The Fund expects Ukraine to grow its economy by 3.5 percent Against the background of deteriorating assessments of the development of the world economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) left unchanged its GDP growth forecasts for Ukraine in 2012-2013. This is a positive signal for the government, since the forecasts of Ukrainian and international experts are now only getting worse.

The Dutch development bank FMO and the investment fund Emerging Europe Growth Fund II (EEGF II), managed by Horizon Capital, acquired shares of the manufacturer of bacterial drugs, Biopharma PrJSC (Kyiv), the press service of Horizon Capital said in a statement. “The investment funds will be used to build a modern plant in the Kyiv region. Financial details of the transaction are not disclosed,” the company notes. The parties also do not specify the size of the acquired shares.

The investigation accused the former deputy prime minister of the region of abuse of power The Oryol department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR) transferred to court a criminal case against the former Deputy Prime Minister of the region Vasily Eremin and the head of the housing and communal services committee of the Oryol City Council Sergei Senin.

The Ministry of Defense will receive its own police force. The head of the department, Anatoly Serdyukov, has already sent a bill on its creation to the security forces for approval. The Kommersant newspaper reports this. Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov answered questions from Kommersant FM host Oksana Barykina.

The commission of the Stavropol OFAS Russia recognized the actions of Novoaleksandrovsky Elevator OJSC as a violation of the requirements of antimonopoly legislation, namely abuse of a dominant position, expressed in the establishment of different prices for its services for different counterparties, the department’s press service reported.

A supermarket of a perfume chain from Yekaterinburg may appear in Perm One of the assets of the EKS Group of Companies, former governor of the Kama region Oleg Chirkunov, was acquired by businessmen developing the Golden Apple chain of perfume supermarkets in Yekaterinburg. Now entrepreneurs Ivan Kuzovlev and Maxim Panyak own a street-retail space at 36 Komsomolsky Prospekt. The new owners are considering the possibility of opening a perfume supermarket there.

“Donetsk”, “Azovmash” and “Budivelnik” recognized their European Cup opponents Basketball Yesterday the draw for the first group round of the European Cup took place in Barcelona. Three Ukrainian clubs recognized their rivals - the national champion Donetsk, the silver winner Azovmash and Budivelnik, which came in fourth at the end of last season. This season, the best Ukrainian clubs will once again compete in the second most important continental club tournament - the European Cup.

The tallest and fastest. On October 10, Austrian Felix Baumgartner will try to reach the speed of sound in free fall. The skydiver plans to make a record jump from a height of 36.6 km. With details - Mikhail Bocharov. The 43-year-old extreme sportsman will rise into the stratosphere over the American state of New Mexico in a special capsule. According to calculations, during the jump, a parachutist dressed in a spacesuit will accelerate to 1110 km/h.

Processes Businessman Ivan Savvidi intends to recover 17.5 million rubles from the Rostov football club in court. In April of this year, PKF Atlantis-Pak LLC, controlled by a Rostov entrepreneur, issued a loan to Rostov in the amount of 15 million rubles, thanks to which the club paid off months of salary debts to the players and avoided sanctions from the Russian Football Union (the club was threatened with deduction of points) .

The net profit of the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant (CZP) in the first half of 2012 amounted to 437 million rubles, which is 50% less than in the same period last year (866 million rubles), the company said in a statement. The company's revenue according to IFRS for the reporting period decreased by 1%, to 6.384 billion rubles, EBITDA fell by 38%, to 929 million rubles.

International experts criticized the electoral system Yesterday, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems published recommendations for the law “On the Election of People's Deputies.” According to the foundation’s experts, in the future the parliament should take their opinion into account when changing the law - in particular, allowing citizens with an outstanding criminal record to be elected to parliament and reducing the quota of parties in the Central Election Commission.

The Knesset (parliament) of Israel may announce on October 15 its dissolution and the calling of early elections, Knesset Chairman Reuven Rivlin, who is on a visit to Moscow, told reporters on October 10. “On Monday the Knesset returns from recess. The government approached me with a request that on the first day of the Knesset’s work, the agenda would include the issue of dissolving parliament and calling early elections,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying. According to Mr.

The world market is preparing for a surge in inflation Private and public investors are actively increasing their investments in gold. Thus, the assets of specialized exchange-traded funds reached a new record, exceeding 2.5 thousand tons. Central banks of developing countries are also increasing their gold reserves. The monetary stimulus programs deployed by financial regulators are spurring this demand amid expectations of rising inflation.

Writer, TV presenter, and film critic Gleb Skorokhodov died on October 10 in Moscow at the age of 83, RIA Novosti was told by the capital's ambulance service. “Our ambulance team confirmed his death at 8 o’clock in the evening,” the agency’s interlocutor said. In turn, a source in medical circles told RIA Novosti that Gleb Skorokhodov died of cancer. According to him, an ambulance was called to the writer’s apartment on Borisoglebsky Lane.

Injuries 357 1 min. ... The central defender of Shakhtar Donetsk Yaroslav Rakitsky will not help the Ukrainian national team in the World Cup qualifying matches against Moldova and Montenegro. The footballer will miss these games, which will take place on October 12 in Chisinau and October 16 in Kyiv respectively, due to inflammation of the Achilles tendon. Thus, at the disposal of and. O.