During a search, employees of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seized documents from the office of the former general director of Tambeyneftegaz, Vladimir Lapshov, who until recently worked as deputy chairman of the board of Republican Bank CJSC. The searches took place the night before, on September 27, Kommersant reports.

The governor of the Kurgan region, Oleg Bogomolov, proposed revising the principle of forming the regional budget during a meeting with the heads of municipal districts and the cities of Kurgan and Shadrinsk. The proposal arose during the consideration of the issue of forming the budget for 2007.

At a meeting on September 27, the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom approved the company’s development strategy in the oil business. As the concern's press service told URA.Ru, according to the document, by 2020 the growth of annual oil production from Gazprom Neft (75% of shares belong to Gazprom) will amount to 80 million tons. As Gazprom explains, during the work on the strategy, several options for the development of oil production by the Gazprom Group were considered.

Today, September 28, deputies of the Tyumen City Duma approved the report of the city authorities on the execution of the budget of the regional center for January-June 2006. Thus, the income of the city treasury amounted to 5 billion 748 million rubles, expenses 4 billion 639 million rubles.

The mystery of a strange mansion in the center of Yekaterinburg A new building for the Sverdlovsk government is being erected by Baltschuga-Kempinski builders September 28, 2006 at 20:01 Text size - 17 + Although the Ministry of Health is already preparing for the move, the builders still have a lot of work to do.

Law enforcement agencies continue to persecute activists of the Profi trade union, whose leader is State Duma deputy Anton Bakov. As a URA.Ru correspondent reports, today, September 28, one of Bakov’s assistants, Tatyana Baykova, was detained in Irbit. During a meeting with pensioners, which was attended by about 100 people, five police officers entered the room and demanded that they stop communicating. “There was a fight,” Bakov told URA.Ru. - Old people had their arms twisted.

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, speaking as a member of the new cabinet of ministers just elected by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, made a sensational statement regarding the territorial dispute with Russia, the Kommersant newspaper writes. It may mean that Tokyo is ready to seek a compromise in solving this problem, which would suit Moscow, reports NEWSru.com.

Three important working meetings were held by the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko during a trip to Moscow. As URA.Ru was informed by the press service of the head of the region, during a meeting with the Chairman of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation Galina Karelova, the governor discussed issues of social development of Ugra, the direction of socially oriented policy of government authorities in the autonomous region.

A Japanese restaurant, Ginotaki, is on fire in the center of Moscow. People are being evacuated now, the capital's fire service reported, ITAR-TASS writes. A fire broke out in a restaurant on Bolshaya Yakimanka Street near the Oktyabrskaya metro station on Thursday around 11:00 Moscow time. The fire is located in the basement, where thick black smoke is coming from, which, according to firefighters, could have escaped through the hood into the attic.

The budget of the Chelyabinsk region increased by 6 billion 640 million rubles. As Victoria Golubtsova, Minister of Finance of the Southern Urals, reported today, September 28, at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the region, the regional treasury received 5 billion 668 million rubles. These are additional budget revenues received as a result of the collection of income taxes.

Today, September 28, another auction was held in Magnitogorsk for the right to rent land plots for complex residential development. As URA.Ru was informed by the press service of the city administration, development companies were offered two plots. At the same time, one of the lots was leased out at the end of the auction for an amount that was almost twice the initial price.

Rosbank will save Oleg Bogomolov's initiative Selling regional bonds may be difficult September 28, 2006 at 07:41 pm Text size - 17 + Having not received money from the federal authorities to cover the budget deficit, Oleg Bogomolov decided to turn to unknown investors for help Rosbank won the competition held by the administration of the Kurgan region to select the organizer of the region's debut bond issue.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug issued a warning to motorists. Rescuers ask them to be careful on the roads due to heavy ice. As URA.Ru was informed by the department's press service, on the night of September 28 snow fell in Salekhard and covered the roads in a dense layer. Meanwhile, the bad weather had already stopped and the sun came out.

The prosecutor's office of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug has claims against the administration of the urban settlement of Poikovsky (Nefteyugansk district), which arose during an inspection of the operation of the dam, built in 1977. The dam was built for the development of water sports and is currently used by the Ugra yacht club, which is on the balance sheet of the administration of the urban settlement of Poikovsky.

On the Lena River near the village of Khatassy in Yakutia, in the area of ​​the underwater crossing of the main gas pipeline to Zarechye, a gas release occurred, ITAR-TASS writes. This is stated in a message received by the agency today from the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation with reference to the Lena Basin Water Administration of Rosvodresurs. Work is currently underway to ensure safety measures. The movement of river vessels is limited.