The fund became the owner of a shopping center in St. Petersburg worth $1.1 billion The largest investment deal on the Russian commercial real estate market has been closed. A record amount of $1.1 billion for the Galereya shopping center with an area of ​​192 thousand square meters. m on Ligovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg was paid for by the American fund Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund.

The European aircraft manufacturing concern Airbus was ahead of the American Boeing in 2011 in terms of the number of orders by 1.7 times. The total number of orders (including those subsequently cancelled) from Airbus was 1,608 versus 921 from Boeing. In terms of the number of “firm” orders received in 2011, Airbus also outpaces Boeing by 1.7 times - 1,419 versus 805. In total, last year Airbus delivered 534 aircraft to customers, Boeing - 477, Reuters reported on January 17.

Direct speech 617 2 minutes. ... Konstantin Titov, member of the Federation Council, governor of the Samara region in 1991-2007: — Democracy is not returning, but strengthening. The introduced bill is correct, but it requires improvements, because today not all parties that are present in some constituent entities may be in the federal parliament. How to be in this case?

The investigative department of the RF Investigative Committee for Bashkiria opened a criminal case in connection with the death on January 12 of three people and the poisoning of an employee at the Oktyabrsky Oilfield Equipment Plant (OZNO, contractor of Bashneft), said senior assistant to the head of the department Svetlana Abramova.

The net profit of OJSC JSCB Ural FD for the fourth quarter of last year amounted to 192.7 million rubles, the company reports. This is 459.73% more than in the third quarter of 2011, when the company's net profit amounted to 34.4 million rubles. The increase in net profit in the company is explained by operations carried out as part of its core business. OJSC JSCB "Ural FD" is the largest independent bank in the Perm region. The bank has one branch and 19 additional offices.

Cybercriminals left a credit institution without money and a license The small Moscow bank Evroraschet, whose license was revoked on the eve of the New Year, was involved in a scandal involving the theft of funds from the accounts of a number of organizations in several Russian banks at once. After this, the Central Bank recorded a large shortage of cash in the cash desk of the bank itself. Employees of Euroraschet itself could have taken part in the scam, experts say.

Rescuers on January 17 found the body of another passenger from the sunken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia. The number of shipwreck victims has risen to seven. Earlier it was reported that there were six dead and 29 missing. Now 28 people are missing, RIA Novosti notes. The Costa Concordia liner, carrying more than 4.2 thousand people, including more than 100 Russian tourists, crashed near the island of Giglio off the coast of the Italian region of Tuscany on the night of January 14.

Threatening to break dormant agreements on industrial assembly Automakers who signed industrial assembly agreements but never implemented them have less than a year left to decide on plans. If this does not happen, the contracts will be terminated. We are talking about Japanese Suzuki, Canadian Magna, Polish Himex and Ukrainian OTT. Suzuki has the most realistic chances of maintaining the agreement and launching the project.

According to the press service of the Rospotrebnadzor department for the Sverdlovsk region, after scheduled and unscheduled inspections of six stores of the Eldorado chain in Yekaterinburg, Kamensk-Uralsky and Nizhny Tagil, administrative cases were initiated for each facility under Article 19.5 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Failure to comply with within the period of legal order of the body exercising state supervision (control)”).

Five people died in a car accident near Volsk In the Volsky district of the Saratov region, an accident involving a VAZ-21102 and a Ssang-Yong Action claimed the lives of five people, reports the regional State Traffic Safety Inspectorate. The accident occurred on January 15 at 19.15 on the 155th kilometer of the Syzran - Saratov - Volgograd highway near the village of Tersa.

The governor of the region, Dmitry Mezentsev, who is planning to run for the post of President of the Russian Federation, dismissed the Minister of Construction and Road Facilities of the Irkutsk Region, Alexander Oreshkov.

context Yesterday, the prosecutor's office of the Odessa region opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 129 of the Criminal Code (“threat of murder”; restriction of freedom for up to 2 years) regarding telephone threats against an employee of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Administration (AP), former deputy of the Odessa City Council Konstantin Shpilevoy. Mr.

Ukrainians continued to buy currency Despite the stability of the hryvnia exchange rate last year, the population continued to actively buy foreign currency - net demand amounted to $13.5 billion. This year, demand will decrease due to a fall in household incomes, the holding of the Euro 2012 championship and the possible strengthening of the purchasing power of the hryvnia.

Radar went into operation in Turkey A radar station of the NATO missile defense system in Europe has been put on combat duty in Turkey. According to the North Atlantic Alliance, the radar is designed to track missile launches in neighboring Iran to prevent a possible attack from the Islamic Republic. However, Russia believes that the new facility threatens its national security. The decision to deploy elements of the European missile defense system being created in Turkey was made last year.

India, the world leader in gold purchases, has switched to using ad valorem duties on the import of gold and silver, which, according to experts, could lead to a cooling of demand from both jewelry buyers and speculative investors, reports Bloomberg. The import duty on gold in coins and bars from January 17 is 2%, on silver - 6% of the value, the Indian Ministry of Finance announced.