1.92 million cars were sold in Russia in the first nine months of 2011. During the same period last year, 1.32 million cars were sold in the country (an increase of 31%). Despite this, in the fall of 2011, the Russian car market slowed down: according to the Association of European Businesses, sales of new cars in September increased by 26%, while in August the growth was 32%.

RUB 6.88 million amounted to the total amount of fines issued during the first month of operation of video recording systems on Moscow roads. 17 thousand (about 85%) of administrative offenses were related to speeding by 20-40 km/h. In addition, 1,122 cases of speeding by 40-60 km/h were identified, as well as 56 cases of exceeding the maximum permitted speed by more than 60 km/h.

The Bank of Russia raised its forecast for net outflow of private capital at the end of 2011 to $73.6 billion from the initial $36 billion. It is worth recalling that in early October the Central Bank already adjusted its forecast, since capital outflow in nine months reached $49.3 billion, and in the third quarter alone it amounted to $18.7 billion.

Individual deposits in ruble and foreign currency accounts in Russian banks increased by 1% over the month, reaching 10.72 trillion rubles. According to Rosstat, the share of Sberbank of the Russian Federation in the total volume of savings decreased in August by 0.3% to 46.6%. By September 1, 2011, 8.77 trillion rubles were concentrated in ruble accounts in Russian banks. (an increase of 27% over the year), deposits in foreign currency in terms of rubles amounted to 1.95 trillion rubles as of September 1. (growth by 7.5%).

RUB 2.358 trillion the surplus of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation reached in January-August 2011 against 247.2 billion rubles. for the same period last year. According to Rosstat estimates, budget revenues (including state extra-budgetary funds) amounted to 13 trillion 496.1 billion rubles in January-August 2011. (in January-August 2010 - 10 trillion 236.1 billion rubles), expenses - 11 trillion 138.6 billion rubles. (compared to 9 trillion 988.9 billion rubles in 2010).

Up to 123 thousand rubles. The capital’s government increased the standard of financial support for schools per each high school student from 120 thousand per year. Taking into account the fact that, according to the latest forecast of the Central Bank, inflation in the country at the end of 2011 will be about 7%, financial support for schoolchildren not only will not increase by the 2.5% announced by the authorities, but, obviously, should decrease by 4.5%.

875 billion rubles. will be the deficit of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation in 2011, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Yuri Voronin. In 2012, according to the ministry's forecast, the deficit will increase to 1.75 trillion rubles. due to an increase in the number of pensioners by 500 thousand people. According to Mr. Voronin, the reason for the deficit is the cost of early retirement pensions in connection with work in harmful and difficult working conditions, as well as the “inevitable payment for the existence of funded pensions.”

From November 1, Sberbank increased interest rates on a number of time deposits for individuals in rubles by 1.3-1.5% . The main changes affected time deposits, the yield of which for the population will increase by a maximum of 1.3%. The cost of Sberbank's most profitable deposit is now 7.25%. Interest rates on bank savings certificates increased by 1.5%.

Russia took 28th place out of 28 in the ranking of countries prepared by Transparency International in terms of the level of bribery when doing business abroad (the higher the place, the lower the corruption). During the study, more than 3 thousand business representatives were interviewed, who had to rate the 28 largest exporting countries on a ten-point scale. The best scores were received by the Netherlands and Switzerland (8.8 points each), followed by Belgium (8.7), Germany and Japan (8.6 each). The list is completed by Indonesia (7.1), China (6.5) and Russia (6.1).

The number of bank cards issued in Russia increased by 11% over the 10 months of 2011. According to the Central Bank, to date, more than 160 million cards have been issued in the country, more than 50% of them are active (for which at least one transaction was carried out). The number of card service devices (ATMs and terminals) operating in Russia is about 170 thousand.

RUB 480 million donations received under Mikhail Prokhorov were returned to individuals and legal entities by the Right Cause party. In the near future, the Federal Political Council will consider the issue of returning another 60 million rubles. Let us remember that, when leaving the post of party chairman, Mr. Prokhorov said that he would demand the return of the money. At that time it was about 800 million rubles.

South Korean business will invest $1 billion in the development of the North Caucasus tourism cluster. The Russian state-owned company North Caucasus Resorts (KSK) has agreed to create a joint venture with the Korean companies Korea Western Power and CHT Korea, the purpose of which will be the construction of five power plants in the region. The total volume of necessary investments in the cluster is about $15 billion, of which 60 billion rubles are expenses of the Russian budget.

RUB 1.1 trillion will amount to federal budget expenditures on the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2012, said the head of the department, Rashid Nurgaliev. Most of these funds will be used to increase the salary of employees. In 2011, the state spent 523.8 billion rubles on the needs of the police.

How much time per day do you spend on average in traffic jams? (%)

AllMonthly income (RUB) before
1999920000-
2999930000-
49999from
50000

Less than half an hour	45	64	55	47	38
Half an hour	25	20	29	24	25
An hour and a half	13	7	9	14	15
One and a half to two hours	9	6	5	8	eleven
More than two hours	8	3	2	7	eleven

Source: IC SuperJob.ru, 4000 respondents, October 2011.

The column is led by Evgeniy Kozichev

1.92 million cars sold in nine months