The Moscow Arbitration Court on Thursday refused to bankrupt the company of businessman Sergei Polonsky, Potok and 0458, formerly called Mirax City, and to introduce surveillance into it at the request of StroyMontazhUpravlenie 321 CJSC. The court left the application of the StroyMontazhUpravlenie 321 company without consideration, the RAPSI agency reported .

The Ministry of Economic Development proposed to the Russian government in 2013 to additionally privatize stakes in five large companies, including Aeroflot, Sheremetyevo, Rostelecom, the United Grain Company (UZK) and Rosneft, the head of the department Andrei Belousov told reporters on Thursday. “We need to speed up the process of large-scale privatization, for which we have submitted proposals,” the agency quotes Belousov as saying.

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Co-founder of the Sunrise startup Ksenia Lobanova on why it is easier to open a summer camp than a kindergarten Today I will talk about the difficulties we encountered in organizing kindergartens in large corporations. We were actually the first to do this on the Russian market.

Some members of the Federation Council do not yet understand how to bring their accounts into compliance with the new law banning officials from storing money in foreign banks, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko told reporters in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Matvienko noted that she discussed this issue with a number of parliamentarians, Interfax reports .

To make Chelsea break even under the new rules of European football, club owner Roman Abramovich had to spend almost £80 million last year, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday . As the publication notes, the British company Fordstam Limited - the parent structure of the group, which includes the London football club Chelsea - showed a loss of £78.9 (about €91.6 million) for the 2012 financial year, according to its reporting data.

Deputy from United Russia Boris Zubitsky (No. 12 in the Forbes ranking of the richest officials newspaper reported on Thursday , annual family income 681 million rubles) may leave the State Duma within a month due to reluctance to comply with the new requirement of annual declaration of expenses, the Izvestia with a link to several sources in the State Duma. At the same time, Zubitsky’s assistant Anna Kopylova told the publication that the deputy is not yet planning to resign.

Well-known oppositionist and blogger Alexei Navalny began collecting signatures for a bill that would prohibit officials, state corporations and companies from buying cars more expensive than 1.5 million rubles. about this Navalny wrote on his LiveJournal page on Thursday.

The Russian billionaire purchased for 100 million pounds (4.76 billion rubles) the Greek island of Skorpios , where the wedding of businessman Aristotle Onassis and former US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy took place in 1968 and where the Onassis family tomb is located, writes the British newspaper The Independent , citing Greek media on Thursday. The buyer's name has not been released.

The chairman of the central council of the Green Alliance - People's Party and former prefect of the Northern Administrative District, Oleg Mitvol, appealed to the Ministry of Justice with a request to refuse registration of the People's Alliance party created by oppositionist and blogger Alexei Navalny due to the similarity of the names of these two organizations.

TKS Bank of businessman Oleg Tinkov on Thursday presented a new credit card, spending on which will allow you to receive bonuses for the purchase of tickets for any airline. For every 100 rubles spent with a TKS Bank card, its owner will receive 3 miles, Tinkov said at a presentation held in one of the Moscow restaurants. “I called it a killer card, the best card on the Russian market,” a Forbes correspondent who was present at the event quoted him as saying.

The former head of the North Caucasus Resorts (KSK) and vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Akhmed Bilalov, who is accused in Russia of abuse of power, is selling off assets in Russia and does not yet plan to return to the country, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Thursday. with reference to sources from the businessman’s circle. “He decided to wait until things calmed down. Or maybe he will be forgiven,” the publication’s source said.

The former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva, accused in the Oboronservis case, may become a defendant in a new criminal case - about the illegal lease of land from a military training ground in the Leningrad region, the damage from which is estimated at 1 billion rubles, reported the Main Military Prosecutor's Office on Thursday .

The Ministry of Economic Development has sharply reduced its forecasts for Russia's main macroeconomic indicators for 2013, including GDP, industrial production and investment, Deputy Minister Andrei Klepach said on Thursday. According to him, GDP growth in 2013 will be 2.4%, which is 1.2% lower than the forecast (3.6%). “Inflation will be 5.8%. Capital outflow is $30-35 billion,” Interfax agency quotes Klepach as saying .

Pavel Sokolov Author 10 cases of successful and not so successful transfer of porn stars to responsible government positions Former porn star Anna Ilona Staller, better known as Cicciolina, became the first representative of this profession to enter parliament in 1987. On Wednesday she announced that she was returning to big politics. In this regard, we recalled 10 cases of successful and not so successful transfer of porn stars to responsible government positions.

VTB Group has completed a deal to exit the capital of the Otkritie financial corporation by selling a 7.96% stake to former senator Sergei Gordeev, the reported on Thursday. bank’s press service “VTB Group has completed the sale of a 7.96% stake in Otkritie FC,” reported the bank’s press service . VTB did not disclose the amount of the transaction.