Mincom, a leading global software and services provider to asset-intensive industries, today announced it has signed an agreement with one enterprise from the group of companies known as "Russian Copper Company," to implement Mincom Ellipse at the production sites of "TOO Aktubinskaya Mednaya Kompaniya." This recent agreement further testifies the strengthening of Mincom's presence in emerging markets like Russia and Kazakhstan.

BARNAUL. April 17 (Interfax) - Chinese state-owned corporations have offered to build five factories in the Altai Territory, worth a total of $500 million, Altayan President Vyacheslav Bayandin told Interfax.

BARNAUL. Nov 28 (Interfax) - Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) has obtained permission from the Altai Territory administration to do prospecting under the project to build the Altai gas pipeline linking Western Siberia to China.