Banks For the period from January to September, Raiffeisenbank (one of the ten largest banks in Russia) brought the group of Austrian Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) €383 million in profit after taxes, according to RBI reports. The operating profit of RBI's business in Russia amounted to €834 million for the reporting period, pre-tax profit - €485 million. The net interest income of the banking group at the expense of Raiffeisenbank amounted to €551 million.

Yesterday, a session of the Novosibirsk City Council adopted an appeal to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu and the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Olga Dergunova with a request to transfer into municipal ownership the boiler house of the village of Gvardeisky, as well as kindergartens and other social facilities owned by the defense department in the city.

The editors of the Ura.ru agency decided to launch a new online newspaper and transferred the access keys from the site to the main owner of Ura.ru LLC, the company BF TEN Holding GmbH, reported on November 29 on the news agency’s website . “Today we handed over the access keys to the site to the main owner of Ura.ru LLC - representatives of the Austrian company BF TEN Holding GmbH (owns 51% of Ura.ru LLC). As Ura.ru readers know, this was a difficult, forced decision.

Jerome Lambert, Jaeger-Lecoultre As part of the 69th Venice Film Festival, the Swiss manufacturer Jaeger-LeCoultre, a partner of this forum since 2007, showed its new collection of women's watches Rendez-Vous. Jaeger-LeCoultre President Jérôme Lambert is confident that it was important to release the company's first women's watch with a round case right now. — The Rendez-Vous model is called the first Jaeger-LeCoultre women's watch with a round case.

197 1 min. ... Employees of fast food chains in New York are staging a protest to demand higher wages and the right to form a union to increase their compensation. Participants in a campaign called “Fast Food Forward” hope to double their wages to $15 an hour. The protest was the largest effort by American fast food unions. The action was led by the New York Communities for Change movement, which has already helped create unions for car wash and grocery store workers in New York.

The Syrian Information Minister said that the country's shutdown from the Internet on November 29 was due to the fault of terrorists, Reuters reports citing Syrian media. Earlier, the American network monitoring company Renesys reported that all 84 nodes of Syrian IP addresses in the global routing table were unreachable, indicating that the country was disconnected from the Internet. “It is not true that the Internet was shut down by the state.

On November 29, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitted former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj of charges of crimes against humanity, RIA Novosti reports. The ex-prime minister and two of his accomplices - former warlords Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj - were accused of crimes against Serbs, Roma and “disloyal” Albanians during the 1998-1999 Kosovo conflict.

A Dutch court found the South Korean company Samsung guilty of unauthorized use of patented technology from competitor Apple in a number of Galaxy smartphones and tablets. The court imposed a ban on sales on the Dutch market of certain Samsung Galaxy devices running the Android mobile platform versions from 2.2.1 to 3.0.

Two UCLH structures of billionaire Vladimir Lisin - OJSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg and CJSC Port Invest - submitted applications to participate in the auction for the sale of 55% of the shares of OJSC Vanino Commercial Sea Port, a representative of the holding told the Prime agency on November 29. The tender for the sale of the state stake in 55% of the authorized capital (73.33% of ordinary shares) of Vanino will be held on December 7.

As part of an extraordinary conference of the branch of the United Russia WPP of the municipal formation "City of Maykop", elections for the secretary of the local branch of the party were held. According to the city administration's portal, the conference delegates nominated two candidates, and according to the results of a secret ballot, Mikhail Chernichenko, who headed the local branch of the party for the past four years, won. In 1992, Mr.

Alexey Tarkhanov In November, the results of the Golden Arrow, as we now call the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, are announced in Geneva. A good name, although there is only one “Golden Arrow” at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, and the rest of the watches are awarded in specific categories. And it has never happened that the public liked all the prizes without exception. This year is, of course, no exception, although there is much less indignation than there was three years ago.

For the first time in 73 years, the Roman Colosseum will undergo a large-scale restoration, which was delayed for more than 3 years due to bureaucratic delays. The restoration project, estimated at $32.33 million, will begin in December of this year and end in 2015. The restoration of the Colosseum will be carried out in stages, which will allow it to continue to operate the architectural monument, which hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the world come to see every year.

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today, at its closed meeting in Andorra la Vella (Andorra), approved a report on the observation of the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which took place on October 28. “The Bureau of the Assembly, at its meeting held behind closed doors, approved the report on the observation of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

Today, at the 35th meeting of the State Council of Tatarstan, deputies adopted in the second reading the bill “On the budget of the Republic of Tatarstan for 2013 and for the planning period of 2014 and 2015.” The volume of budget revenues in 2013 is planned at 128.3 billion rubles, the volume of expenses - at 131.5 billion rubles. The deficit will be 3.18 billion rubles. The republic's revenues in 2014 are planned at 128.6 billion rubles, in 2015 - 134.6 billion rubles.

Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview to Kommersant The government of Dmitry Medvedev worked for the first six months. In an interview with Kommersant, the Prime Minister talks about the future of Rosneft and ideological disputes in the White House, about public sentiment and the mood of Alexei Kudrin, about the Magnitsky Act and NATO plans. Finally, DMITRY MEDVEDEV announced the future work plan of the White House until 2018, which will be made public in the near future.