Suleiman Kerimov completed the sale of 70 percent of Polymetal's shares, the largest silver producer in Russia, the former owner of the company Alexander Nesis, businessman Alexander Mamut and the Czech PPF billionaire Peter Kellner, business media reported. None of the investors will receive a blocking package of Polymetal shares. Kommersant notes that the East group acquired about 24 percent of Polymetal shares. Mamut and PPF will get 45 percent of the company's shares until the end of June.

As reported by Polit.ru, on May 28 a contract was signed in Moscow between OJSC Atomenergoprom and OJSC Power Machines. According to the contract, the company "Power Machines" will produce and put the main turbine equipment for the Leningrad NPS-2 under construction. In addition to the LAS-2, OJSC Power Machines will supply equipment for the Novovoronezh NPP-2 under construction. The total cost of contracts is over 40 billion rubles.

Russian woman Maria Sharapova sank one line in the ranking of a female tennis association. Now she, having 3706 points in her asset, takes third place, and the Serbian tennis player Elena Yankovich (3715) rose to the second. Leadership is retained by the rival Yankovich at the final "Roland Garros" and also Serbi Ana Ivanovich (4222). In the first ten, nothing more has changed, except that Daniel Khantukov from Slovakia, and not Martololi from France, now closes.

In the event of a possible entry of Ukraine into NATO between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the visa regime will introduce. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government Sergey Ivanov in Sevastopol, on the eve of the Ukrainian-NATO summit. On Monday, in Kyiv, a delegation of the North Atlantic Council, the Supreme Political Organ of NATO, led by the Secretary General of the Alliance, Jaap de Hoop Cheffer, awaits.

** June 16, Monday ** Press conferences, meetings of public organizations, conference, seminars: The seminar "Standardization and assessment of compliance in Russia and the EU" will be held. Organizers - the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, General Director General of Entrepreneurship and Industry of the Commission of European Communities. A press conference will be held on the topic: "Development of the mineral resource base. Gas production.

The concept of innovative complexes in St. Petersburg has changed again. The main innovative complex, which is planned to be created on the basis of the Bonch-Bruevich telecommunications University, was reduced from 500 to 380 square meters. The authors of the project believe that in this way the technopark will become more accessible to future residents. The creation of an ICT technology park near the Dybenko metro station in St. Petersburg is engaged in the company Technopark St. Petersburg.

The Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin appointed Andrei the extreme head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo), relieving him from his previously previously held, the press service of the Government of the Russian Federation reports.

According to the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the head of the World Bank, Robert Zellik, Russia needs the recommendations of the World Bank for the Development of Certain Directions of the Economics, and not its financial assistance.

SPI, a Russian alcoholic beverages producer, plans to sell the popular Soviet vodka brand Stolichnaya. How SPI hired the American investment bank Lehman Brothers, which will study the possibilities of implementing the brand, writes The Financial Times . As the newspaper suggests, SPI will either completely get rid of Stolichnaya or sell the rights to distribute the brand outside of Russia. The value of the Stolichnaya brand is estimated at $3 billion.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** Russia considers the initiatives of the World Bank to combat the consequences of financial and food crises interesting. This was stated by Russian President D. Medvedev at a meeting in Moscow with the president of the bank R. Zellic . “The problems in the world are not less, referring to global financial and food crises,” said D. Medvedev.

The newspaper "Kommersant" publishes the article " Mintimer Shaimiev deviated from the vertical." Mintimer Shaimiev is ready to change the status of an appointed head of the region to one elected by universal suffrage President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev called for returning to the practice of popular elections of regional heads and depriving the president of the right to dissolve local legislative assemblies that refused to approve the candidates proposed by him. In the Kremlin, Mr.

The prize "Kinotavra" for the best film was received by the painting "Schults" Bakura Bakurudze. In money, this is 625 thousand rubles. The best directing is Alexander Proshkin for the film "Live and remember." The best debut is Igor Voloshin for the film "Nirvana". The best female role is Ksenia Rappoport (the film "Yuryev Day" by Kirill Serebrennikova). The best male role is Jetro Skinner (the film "Plus One" Oksana Bychkova). The best operator work is Ilya Demin (the film "New Earth").

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, ordered the appointment of Vladimir Yakunin to the President of Russian Railways OJSC for a new three-year term, the government’s press service reports. The term of office of the president of the company is three years, the current Yakunin contract expires in June.

The International Union of Mathematics on June 11, 2008 distributed a report prepared by three international mathematical organizations. The report “Citation Statistics” (“Statistics of citation”) is devoted to the topic that causes more and more interest among the international scientific community - the use of quotation statistics in assessing the quality of scientific work.

A new owner has appeared at the Arbat Prestige store, news agencies said. On February 11, the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation registered a statement by citizen Skorodumov Stanislav Nikolayevich, who calls himself the "real owner" of Arbat Prestige.