Gazprom decided to capitalize its subsidiary holding SIBUR's Board of Directors yesterday approved the company's development concept and its business plan until 2010. One of the meeting participants told the Vremya Novostei newspaper that the directors, most of whom represent Gazprom, after a rather long discussion agreed with the management’s arguments about the need to capitalize the holding.

Permyakov did not have enough for all 40 minutes of the match Russian basketball clubs played regular matches within the framework of European cup tournaments. Unfortunately, in one of the competitions our team completely dropped out of the fight. Perm "Ural-Great", having lost in the 1/8 finals of the ULEB Cup away to the Spanish "Lleida" - 69:86, also lost on aggregate.

The goalkeeper of the capital's Spartak, Maxim Levitsky (pictured), will begin the next season as part of the Novorossiysk Chernomorets. The leaders of both clubs agreed on this the day before. Levitsky himself will sign an individual contract today and will not go to the training camp with Spartak in Turkey. There has been talk about the return of the Ukrainian goalkeeper to Novorossiysk for a long time.

Primorye fishermen demand Nazdratenko's resignation On Wednesday, February 12, coastal fishermen, dissatisfied with the unfair, in their opinion, distribution of free industrial quotas in Moscow, held an original protest. They organized a rally under the slogans “Down with Nazdratenko” and “Gref resign” right on the ice of the Amur Bay.

The co-owners of the largest port found a secret “door to Europe” The investigation into the case of mass violations and thefts in the Tuapse seaport was completed by the Investigative Committee (IC) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to him, the managers of the Tuapse Ship Repair Plant (TSRZ), which owns six berths, and representatives of its related LLC Firm Kobos were engaged in large-scale smuggling and money laundering.

Heavy rain that hit Limassol threatened to disrupt the semi-final match of the Tournament of Four, in which the Russian team was supposed to meet the Cyprus team. However, even if it was 10 minutes late, the meeting still began. True, the organizers of the television broadcast had to refuse to show this game.

The world's largest auditors - the Big Four companies (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Thomatsu, Ernst & Young, KPMG), as well as BDO Seidman and Grant Thornton - came to the conclusion that most of the countries in which their divisions operate are ready to refuse from national financial reporting standards in favor of international ones (IFRS).

Is the Central Bank voting for instability? Perhaps the most sensitive signal for the foreign exchange market is a statement by the direct regulators of this market about their intentions. It’s bad when such statements are made thoughtlessly. It's even worse when it coincides with general market nervousness. This is exactly what is happening with the ruble today.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants everything at once The protocol obligation at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry entitled “Determination of priority areas of work for 2003” unexpectedly turned out to be similar to the Bolshevik meeting before the storming of the Winter Palace.

The state-owned company is going to build a ski resort on Sakhalin The investment activity of the state oil company Rosneft does not subside. Yesterday it became known that the company sponsoring winter sports intends to build an international ski resort “Mountain Air” on Sakhalin. The project was presented by Sergei Vilyamov, Deputy General Director of Rosneft-Sakhalinmorneftegaz.

Prime Minister Appointed Konstantin Tsitsin as deputy head of the Federal Service for Financial Recovery and Bankruptcy. Previously, Tsitsin headed the FSFO affairs department. Relieved Nikolai Puchkov from the post of Secretary of State - Deputy General Director of the Russian Agency for State Reserves. Nikolai Puchkov was relieved of his post at his request.

The day before yesterday in the evening in the Zaporozhye region, former Rada deputy Anatoly Ermak, one of the founders of the Antimafia association, died in a car accident. His brother died with him. They were returning from the funeral of a relative. The Zhiguli, driven by Ermak's brother, flew into oncoming traffic and collided with a truck. The police believe that the accident occurred due to the fault of the driver, who “due to snowfall” lost control.

A new international military structure is being formed In the new international regional organization - the Collective Security Treaty (CST) - two new working bodies are being created: a permanent council and a joint headquarters. This was announced by the Secretary General of the Collective Security Council (CSC) Valery Nikolaenko. Currently, six countries are participants in the CST: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.

The culprits of the accident that occurred on Tuesday at the Alardinskaya mine in the city of Osinniki, Kemerovo region, as investigators found, were most likely non-ferrous metal thieves. As experts have established, shortly before the tragedy in the village of Malinovka in the suburbs of Osinniki, unknown persons stole wires from the power line feeding the mine.

Yesterday in Almaty there was a presentation of the book by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev “The Critical Decade” - the first decade of the 21st century, which will determine the development of events in the new century. In his work, Nazarbayev analyzes the main threats to regional and global security, among which he names terrorism and religious extremism, as well as the gap between the poor and the rich on the planet.