Today, July 15, American Bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported that it increased net income in the second quarter of 2010 by 76% to $4.8 billion, or $1.09 per share, compared with $2.72 billion, or $0.28 per share, in the same period a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research on average expected the figure to be $0.74 per share.

Today, July 15, First Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration Alexander Popov said that the Kiev Metro public utility considers the fare of 2.42 hryvnia economically justified. “The calculations that I got acquainted with during our meeting with the metro management indicate that they consider the fare to be 2.42 hryvnia economically justified.

The new technical office will work for only three months Yesterday, the so-called technical government was formed in Kyrgyzstan.

The leader of the movement “In Defense of the Khimki Forest,” Evgenia Chirikova, reported on July 15 that representatives of the company that will be involved in the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway began cutting down the Khimki forest without presenting permitting documentation to the defenders of the natural site.

73 1 min. ... The Rostekhnadzor Commission has completed an investigation into the causes of mass power outages in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The press service of the Volzhsko-Oka department of the department reported this yesterday. Let us recall that on June 12–13, 2010, due to a hurricane that engulfed the northwestern part of the region, several districts of the region remained without power supply for several days.

MPB has diverged in deposits with its retail subsidiary Mezhprombank Plus has stopped accepting deposits from the public, RIA Novosti reported. This information was confirmed to Kommersant by the Deposit Insurance Agency. According to unofficial data, the Central Bank has limited the operations of the subsidiary of the International Industrial Bank (IBB) until the end of the loan restructuring. MPB denies restricting operations in its subsidiary bank.

thirty 1 min. ... Ufa International Airport JSC summed up the results of its work in the first half of 2010, the plan for key production indicators was exceeded by an average of 7%, the growth over 6 months compared to 2009 amounted to 17%, the JSC said in a statement. Since the beginning of the year, passenger traffic has grown by 28% (671.69 thousand passengers), while on international routes the figure has increased 1.5 times and amounted to 157.9 thousand people.

On July 21, the Supreme Economic Court will consider the bankruptcy case of the Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after. Dzerzhinsky, Kommersant was told in court. On April 7, the Economic Court of the Dnepropetrovsk Region opened the bankruptcy case of the company at the claim of the utility company "Aulsky Vodvodnik".

Background 2K 1 min. ... On October 6, 2004, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against the former deputy head of the external debt directorate of NK YUKOS, Vladimir Pereverzin, and the heads of the Ratibor and Fargoil companies, Vladimir Malakhovsky and Antonio Valdez Garcia. They were accused of embezzlement, legalization and embezzlement of $13 billion.

Context 166 1 min. ... A criminal case has been opened in the Moscow region into the murder of a famous scientist, former first deputy director of the Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) Gennady Pavlovets. As the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) of the Russian Federation reported, “the body of a 70-year-old adviser to the TsAGI directorate, Gennady Pavlovets, with signs of violent death, was discovered the day before at about 8:00 p.m.

The Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) decided at a meeting on July 15 to fine the capital's CSKA a total of 200 thousand rubles. The reason for the fine was the outrages of the red-blue fans in the match of the 13th round of the Russian championship against Saturn near Moscow. The capital's team was punished for violation of public order by fans (100 thousand rubles) and “for committing a racist offense by fans” (100 thousand).

The service sees itself as a magistrate's court for complainants and a prosecutor's office for cartels The package of amendments to the law “On Protection of Competition”, developed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has been published - the “third antimonopoly package”. The main innovation is the separation of the concepts of “cartel” and “concerted actions limiting competition”: the latter will not be punishable by criminal law.

Today, July 15, the values ​​of the Kommersant currency indicator (Ъ-indicator) were: 7.90/7.90 UAH/$, which is equivalent to the Wednesday indicator - 7.90/7.90 UAH/$; 10.08/10.12 UAH/euro (10.03/10.06 UAH/euro); 2.58/2.59 UAH/10 rubles (2.58/2.59 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.

31 1 min. ... The Ministry of Agriculture of Bashkiria has calculated the damage caused by the drought. As Deputy Minister Nikolai Kovalenko said yesterday, the amount of damage exceeds 13 billion rubles, crops were lost on an area of ​​more than 1 million hectares. Since the beginning of summer, only 15% of normal precipitation has fallen in the republic. Forecasters predict that the dry weather will continue for at least two more weeks.

Today, July 15, the Kiev City Council approved the social housing development program for 2010-2015. 103 deputies voted for the adoption of the corresponding decision, with the minimum required of 61. To implement this program, according to the draft decision, a total of UAH 366.15 million is needed in equal parts from the city and state budgets. In particular, in 2010 it is planned to allocate 14.08 million UAH, in 2011 - 40 million UAH, in 2012-2015 - 312.07 million UAH.