The regulator will control all M&A transactions Starting in January, the stock market regulator will begin to approve or deny changes in the shareholder structure of companies under its control. According to the published document, the commission will also have the opportunity, through a proxy, to participate in meetings of shareholders of companies in which a significant stake in the capital was acquired without prior approval.

They do not object to the redrawing of the capital region As Kommersant learned, all municipalities of the Moscow region that will be included in the capital have already approved the upcoming redrawing of territories. Now the decision to change the borders must be formalized by the regional authorities, after which it will be approved by the Federation Council. Legally, the expansion of Moscow should be formalized by the end of the year.

Today, Chusovsky Metallurgical Plant OJSC announced a voluntary proposal received on November 9 from Metallinvest CJSC to other shareholders of the plant to sell their plant securities. CJSC Metallinvest, owned by Nizhny Novgorod region deputy Valery Anisimov, acquired a controlling stake in ChMP from the owners of the United Metallurgical Company through an additional issue in 2010.

After 12 years, the department demands almost 454 million rubles from the Omsk mayor’s office for the import of Karosa buses Omsk customs in the arbitration court is seeking payment of 453.5 million rubles from the Omsk mayor's office. The debt, according to the department, arose during the import and customs clearance of Czech Karosa buses purchased by the municipality in 1999.

With the onset of frost, the operating fountain in the center of the capital Mari El was covered with a giant crust of ice. Due to the pressure, the icy frame of the structure has already begun to burst. The city administration told Kommersant that the fountains worked until the frost specifically to please residents during the November holidays, and emphasized that this situation did not cause any breakdowns. At the moment, the fountain equipment is being dismantled and prepared for winter.

His abstractions sold in record numbers in New York The Sotheby's auction house held a triumphant auction of contemporary art in New York. Together they brought in $315 million - noticeably more than the highest preliminary estimate - and included the abstract artist Clifford Steele in the list of the most expensive artists in the world, whose canvas was sold for $61.7 million instead of $25-35 million. With details - TATYANA MARKINA.

Filming of the film "Dau" has ended in Kharkov Project/film On Tuesday in Kharkov they put the finishing touches on work on Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s film about physicist Lev Landau. The almost four-year filming process ended with a disco on the ruins of a grandiose set, where Peaches and DJ Spooky performed. NATALYA POLULYAKH reports. In 2007, Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky began filming the film "Dau" - about the Soviet theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Lev Landau.

The property fund sold the plot for five times the price Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Property Fund sold three plots of land suitable for housing construction at auction: two in the central part of the city and one in the popular Primorsky district. Since such events have been held infrequently lately, the auction caused a stir - the land was sold at 2.5-5.5 times the starting price. The most expensive land for the builders was in the Primorsky district.

Documentary director Andrei Zaitsev shot the feature film “Bezdelniki”, the soundtrack of which included little-known songs from the group “Kino”. Starring Anton Shagin. The film was shot from the perspective of a young man, which allows the viewer to immerse himself in this special environment, film critics note. On Thursday, the film “Idlers” by Andrei Zaitsev will be released in Russia.

Evgeny Semechkin, the main defendant in the case of a financial pyramid in Rostov, died in a pre-trial detention center, a representative of the press service of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service reported. He clarified that the arrested person died last Saturday. “During a walk, citizen Semechkin fell and lost consciousness,” said a GUFSIN employee.

“Black realtors” will spend a quarter of a century in prison The verdict of the Astrakhan regional court against two “black realtors” who committed a series of murders in order to take possession of other people’s apartments entered into legal force after an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the press service of the prosecutor’s office of the Astrakhan region reported.

market conditions 362 1 min. ... Yesterday, the Ukrainian market opened with a jump in the UX index by 2%, but soon the “bulls” were pushed out of the market by the “bears”, who positively perceived the next round of escalation of the debt crisis in the eurozone. The list of most problematic countries continues to expand, and Italy may be included, despite the size of its national economy (see page 6).

Former deputy head of the DEB may be charged with possession of a revolver As Kommersant has learned, the Moscow police investigation has intensified the investigation into the case initiated following the seizure of a revolver from the apartment used by the former first deputy head of the Department of Economic Security (DEB) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Andrei Khorev.

Geotech will gain control over the assets of Integra and Schlumberger Consolidation of the Russian oilfield services market continues. The American Schlumberger, which has already merged part of its assets with Eurasia Drilling, is now merging its geophysical and seismic enterprises with Integra and Geotech, co-owned by Gennady Timchenko. The new joint venture will occupy about 60% of the Russian market and will become one of the world's largest players worth about $700 million.

Russian artists are increasingly becoming politicians, and politicians are taking to the stage. What will happen if Alla Pugacheva becomes president, and Ksenia Sobchak becomes head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Mikhail Zadornov reflects on his blog. True, in this case, from December 15 to January 15, the country may be left without a government, the satirist notes.