Samsung Electronics Co has decided to spin off its loss-making LCD panel division into a separate company. The board of directors plans to focus on the development and production of OLED screens, believing that organic light-emitting diode displays are a more promising technology. Last week, the company said it would consider spinning off its LCD business due to the sector's weak performance and growing competition from low-cost Chinese manufacturers.

20 February 2012, 01:07 How Moscow purchases medical equipment The new director of Moscow's health department says he has found a way to reduce the prices the city pays for CT scanners and other medical equipment. to become suppliers To do this, he invited his former commercial partners Roman Shleinov R. Shamukov / ITAR TASS Big money Putin: “Never before have we allocated such resources at one time for specific social purposes, especially in healthcare.

After the construction of the first plant for the production of e-mobiles in St. Petersburg, a second plant should be opened in the Far East so that “ our own innovative production” can be developed there, presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said at a press conference in Moscow. so This is necessary “ that we have something to show in relations not only with China, but also with Japan,” he said. Previously, Prokhorov promised that the e-mobile would go on sale in December 2012.

February 20, 2012, 01:02 / Finance How the insurance market and its largest players grew in 2011. Mikhail Prokhorov's Soglasie and VTB's subsidiary grew faster than other insurers in 2011. Will they be able to maintain growth without damaging business? Margarita Papchenkova Alexey Rozhkov M. Stulov / Vedomosti In 2011, insurers sold policies (without compulsory medical insurance) for 663.7 billion rubles. – the market grew by 19%.

Iran denies oil Iran has stopped selling oil to French and British companies, Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alirez Nikzad said. On Wednesday, Iranian Press TV reported that oil exports to six EU countries had been halted, but the Oil Ministry later denied this. Iranian oil could be replaced by supplies from other OPEC countries, experts said earlier.

Arkady Dvorkovich "We all have good relations with Alexei Leonidovich, of course, we will be glad if he looks at these materials and gives his assessment." The presidential aide stated that Alexei Kudrin could work in the "big government" being created on the initiative of Dmitry Medvedev.

The SR deputy Ilya Ponomarev promised to sue the police, whom he accuses of violating his status as a deputy. According to him, Moscow police officers dragged him away from the window for filing applications for street protests on Monday morning. He arrived at the mayor's office "as a deputy to monitor the legality of filing applications for holding rallies on March 5." The deputy showed journalists his torn-off soles.

Three opposition representatives have been detained near the Moscow City Hall on Tverskaya Street. As reported by Ekho Moskvy, citing the press service of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they got into a scuffle with representatives of pro-Kremlin youth movements.

In government procurement, companies should give priority to competitive domestic software and IT technologies, Putin said last Friday at a meeting in Novosibirsk. State-owned companies should publicly disclose information on the share of Russian software products they use, the prime minister's words are quoted on his official website. Putin instructed the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Industry and Trade to develop the necessary amendments to the laws.

Most of the rallies in support of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin that took place in the regions on Saturday attracted far more participants than the organizers had planned. In St. Petersburg, according to the Interior Ministry, there were 60,000 people, while the declared number was 20,000. The protesters held posters reading "Putin is our president," "Putin is our guarantor," and "Putin is a cutie." The rally lasted an hour, with the participants leaving on identical buses.

February 20, 2012, 20:10 / Finance Siluanov: net capital outflow in 2012 will decrease by at least half Vedomosti Net capital outflow from Russia in 2012 will decrease by at least half compared to last year and amount to about $40 billion, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov predicts. Last year, net capital outflow amounted to $84.2 billion. The Ministry of Economic Development predicts that in 2012 capital outflow will amount to about $20 billion at the end of the year.

Gazprom-Media is one of the largest Russian media holdings, owning the NTV and TNT television channels, the NTV-Plus satellite operator, the RuTube and Now.ru video services, the 7 Days publishing house, several cinemas and radio stations, including Ekho Moskvy.

There is still no mutual understanding between the Defense Ministry and the contractors of the state defense order, so Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is going to establish government control over the execution of the state defense order and ensure financial discipline on the part of the military department. He stated this at a meeting on the development of the defense-industrial complex until 2020 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The Kushchevsky District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is investigating complaints from landowners that the "Tsapok gang" continues to put pressure on them. The letter from the group of farmers states that Angela-Mari Tsapok, the wife of Serever Ametov, who was detained on suspicion of organizing the murder of 12 people in the house, has begun visiting farmers and demanding millions of rubles for land shares that she illegally received several years ago.

Specialists from the Ministry of Health and Social Development proposed replacing the unified qualification directory with a system of professional standards. According to Deputy Minister Alexander Safonov , the document ( see appendix) was agreed upon with colleagues from associations of employers and trade unions. At the end of 2011, the initiative was supported by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs .