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DALENERGO WILL NAME NEW CEO
The meeting of Dalenergo board scheduled for the coming Tuesday is expected to name an acting director general. Vladimir Peshkun, previous director general, received a higher-level appointment in Mosenergo.
As became known to "ZR", the vacant chair will be given to vice governor Yury Likhoida, who had worked in Dalenergo for many years and the last five years held the position of director of production.
This replacement has become the result of lasting under-the-carpet struggle against the protege of Chubais and for control over financial flows of Dalenergo. The fact that Vladimir Peshkun was not ousted but received a job in Moscow also stresses the political nature of his removal.
As a matter of fact, Dalenergo will see its fourth director general during the last four years. Will Likhoida bring heat and light to Primorye? - Irina PETROVA.
TELEPHONE LINK BETWEEN JILIN, PRIMORYE
A technical meeting of communication providers from Primorsky Krai and the Chinese province Jilin, held recently in Vladivostok, was devoted to the organization of cross-border communication.
The parties decided that dial-up from China to Primorye will be automatic and dial-up in reverse direction will be semi-automatic. Equipment to Primorye will be delivered by the Chinese company of electric communications of Jilin province affiliated to China's Electric Communications Corp.
At initial stage, the linkage will have 5 incoming and 5 outgoing channels and a service channel. Technical details on hook-up, signals, etc., will be discussed at the next meeting scheduled for September in Hunchun, China. - Irina PETROVA.
FLOODS HIT PRIMORYE FARMS
The situation in all Primorye counties affected by recent torrential rains has been given an emergency status. By preliminary data, at least 40,000 hectares of plantations were flooded: Oktyabrsky County - 4,500 ha; Krasnoarmeisky County - 2,485 ha; Olginsky County - 3,531 ha; Partizansky County - 297.5 ha; Yakovlevsky County - 2,080 ha; Chuguyevsky County - 3,509 ha.
Grain crops were hit most heavily: Dalnerechensky County - 171 ha of wheat; Lazovsky County - 177 ha; Krasnoarmeisky County - 195 ha of wheat; Mikhailovsky County - 3,324 ha, of which 736 ha is wheat; Yakovlevsky County - 1,465 ha of wheat; Chuguyevsky County - 2,750 ha, of which 644 ha is wheat; Nadezhdinsky County - 700 ha.
Soybean fields were flooded in Lazovsky County - 106 ha; Krasnoarmeisky County - 1,300 ha; Mikhailovsky County - 1,108 ha; Yakovlevsky County - 430 ha; Chuguyevsky County - 945 ha; Nadezhdinsky County - 318 ha.
Animal husbandry also suffered losses from rainstorms. Eleven cows drowned in Olginsky County. Pastures, annual and perennial grass fields went under water in many areas. Hay stocks prepared for winter perished in Olginsky County - 140 tons, Krasnoarmeisky County - 250 tons; Mikhailovsky County - 425 tons; Chuguyevsky County - 350 tons; Nadezhdinsky County - 740 tons.
Potato plantations and vegetable crops were also seriously damaged. It is impossible to harvest potatoes because of high water. If forecasts of another typhoon descending on Primorye in mid-August come true, the krai will be unable to harvest enough crops for winter season. - Tatiana KOZINA.
FIGHT OVER "BOR" CONTINUES
The commission, sent by Primorye governor to investigate the situation around "Bor", failed to submit its findings by July 20 because Bor, Energomash-Bor and Dalnegorsky branch of Energomash Corp. did not provide necessary documentation.
By words of Sergei Kurakin, chairman of the krai administration's Industry Committee, further actions by the commission should be determined by Governor. In the meantime, the krai procurator's office and Interior Affairs Office investigators are trying to find legal ways for access to documents. They are interested in originals not copies. For the time being, Bor's secrets remain uncovered.
"Bor" bailout manager Boris Dushanin submitted an appeal against Primorye arbitration court's decision of July 7, which had nullified the agreement on incorporation of JSC "Energomash-Bor" concluded between JSC "Bor" and JSC "Energomash Corporation".
It should be noted that shortly before the court session the Russian Federal Property Fund, holding 51% of Bor shares, remembered its rights for Bor property and in a telex to the arbitration court supported Primorye procurator's claims.
The krai arbitration court pointed out to Dushanin that, according to federal legislation, bailout manager has no rights for setting up a new enterprise at the cost of the debtor's property. In addition, if 'rapid bankruptcy' procedures are applied and debtor's assets become replaced for shares of a newly set up company, such a company may be set up only by the debtor himself. In violation of these regulations, creditor (Energomash Corp.) took part in its incorporation and acquired its shares.
Be that as it may, Energomash Corp. has bought to date, by unofficial data, a 30-% stake in Energomash-Bor dirt-cheap - at 2.6 rubles per share versus par value of 10 rubles. On paper, it paid 40 million rubles for these shares, but only less than 5 million ultimately reached "Bor" and were spent on tax payments. The rest was appropriated by the corporation itself to clear off Bor's payables and debt to a Moscow-based bank actually owned by the corporation.
It is interesting that Bor had to draw the above bank loan because the corporation failed to pay for its produce in due time. Now the corporation both returned this debt and seized a handsome piece in the new "Bor"... - Tatiana KUROCHKINA.
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