NLMK will buy a stake in American Winner Steel Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works announced yesterday that it is going to buy another asset in the United States. We are talking about the Pennsylvania independent company Winner Steel, whose capacity allows it to produce 1.2 million tons of galvanized sheets per year. However, now they are only half used.

Premiere of the play “Balzaminov” at the Satyricon Theater Director Marina Brusnikina took three plays by Ostrovsky, the main character of which is the poor and impossibly stupid official Balzaminov, who dreams of finding a rich bride, thoroughly shortened them and staged them in one evening.

The referendum opened the way for women to have an abortion Residents of Portugal voted in favor of abortion in a referendum held on Sunday. This is what the residents of the country decided, where almost 80% of the adult population recognizes themselves as practicing Catholics.

Yesterday, the names of two Taiwanese state-owned enterprises officially changed: China Post became Taiwan Post, and China Petroleum Company became Taiwan Petroleum Company (CPC Taiwan). President Chen Shui-bian and Premier Su Zhenchang took part in the sign changing ceremony. Chen said this is just a small step toward "transforming Taiwan into a complete state" and called for a fight against the old thinking of the Kuomintang, when the word "Taiwan" was perceived negatively.

Russia and India are trying to increase each other's economic growth rates If two states at the stage of rapid economic growth join forces, the potential of each of them will increase significantly. India's GDP is approaching a trillion dollars, and Russia's has already reached this mark. It is rapid economic growth that explains the increased activity in Russian-Indian relations recently.

Nizhny Novgorod City Hall will pay compensation to a student for a fallen block of ice Last Friday, a decision of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court, unprecedented for our country, came into force. The city administration and organizations that rented premises in the ill-fated building are obliged to pay a total of 1 million 200 thousand rubles to student Dmitry Nekrasov, who had a block of ice fall on his head from the roof.

On Sunday, Israel conducted the first successful night test of the Hetz (Arrow) anti-missile missile, which managed to hit a target simulating a ballistic missile over the Mediterranean Sea. Deputy General Director of the aircraft manufacturing concern Taasiya Avirit, Yossi Weiss, declared the “complete success of the experiment.” The next Hetz tests will take place in a few months. The Israeli anti-missile system is designed to destroy long- and medium-range ballistic missiles.

Football is being played again in Italy Italy, which in addition to the title of world champion in football can also bear the title of world champion in football scandals, has resumed its championship. Well-known events in Catania forced the authorities to take a number of tough, sometimes even unpopular, measures. All matches must start at three o'clock in the afternoon, thereby breaking the Italian tradition of leaving the central match of the tour for dessert. But that's not so bad.

Moscow pensioners are excited about the change in the scheme for providing assistance from the budget The next round of housing and communal reform, which involves changing the system of allocating subsidies to low-income Muscovites, seems likely to add headaches to elderly beneficiaries. The new procedure for providing subsidies , which came into force in January 2007, established by Moscow government decree No.

The concern is conquering emerging markets Leading Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is going to build a new plant in India. By 2010, the world's most promising automaker will begin producing inexpensive small cars here. The plant will be built in southern India next to Toyota's first plant near Bangalore. The volume of investment in the construction of the plant will be from 300 to 400 million dollars, Nikkei reports.

They want to build a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad region The westernmost region of Russia is excited - the local press is actively discussing the idea of ​​​​building a nuclear power plant in the region. Before the New Year, the local government prepared a long-term strategy for the socio-economic development of the region. The document states that by 2011, construction of the North-Western Nuclear Power Plant may begin in the Kaliningrad region.

The Russian budget received an additional $70 million from the Kharyaga field The French Total seems to have managed to convince Russian officials that it is qualitatively developing the Kharyaga oil field on production sharing terms and is ready to share profits with the state. Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Energy, which oversees the implementation of the PSA, reported that the French company transferred about $169 million to the Russian budget last year.

The prosecutor's office again attacks the Yekaterinburg mayor's office The dark streak that the Yekaterinburg administration has found itself in does not end - the prosecutor's office accused the head of one of the municipal enterprises of collapsing the bridge over the Trans-Siberian Railway in September 2006. According to the investigation, the municipal unitary enterprise "Blagoustroistvo" financed construction projects that did not pass the state examination.

The Russian national tennis team reached the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup In the most difficult match of the 1/8 finals, the Russian team beat the Chileans with a score of 3:2 and will compete with the French in the next round. This is the fourth victory of our tennis players over the Chilean national team in the fight for the “silver salad bowl”. Before this, three times athletes from the USSR and Russia achieved success over rivals from this country - in 1963, 1967 and 2005.

Members of the Public Council of the Ministry of Defense were allowed to independently visit military units Yesterday the first meeting of the presidium of the Public Council under the Russian Ministry of Defense took place. It was moderated by the chairman of this organization, film director Nikita Mikhalkov, and the military department was represented by the Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Nikolai Pankov.