Mechel's partners "have no interest in cargo transshipment through the Vanino port," the company reported. The stake in the port was bought by the structure of Mechel's main owner Igor Zyuzin, as well as foreign investors who are laying claim to 25% of Mechel Mining, a federal official knows. An acquaintance of Mechel managers also knows that the partners are the future shareholders of Mechel Mining. The interlocutors do not say who they are.

Marina Melentyeva has been appointed director of the voluntary medical insurance department of the insurance company "Pomoshch". VHI is a new direction in the company. Melentyeva was born on September 12, 1981 in the village of Kurchanskaya, Temryuk district, Krasnodar region. In 2002, she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University. Since 2001 - Head of the Department of Insurance of Citizens Traveling Abroad, insurance company "Konda".

A former employee of a gas complex in Algiers seized by terrorists last Wednesday was among the attackers, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sallal said at a news conference on Monday. According to him, one of the terrorists was a man who had previously worked as a driver at this facility, Associated Press reports.

Nina Demurova gave the fairy tales about the girl Alice to our children's literature, translating into Russian the essentially untranslatable Carroll - simply because his jokes and fantasies grew out of English folklore, the characters and modality of which were unknown and incomprehensible to the Russian reader. A biography written by a man who spent his life studying Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym) is, in any case, worthy of respect.

January 21, 2013, 03:26 / Business Spot gas prices in Europe have reached their peak Spot gas prices in Europe have reached a peak, exceeding $400 per 1,000 cubic meters. But Gazprom will earn practically nothing from this Elena Khodyakova M. Stulov / Vedomosti Cold weather in Europe provoked an increase in spot gas prices to $406 per 1000 cubic meters. This is a record for this season, Interfax reports.

Vitaly Postolatiy has been appointed CEO of SAP CIS . His predecessor Igor Bogachev left the company. Postolatiy was born on January 25, 1975 in Leningrad. In 1997 he graduated from St. Petersburg State University. Since 1998 — manager for work with resellers of Erimex computers. Since 2000 he has worked his way up from a business development manager in the North-West region to the director of the department for work with small and medium-sized businesses and Microsoft partners.

The Japanese government has confirmed the deaths of seven Japanese citizens who were among the workers at a gas facility in Algeria captured by terrorists, while the fate of three others is unknown, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a press conference on Monday. Abe said the news of the deaths of seven Japanese citizens was "incredibly sad" and he had no words to describe his feelings. "Terrorist acts cannot be forgiven.

The Novosibirsk mayor's office has authorized the construction of the first five outlets of the American fast food chain McDonald's, having determined the addresses of the future restaurants, according to the city administration's materials. Thus, McDonald's expansion beyond the Urals has begun to receive a material embodiment. McDonald's, with the support of the Novosibirsk Region authorities, plans to open 10 restaurants and cafes in the region in 2013.

"Mostotryad-19" succeeded FSUE Atomflot of the state corporation Rosatom has announced tenders for the construction of two universal nuclear icebreakers for 42 billion rubles and 44.1 billion rubles with delivery dates of December 25, 2019 and December 25, 2020, respectively. The results are planned to be announced on February 20, 2013. The first such icebreaker, LK-60, worth 37 billion rubles, will be laid down at the end of this year at the Baltic Shipyard.

Shareholders of Russian Sea want to consolidate fishing operations / TURNIF On January 19, Russkoe More Dobycha LLC completed a deal to purchase two Far Eastern fishing companies, Turnif OJSC and Intraros CJSC, Russkoe More Dobycha representative Ilya Vlasenko told Vedomosti. The deal amounted to about $350 million (a little more than 10 billion rubles) for both companies; other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

January 21, 2013, 20:11 / Business Italian authorities want to revive the tourism industry If in the 1980s. Italy was first in Europe in terms of the number of foreign tourists, but has now dropped to third place, behind Spain and France Nadezhda Dmitrienko Bloomberg The Italian authorities have developed a plan for the development of the tourism industry, through which they expect to create an additional half a million jobs and increase GDP by 30 billion euros by 2020.

Bank of America raised its recommendation on Pharmstandard GDRs from "hold" to "buy", the target price increased from $21 to $23. JPMorgan lowered the forecast price of Sberbank shares from 147.31 to 136.38 rubles, the “buy” recommendation remained unchanged. VTB Capital increased the forecast price of KAMAZ shares from $2.4 to $2.6, the “buy” recommendation remained unchanged. Golgman Sachs raised the forecast price of Magnit GDRs from $43 to $51.3, the “buy” recommendation remained unchanged.

Houses and hotels of the Timchenko spouses The exact list of all real estate assets owned by Gennady and Elena Timchenko is unknown, but at different times, in addition to an apartment in the center of Moscow, they owned two hotels in France, and the couple called two houses in Switzerland their place of residence.

Bloomberg A couple of bedrooms is the least you can expect from a modern luxury yacht, over 30 metres long and costing more than $16 million. But buyers from China and other developing countries are demanding other things: communications-equipped boardrooms, karaoke studios and mahjong parlours. It is these orders that are keeping European luxury yacht makers afloat as production of less expensive vessels declines amid economic troubles.

January 21, 2013, 14:35 / Finance Counterfeiters have learned how to effectively counterfeit five thousand dollar bills In the fourth quarter of 2012, for the first time they became leaders in the number of counterfeits Olga Plotonova Bloomberg In the fourth quarter of 2012, five thousand ruble banknotes became the leaders in the number of counterfeits for the first time. This is evidenced by the Central Bank's statistics on identifying the number of counterfeit banknotes through banks.