On January 17, the supervisory board of the Yaroslavl Tire Plant elected a new general director. This post was taken by Fartobey Dzapshba, a colleague of the current president of SIBUR Dmitry Mazepin at work at the RFBR. Thus, the conflict between the main shareholder of the plant and former general director Nikolai Tonkov has come to an end. In 2000-2001, Mr.

The embassy of this country was destroyed in Baghdad for supporting the United States Yesterday a car bomb exploded near the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad. 11 people who happened to be nearby were killed and more than fifty were injured. According to Jordanian Information Minister Nabil Sharif, no one from the embassy staff was killed. But the building itself was destroyed.

The challenger is shorting The auction for the sale of part of the property of NOSTA (Orsko-Khalilovsky Iron and Steel Works, Orenburg region) did not take place yesterday due to the fact that only one application was received. The external manager and the organizers of the auction are hiding the name of the company and its founders, the press service of NOSTA told the Vremya Novostei newspaper.

The Moscow Cellular Communications (MCS) company last week introduced a new board of directors, re-elected due to a change of shareholders. The increase in the number of employees of the RTDC holding, as well as the appearance of representatives of St. Petersburg companies, indicates the partnership between RTDC and the Accord-Tel company, close to the St. Petersburg telecommunications team, in the implementation of the project to build a single national NMT operator.

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Scientists have created the first genetic copy of a horse The fate of purebred horse breeding is under threat: in the near future, geneticists may compete with stud farms. A group of Italian specialists from the Laboratory of Reproductive Technologies in Cremona managed to make the world's first successful cloning of a horse. The resulting foal, named Promethea, is now ten weeks old, and, according to the veterinarians, the clone is completely healthy.

MGTS and MTS are changing their ownership structure The head of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, at the end of last week announced the corporation's intentions on investment plans for its main telecommunications assets - the Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) and Mobile Telesystems (MTS) companies.

Oil workers hope to persuade the government Despite Mikhail Kasyanov's statement that all pipelines in Russia should be the property of the state , oil companies do not lose hope that the project to build an oil pipeline from Western Siberia to Murmansk will be implemented. At the same time, oil workers do not yet intend to agree to the terms of participation in the project proposed by the prime minister.

Vladimir Putin and Viktor Khristenko spoke in different energy languages For the second time this year, President Vladimir Putin drew the government's attention to the high increase in electricity tariffs. Now the executive branch is preparing proposals for their indexation from January 1, and, according to the head of state, there are reasons for concern.

An architectural guide to “German” Moscow has been published There is no shortage of guides to Moscow. Bookstore shelves today are filled with publications on Moscow studies for every taste. The genre range is wide. From reprinted ancient walking books by Pylyaev, Geinike, Mashkov to the fundamental and increasingly unaffordable “topographical” series “Architectural Monuments of Moscow”.

Today, the rating agency Standard & Poor's publishes a report, “Sberbank Still Dominates the Russian Banking Sector.” According to the agency's estimates, the country's only systemically important bank holds 30-35% of the corporate loan market, 40% of the legal entity deposit market, and more than 2/3 of retail deposits. And, according to S&P, only foreign banks can seriously shake the position of Sberbank, whose rapid expansion is no longer in doubt among most experts.

Lithuanian “prison wolves” intermarried with Chechens On Wednesday, the Kavkaz Center website, closed in June by the Lithuanian State Security Department at the insistence of Moscow, resumed operation in Vilnius. According to Lithuanian experts at the time, the site promoted terrorism and incited interethnic hatred, which was incompatible with the constitution of the republic.

Gallup is not valid in the Russian Federation The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District yesterday overturned the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court of the first and appellate instances, which recognized the registration of the Gallup brand on the territory of the Russian Federation as valid, INTERFAX-AFI reports.

Gazprom is getting rid of non-core assets Gazprom plans to hold an auction on August 21 to sell 100% of the shares in the authorized capital of the Balabanovskaya window frame factory (ForaGazprom, Kaluga region), and on August 28 - to Promstroygaz (Tula region). This is reported in the official materials of the Rus Auction Center, which is the organizer of these auctions. The starting price of the first lot will be 110 million rubles, the amount of the deposit will be 10% of the starting price.

The prosecutor's office is looking for traces of the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yesterday, prosecutors searched the representative office of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in St. Petersburg. There they were looking for the district governor, Vladimir Butov, who was put on the federal wanted list two weeks ago. The official himself, of course, was not found, so the security forces had to limit themselves to three notebooks and the head of the representative office, Yuri Ermolaev.