Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the Ministry of Natural Resources to monitor the situation in the central ecological zone of the Baikal natural territory in connection with the resumption of production of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill.

"We must carefully analyze what it will take place in connection with the reopening of the pulp and paper mill. He works a long time - since the late 1960"s. As reported to the researchers, when I was this summer on Lake Baikal, no change in the ecological plan during the time of the enterprise for decades, is not observed, have been detected, "- said the head of the government at a working meeting with the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, Yuri Trutnev.

In turn, Trutnev told the Prime Minister that he held a meeting with Oleg Deripaska, controlling mill. "He said that they had no time with some refinement of the technologies, but also ensure that within three years of full-fledged technology does not allow any discharges into Lake Baikal, and the topic will be completely closed," - said t1000he head of Ministry of Natural Resources.

In January 2010, the Government lifted the ban on the production of pulp, paper, cardboard and products from them without the use of drainage water management systems, which operated in the central ecological zone of Baikal natural territory. Click to continue »

FAS Russia jointly with other executive bodies, including the FSB, Minpromtorg, FSTEK, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Mayor has prepared a draft federal law "On Amending the Federal Law" On procedure of foreign investment in the business entities of strategic importance to national defense and State security ".

This bill is designed in order to enforce orders of the government commission to monitor foreign investment in Russia and improve the handling of applications and notifications, set the Federal Law "On procedure of foreign investment in the business entities of strategic importance to national defense and national security .

In accordance with the amended transaction to acquire shares (stakes) making up the share capital of the strategic business entity as a result of additional share issue (capital increase), if the volume of foreign investors" rights by order of the voting shares (shares) of such a society is not increases are implemented without prior approval.

The bill includes an increase to 30 days jail term agreements on the performance of foreign investor commitments established a government commission. Click to continue »

January 26 held a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of JSC "Aeroflot" under the chairmanship of the Minister of Transport Igor Levitin. Board of Directors of the airline noted the structure of its acquisition of JSC "Aeroflot-Finance 25,8% stake in OAO" Aeroflot "a group of the NSC.

Board of Directors also considered the safety of Aeroflot in 2009. Over the past year the level of safety was 99.967%, which is 0,012% higher than in 2008. This level of safety was achieved through significant reduction in the number of incidents classified as "difficult situation" and lack of emergency situations, said in a statement the airline.

The number of incidents due tf59o failure of aircraft - at the level of 2008, as compared to the rates in 2004 fell by almost 1,8 times. Safety factor SAFA Aeroflot on the results of 139 tests have improved to 0.3 in comparison with 2008 and amounted to 0,38. Click to continue »

In 2009, Tatneft produced 25 million 850 thousand tons of oil, which is 84 thousand tons from the previous year. During the period of stabilization of oil production, that is, since 1994, the volume of annual oil production by OAO Tatneft rose by 9.3% or 2.2 million tons. Total consolidated index of "Tatneft", including oil production in the Samara and Orenburg regions, amounted to 26 million 106 thousand tons. Produced 292 tonnes of natural gas liquids, the volume of associated gas production amounted to 756 million cubic meters

In 2009, Tatneft continued to work actively in the growth of hydrocarbon reserves, including those outside the Republic of Tatarstan and Russia. Thus yuylo open 16 new fields, including 10 - in the Republic of Tatarstan, 3 - in Samara, and 2 - in the Orenburg region. In Syria, was discovered a new oil field, drilled 4 exploration wells, obtained Fountain oil with up to 150 cubic meters per day. In Libya, the company had drilled two exploration wells. When testing the first flow of oil obtained in the amount of 103 m3 per day, with the development of a second well - 130 cubic meters per day.

increase recoverable reserves of oil and condensate from the holding company "Tatneft" in 2009 totaled 62.6 million tons, including 44.4 million tons - the Republic of Tatarstan. According to an independent international consulting firm of Miller and Lents, total proved, probable and possible reserves of OAO Tatneft in the beginning of 2009 amounted to 1.061 billion tons of oil, without taking into account reserve growth over the past1000year and the discovery of oil in Syria, South lousy.

In addition, in Tatarstan there are significant resources high-viscosity oil, which is estimated from 1.5 to 7 billion tons. In the past year has continued the program of works for the development of these reserves at Ashalchinskom field. The volume of oil production from the three pairs of wells in the reporting year amounted to 18,4 thousand tons. In general, since the early development of the experimental site produced 38 thousand tons with increase in production per well of about 30 tons per day. Click to continue »

January 19 in Moscow the first meeting of the Committee on the restructuring of "AvtoVAZ", which was attended by Deputy Director General of Rostekhnologii Igor Zavialov, general director of "KAMAZ" Sergey Kogogin, managing director of Troika Dialog, Sergey Skvortsov, senior vice president of Renault, Christian Esteve , president of AvtoVAZ, Igor Komarov, Director of Strategy and Planning Group Renault Jean Verdonk.

The main objectives of the Committee include monitoring of anti-crisis program, review plans and activities, restructuring and modernization of the company, as well as the harmonization of the essential conditions of transactions involving assets, which is submitted for approval by the Board of Directors of AvtoVAZ.

Christian Esteve highlighted the sale of noncore assets AvtoVAZ and recommended management of the company regularly inform the members about the way, cost and results of their implementation. Click to continue »

Jan. 22 between the JSC "RZD" OJSC and "Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, having a successful experience of cooperation in the development and implementation of solid-rolled wheels of increased hardness, was signed several documents on cooperation, the report said Railways.

The parties entered into "a strategic partnership agreement in the field of quality", whose goal is to achieve high reliability and durability of products supplied to the rail network, reducing the unit cost indicators of the life cycle and the number of defects, reducing the negative environmental impact.

transition to innovative technologies and improving the quality of products will contribute to the implementation of strategies for development of rail transport by 2030 and development of transport engineering until 2015, noted in the announcement of the company. Click to continue »

In 2009 the plant "KES-Holding" generated 63.3 billion kWh of electricity and 118.6 million Gcal of heat. In comparison with 2008 output of electricity decreased by 7.77%, heat production decreased by 1.46%.

As experts division "KES-Holding" Trading ", the reduction of power generation in 2009 compared with the previous year due, primarily, the decline in demand - an average of 6-8% depending on the ECO. Under these conditions, significantly reduced the condensation load CHP, which are close in trading on the wholesale electricity market and power.

Because of the warm winter 2008-2009 there was an increased water content of rivers of European Russia and the Urals, so in the winter-spring 2009 increased hydropower generation. From mid-October until the end of the year sharply increased the load plant, reaching a record high on Dec. Click to continue »

In 2009, the Group "Akron made 5.1 million tons of marketable products, up 11% from the previous year. Manufacture of ammonia and mineral fertilizers by 17% over the results of 2008 and totaled 4.3 million tons. Increase production of commodity products in the JSC Dorogobuzh in 2009 was 48%.

As stated in the "Akron", a steady demand for nitrogen fertilizers in 2009 allowed the maximum load capacities for the production of urea and ammonium nitrate. The volume of ammonia production at all enterprises amounted to almost 1.7 million tons, which is one of the highest figures in the history of the group.

"Dorogobuzh showed record levels of output per units of ammonia and ammonium nitrate for all time of the enterprise. In the second half of the year, a demand for liquid fertilizer CAS, which allowed a 20% increase in its production at the industrial site in Veliky Novgorod.

demand on the world market of complex fertilizers in the year has been uneven, but, nonetheless, making the consolidated volumes increased by 6% and amounted to 2.1 million tons. Increase in production was due Dorogobuzh, while the development of JSC "Akron" and "Hongri Akron fell by 6% and 4% respectively. Click to continue »

On January 18, 2009 RTS Index calculation starts RTS Standard based on transaction prices and quotations of 15 most liquid stocks of Russia"s stock market, said in a message exchange. Code under which the market distributes the new index - RTSSTD.

With the start of index calculations RTS Standard RTS exchange increases the family of indices, in which today includes 3 composite, and 7 sectoral indexes.

RTS Standard Index is an indicator of the market the most liquid shares of Russian companies or the so-called "blue chips". RTS Index is calculated at prices of 50 shares most capitalized Russian companies that can most adequately reflect changes in total stock market in Russia. RTS-2 Index is an indicator of the market shares of the "second tier". In the calculation base RTS-2 Index includes securities of middle and primary levels of capitalization. Click to continue »

Investment Holding Finam presented an updated version of the trading system Trade. Now enjoying her investors can work on the derivatives market FORTS. The platform also provides access to a wide range of assets - from securities Russia"s stock market to exchange FOREX and commodity contracts. In addition, the Trade is now available in new, more functional design.

Trading System, Trade - own development Finam. It is a multifunctional shopping and information web application. Trade does not require installation on your computer, although it possesses all the properties of the most popular trading systems. For access to trading the investor enough to have internet access. This Trade consists of several modules, each of which has its own unique characteristics and can be used as a separate trading platform. Using multiple modules at the same time allows the individual to form a commercial space, the most satisfying needs and strategies for the particular investor. Another feature of the system - the possibility of formation of visual applications. The corresponding order affects the line on the graph, the investor can move it with the mouse, thus altering the purchase price and the sale of the asset.

In the updated version of the trading system Trade available the most liquid instruments, presented on the derivatives market FORTS. This provides additional opportunities to implement more complex strategies, hedge risks, etc. Now Russia investors can increase their income at all of the most popular venues, the most efficient use of motion of different markets. Click to continue »