President Vladimir Putin signed a package of decrees on reshuffles in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Andrei Novikov, appointed to this post in March 2005, was dismissed from the post of deputy minister. He was replaced by a former employee of the KGB and the external relations department of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, and since 2005, an auditor of the Accounts Chamber, Oleg Safonov.

The company has been in talks with potential buyers, including private equity firms, in recent weeks, the people said. The company, valued at $2 billion, has hired Goldman Sachs to help with a possible deal. The deal must be approved by the Swartz family, which founded Timberland. Under the company’s two-tier shareholding structure, the family controls all of the B shares, giving them about 70 percent of the voting power at shareholder meetings.

In October 2006, Prokon and the Kuban LLC Mostraps (founders – individuals) registered a joint venture Prokon-Kubanraps to implement the rapeseed plant project, Ivan Obukhovsky, deputy director of Prokon-Kubanraps, told Vedomosti. The German company owns 70% of the authorized capital of the joint venture.

“The Accounts Chamber considers it appropriate to conduct such an audit, especially after the murder in September of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov.” Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin (Prime-TASS) In 2007, the Accounts Chamber will conduct an audit of the financial and economic activities of the Central Bank, Stepashin stated.

MOSCOW Aksakov takes charge of “Russia” VEDOMOSTI – The general meeting of members of the Association of Regional Banks “Russia” elected Anatoly Aksakov as the association’s president. Aksakov currently also holds the position of deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and is a member of the National Banking Council.

A month ago, Vladimir Putin introduced a bill to the Duma that would significantly complicate the life of the gambling market. The project proposes the creation of four special zones in Russia (two inside and two outside populated areas) where casinos and slot machine halls will be located. The reform is supposed to be carried out in two stages. On July 1, 2007, restrictions came into force that should promote concentration of the gambling business.

Rosbank “ Ak Bars Finance” "Petrocommerce" Nikolay Lebedev has been appointed Head of Trust Management, and Aleksey Veselov has been appointed Head of Financial Products Management, Financial Markets Operations Department, at Petrocommerce Bank. Lebedev was born on October 8, 1969 in Leningrad. In 1994 he graduated from the St.

Relations between Gazprom and Rosneft cannot be called cloudless. At the end of 2004, it was announced that Rosneft would merge with Gazprom , but the deal did not take place. And then the two state companies turned into rivals: Gazprom was going to buy Yuganskneftegaz, but it went to Rosneft. Short friendship Now the companies are going to become friends: they will soon sign a cooperation agreement, Gazprom Deputy Chairman of the Management Board Alexander Ananenkov said yesterday.

Gazprom has long been eyeing Sakhalin. So far, only a subsidiary of the Gazprom Neft monopoly operates on the island, which holds a license for the Lopukhovsky site (estimated reserves are 100 million tons of equivalent fuel). But yesterday, Gazprom signed an agreement with the Sakhalin Region administration on gasification of the region.

The Prosecutor General's Office reported yesterday that criminal cases had been initiated against the heads of Aganeftegazgeologiya (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), Ulyanovskneft and the Nafta-Ulyanovsk joint venture. The cases were initiated on the grounds of a crime under paragraph b of part 2 of Article 171 of the Criminal Code (illegal entrepreneurship associated with the extraction of income on an especially large scale), according to a press release from the Prosecutor General's Office.

Andrey Efanov, the production director of the Novo offset factory, also considers the competitors’ plans logical. According to him, the demand for packaging is stable and growing along with the volume of consumer goods. At the same time, he notes that Novo does not plan to enter the packaging market, considering the niche of color magazines to be promising for itself.

Chemiakin's previous productions at the Mariinsky - The Nutcracker and its prequel Princess Pirlipat, which later swelled to The Magic Nut - were totally and fundamentally ugly. They were even fun to watch - a kind of visual masochism could bring pleasure. The new productions lack the former fantasy. The first one was “Metaphysics”. The authors of the libretto are listed as Shemyakin himself and the choreographer Pandoursky, who also staged the movements in “The Magic Nut”.

Reforms in Eastern Europe continued in 2005, the EBRD notes: Bulgaria completed the privatization of small businesses, Estonia adopted a law on the protection of competition. In the CIS, most reforms were carried out in 1992–1997, and since 1999, when oil prices began to rise, the reformist fervor has gradually faded. The EBRD is most pleased with the development of banks and the stock market.

The US and Russian presidents are preparing to wrap up WTO trade talks. They will sign a protocol on Sunday, with a protocol with Sri Lanka to follow two days earlier. Inflation has reached 7.8% since the beginning of the year. According to the forecast of the First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexey Ulyukaev, the growth of consumer prices will not exceed 9% over the year, but it may be lower. Russia will begin implementing VIP projects in the spring of 2007.

The turnover of Ultra Electronics, which sells computer, digital and household appliances, office supplies and furniture wholesale and retail via the Internet, is growing by almost 100% per year, says Vladimir Landau, the company's commercial director. According to him, in 2004 the turnover was $300 million, in 2005 - $580 million. This year they plan to reach $1 billion, he adds.