Facebook has replaced email addresses on third-party email services in social network user profiles with addresses ending in @facebook.com. This measure is intended to increase the popularity of its own email service and at the same time provide users with greater control over personal data. However, Facebook users still have the option to display an address on a third-party email service in their profile.

The slowdown in economic growth in 2012 forced the NBU to soften the requirements for banks to form required reserves. However, without reducing the cost of liabilities, this regulatory measure will not lead to the activation of credit institutions, which are reducing the volume of loans issued to enterprises, awaiting stabilization of the macroeconomic situation.

Societe Generale Group sold its entire retail portfolio in Ukraine Lending to the Ukrainian population is becoming less and less attractive for foreign banks - already the fifth Western player in the person of the French group Societe Generale is leaving local retail. Its subsidiaries - the ProstoFinance company and ProFin Bank - sold a portfolio of car loans worth UAH 700 million to Alfa Bank.

Yesterday, an open letter from 13 of the 27 chairmen of the Communist Party of Workers and Villagers (CPRS) organizations of the regions, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol was published on the website of People's Deputy Leonid Grach, expressing disagreement with the attempt to remove Mr. Grach from the leadership of the party. “We fully support the position of the leader of the CPRS Leonid Grach,” the letter says, among other things. “We will not offend our comrade, the communist.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has appointed renowned economist Yiannis Stournaras as Greece's new finance minister, a Greek government spokesman said. The prime minister's previous choice for this position, the chairman of the largest bank in Greece, National Bank of Greece, Vassilis Rapanos, resigned due to health problems.

The head of the financial service of a military unit in Chechnya was sentenced to 5 years in prison for theft of more than 114 million rubles. from the unit’s cash register, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation reported on June 26.

Law enforcement officers of Kabardino-Balkaria on Monday evening in Nalchik killed a militant who offered armed resistance to them, a representative of the ICR Investigative Directorate for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic told RIA Novosti . “At about 23.05 Moscow time on Monday, at the corner of Shogentsukov and Nogmova streets in Nalchik, when trying to detain a militant, he offered armed resistance to law enforcement officers and was killed in return fire,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

changed by business department correspondent Natalya Skorlygina When I asked whether your journalistic activity has ever contributed to, rather than hindered, the conclusion of a deal, my colleagues answered differently: some with a cynical grin, and some with an outright horse neigh. There is no need, I think, to explain why.

Today, an influential thief in law was expelled from the territory of Ukraine, the press service of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported. According to them, a citizen of the Russian Federation, with the criminal nickname “Osetrina,” was detained in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

In the second quarter of this year, demand for luxury real estate in the Central Administrative District fell sharply, notes Andrey Voskresensky, citing data from Contact Real Estate. However, there is no reason to be surprised: at the beginning of the year the pace of sales was unprecedented, and now the market has returned to its normal state.

Invitations will be issued by Smolny As part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko and the President of Rostelecom OJSC Alexander Provotorov promised each other to free the city roofs from the networks of Internet providers. According to market participants and analysts, for city residents this step threatens to increase prices for Internet access, and for Rostelecom it threatens to monopolize the market.

The Trans-Baikal Railway (ZabZhD, Chita) yesterday morning restored a section of the track in the Mogochinsky district, washed out by rain, reports the press service of the ZabZhD. The erosion of the embankment (20 m) occurred on Sunday at 6,894 km of the odd electrified route of the Mogocha - Penkovaya section; traffic along this section was temporarily suspended.

He was accused of “offensive” speeches against Vladimir Putin State Duma deputy from the LDPR Igor Ananskikh appealed to the prosecutor's office with a demand to check the activities of the independent municipal deputy of the Troparevo-Nikulino district, Vladimir Garnachuk.

The Higher Specialized Court for Civil and Criminal Cases will continue to consider the cassation appeal of the Prosecutor General's Office against the courts' cancellation of its decision to initiate a criminal case against former President Leonid Kuchma on charges of abuse of power and official authority, which led to the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. According to Mr. Kuchma's lawyer Viktor Petrunenko, the court hearing will begin at 10.00.

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation recommended that the Central Election Commission of Bashkiria re-elect Khaidar Valeev, who has headed it since January 2011, as chairman of the commission for a new term. As follows from the message of the republican commission, by decree of the president of the republic and the resolution of the state assembly - Kurultai, its new composition was formed, which included 12 people.