Ruslan TEREKBAEV was appointed general director of the TVS channel at the very end of last year. Mr. Terekbaev told Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Maxim BALUTENKO about his plans for the near future. — How do you assess the current state of affairs on the TV channel? -- I would divide the answer into two groups of factors to assess the current state of the fuel assembly: firstly, problems and, secondly, achievements. We have quite a lot of financial problems.

Konica and Minolta will merge into one company Two well-known Japanese camera manufacturers, Konica and Minolta, decided to join forces to increase their competitiveness in the market (Konica Corp. is currently the world's third-largest manufacturer of photographic film, and Minolta Co. is the leading manufacturer of single-lens SLR cameras).

In the first quarter of this year, Transneft will not transship oil through the Ventspils nafta port in Latvia for the first time. This decision was made by the commission on the use of main oil and gas pipeline systems and petroleum products under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko. Thus, according to experts, Russia is trying to influence the owners of Ventspils nafta and force them to allow Russian investors to become shareholders of the terminal.

Gazprom wants to swallow Mezhregiongaz Despite the fact that the government postponed consideration of the issue of reforming the gas market from December to January (according to the newspaper Vremya Novostey, the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, managed to convince the country’s president that such a discussion was premature and unprepared), the largest Russian company met the year 2003 under a sign of internal structural changes.

World oil prices are so high that they could fall sharply For the global oil market, yesterday was a long-awaited day: after the holidays, full-fledged operation of exchanges resumed, and everyone wanted to know how prices were affected by events around Iraq and strikes in Venezuela, a strategic supplier of raw materials to the United States.

The international center “Osec Business Network Switzerland” opened the first Swiss Entrepreneurship Center in Eastern Europe at the Swiss Embassy in Moscow. The Moscow center became the twelfth in this business network, covering Vienna, Stuttgart, Milan, Tokyo, Bombay, Chicago, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Madrid, London and Paris.

There is another revolution in the capital's cellular communications market The change in the tariff policy of the leading three mobile operators, which was announced last fall, only became apparent towards the end of the year in the dynamics of new subscriber connections in Moscow. Consumer assessment of operators' marketing initiatives has radically changed the balance of power in this market segment.

Vice President for Operations of the American MST Corporation Dmitry Kromsky moved to VimpelCom to the position of regional director for the central region. Previously, this post was held by Andrey Eliseev, who has been the regional director of VimpelCom in the north-west of the Russian Federation since October 29. Mr.

Auditing companies do not like the new procedure for appointing a Central Bank auditor Just before the new year, the National Banking Council (NBC) approved the Unicon/MS Consulting Group company as the auditor of the Bank of Russia for 2002. For the first time, the Central Bank auditor was appointed not by the State Duma, but by a small group of high-ranking officials and deputies, which had to make this decision two weeks after the formation of the council.