The exhibition is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Kommersant FM art columnist Dmitry Butkevich shares his impressions. The capital's elite sent Muscovites into orbit. The exhibition “A week before the flight” opened at the Leonid Shishkin Gallery. It is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight.

says Firestone Duncan partner Jamison Firestone According to a partner at the law firm Firestone Duncan, he found the money Magnitsky was accused of stealing. Now the Prosecutor General's Office must consider the statement that Firestone sent to the investigative authorities. Foreign colleagues of Sergei Magnitsky found money that the deceased Russian lawyer was accused of stealing.

The state program for recycling auto junk in the Kama region produced unimportant results: the number of cars scrapped is several times less than in neighboring regions. Dealers say the reason lies in short supply for new cars. However, even without the “recycling” program, the Perm vehicle fleet is considered one of the youngest in the country.

The ex-head of the VEFK bank received five years in prison in absentia Yesterday, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced the former owner of VEFK Bank, Alexander Gitelson, in absentia. The fugitive banker was found guilty of fraudulent theft of 495 million rubles. from State Duma deputy Adnan Muzykayev and received five years in prison. The countdown of the sentence will begin from the moment the convicted person is detained.

Valery Muntiyan spoke about Ukraine’s accession to the Customs Union and FTA with the European Union 5K 10 min. ... Despite warnings from the European Union, Kyiv began consultations on possible entry into the Customs Union (CU) with Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.

Businessman Alexander Mamut, who is now selling a significant part of his stake during the initial offering of Euroset, can buy shares of Nomos Bank during the IPO for more than $100 million. “This possibility is still being discussed,” a source close to the deal told Reuters on April 5. The bank today launched a road-show IPO, during which it plans to place about 20% of the increased authorized capital. The price range for the placement of Nomos Bank shares is $32-$37 ($16-$18.5 per GDR).

Novosibirsk legislator suspected of fraud put on wanted list Investigative authorities of the Novosibirsk region have put Dmitry Gordeev, a deputy of the regional parliament, on the wanted list. Mr. Gordeev, who is accused of major fraud, did not appear before the investigator without explaining the reasons. The United Russia member spoke about the motives forcing him to hide in his video message to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

VTB President Andrei Kostin criticized the banking supervision system - in his opinion, the Bank of Russia does not perform its functions to the extent sufficient to reduce the risks of asset withdrawal and fraud in banks on the part of their top managers. Mr.

Today, April 5, the international rating agency Moody's Investor Service lowered Portugal's credit rating by two notches, from "A3" to "Baa1". According to the agency, the rating has been placed under review with the possibility of further downgrading due to increased political instability, due to which the government risks not fulfilling its obligations in the field of fiscal consolidation. Based on materials from Interfax news agency

Today, April 5, it became known that British Internet providers (UK Internet Service Provider), in collaboration with record companies Universal and EMI, are preparing to launch a file-sharing network. The developers of this system hope that it will become a competitor to free peer-to-peer networks, the most famous protocol for which is torrent. In the near future, about 5.5 million users will have access to music downloads.

law The Russian derivatives market successfully coped with the test of the financial crisis. At the same time, its growth rate remains impressive. But Russian exchanges still lag behind Western exchanges, and Russian companies and banks prefer to trade abroad. According to Russian bankers, liquidation netting will help raise interest in the market. Russian derivatives markets survived the acute financial crisis of the fall of 2008 relatively painlessly.

The EKS group of companies is discussing the conditions for the construction of a shopping center in the Kama Valley with KCAP specialists, the developers of the master plan for Perm, Elena Zhdanova, general director of the EKS Management Company, told Kommersant. “Now the architects are looking for options with the developers, since restrictions were set on their part so that the project would be included in the general plan and master plan of the city,” said Ms. Zhdanova.

Banks 389 2 minutes. ... The Central Bank has changed the level of supervision over the implementation of its recommendations on the classification of loans provided to borrowers who do not conduct real activities or whose volumes of activities do not correspond to the volumes of loans taken, follows from a letter posted on the official website of the regulator.

Deductions for possible loan losses were below pre-crisis levels Russian banks' provisioning for loan losses, which became the banking sector's main expense during the crisis and sharply reduced its profitability, fell last year to levels below pre-crisis levels. A decrease in this indicator indicates an exit from the crisis, experts say, but indicates that the result is largely ensured by low lending growth rates.

PROCESS Former Bratsk mayor Alexander Serov, who was arrested in February on suspicion of extortion and taking a bribe, has had his detention extended until August 2. The decision on this was made on April 3 by the Bratsk City Court at the request of an investigator from the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC ICR) for the Irkutsk Region.