How much money Kovalchuk hung on Cyprus and other news that this day was remembered

In Russia, they can legislatively fix the ten -day “cooling period” for borrowers - that is, the period in which you can refuse a loan (now this practice is used only at the request of the bank). During this period, Russians will be able to return the full amount of consumer loan without any fines and without warning the creditor. For large targeted loans (mortgages or car loans), it is proposed to introduce a “cooling period” for 30 days, but in this case, the law will prescribe the obligation of the borrower to pay the bank interest on the time while the money was in hand. Corresponding amendments to the law will be considered in the fall.

The Ministry of Justice reported on the appearance of the first official “foreign agent” in our country. The non -profit organization “Promoting the development of competition in the CIS countries” decided to register in this capacity. So far, this is the only record in the register of the Ministry of Justice. The Law on NPO - Foreign Agents has been in force in Russia since November 20 last year. According to him, an organization that is engaged in political activities in the Russian Federation and at the same time receives funding from abroad, must officially receive the status of a foreign agent. Until now, not one of the organizations that the Ministry of Justice declared “agents” has not agreed to changes in status, although the “voice” had to close .

$ 800 million lying on the deposit accounts of the Bank "Russia" was stuck in Cyprus due to the financial crisis. As stated in the bank’s report, this money was not in those banks to which the government applied “haircut”, so “Russia” expects to regain control over it when the situation around the Cyprus cools down: “On December 31, 2012 and on the date of signing of real financial statements, the bank had funds in deposit accounts in the Cyprus bank that is not one of the two <...> subjects to be subject Restructuring of banks, in the amount of 26.349 billion rubles, classified as cash and their equivalents. ” The largest co -owner of the Bank "Russia" is the famous friend of Vladimir Putin Yuri Kovalchuk (owns 30% of the shares), Reuters recall . 10.5% are held by Dmitry Gorelov and Nikolai Shamalov, about 16% of the bank’s shares are owned by Gazprom's structures, about 8% belong to Transyol, Gennady Timchenko.

EU members agreed to fight unemployment together: in the next two years, Europe will allocate 6 billion euros to create jobs and internship programs (skeptics in the effectiveness of these measures doubt: “A drop in the sea”, now there are about 19 million unemployed in the EU). European leaders also came to an agreement on the EU budget in the amount of 960 billion euros ($ 1.25 trillion) for the period from 2014 to 2020 and announced that Latvia, which claims membership in the eurozone, fulfilled all the necessary conditions for this. If on July 9, at a meeting of the EU Council of Ministers of Finance, everything goes well, the euro will gradually begin to supplant the armor from January 1, 2014.