Paradoxically, political parties and movements in Russia live by the same laws, regardless of their ideology. The tendencies that brought the right flank represented by Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces to the point of falling out of parliament are also noticeable on the left flank. The bell has already rung through Motherland, but it's time for the Communist Party to get worried: 15% in the elections in 2003 may well turn into 6.9% in 2007. Where does the voter go?

Olga Kobernik Vedomosti - Novosibirsk 21.04.2006, No. 71 (1598) The Siberian agricultural holding decided to strengthen the management team with a foreign specialist. The owner of bakeries from Italy, Gianni Melli, has been appointed General Director of the Zvenigorod Bakery, which is part of the holding. In the future, SAHO is going to use Mally's experience at other bakeries in Novosibirsk and Omsk. The Siberian Agrarian Holding (SAHO) includes more than 20 enterprises.

Julia Fedorinova Vedomosti 21.04.2006, No. 71 (1598) Mechel is looking for a way to make more money from steel production. The company asks the Ministry of Economic Development to agree with the European Union on doubling the Russian quota for the supply of metal. Steel prices in Europe are now much higher than in Asia. So if officials help Mechel, all metallurgists will benefit, experts say.

The fire at the locomotive-car repair plant in Ulan-Ude did not cause environmental and material damage, the press service of the Russian Railways reported. They noted that "the cause of the fire was an unauthorized arson of grass in the immediate vicinity of the plant." Because of this, with a gust of wind at 07:10 Moscow time, the sludge pit of the former gas generating station caught fire. The fire area was 120 square meters.

On April 22, in Irkutsk, the third rally was held against the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline by OAO AK Transneft in the immediate vicinity of the Baikal coast. According to a REGNUM correspondent, this time, according to various estimates, in protests were attended by five to seven thousand people.

An international center for nuclear fuel cycle could be created near Krasnoyarsk. This was announced today in Moscow at the conference "Global Security and the G8: Challenges and Interests. On the Way to the St. Petersburg Summit" by Valentin Ivanov, member of the Committee on Energy, Transport and Communications of the State Duma. An international fuel cycle center can also be created in the city of Krasnokamensk, Chita Region, Ivanov specified, answering a question from a correspondent.

Last Thursday, on Hitler's birthday, an act of vandalism was committed at the Jewish cemetery in Omsk: fascist swastikas were painted on ten graves. The message about this came from a representative of the local Jewish community, Interfax was told on Friday in the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. On the same day, the chairman of the community, Ilya Edelstein, appealed to the internal affairs bodies.

The fire broke out at the oil storage facility on the territory of the Locomotive Car Repair Plant. According to eyewitnesses, the flame rises to 100 meters. According to the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Buryatia, the fire is spreading over an area of ​​about 700 square meters, and the fire is being fought.

The Novosibirsk Territorial Department of Rospotrebnadzor announced its intention to expand the range of food products, the quality of which it will deal with in the near future. The specialists of the service have already started testing the mineral water, the next step is fish, some types of bakery and confectionery products. Meanwhile, the losses resulting from the sanctions of Rospotrebnadzor are calculated by the suppliers of Georgian and Moldovan alcohol.

April 22 at 12.00 local time (9.00 Moscow time) began a rally of residents of the city of Tomsk, organized by the regional branch of the Communist Party. In addition to the main demands: an increase in pensions, a reduction in housing and communal services tariffs and the abolition of the housing code, a number of appeals are planned to be adopted at the rally. This was reported to a REGNUM correspondent by the press service of the Tomsk organization of the Communist Party.

Transneft President Semyon Vainshtok will visit the Far East in the near future to discuss the route for laying the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline through the south of the Far East, Kamil Iskhakov, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, told reporters.

On Friday, the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory upheld the decision of the court of first instance in the Yukos-M LLC case. Judge Nina Demidova confirmed the conclusions of her colleague that the antimonopoly penalty against Yukos-M was illegal, and ruled to return 78 million rubles back to the subsidiary of the oil company.

On April 21, a suburban railway station was opened in Novosibirsk on the territory of the Novosibirsk-Glavny station. This was reported to a REGNUM correspondent by the public relations service of the West Siberian Railway. On the site of the old suburban pavilion, the West Siberian Railway erected a new station designed by the Novosibirsk institute Sibzheldorproekt, which meets modern requirements in terms of comfort level and architectural and planning solution.

The Euroset company has taken over the Kuzbass network of communication salons Tekhnoset. Under the terms of the concluded agreement, Euroset acquired the brand and lease rights to 23 communication stores owned by the network, of which 13 are located in Kemerovo. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Euroset reported that after this merger, the company expanded its presence in Kuzbass to 70 stores and became a major player in the region's market.

Following Moldovan and Georgian wines, cognacs began to disappear from the shelves of Krasnoyarsk stores, the quality of which was recently raised by Rospotrebnadzor. Some Krasnoyarsk retailers also took radical measures and removed all Moldovan and Georgian goods from sale, with the exception of Borjomi mineral water.