The court will consider Ksenia Sobchak's complaint against the Investigative Committee. The TV presenter is unhappy that during the search a large sum of money was seized from her, forcing her to take out a loan. Lawyers agree with Sobchak: law enforcement officers could conduct a tax audit without seizing funds. Ksenia Sobchak will try to return almost one and a half million euros seized from her.

Net profit of the German automobile concern Volkswagen Group in the first half of 2012. increased 1.4 times, to 8.774 billion euros against 6.267 billion euros a year earlier. Sales revenue for the reporting period amounted to 95.378 billion euros, which is 1.2 times higher than the same figure for 2011 at 77.767 billion euros. The group's operating profit increased by 6.6% and reached 6.492 billion euros compared to 6.086 billion euros in the first half of 2011.

From June 1 to July 26, the State Oschadny Bank paid compensation for deposits of Sberbank of the USSR in the amount of UAH 1.751 billion, the bank said in a statement. "Since June 1, 2012, in pursuance of the social initiatives of the President of Ukraine V.F. Yanukovych, Oschadbank has been making compensation payments to depositors of Sberbank of the former USSR.

The operator announced a reduction in tariffs The second largest mobile operator in the country by the number of subscribers, MTS-Ukraine, has decided how it will fulfill the requirement of the Antimonopoly Committee (AMCU) to reduce communication tariffs. A list of tariffs that will be revised has already been prepared. However, the AMCU believes that this is not enough and demands that the operator reduce profitability by half.

The National Television Company of Ukraine (NTKU, “First National”) will begin broadcasting its international satellite version “First Ukraine” from the Israeli satellite Amos-2 from September 1. The channel will broadcast in Russian and Ukrainian around the clock. Its license provides for at least 8.5 hours of its own programs, and at least 21.5 hours of domestically produced programs.

70 1 min. ... The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has reduced the intervention cost of milk by 25-28.6%, to 25-30 thousand UAH/t and butter by 32.7-38.1%, to 30-38 thousand UAH/t, it says in a message from the Agrarian Fund. In addition, the ministry approved minimum and maximum intervention prices for flour.

Rising casting costs hit manufacturers Ukrainian car-building factories have to reduce their earnings. Recent conflicts over supplies from the Ukrainian Azovelectrostal and the Kremenchug steel plant, as well as the massive modernization of the rolling stock, have led to a 60 percent rise in prices for railcar castings. At the same time, prices for wagons are not growing so significantly.

The TV presenter tried to challenge the actions of the Investigative Committee, whose employees seized €1.5 million from Sobchak’s apartment as part of the investigation into the May riots on Bolotnaya Square. Kommersant FM correspondent Olga Volkova told the details to presenter Anna Kazakova. – How did you justify the judge’s decision?

New shareholders selected their managers for the plant Yesterday, at the meeting of shareholders of OJSC Pavlovskgranit, the board of directors was re-elected and a new director of the plant was appointed. As Kommersant found out, the collegial management body included five lawyers, as well as two people from business, including Natalya Anokhina, who at different times worked as the vice-governor of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug and a top manager at Russian Utility Systems.

HMS Group signed a contract worth 1.58 billion rubles. with CJSC NK Dulisma for the construction of oil treatment units at the Dulisminskoye oil and gas field in the Irkutsk region, the service company reported. HMS will build the second stage of an oil treatment station and acceptance point, a fuel tank, a refueling complex and other infrastructure. HMS plans to put the facilities into operation by the end of 2013. NK Dulisma belongs to Sberbank.

Hyundai Motor increased its net profit in the second quarter by 10% thanks to strong sales of Tucson SUVs, as well as the weakening of the South Korean won, the company said. The corporation's net profit for the three months ended June 30 rose to 2.55 trillion won ($2.2 billion), compared with 2.31 trillion won for the comparable period in 2011. The result was better than the average analyst forecast of 2.43 trillion won.

At a meeting of the regional political council of the United Russia party on Monday, the issue of transferring the vacant mandate of a deputy of the State Council of Chuvashia to the general director of JSC ChPO im. IN AND. Chapaev" to Mikhail Reznikov. The mandate became vacant after Galina Nikolaeva, a State Council deputy and head of the executive committee of the regional branch of United Russia, was appointed a member of the Federation Council of Russia (see Kommersant on July 6).

The prosecutor's office is checking the trip of the Perm delegation The Perm prosecutor's office is checking the circumstances of the trip of five deputies of the city duma and the head of the city Igor Sapko to Sicily at the expense of the budget in early July. The purpose of the visit was to sign a cooperation agreement with the authorities of the city of Agrigento and the opening of a cultural festival.

A Greek woman from the Olympic track and field team was not allowed to compete for racist remarks on Twitter. Experts agree with the decision of the country's Olympic Committee to remove the athlete from the competition. The Olympics in London are full of scandals. Greek athlete Paraskevi Papachristou was suspended from the Games due to accusations of racism. She spoke out on her Twitter that there are too many migrants from Africa in Greece.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the head of the Rosatom state corporation Sergei Kiriyenko Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin congratulates him: — Dear Sergei Vladilenovich! Your biography, full of responsible positions, force majeure and non-standard effective solutions, can be cited as an example in management textbooks.