Avtotor puts Astra and Zafira models on the conveyor The Kaliningrad Avtotor plant will begin assembling Opel Astra and Zafira cars on its assembly line next week. This was reported by representatives of the Russian auto company. The incompleteness of the transaction for the sale of the German asset of General Motors (GM) - Opel to the consortium of the Canadian Magna and the Russian Sberbank did not in any way affect the plans of Avtotor.

TNK-BP has calculated its investment program Last year, when a barrel cost about $40, TNK-BP became the most cautious company, drawing up an investment program based on the average cost of oil of $35. A whole year of rising oil prices imbued the management of the Russian-British consortium with optimism. According to TNK-BP CFO Jonathan Muir, the company has drawn up a business plan for 2010 based on an oil price of $60 at an exchange rate of 33 rubles/dollar.

VTB reported for the second quarter VTB Bank's financial report for the second quarter turned out to be better than analysts' forecasts, but these results did not inspire investors. As experts note, the bank did not make very large contributions to reserves for loan losses, which does not correspond to financial realities - the volume of “bad” loans is increasing even faster than expected. At the end of trading, VTB shares fell by 1.45%.

In the coming days, the anticyclone will gradually shift to the southeast; an active wave cyclone will rise along its western edge, which will be associated with worsening weather in the central and western regions of European Russia. In southern Russia the weather is mostly calm, but rain, thunderstorms and gusty winds are also possible there. There will be rain in the northwestern region, +3...+8оС during the day.

The 2010 federal budget can be called cautious in terms of revenues and very generous in terms of expenses. It is expected that next year it will be possible to collect 6.95 trillion rubles into the treasury. This is only 3.5% more than budgeted for this year. But state expenses will amount to 9.89 trillion rubles. Approximately the same amount of spending is expected in this year's budget.

CONCERTS Ensemble of Alex Rostotsky as part of the City Jazz festival. Bijou , 19.30. Funky Groove Day: Guru Groove Foundation, Mark Useem and Nikolai Moiseenko, DJ Miusha as part of the City Jazz festival. Club Copenhagen , 20.00. Alexey Aigi and “4'33''”. CC "Dom" , 20.00. "Accident". “16 tons” , 21.00. Sophie Alice-Bextor (Great Britain). "B1 Maximum" , 21.00. CLASSIC An evening of classical operetta. National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. Soloists H. Gerzmava (soprano), V.

Vnesheconombank is building a plant in Kazakhstan The state corporation Vnesheconombank (VEB) is exploring the possibility of financing the creation of a carriage building plant in Kazakhstan. Yesterday, a tripartite memorandum on this matter was signed by the heads of the bank, the national company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (Kazakh Railways) and the research and production corporation Uralvagonzavod. The plant will be built in Stepnogorsk, Akmola region of Kazakhstan.

The Russian authorities plan to launch a new program for advanced training of specialists in 2010, aimed at retraining personnel for the leading sectors of the country's economy. Unlike the program in force in 2009, under which short-term retraining courses were given to blue-collar specialists, starting next year people with higher and secondary specialized education will be able to obtain a new profession.

Kazan pushed “Fakel” from the first line of the table The highlight of the fifth round of the men's super league, by definition, was the match in Novy Urengoy, where Fakel, which had not suffered a single defeat until Wednesday, hosted the current champion, Zenit Kazan. For the first time this season, the team from the capital of Tatarstan forced the polar explorers to leave the site defeated and pushed the team of head coach Boris Kolchin from the first line of the standings.

Lukashenko will seek a new term to preserve sovereignty The next presidential elections in Belarus will be held in early 2011, their exact date will be announced by parliament a year later. But it is already known that according to the law they must take place no later than February 7, 2011. The campaign will differ from previous ones, since Minsk intends to partially fulfill Western demands to liberalize electoral legislation.

And he will offer to pay for it The three-day state visit to Moscow by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, which began yesterday, will prove to be a very difficult test for Russian-Tajik relations. Dushanbe does not hide its numerous grievances against Moscow and demonstrates this in any available ways - from refusing to participate in the CSTO and CIS summits, over which Mr.

Nikolay Gubenko was given the post of Deputy Speaker of the Moscow City Duma The capital's communists, who turned out to be the only official opponents of the party in power in the Moscow City Duma, are ready to accumulate other opposition forces around themselves.

The North Caucasus quickly remembers traditions A whole scandal arose in connection with the words allegedly spoken the other day by the plenipotentiary representative of the President of Dagestan in Moscow, Gadzhi Makhachev, at a round table dedicated to peace and stability in the Caucasus. One of the most famous Avar leaders was credited with calling for the creation of special detachments of policemen whose families had suffered at the hands of armed radicals to fight the militants. Mr.

"A Just Russia" will propose to the president to change the electoral legislation While the communists are deciding whether they have returned to the Duma for good or not, the A Just Russia party, led by its leader, Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov, intends to open President Dmitry Medvedev’s eyes to the falsification of the election results on October 11. The chairman of the upper house of parliament told reporters about this yesterday. Mr.

Having your own field in the Champions League does not yet provide an advantage Rubin's victory in Catalonia over the formidable Barcelona is the most sensational, but not the only unexpected result in the Champions League matches. On Tuesday, the favorites were too hospitable: Liverpool lost to Lyon at Anfield Road, Inter barely snatched a draw from Dynamo Kyiv at home in San Siro, and Rangers at Ibrox its own fans were defeated by the Romanian club Unirea. Group "E".