The Metalloinvest holding entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov is preparing an IPO.Codelka is outlined for October, the London Stock Exchange is considered as the main option. It is planned that the lead managers will be Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Renaissance Capital. Vedomosti reports that in the framework of the IPO the company itself will sell 10% of the shares (new shares) to investors, another 15% will be proportional to the shareholders of the company (Usmanov with partners).

Perhaps the investment fund will be finally reoriented from the general Federal scale to regional. At the disposal of Vedomosti was a draft amendments to the Regulation on the Investment Fund, which the Ministry of Finance submitted to the government in April. He changes the direction of the financial flows of the fund. All references to concession projects are excluded from the situation. But a chapter appears, describing in detail the procedure for financing regional projects.

Today, the investigating authorities conducted searches in the representative office of the oil company VP in Moscow. The representative of VP in Moscow Vladimir Buyanov confirmed this information. “Investigative measures are being held, we cooperate with the investigation,” he said. TNK-BP Ltd. It was created in 2003 by half the company belongs to the BP, half-Alfa-Group and the Access Industries Consortium and Renova group.

The chairman of the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District Lyudmila Maikova, who has been unlimitedly heads the court since 1995, may lose its authority. The Supreme Arbitration Court (you) accused Maikov of "diminishing the authority of the judiciary" in connection with the receipt of apartments. As Kommersant notes, so far none of the chairmen of federal arbitration courts has lost authority.

Businessman Alisher Usmanov bought 50 percent of the shares of a sports television channel of 7 other 33 more percent to him, Kommersant writes. At the same time, Usmanov, by the end of 2008, intends to redeem the remaining 17 percent of the shares of the TV channel from the Moscow Regional Trust Company (belongs to the Moscow Region), which will make it the only shareholder of 7TV. The company "Af.

In Moscow, at the 74th year of his life, the leading artist of the Maly Theater, People's Artist of Russia Viktor Board, died. Biography: Viktor Andreevich Boaszov was born on June 14, 1934 a to Moscow. He graduated from Shchepkinsky School in 1957. His teacher was Vera Nikolaevna Pashennaya, and classmates were Yuri Solomin, Alexei Eibozhenko and Roman Filippov. Since then, has been serving a small theater in which he has worked for almost 50 years.

Taimuraz Mamsurov, the president of North Ossetia, intends to turn to the North and South Ossetia to be inviting the ambassadors of foreign states on the presentation of the republic for foreign ambassadors and representatives in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Today I will ask the ambassadors to be with us on the way to unite our republics,” said the head of North Ossetia.

Flows, a hurricane wind, powerful thunderstorms and hail fell on the western and central regions of Romania today, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. Several settlements turned out to be isolated, hundreds of people were evacuated, great damage was caused to agricultural land. The National Meteorological Service of Romania announced an increased level of danger in the next two days throughout the country.

According to BBC News , an attempt to legally prohibit the UK in scientific purposes for hybrid embryos (humans and animal) failed: 176 people voted for the ban, 336 against - 336. Now the legislation of Great Britain allows the use of hybrid embryos in scientific research, in which the core of human cells is placed in an egg egg, from which all genetic material is pre -removed. After 14 days, stem cells for research can be removed from the embryos obtained, and embryos should be destroyed.

**Topics of the day** One of the main topics commented on in the central media is the meeting that took place the day before on anti-corruption issues, which was chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev . He headed the anti-corruption council and instructed an interdepartmental working group to develop a plan to combat it within a month. " Independent "The newspaper quotes D. Medvedev: "We have to do something, stop waiting! Corruption has become a systemic problem.

The Moscow authorities are trying to introduce new methods of attracting migrant workers. On Tuesday, at a meeting of the Moscow government, a three -year target migration program will be discussed, according to which the selection of labor migrants will be carried out directly in the countries of the outcome.

The dark -skinned contender for the post of US President from the Democratic Party Barack Obama became an honorary member of the Indian tribe and promised in case of winning the presidential election in November to pay increased attention to the problems of the indigenous people of North America. The Senator from Illinois was “adopted” by members of the Crow tribe in Montana - Hartford and Mary “Black Eagle”, reports Reuters.

Gazprom may pay $ 1 billion for entering Kovykt, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. The head of the Department of Foreign Economic Activities of Gazprom Stanislav Tsygankov announced to reporters today.

The largest Russian newspapers and magazines will hold a protest on May 21 - instead of ordinary editorials, there will be only five lines on a white background: “You can strangle freedom of speech in different ways. For example, a sharp increase in subscription tariffs, ”reports Echo of Moscow. The leading print media are outraged by raising tariffs for subscription. This is exactly what was the reason for the protest.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President D. Medvedev signed an order "On the formation of a working group on the improvement of the legislation of the judicial of the Russian Federation on the judicial system." The head of the working group approved the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation - head of the state legal department of the President L. Brychev . President D.