The negative balance of the National Bank's interventions on the interbank foreign exchange market in December 2009 amounted to $96.8 million, the regulator reported yesterday. At the end of December, the head of the group of advisers to the head of the National Bank, Valery Litvitsky, told reporters that the NBU purchased $300 million on the interbank market.

74 1 min. ... Delivery immediately Delivery in 3 months SettlementPrev. ClosingLastPrev. closing Aluminum 2260.5 2295.25 2300 2345 Copper 7425 7539 7470 7590 Nickel 17765 17819 17775 18250 Zinc 2487 2540.75 2520 2575 Tin 17730 17825 17950 18025 Lead 2414.5 2505.5 2450 2545 London Metal Exchange quotes ($/t). According to Reuters. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 3 dated January 13, 2010, p. 8

Austria has decided not to extradite to Russia the ex-mayor of Stavropol, accused of exceeding and abusing official powers. “There is information that the competent authorities of Austria refused to extradite former mayor of Stavropol Dmitry Kuzmin to Russia, but so far the investigation does not have official documents.

Leading graphics software manufacturer Adobe Systems has announced a sophisticated and planned hacker attack on its network. “Adobe became aware of a sophisticated and coordinated attack by hackers on January 2, 2010 on the corporate network and other companies,” the software maker posted on its official blog on January 13. The message does not say where the hackers were from and for what purpose they acted. However, it came just hours after Google announced a Chinese cyber attack.

Today, January 13, a representative of the US government's geological agency, Mike Blancpide, said that as a result of the largest earthquake in Haiti over the past 200 years, about 3 million people were affected to one degree or another. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross cite the same figures. The International Committee of the Red Cross and UN charity agencies have opened up their emergency funds to provide "massive relief" to earthquake victims.

Resignation Deputy head of the Vladivostok administration Alexander Chavychalov, who was responsible for the improvement of the city, was relieved of his post at his own request, the press service of the mayor's office reported. “Chavychalov left at the request of Mayor Igor Pushkarev, who needs to find switchmen in order to shift the blame for his administration’s inability to cope with the consequences of snowfalls,” says Vladivostok Duma deputy Nikolai Markovtsev.

They had to sell their security Fulfilling the new requirements of the legislation on security activities, banks got rid of their own security companies by the new year. However, having abandoned legal control over private security companies, banks continue to use their services without the risk of entrusting their security to third-party companies.

Dragon Capital--Ferrexpo IR Dragon Capital raised its target price for Ferrexpo shares (ticker: FXPO) from $3.03 to $3.94, confirming its recommendation to hold . Since the beginning of the year, the company's securities have experienced a price rally, rising in price by more than 20%, and Ferrexpo's discount to similar foreign companies in terms of price/earnings ratio in 2010 decreased to 7% (15.9x).

Freedom House annual human rights report published The American human rights organization Freedom House yesterday released its annual report on the observance of civil and political freedoms in the world. Russia, like a year ago, is classified as one of the unfree countries with a tendency for the situation to further deteriorate. First of all, this assessment was given because of the “chain of political murders” of opposition human rights activists and journalists.

Today, January 13, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said that the death toll in Haiti could well exceed one hundred thousand people. “The death toll could well be well over a hundred thousand... I hope that’s not the case, I hope that people managed to get out. There are so many people on the streets now that we don’t know exactly where they live,” Mr. Bellerive said. "But so many houses and entire areas have been destroyed, in some places we don't see people at all.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tyva, Viktor Lesnyak, suspended from work during the inspection at the end of October 2009, returned to work. “According to the order of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliev, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, Major General Viktor Lesnyak, began to fulfill his duties.

The operator plans to launch an LTE network in Russia The first cellular operator to develop communications in Russia in the most modern LTE (4G) standard may be the Swedish cellular discounter Tele2. The company has submitted an application to participate in the competition for frequencies in the range of 2.3-2.4 GHz.

Today, January 13, the values ​​of the Kommersant currency indicator (Ъ-indicator) were: 8.10/8.17 UAH/$, which is higher than Tuesday’s figure of -8.04/8.08 UAH/$; 11.74/11.84 UAH/euro (11.64/11.70 UAH/euro); 2.74/2.76 UAH/10 rubles (2.74/2.75 UAH/10 rubles). The Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house has been calculating the Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house since March 16, 2009, based on the dollar purchase/sale prices of the largest transactions on the interbank foreign exchange market.

The traditional Wroom event, organized by the Ferrari team and Philip Morris, opened at the Madonna di Campiglio resort. Fernando Alonso made his first appearance in the uniform of his new Ferrari team.

Vasily Petrenko came to the Philharmonic with Mahler The St. Petersburg Philharmonic began the new year with a strong performance: in the Great Hall, Vasily Petrenko conducted Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony and, at the same time, the best of the local symphony concerts of recent years. DMITRY RENANSKY comments. By the standards of the conducting profession, ex-St.