(billion rubles) Money supply as of 11/01/08 13519.7 Monetary base as of 11/24/08 4361.3 Gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank as of November 21, 2008 ($ billion) 449.9 Bank deposits with the Central Bank 341.9 Balance of Central Bank transactions with banks -107.0 Balances on correspondent accounts of credit institutions in Russia 540.8 in Moscow 354.2 GKO-OFZ market Reserved in the MICEX TS 2.2 Nominal market size 1144.02 Market capitalization 1049.66 (% per annum) Central

Volume, million tons per year20092010201120122013 Market volume 95 109 118.1 121 123.1 Own production 72.1 79.8 86.6 93.6 105.3 Consumption 76.7 85.2 92.8 100.4 112.6 Import 8.4 8.8 9.2 9.7 10.2 Export 3.7 3.4 3 2.9 2.9 Price per ton, $ 140 146.3 156.1 168.6 189.7

38 1 min. ... IssuerClosing price (RUB)Change (%) IDGC of Center and Volga Region 0.08 +17.67 Uralsvyazinform 0.34 +16.04 TGK-4 0.01 +12.90 Tatneft 47.21 +12.40 Uralkali 46.30 +11.24 OGK-1 0.19 -3.55 MMC Norilsk Nickel 1757.00 -4.05 Pharmacy chain 36.6 95.50 -4.50 TGK-10 35.28 -4.85 TGK-1 0.00 -5.71 For shares with a trading volume of over 1 million rubles. pr - preferred shares. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 220 dated 03.12.2008, page 16

Viktor Yushchenko does not intend to perform administrative functions in Our Ukraine The Presidential Secretariat (SP) said yesterday that Viktor Yushchenko, elected chairman of the Our Ukraine party, did not thereby violate the Constitution. The joint venture claims that the powers of the party leader will transfer to the head of state only after the Ministry of Justice approves the corresponding decision of the congress.

Europe lowered the market The leading stock markets of the European Union and the Ukrainian one in particular began their work with a new fall. As a result of trading yesterday, the PFTS index fell by 1.32%, or 3.73 points, to 278.32 points. According to Phoenix Capital trader Alena Degrik, the negative reaction of the markets was caused by a significant deterioration in the global economic situation.

banks According to BBC News, the American bank JPMorgan Chase will lay off 9,200 people in Washington Mutual (WaMu), which it acquired on September 25, 2008. As a result of the layoffs, WaMu's workforce will be reduced by one-fifth, with four thousand people losing their jobs by the end of January 2009. The Swiss financial institution Credit Suisse and the British bank HSBC also announced the dismissal of employees.

Ivars Godmanis Prime Minister of Latvia “We will help such people only indirectly, for example, we will try to provide them with work.” This is how Latvian Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis answered reporters when asked whether the government will create some kind of mechanism to help those who cannot pay their mortgage due to the financial crisis.

The wave of the global financial crisis that swept the world in the fall unexpectedly turned out to be a factor in the rapprochement between Russia and the European Union; back in August, after the war in the Caucasus, they were planning to radically reconsider their relations. At the November Russia-EU summit, Moscow and Brussels agreed to fight the crisis through common efforts and begin discussing the formation of a new architecture of global finance.

Today, December 3, the Cabinet of Ministers transferred the largest telecommunications company Ukrtelecom to the subordination of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (Mintrans) instead of the State Property Fund.

The case of the ex-minister has been sent for a new trial Yesterday, the Kyiv Court of Appeal sent the criminal case against the former Minister of Transport and Communications Nikolai Rudkovsky, accused of embezzlement of public funds, for a new trial to the Pechersky District Court of the capital. The Court of Appeal, having satisfied the request of the prosecutor's office, ordered the trial to be held with a new composition of judges.

In July 1944, representatives of 44 countries that were at that time part of the anti-fascist coalition gathered in the city of Bretton Woods in the American state of New Hampshire. Their main goal was to create the foundations for the formation of a new international monetary system.

The Russia-EU summit held on November 14 was the first after the war in the Caucasus and the first after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced plans to deploy Iskander complexes in the Kaliningrad region. However, these unpleasant moments were hardly discussed at the summit, largely due to the global financial crisis and the plans of the Russian leadership announced in Nice to restructure the Euro-Atlantic space.

25 1 min. ... Tonight, December 3, in Poltava's Berezovy Square, unknown persons poured red paint on the monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin. In particular, a can of paint was thrown at the 5-meter bust of the poet. According to a representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Poltava region, utility workers contacted the police after residents reported the act of hooliganism.

Rusklimat LLC was created in 1996. Provides services in the field of design, configuration, installation, commissioning, warranty and service maintenance of air conditioning, ventilation, heating, water supply, sewerage and water treatment systems. It is one of the largest Russian companies in this field, in particular, it controls about half of the air humidifier market.

The population is cashing out in droves According to the reports of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, in October the population withdrew the lion's share of funds from current accounts in banks - more than UAH 6 billion, while the volume of time deposits even increased by UAH 864 million due to the devaluation of the hryvnia. Bankers hope that in the future the funds in current accounts will only grow, since the population has begun to leave some of the money withdrawn from deposits on them.