The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank agreed on the commission Representatives of the banking market managed to reach agreements with regulators on two pressing issues related to the practice of consumer lending. The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank agreed on the need to clearly legitimize certain types of bank commissions and oblige microfinance organizations, like banks, to disclose the full cost of loans.

Project 141 1 min. ... On February 4 in Moscow, on the day of the planned march “For Fair Elections,” a joint concert by Yuli Kim, Alexey Kortnev and Viktor Shenderovich will be held in the Mir cinema and concert hall . The slogan of the action is “For your and our freedom.” The goal is to support innocent prisoners and political prisoners. Kim, Kortnev and Shenderovich are people of different generations, different views and different genres, like many of today's Protestants.

On January 30 , the Echo of Moscow website published an open letter from businessman Boris Berezovsky addressed to presidential candidates Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, Mikhail Prokhorov and Sergei Mironov.

The administration of St. Petersburg and the organizers of the “For Fair Elections” campaign have previously agreed on a march on February 4, it will start from the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall in the city center, Maxim Reznik, a member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly from the Yabloko party, told RIA Novosti .

The Cabinet of Ministers may cancel protective quotas on them Ukrainian automakers are again threatened by the import of inexpensive cars from Uzbekistan. The Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade recommended that the Cabinet of Ministers abolish protective quotas for products from this country after Uzbekistan eliminated the excise tax on Ukrainian products.

Topic of the week Last week, the Bank of Russia disclosed bank indicators for 2011 on its website. At the end of last year, Russian banks received a record profit of 848 billion rubles. This value is one and a half times higher than the previous year. In many ways, banks were able to show such a good result due to the dissolution of reserves formed in previous years to insure against non-fulfillment of customer loan obligations.

Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenka, after winning the Australian Open, rose to first place in the Women's Tennis Association ( WTA ) rankings for the first time in her career, the new version of which was published on January 30. She displaced Caroline Wozniacki, who had held the title of world number one since October 11, 2010, from first place.

Who is campaigning for whom - stars in the service of presidential candidates Presidential candidates actively resort to the help of celebrities campaigning for them, primarily from the world of art and the media. Together with their chosen ones, singers, directors, athletes and writers have reached the finish line of the fight for the presidency Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin can boast of the largest number of attracted celebrities.

A giant traffic jam in the center of Moscow was dedicated to fair elections 24K 2 minutes. ... Yesterday the opposition held a political rally in Moscow in a new format: as a sign of protest against violations committed in the State Duma elections, a car rally called “White Ring” was held along the Garden Ring, not coordinated with the authorities. According to the organizers, the rally has become the largest in the history of Russia - with the participation of more than 3 thousand cars.

Q.E.D The column is led by Gleb Cherkasov Last week, Dmitry Rogozin supported the creation of a volunteer movement within the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF), which will promote the development of the military-industrial complex. Thus, the new deputy prime minister began to fulfill his pre-election task.

The net profit of Ukraine's largest PrivatBank (Dnepropetrovsk) in 2011 amounted to UAH 1.426 billion, which is 4.1% more than in 2010 (UAH 1.37 billion). The bank's net interest income increased in 2011 by 36.9% compared to 2010 - to UAH 7.941 billion, net commission income - by 36.8%, to UAH 3.841 billion. Net profit in the fourth quarter of 2011 amounted to UAH 446.098 million, which is 18.3% higher than the figure for October-December 2010 (UAH 377.077 million).

Direct speech 636 3 min. ... Evgeny Gontmakher , board member of the Institute of Contemporary Development: - From my point of view, everything related to the registration of migrants, guest workers - Tajiks, Uzbeks, and so on - is a zone of increased corruption. They are being robbed by our police, the migration authorities, and everyone else who can.

As the Minister of Agriculture of the region, Ilya Bondarev, said today at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region, the implementation of the strategy for the development of the food and processing industry will increase the competitiveness of local enterprises and expand markets for products.

confident in the association "Voice" Massive pre-election “clean-ups” are recorded by the Golos association in the presidential campaign. There are no changes compared to the Duma elections, the organization’s experts conclude. Kommersant FM correspondent Natalya Zhdanova attended the Golos press conference and told Anna Kazakova the details. –– What kind of “cleansing”? And in general, what kind of violations are we talking about?

EXPENSIVE PLEASURE The territory where the Red October factory is located will gradually be built up with luxury housing: the Moscow Urban Planning and Land Commission has approved the plan for this site, which can actually be considered a construction permit.