say the organizers of the action in the Arctic Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a ship in the Arctic, protesting against offshore oil production. Previously, the actions of the environmental organization had a positive result, but in this case their actions are unlikely to affect the development of the project, experts say. Environmentalists have begun a new stage in the fight against Gazprom's project to develop the Arctic shelf.

Over the past year and a half, Central Chernozem Bank has significantly increased its activity in the trade finance market and was able to strengthen its leadership position in this market segment. Clients were attracted by exceptional reliability, which allows us to provide accessible resources, a team of the best specialists in the market, as well as the widest presence among banks in the service region.

Place 180 1 min. ... On August 27, Russian Cinema Day, a monument to the Lumiere brothers will be unveiled in Yekaterinburg. Sculptor Diana Kosygina cast two-meter bronze figures of the legendary Frenchmen and a movie camera next to them. It was, in fact, invented by the brothers. The invention of the Lumières has come a long way from the first sessions in 1895 at the Grand Café on Paris's Boulevard des Capucines.

PJSC "Subsidiary Bank of Sberbank of Russia" (Kyiv) won the tender for a loan in the amount of $40 million, announced by the statutory territorial-industrial association "Southern Railway" (Kharkov). According to the message in the Public Procurement Bulletin, the loan is attracted for three years at 12% per annum. The purchase agreement was signed on August 17 of this year. "Southern Railway" is one of the oldest railways in Ukraine.

IBM Corp. buys developer of social networks for professional contacts Kenexa Inc. for $1.3 billion. IBM expects to close the deal, which is subject to Kenexa shareholder and regulatory approval, in the fourth quarter of 2012. Kenexa takes a social media approach to HR, working with more than 8,900 clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail and others. The acquisition of Kenexa will complement IBM's social technology and HR services offerings.

A criminal case was sent to the Naberezhnye Chelny court against the director of StroyStandard LLC, Stanislav Karpenko, who is accused of large-scale tax evasion. The city's investigative department approved an indictment against a 37-year-old entrepreneur, whose actions fall under Part 1 of Art. 199 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (evasion of taxes from an organization by including knowingly false information in a tax return, committed on a large scale).

Last week, Pussy Riot's opponents had a reason to accuse the girls of self-interest: the group's lawyers are registering a trademark "to avoid possible provocations using the name of a punk band." OLEG KHOKHLOV Finally, there was money in this story. How this was missed by those who had long suspected that punk prayer services were not held for free! The girls will be released very wealthy, some media outlets concluded.

Amur hockey players played friendly matches with the Japanese national team There are less than two weeks left before the start of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) championship, and Amur hockey players are speeding up their pre-season preparations. Last Thursday and Saturday, the Khabarovsk team played two friendly matches with the Japanese national team. In mid-August, Amur had three similar matches with Finnish clubs, and the Russian club did not win any of them.

The renovation of the chapel of the Tithe Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) near the Tithe Church is nearing completion. Now this wooden building has already been lined with slabs and carved stones, and the arrangement of the temple dome has been completed.

American Tiffany & Co., the world's second-largest jewelry retail chain, slightly increased profit and revenue in the second fiscal quarter and worsened its forecast for the full year, MarketWatch reports. The company's net income for the quarter ended July 31 rose 2% to $91.8 million, or $0.72 per share, compared with $90 million, or $0.69 per share, for the same period a year earlier. Last fiscal year's second quarter figure included one-time charges of $0.16 per share.

From 1696 to 1796, Russia passed laws 18 times prohibiting commanders from exploiting soldiers for personal gain. However, the coercion of lower ranks into forced labor did not stop. The head of the historical and archival service of the Kommersant Publishing House, Evgeny Zhirnov, found out how the authorities of the Russian Empire managed to significantly reduce the severity of this problem.

Ukraine in the near future will completely abandon the purchase of metal products in Russia, he said at a briefing after the opening of the steel structures plant "Staltech" in Brovary. He noted that Ukraine’s production capacity allows us to switch exclusively to Ukrainian products. “We will completely give up in the near future, and we have already practically given up on purchasing metal structures in Russia, for example.

The Russian-German conference “Prospects for the development of lending to small and medium-sized businesses in modern economic conditions” will be held in Kazan on August 29. The forum is organized by the State Corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)” and OJSC “SME Bank”.

Travel business As Kommersant expected on July 20, the founding meeting of a non-profit organization that will unite all outbound tourism operators took place last week. An association with the working name “Rosturpomoshch” is being created in order to manage the compensation fund for emergency assistance to tourists staying abroad in accordance with the amendments to the law “On the Fundamentals of Tourist Activities in the Russian Federation” adopted by the State Duma last spring.

The environmental prosecutor's office is establishing damage from a diesel fuel spill during an oil pipeline break in the Ufa region of Bashkiria, said Natalya Grigorieva, head of the propaganda department of the civil protection department. According to her, last Sunday, near the village of Nikolskoye, an oil pipeline belonging to OJSC Ufaneftekhim broke, which led to a leak of diesel fuel.