila Ogorodova.

Budget dependence on oil has increased again 2013 turned out to be more favorable for budget revenues than the government expected. According to its results, the treasury deficit will amount to 0.5–0.6% of GDP, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, while the originally planned figure was 0.8%. It will even be possible to replenish the Reserve Fund, although back in the fall the Ministry of Finance did not rule out that it would have to take 200 billion rubles from there.

A family of three, including a girl born in 2002, was shot in the Dagestan village of Mutsal-Aul (Khasavyurt district) on the night of December 26, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti . “Two unknown people in a private house shot a family of three people - a father, mother and their daughter born in 2002. The motive for the crime is still unclear,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He clarified that, according to preliminary data, it was the family of a policeman.

Former director and engineer of the Kratovo sanatorium convicted of fraud The Ramensky City Court yesterday sentenced the former director of the Kratovo boarding house near Moscow for children with parents, Alexander Tarasov, and the chairman of the Kratovo dacha management homeowners association, Yuri Balyberdin, to 6.5 and 3 years in a general regime colony, respectively.

The former general director of Uralchem, Dmitry Osipov, who was appointed general director of Uralkali on December 23, denied the possibility of merging the two chemical enterprises. He stated this in an interview with the Bereznikovsky Rabochiy newspaper. “What kind of merger could there be? Uralchem ​​is a private company, and Uralkali is a public company; their merger is impossible.

Environmentalists will receive visas soon Amnestied Greenpeace activists can receive visas to leave the Russian Federation as early as Friday. Members of the multinational crew of the Arctic Sunrise, even when they were involved in a case of hooliganism, turned to the Federal Migration Service (FMS) with a request to facilitate their travel abroad. However, the department was in no hurry to respond. As the lawyers of the accused assumed, the officials were simply waiting for an amnesty.