NEW YORK, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Joy-Lud Distributors International, Inc., a former leading oil product distributor based in New York City, won landmark arbitration against OJSC Moscow Oil Refinery (MOR) in 2005. Joy-Lud was awarded a sum of $28 million, which has accrued to over $40 million.

A local businessman says that a series of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages, known as an emoticon, have been trademarked in Russia.

Text of report by heavyweight liberal Russian newspaper Kommersant on 6 September [Article by Aleksandr Gudkov and Dmitriy Butrin: "Konstantin Pulikovskiy Leaves Minprirody: Rostekhnadzor Head Requests Retirement"] Rostekhnadzor [Federal Environmental, Technological, & Atomic Oversight Service] head Konstantin Pulikovskiy has gone into retirement.

Text of report by Perm supplement to heavyweight liberal Russian newspaper Kommersant on 25 July Pervyy Permskiy [the First Perm], a new TV channel to broadcast 18 hours a day via cable networks, is to be launched in Perm on 1 September.

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus website Dushanbe, 28 July: Asadullo Ghulomov, the first deputy prime minister of Tajikistan, in an interview with Asia-Plus, has denied a report by the Russian Kommersant newspaper that Tajikistan agreed to give Russia 75 per cent of stakes in the Roghun hydroelectric power station.