The head of Onexim will independently manage the gold miner The head of Onexim, Mikhail Prokhorov, one of the main owners of Polyus Gold, will become the general director of the largest Russian gold miner. Previously, he occupied the chair of the chairman of the board of directors; now this place will be taken by a member of the board of directors of Polyus, deputy financial director of Onexim, Ekaterina Salnikova.

David Yakobashvili: We were sure that there were no leaks The deal to sell Wimm-Bill-Dann to PepsiCo Corporation has acquired the status of not just high-profile, but also scandalous. For the first time, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought charges of insider trading in relation to a transaction involving a Russian company.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan accelerated the creation of the Common Economic Space Within the Customs Union (CU), which unites Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, the Common Economic Space (SES) will begin to fully operate from January 1, 2012. Agreements on this, after “titanic work” carried out at the level of experts and governments of the three countries, were signed yesterday in Moscow by Presidents Alexander Lukashenko, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Dmitry Medvedev.

The Polish president told Americans about Russia “It’s good that it came to President Bronislaw Komorowski’s visit to the United States, especially that the meeting with Barack Obama took place immediately after Komorowski’s negotiations with the presidents of Russia and Germany,” Tadeusz Iwiński, deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Polish Sejm, said yesterday.

The Penguins remain undefeated for 11 games in a row. Hockey. NHL. Regular season. Pittsburgh - Toronto - 5:2, Detroit - Nashville - 2:3, Vancouver - Anaheim - 5:4 (bullet point), Philadelphia - - “San Jose” – 4:5 (bullet), “Chicago” – “Dallas” – 5:3. Sidney Crosby scored twice for Pittsburgh. Toronto, losing 0:4 after the second period, spent the final 20 minutes with maximum activity.

Only a working law can save you from xenophobia The march of fans through Leningradka and the action at the Champions League match with Zilina became a clear manifestation of interethnic tension for everyone. A crowd of skinheads shouting the slogan “Russians, forward!” -- a call that requires an answer. The search for such an answer encounters countless “buts”. The Nazi slogans of the fans have no justification and require a reaction.

Public inspectors of places of detention were reinforced with retired security officials Despite violent protests from human rights activists, people from law enforcement agencies have significantly increased their representation in the new composition of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (POC) for places of forced detention.

Kyrgyzstan is again creating a parliamentary coalition Today, when in Moscow at the CSTO summit they will again discuss how to improve the crisis response mechanism, based on the experience of the June events of this year in Kyrgyzstan, the presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will listen carefully to their Kyrgyz counterpart Roza Otunbayeva. It is obvious that this time, unlike her speech at the OSCE summit in Astana on December 1, Ms.

The Belarusian authorities gave the opposition new opportunities The outcome of the presidential elections in Belarus scheduled for December 19 looks a foregone conclusion. According to experts, none of Alexander Lukashenko’s nine competitors can claim victory. Among the alternative candidates, no undoubted leader emerged. However, developments on the eve of the elections may in the future lead to a gradual change in the political situation in the country.

Elections in Kosovo could rock the Balkans On Sunday, December 12, early parliamentary elections will be held in Kosovo - the first since the province declared independence from Serbia in February 2008 . The future configuration of power and the prospects for negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, scheduled for early next year, depend on their outcome.

The next Atlantic cyclone will determine the weather in the northern half of the European territory of Russia. Portions of warm and humid air will continue to flow into the northern half of European Russia, maintaining unseasonably warm weather. In the coming 24 hours, most areas of the northwest will experience light to moderate rainfall and gusty south and southwest winds. At night +1...+4оС, during the day +3...+8оС. The central region is in the warm part of the cyclone.

“Cross Years” is solemnly closed The Year of France in Russia brought more than two dozen cultural events to our fatherland. Among them were the Comedie Française tour (the main Parisian drama theater traveled from Kaliningrad to Novosibirsk), and the Picasso exhibition, which pleased Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the French film festival, which visited 27 of our cities.

CONCERTS 30 seconds to Mars. Concert in support of the album This is War. SC "Olympic" , December 10, 19.00. "Auction". KZ "Mir" , December 10, 19.00. "25/17". Omsk rappers. Milk , December 10, 20.00. "Polite refusal." China-Town-Cafe , December 10, 21.00. "Moral Code". “16 tons” , December 10, 21.00. Korpiklaani (Finland). “Point” , December 11, 19.00. Vanessa May. Crocus City Hall , 19.00. "Crematorium". Mezzo Forte , December 11, 20.00. Musical group of Peter Nalich.

Russian innovators received a prize for a cryochamber Today in Moscow the three-day international youth innovation session of the CIS, organized at the end of the year of science and innovation by the International Foundation for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS, Rossotrudnichestvo and the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation, ends.

Spartak fans are preparing a new event in memory of their murdered comrade The head of the SKP, Alexander Bastrykin, yesterday gave instructions to put on the wanted list the participants in the fight released by the police, during which Spartak fan Yegor Sviridov died. The seven immigrants from the North Caucasus could have been completely forgotten if not for the actions of Spartak fans, thanks to which this story is receiving an increasingly wider public response.