Rating agencies Moody's Interfax, Fitch and Standard & Poor's submitted applications for participation in the competition for assigning the second credit rating to the Novosibirsk region, the region's regional administration said in a statement. The results of the competition will be summed up on October 18.

The Novosibirsk branch of VimpelCom (trademark Beeline) has reduced the price of SMS from 45 kop. up to 30 kop. for subscribers of the “Communication” tariff plan, the company said in a statement. The plan is for people with hearing disabilities. MTS also has a similar tariff plan, but so far only in the Kemerovo region. There, the cost of an SMS is 34 kopecks.

Petr Pintusov Vedomosti - Novosibirsk 12.10.2006, No. 192 (1719) Russia's energy strategy, which provides for an increase in electricity generation at nuclear power plants from 150 billion kWh to 300 billion kWh by 2020, is forcing TVEL to increase its resource base.

Olga Kobernik Elena Bogdanova Olga Varlamova Vedomosti - Novosibirsk 12.10.2006, No. 192 (1719) Siberia is becoming one of the top priority regions for the development of the Technosila network. The major seller of home appliances and electronics plans to open hypermarkets in 10 Siberian cities. For these purposes the company is ready to spend from $40 million to $150 million in order to occupy 40% of the regional market by 2009.

Pavel Aptekar October 13, 2006, No. 193 (1720) Ninety years ago, on October 5 (18), 1916, the railway bridge over the Amur near Khabarovsk was put into operation (this monument of engineering art was dismantled only in 1999), which became the last link Transsib. Through traffic began from Vladivostok to Moscow through the territory of Russia. Everything related to roads is vital for Russia. But this problem has become a landmark and remains so to this day.

Irina Reznik Vedomosti October 13, 2006, No. 193 (1720) Yesterday the register of Yukos creditors was closed. The list includes 37 applicants with demands for 586.6 billion rubles. However, this amount may still increase, lawyers warn. All accounts and assets of Yukos in Russia have been arrested, many top managers and co-owners of the company are in prison or have left the country. Yukos' revenue for 2005 according to RAS was 2.77 billion rubles, net loss was 95.4 billion rubles.

Sergei Naryshkin, head of the Russian government apparatus, will visit Irkutsk on October 13, where he will lead a seminar on administrative reform, a source in the government commission on administrative reform told Interfax.

Russia and Kazakhstan set up the first uranium enrichment joint venture in Angarsk. ITAR-TASS was informed about this in Rosatom. "Today in Moscow, the constituent documents of three joint Russian-Kazakhstan enterprises in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy were signed. The documents establish the participation of Russian and Kazakh organizations in the joint venture on a parity basis, with equal shares in the authorized capital," Rosatom noted.

The Novosibirsk CJSC Elektrosignal-Holding filed four lawsuits with the Voronezh Arbitration Court against OAO Elektrosignal (Voronezh), of which it is a co-owner. Siberians demand to invalidate the sale of two workshops of the plant with an area of ​​more than 30 thousand square meters. m. According to observers, the shareholders are fighting for influence in the company when it enters the structure of the defense holding JSC Concern Sozvezdie.

Yesterday, director of the state-owned enterprise Omsk Medicine, Sergei Porotnikov, announced plans to transfer 15 pharmacies in the regional center to an open trade system similar to supermarkets. According to Mr. Porotnikov, the pharmacies will be part of the new OJSC, 49% of whose shares will be owned by the Moscow LLC Pharm-Terra. The investor will invest 72 million rubles in the reconstruction of the network of city pharmacies.

On October 10, in the Red Stone district of the city of Kiselevsk, a television set was stolen from a pensioner. An elderly woman born in 1921 was very happy when the children gave her a TV set. She decided to share her joy with her neighbors and went out into the yard to discuss this news, sitting on a bench near the entrance.

The state-of-the-art Su-34 combat aircraft, built at the Chkalov Aviation Production Association in Novosibirsk, successfully completed its first test flight today. As an ITAR-TASS correspondent said in a conversation with an ITAR-TASS correspondent, "the program of the first test flight, which was designed for two hours, has been fully completed." There were no emergency situations during the flight.

In the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a criminal case was initiated against Olga Novakovskaya, the general director of the company Empire LLC, who is suspected of fraud. According to investigators, the general director of the "Empire" collected more than 5 million rubles from gullible citizens. for housing construction, but the equity holders did not receive apartments.

OAO Novosibirskkhleboprodukt (NHP, part of the Moscow group of companies OGO-Products) launched the second section of Mill No. 1, which will allow the company to process 400,000 tons of grain per year. But today, NHP has to sign large contracts for the supply of grain from other regions, as local farmers prefer to hold their products in anticipation of a serious increase in prices.

The administration of the Chemalsky district of the Republic of Altai held a meeting with the tourism enterprises of the district. As a REGNUM correspondent was informed on October 12 by the press service of the republican government, the meeting discussed issues related to the development of the tourism potential of the Chemal region.