Swedish IKEA on Thursday opened a shopping center for customers in Samara, the commissioning of which had been delayed since November 2007 due to the lack of a positive conclusion from the State Construction Supervision Authority. “Today the IKEA shopping center is officially open to customers,” told Interfax .

The UN Security Council may already this week agree on a single draft resolution aimed at ending the violence in Syria. This was stated by France's permanent representative to the UN, Gerard Araud, as reported by RIA Novosti.

Robinson Crusoe Island, Suvorov Atoll, Island of Assassins, Napoleon's Curse and other islands worth getting to Today there is, perhaps, no island left in the world where no human has set foot. All islands have long been counted and are available for viewing on Google maps. But there are still beautiful uninhabited islands that are very difficult, but also very tempting to get to. There are islands that take several days or even weeks to reach, and where only scientists live.

Updated at 17:20 Moscow time VTB Group has consolidated 80.57% of the shares of the Bank of Moscow, the state bank’s press service reported on Thursday. The securities were purchased from minority shareholders by CJSC VTB Debt Center. On September 19, this structure also bought a 46.48% stake in the Bank of Moscow from VTB .

A high-ranking defendant in the criminal case about a network of illegal casinos in the Moscow region, former first deputy prosecutor of the region Alexander Ignatenko, has not yet been put on the international wanted list. newspaper reported this on Thursday The Kommersant . According to the publication, the Prosecutor General's Office prevents the ex-prosecutor from being wanted by the former prosecutor accused of receiving bribes from the owner of the gambling business Ivan Nazarov.

photo Itar-TASS VTB bought from Vitaly Yusufov and Suleiman Kerimov their stakes in the bank in distress and will receive almost 300 billion rubles to save it On Thursday, VTB Bank announced that it had increased its stake in the capital of the Bank of Moscow to 80.57%. The story of the purchase of one of the country's largest banks from the Moscow government and the bank's largest minority shareholder and at the same time its president Andrei Borodin, full of secrets and omissions, has ended.

ANDREY MOVCHAN, Managing Partner of Third Rome Management Company: How to save money in foreign currency? First of all, we need diversification in accordance with the sources of real consumption. For residents of Russia, with its raw material economy, a significant place in consumption is occupied by imported goods, actually denominated in US dollars, and somewhat less so in euros. Even in the area of ​​basic necessities, a huge share of the cost is denominated in these two currencies.

photo from personal archive Producer and politician teaches computer animation to prisoners The small class would have passed for a student auditorium, if not for the cartoon images on the cheerful blue walls. Students in black uniforms sit at tables in front of monitors. There are white scarves on the backs of the chairs. On a large panel-monitor where a blackboard used to be, a large three-dimensional apple glows. “We select the face and extrude easily and simply,” explains the teacher.

photo REUTERS 2011 Amazon's tablet wasn't intended to be an iPad killer: it's a shopping tool On Wednesday, Amazon presented three new models of the Kindle e-reader (in its own words, the most successful on the market) and a new Kindle Fire tablet worth $200.

The “Initiative Group of Citizens” came out in support of the candidacy of Mikhail Prokhorov for the presidency of Russia. The corresponding appeal was posted on Thursday on the website http://voteforprokhorov.ru . The former leader of Right Cause himself considered the appearance of the resource a provocation.

The main beneficiary of Severstal OJSC, Alexey Mordashov, does not see any problems with the demand for steel. “We are seeing steady demand for steel, at least for now,” Interfax quotes the businessman . According to Mordashov, Severstal has “good capacity utilization, the order book for October is at least good.” “Yes, the situation in the financial markets is difficult, I cannot exclude that it may affect investment activity. But we are not expecting a disaster.

Yandex invested $15 million in the American company blekko, which owns the search engine blekko.com. The press service of the Russian Internet giant reported this on Thursday. Yandex acquired a minority stake (according to RIA Novosti , we are talking about about 10%). The CEO of the Russian company, Arkady Volozh, will join the board of directors of blekko. In total, as part of the next round of investment, blekko raised $30 million, and Yandex became the main investor in this round.

UC Rusal has completed the signing of agreements with major creditors to refinance debt in the amount of $9.33 billion. This procedure opens the company up to the possibility of paying dividends to shareholders and investments. Rusal's debt to Russian banks, amounting to $1.4 billion, will be refinanced in the near future, Interfax reports . On Thursday, an agreement with 13 international and Russian banks on a syndicated loan in the amount of $4.75 billion was signed and entered into force.

Yandex's share in the total number of search queries fell in September. The company, however, has not yet changed its financial forecast for 2011. As Yandex said in a statement, its share of the search market in Russia, according to Liveinternet, has decreased in recent weeks - from 63% of queries in August to 61.4% in September.

On Thursday, September 29, a CASA C-212 passenger plane crashed in western Indonesia while flying from the capital of North Sumatra, Medan, to Aceh province. This was reported by the Associated Press with reference to local authorities. According to preliminary data, there were 15 passengers and 3 crew members on board. It is assumed that they all died.