The net consolidated profit of RAO UES under the Russian accounting standards declined by 23.5 percent to RUR13.7bn (approx. USD475.4m) from January through September 2005 compared to the same period of 2004, according to data in the company`s report.
Local authorities defined main criteria according to which Russian citizens have right to obtain the government apartment.
The Kremlin press-service announced the official date of Russian president`s visit to Japan.
The International Monetary Fund has published another report on the economic situation in this country, and its conclusions are unprecedentedly harsh and impartial
TOKYO, November 15 - Japanese car giant Nissan could open an assembly plant in Russia in 2007, a Japanese business daily reported Tuesday.
MOSCOW - Fuad, an illegal migrant from Azerbaijan, is thinking of going home after five years` work as a loader and brick-carrier in Moscow`s booming shadow economy.
Open Stock Association "Kamaz" intends to produce more than 1100 bus chassis and it will overfulfil the prediction figure of business-plan on 19%.
Law project was introduced by group of delegates from "Unified Russia" party, including vice-speaker of State Duma Oleg Morozov, vice-speaker Vladimir Katrenko and vice-speaker Vladimir Pekhtin.
Dollar rate of exchange reacted on announcement about changes in Russian government and presidential administration. Today Russian exchange market concentrated on problems with liquidity and dynamics in pair euro/dollar. At moment when news agencies reported about personnel changes, dollar increased higher than $1.17 per euro which caused decrease of ruble rate to 28.855 per $1.
State Duma deputies are going to prohibit unapproved advertisement through the internet and promotional SMS-messages, "Vedomosti" newspaper informs.
Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky has demanded official apologies for "Logovaz case".
Moscow, November 13 - At the meeting in Moscow Vladimir Putin and Islam Karimov will sign an agreement about allied relations between Russia and Uzbekistan and the presidents will discuss a situation in the Central Asia.
Minister of Finance Aleksey Kudrin suggests limiting of wages` growth in state companies. He is convinced that extra generosity in respect to officials spurs inflation.
Production of vodka and distillery reduced by 6.4% for January-October period comparing with analogous period of last year - till 99.6 millions of decalitres.
Calculating Chamber will finish wide-scale examination of federal budget use in field of science and education in June 2006.
Norway has said it might close down companies that fail to meet proposed boardroom quotas for women.
Bird flu pandemic can hit oil industry strongly.
A remarkable event has occurred in relations between Gazprom and Rosneft. After a long pause, the gas giant`s CEO Alexei Miller met the state-owned oil major`s president Sergei Bogdanchikov.
MOSCOW, November 11 - The government has approved the Russian Railways Company (RRC) investment programme and financial plan for 2006 and for the period till 2008, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov announced at a Cabinet meeting.
ASTANA, November 11 - Kazakhstan`s state-owned KazMunaiGaz and Russia`s gas giant Gazprom signed two agreements on the transit of Central Asian and Russian gas through Kazakhstan.
The owners of Russian metals major Polimetall have sold the company to an investment firm controlled by a member of the State Duma, officials said Friday.
MOSCOW, November 11 - Dilapidating standardized five-story apartment blocks that mushroomed in Moscow and other Soviet cities during the rule of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as instruments of solving the knotty housing problem will be totally replaced by new houses by the year 2010, Moscow’s Deputy Mayor Vladimir Ressin told reporters Thursday.
VLADIVOSTOK, November 11 -- Russia’s Primorye region proposed to the State Duma to impose a five-year ban on crab fishing in Far Eastern seas in order to stop poaching and restore the reserves of the species, the press service of the regional administration told Tass on Friday.
The maker of the popular Lada cars, AvtoVAZ, has become a favorite of the stock market in recent weeks, with its stock up by more than 44 percent on both of Moscow`s main exchanges after the company`s long-serving board chairman, Vladimir Kadannikov, resigned late last month.
The so-called Italian strike - when workers do not leave their working places even if bosses order them to do so - is scheduled for this week if last Wednesday`s action fails.