The bank made a profit thanks to funds from DIA and Russian Railways KIT Finance Bank, whose reorganization required a record 135 billion rubles from the state, earned 212 million rubles at the end of last year. net profit versus loss - RUB 8.39 billion. a year earlier. However, the bank can still show positive results only thanks to cheap funds provided by sanatoriums - DIA and Russian Railways; in the case of borrowing at market rates, KIT Finance would still be unprofitable, experts say.

Today at a meeting of the Committee on Municipal Property and Land Relations of the Perm City Duma, the candidacy of Maxim Tebelev as chairman was supported. He was elected unanimously. Maxim Tebelev said that as part of the work of the committee, it is planned to resolve issues related to the privatization and lease of municipal property, increasing the efficiency of municipal enterprises, increasing income from land rental and environmental issues.

As Kommersant learned, Deputy Director for Sales of Perm Grid Company LLC (PSK, part of IES CJSC), Mikhail Gubasov, left the company. This information was confirmed to Kommersant by several interlocutors at the Perm heat market. PSK Kommersant was informed that Mr. Gubasov has been appointed to a similar position at Udmurt Communal Systems LLC (also part of IES CJSC).

The head of the US Treasury, Timothy Geithner, arrived on a visit to China to insist on strengthening the national Chinese currency, experts believe. The United States itself, of course, is against excessive strengthening of the dollar. American authorities are launching a new attack on the yuan. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrived in China. The officially stated topic of the negotiations is reform of the global monetary system.

Private bussiness 218 1 min. ... Alexander Alekseevich Avdeev was born on September 8, 1946 in Kremenchug. In 1968 he graduated from MGIMO, after which he went to Algeria as an assistant-secretary of the USSR Consulate General in the city of Annaba. Since 1971, Avdeev worked at the USSR Embassy in Algeria with the rank of attaché. In 1977-1985, with the rank of second and first secretary, Avdeev worked at the USSR Embassy in France, and in 2002-2008 he was the Russian Ambassador to France.

Novosibirsk drug police have banned access to several films on local Internet resources. These are all fairly well-known films in which the characters use drugs. Yana Yanushkevich, a correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper in Novosibirsk, found out the details. Novosibirsk drug police are fighting film classics. The local department of the Federal Drug Control Service demanded that several Internet providers remove films in which characters use drugs from their clients’ websites.

Projects The Paul Getty Museum has become the first US museum to return a painting to the family of the famous Dutch antiquarian Jacques Goudstikker. We are talking about “Landscape with a Hut” by the small Dutchman Pieter Moleyn.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin officially confirmed that the head of the Federal Financial Markets Service Vladimir Milovidov is resigning. In his place, the Ministry of Finance proposed the candidacy of Kudrin’s deputy, Dmitry Pankin. Kommersant newspaper correspondent Alexander Mazunin explained the details of the situation.

The Japanese government does not yet plan to expand the exclusion zone around the emergency Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant. Earlier, the IAEA reported that increased levels of radiation were detected in the soil 40 km from the station. After the earthquake of magnitude 9.0 that occurred on March 11 in northeastern Japan, a series of accidents occurred at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant caused by the failure of the cooling system.

Samaraenergo increased its net profit Samaraenergo's net profit increased by 10% compared to 2009, according to the company's official documents. In 2010, the company received 1.2 billion rubles, in 2009 - 1.069 billion. As stated in the message, the increase in net profit is associated with an increase in the value of the company's shares. Based on the results of work for the fourth quarter of last year, Samaraenergo OJSC received 408.1 million rubles.

Cabinet of Ministers approved the transfer of Rodovid Bank deposits to Oschadbank, said Finance Minister Fedor Yaroshenko. Before the transfer of liabilities, the capital of Rodovid Bank will be increased by UAH 3.95 billion with internal government loan bonds, which will be transferred to Oschadbank (see yesterday's issue).

Today, March 31, the press service of the State Highway Service of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) announced the company’s intention to attract a World Bank loan in the amount of $450 million for the reconstruction of the Kyiv-Kharkov-Dovzhansky highway on the section from Luben to Poltava.

Astrakhan governor presented a strategy for the development of transport corridors Governor of the Astrakhan Region Alexander Zhilkin in Moscow presented to the Minister of Transport of Russia Igor Levitin a strategy for the development of the transport complex of the Astrakhan Region and the South of Russia. This document can become the basis for promoting the interests of the southern regions in the Caspian Sea.

Human rights activists report high mortality rates among those detained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs As representatives of the Kharkov Human Rights Group (KHRG) and the Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) note, an increase in the number of cases of violence against detainees in police custody is being recorded in Ukraine. According to the KhPG, in 2011 alone, 15 people died in the institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and most often death occurred as a result of torture.

The holding wants to build a terminal in the Kerch Strait The Russian "Metalloinvest" of Alisher Usmanov decided to get into the port business. The holding will build its own terminal in the future port of Taman with a transshipment capacity of 10-12 million tons of cargo per year and a cost of about $100 million. This project will hit Ukrainian transport companies - now about 95% of all Metalloinvest exports go through domestic ports.