The conflict between the parties continued at the board of directors of KM Invest Former partners who are in the process of dividing a joint business - the head of the Interros holding Vladimir Potanin and the head of the Onexim group Mikhail Prokhorov - once again failed to come to a peace agreement . Yesterday, at the board of directors of the KM Invest fund, which owns the joint assets of entrepreneurs, representatives of Mr.

Two teams went without a head coach Maxim Sokolov's first shutout of the season, the victory of Severstal without a coach, as well as the sensational defeat of St. Petersburg SKA - these are the highlights of the next round in the Russian Hockey Super League. The goalkeeper of Novokuznetsk Metallurg Maxim Sokolov surprised fans and specialists this year by allowing easy goals while playing for Avangard Omsk.

Ernst & Young studied the culture of risk management in Russia With rapidly growing investment in emerging markets, many companies remain unable to manage risk effectively. This is stated in the study by the auditing company Ernst & Young “Risk management practices in Russia and other countries with developing market economies.” According to her, the Western culture of risk management has a great influence on domestic companies, and they are gradually adopting the experience of their colleagues.

Chronicle of sporting events Famous Brazilian forward Romario has been suspended for 120 days by the Brazilian Football Confederation for doping. Romario, who fulfilled his long-time dream of scoring the 1000th goal in his career, recently played the role of player-coach at the Vasco da Gama club and rarely allowed himself on the field. However, the forward-coach took part in the match against Palmeiras, and after that the drug finasteride was found in his doping tests.

Russia and Poland have put an end to the meat war Russia and Poland have resolved a two-year meat dispute that has had a negative impact not only on ties between the two countries, but also on Moscow's relations with the European Union as a whole. Yesterday in the resort town of Svetlogorsk, a town on the Baltic Sea coast in the Kaliningrad region, the final point was reached in this controversial case.

The UN General Assembly called on nations to introduce a moratorium on capital punishment The UN General Assembly approved a resolution calling on all nations to implement a moratorium on the death penalty. The document was submitted on behalf of almost 80 states. Russia was among the countries that approved the resolution. However, it also has opponents who still widely use exceptional punishment. This is a very paradoxical group of countries: the USA, China, Iraq and Iran.

Seoul intends to strengthen partnership with Moscow The leader of the opposition Great Country Party, Lee Myung-bak (pictured) , won Wednesday's presidential elections in South Korea . Last night, after counting 99.9% of the votes, the South Korean Central Election Commission announced that Lee had won 48.7%. His main rival from the ruling United New Democratic Party (UNDP), Chung Dong-yeon, was almost half behind - he had 26.2%. “I will be a humble servant to the people who fully supported me.

The trial of the organizers of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market has begun The Moscow City Court yesterday began the trial of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market , which killed 12 people and injured about 50 more in August last year. There are eight young people in the dock - the backbone of one of the capital's nationalist groups, which committed a total of eight explosions in Moscow and the region.

The new Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko yesterday announced the priorities in the government's work. She promised to discuss with Russia the transition to gas supplies without intermediaries; her first personnel decisions will be the resignations of the heads of Naftogaz and Energoatom.

Parliamentary parties share portfolios in the new Duma The first meeting of the State Duma of the fifth convocation will take place next Monday. In the meantime, the division of Duma posts is in full swing, the final distribution and personal composition of which will become known just after the plenary session on December 24. On Tuesday, the main leadership of the new Duma was determined.

The 2007 season ended with serious competitions at the national level For most tennis players included in the world elite, the 2007 season on the ATP tour ended in early November, when the winner of the Masters tournament in the French capital was determined. After that, in mid-November, the eight strongest players took part in the final Masters Cup competition of the year on the court in Shanghai, China. And in early December, the US and Russian national teams met in the Davis Cup final.

In the first month and a half after the victory of the October armed uprising, the task of suppressing resistance to the Bolshevik government was solved by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, working under the leadership of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) (the central committee of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars (Council of People's Commissars, or Sovnarkom) On December 1, 1917, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee

Bush cuts warhead stockpile Even before the start of the new year, US President George W. Bush's decision to reduce American nuclear potential to a quarter of its volume during the end of the Cold War will come into force. A White House statement released yesterday notes that the decision was made by the president in consultation with Pentagon chief Robert Gates and Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, with support from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the US Strategic Command.

A commission under the government of Valentina Matvienko resolves corporate conflicts The influence of the interdepartmental commission under the government of St. Petersburg on economic security began to be used to resolve corporate conflicts. The vice-governor of the northern capital, Mikhail Oseevsky, told a Vremya Novostei correspondent about this. At the last meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on Economic Security (IEC), two serious cases were considered.

Russia entered the economic G8 Recently, specialists under the auspices of the UN and the World Bank completed a large-scale study of the world's economies. Russia's economy in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) now ranks eighth in the world (its share of the world economy is 3%). Thus, the country's Russian economic authorities received authoritative international confirmation of the results of their course, and at the same time proof of the validity of Russia's presence in the G8.