Citigroup, the third-largest US bank, intends to lay off about 11,000 employees, which is expected to save about $1.1 billion a year by 2014, but will require one-time costs of $1 billion. About 6.2 thousand people will be cut in the global retail banking division, they will account for 35% of one-time layoff costs. The move is expected to reduce the bank's revenue by about $300 million a year. Based on materials from Interfax news agency

Shareholders of OJSC "Company M.Video" decided to pay extra dividends based on the results of 9 months of 2012 in the amount of 30 rubles. per share, or 5.39 billion rubles. in general, the Prime agency reports on December 5, citing a message from the company. The Board of Directors recommended in October that shareholders decide on dividends in this amount. In 2011, the company did not pay dividends for nine months. At the end of 2011, M.Video paid 1.042 billion rubles.

The Third Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan completed the investigation of the criminal case against the former senior specialist of the dealer network development and driving safety department of the Business Support Directorate of Honda Motor Rus LLC, 30-year-old Roman Usanov. He is accused of committing a crime under Part 3 of Art.

Aegon Group, one of the leading insurance companies in the world, has reached an agreement with Horizon Capital, a regional private equity fund management company, to acquire 100% of the shares of PJSC Fidem Life Insurance Company. According to a Fidem Life press release, the transaction is expected to be completed approximately in the first quarter of 2013.

"Wuthering Heights" in Ukrainian box office Movie premiere Tomorrow a new film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights will be released in Ukraine, where the English female director Andrea Arnold emphasized the naturalistic component of the original source and interpreted love as an irresistible force of nature.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court (SC) of Tatarstan upheld the seizure of one of the accounts in Sberbank OJSC in the amount of more than 26 million rubles, initiated as part of a criminal case related to the largest agricultural holding in Tatarstan, Vamin-Tatarstan OJSC. Let us remind you that the reason for initiating the case was the statement of five banks about the non-repayment of loan debts in the amount of 11 billion rubles. The company's management came under suspicion of fraud.

Bashkiria took third place in the competition of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation for the right to receive federal subsidies for e-government development projects, according to the website of the federal department. The republic will receive 28.98 million rubles from the federal budget, and another 100 million to finance the program should be allocated by the regional budget.

Context The date of the president's address to the Federal Assembly has not yet been officially announced, although Kommersant's sources previously said that Vladimir Putin will make an address on December 12, Constitution Day. We have not yet received an invitation to the announcement of the message in the State Duma. “The president’s meeting with the factions changed the day and time three times, what can we talk about,” noted a Kommersant source in the Duma apparatus.

More money will be allocated to law enforcement agencies The government proposes to increase funding for law enforcement agencies in the draft budget for 2013. The opposition called this step an attempt by the authorities to build a “police state.” At the same time, only the prosecutor’s office is increasing expenses at a rate exceeding the growth rate of GDP. Representatives of law enforcement agencies argue that the proposed level of funding is not enough for their effective work.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, appealed to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, with an appeal to solve problems with the financing of temporary detention centers (IVS) in Bashkiria. According to the Ombudsman, only a fifth of them comply with the law.

President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics (VFKhG) Irina Viner retained this post following the results of the reporting and election conference of the organization. The conference members voted unanimously for Ms. Wiener. She will lead the WFHG for another four years. Irina Viner has headed the federation since 2008. Since 2001, she has also been the head coach of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team.

A criminal group that specialized in theft of expensive construction equipment has been dismantled in St. Petersburg. In addition to ordinary car thieves, police officers also took an active part in the theft of mechanisms. According to preliminary estimates, by the time of liquidation, the group of hijackers had managed to appropriate about ten pieces of equipment with a total value of several tens of millions of rubles.

Novosibirsk-based Vostochnaya Tekhnika LLC, controlled by Barloworld Equipment, has completed the acquisition of the sales and technical services business of the former Bucyrus company, located in Siberia and the Far East, from Caterpillar Global Mining LLC. The deal was concluded on December 1, 2012, its amount is not specified. “This transaction was preceded by Caterpillar's acquisition of Bucyrus International, Inc. for approximately $8.8 billion in July 2011.

Almost 2 million voters must sign for his resignation Deputies of the Moscow City Duma adopted in the first reading the bill “On the procedure for recalling the mayor of Moscow,” according to which the mayor can be recalled for violating the law or for “repeated gross failure to fulfill his duties without good reason.” True, these facts must first be recognized by the court, after which the initiative group of citizens must collect signatures of at least 1.8 million voters to initiate a

Three-time Olympic champion in biathlon Michael Greis decided to end his sports career at the age of 36, according to the official website of the International Biathlon Union. German biathlete Michael Greis took part in the first stage of the World Cup of the 2012/13 season in Östersund, but took 67th place in the individual race and did not start at all in the sprint. “I want to inform everyone about my decision to end my career. During the last race in Östersund, I felt some emptiness inside.