Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment fund co-owned by Alisher Usmanov, bought ICQ, the instant messages service, from AOL, Interfax reports. DST announced earlier that the two parties agreed on the price of $187.5m. According to Kommersant, the compromise was reached on July 8, 2010. In fact, the U.S. law-enforcement agencies protested against selling ICQ to the Russian fund, since they believe ICQ is one of the main means of communications used by East-European crime groups.

Kaspersky Lab says the company has supplied its Kaspersky Anti-Spam and Kaspersky Security for Mail Server solutions to SKB-Bank. The delivery and installation of the products was performed by Relans Service, Kaspersky Lab’s partner. ‘We have been working together for a while now. Our bank has been using Kaspersky Lab’s products since 2004 and is happy with these products’ great reliability and the information security they provide. This is why we renewed our 1,800 licenses for Kaspersky Security for Mail Server and 1,300 licenses for Kaspersky Anti-Spam once again,’ SKB-Bank’s press officer

445,000 automobiles are currently registered in Yekaterinburg, which is actually 37,000 more than one year ago. 94.4% of these cars belong to private individuals, says Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev’s press secretary Ilona Starodubtseva. Yekaterinburg’s most popular vehicles are Russian cars: their share in the total number of cars driven around the city comes to 38.8%. New foreign automobiles are the second most popular kind: their share comes to 35%. All in all, 54% of all the cars in Yekaterinburg are vehicles under ten years old. It has been calculated that Yekaterinburg has

Moscow Arbitration Court ruled that OOO Technosila, a consumer electronics and white goods chain store, must undergo bankruptcy proceedings and appointed a trustee in bankruptcy for the insolvent company, RIA Novosti reports. Justice Tatiana Potapova appointed Sergey Potapov, the director of one of the stores, for the position. The company’s insolvency case will be heard in court on December 23, 2010. It was declared at the latest session that creditors laid a total of 8.8 billion RUR worth of claims against Technosila, whereas the chain store’s assets were estimated at 7.9 billion RUR.