The Ekaterinburg Archbishop condemned legal contracts between spouses One of the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Vikenty (Morar), publicly condemned the institution of a marriage contract. Speaking live on Thursday on the Orthodox TV channel “Soyuz” and the radio station “Resurrection,” Bishop Vikenty urged future spouses not to even think about concluding any agreements on the possible division of property.

GAZ no longer wants to produce Volga Siber The project to produce the Volga Siber passenger car at GAZ did not justify itself, so the company intends to complete the production of these cars this year. The head of the company's supervisory board, Nikolai Pugin, told reporters about this yesterday. “The Siber project cannot last long. Apparently, the last year (is going on. - Ed. ) production of this car,” he said. At the same time, Mr.

Published on August 27, 2009 in Vremya Novostey in the article by E. Karacheva “A Kilowatt with a Kopek” information that “a controlling stake in OJSC Vladimirenergosbyt” was purchased for an amount of more than 300 million rubles. Sergei Filippov, who as a result became a virtual monopolist in the regional fuel and energy sector,” were recognized by the Moscow Arbitration Court as untrue and discrediting the business reputation of Sergei Nikolaevich Filippov. News Time

City authorities began to sign agreements with traders of St. Petersburg "Cherkizon" Yesterday, the signing of tripartite agreements began between traders from the Khasansky market, Smolny represented by the specialized committee for economic development (KERPPiT) and the public council for the development of small businesses under the governor of St. Petersburg.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Moscow at the end of next week. She will take part in the Quartet meeting on the Middle East settlement. According to her Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov, we will also talk about Russian-American negotiations on concluding a treaty on the reduction and limitation of offensive arms (START). Their progress is being closely monitored by other nuclear powers, including Great Britain.

Sergei Mironov promised to lobby Obninsk as a place for the Russian Silicon Valley Despite the ban on participating in campaigning for his party , the last campaign trip to the regions before the Sunday elections was made yesterday by the Chairman of the Federation Council, leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov, who visited the Kaluga region. Elections to the regional legislative assembly are taking place here on March 14.

The Russian Prime Minister must finally sell the Admiral Gorshkov to India Today Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will spend a working day in India. The range of issues that the head of the Russian government will have to resolve in New Delhi is known in advance.

Blue Wings airline changes CEO Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev achieved a change of leadership at the German airline Blue Wings (BW), which is 48% controlled by the National Reserve Corporation (NRK) group owned by Mr. Lebedev. As the NRC press service reported yesterday, the day before the BW supervisory board removed the airline's general director, Jorn Helwig, whom the Russian shareholder accuses of deliberately driving the company into bankruptcy.

The Public Chamber joined the criticism of Yuri Luzhkov's urban planning policy The Moscow political opposition, apparently, can count on the support of federal public structures in the fight to delay the adoption of the city development master plan until 2025. Yesterday, the Public Chamber commission for the preservation and development of national culture demanded an independent professional examination of the capital's main urban planning document.

Moscow and Minsk cannot agree on a nuclear loan The prospects for creating a nuclear power plant in Belarus will be discussed on March 16 at a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Russian-Belarusian union state. The text of the intergovernmental agreement on this issue is “at a high degree of readiness,” but there are discrepancies that the parties are trying to resolve. This was stated by the vice-president of the contractor company Atomstroyexport, Alexander Glukhov.

In exchange for benefits, the state will introduce a number of restrictions for oil workers The abolition of the zero export duty for oil produced at 22 fields in Eastern Siberia, which the Ministry of Finance has long sought, has been postponed indefinitely. As Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin explained yesterday, the “current regime” will be applied until all responsible departments finally agree on their positions.

Russians are regaining positions in the Forbes billionaires ranking The number of Russian billionaires at the end of 2009 almost doubled, from 32 to 62 people. This data is provided by Forbes magazine in its new annual ranking of the richest entrepreneurs. However, as analysts note, the successes of Russian businessmen are not due to the quality of business management, but to the improvement of the raw materials situation and large-scale government injections.

The idea of ​​fingerprinting residents of the North Caucasus could increase dislike for the security forces there Perhaps, if the militant ideologist Said Buryatsky had been killed a few days earlier, the head of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, would have succumbed to the general euphoria and would not have expressed his scandalous idea regarding the universal collection of fingerprints from residents of the North

Nord Stream has agreed to attract financing for the gas pipeline On March 16, the Swiss-registered company Nord Stream AG, which plans to begin construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in April, will sign a deal with 27 banks to attract the first part of project financing. The official announcement will take place on the London Stock Exchange on the same day.

The future of bright theater graduates remains a challenge Here in St. Petersburg, our wireless telegraph works properly.