This year, 88 operating branches of the Western Ural Bank OJSC Sberbank of Russia will change their work format and appearance, the bank’s press service reports. 52 of them will be reformatted in the Perm region, 19 in Udmurtia and 17 in the Komi Republic. After reformatting, 30% of the bank's branches will be located at new addresses. At the same time, the bank notes that the temporary closure of offices for repairs will range from three to six months.

Head of the Skolkovo Open University Andrey Egorov about the project’s farm club This is a university that refuses to consider itself a university, although, having opened in 2011, it already has 220 students and 8 thousand listeners at its events. At the non-university, lectures on robotics are given by professors from Imperial College London, but there are neither first nor second courses; students choose their own specialization, as well as the amount of knowledge they need.

Pollock miners complained to the FAS The Association of Pollock Miners (ADM) and its nine member companies are challenging in the Moscow Arbitration Court the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), which in December last year found ADM and its 26 member companies guilty of organizing a cartel agreement in the pollock market. The FAS believes that in this way the defendants in the case are trying to avoid criminal prosecution and delay the process of paying fines.

Context 758 1 min. ... According to Kommersant, at a meeting of representatives of Russia and the EU on March 11 in Moscow, the implementation of the list of “Joint steps to transition to a visa-free regime for short-term trips of citizens of the Russian Federation and the EU” will be discussed. Unlike the second track (to simplify the visa regime), the first should lead to the complete abolition of visas.

In the Novosibirsk regional court, where the case of Deputy Mayor Alexander Solodkin and his father, former adviser to the governor Alexander Solodkin Sr., accused of participation in an organized criminal community (OCC), is being considered, the state prosecution filed a motion to extend the arrest to officials until June 15. This was reported by the press service of the regional court.

The ICR wants to revoke the license of the bank that carried out the transfers Yesterday, employees of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee conducted searches at the Moscow Creditimpex Bank. Its employees were suspected of assisting in the legalization of 600 million rubles stolen as a result of illegal VAT refunds to fly-by-night companies through Federal Tax Service Inspectorate N28.

By investing in the company "Breeze Technologies" The venture division of VTB Capital invested up to $10 million in the Breeze Technologies company, which is developing mobile and e-commerce services based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The project is risky, experts warn: the structure of the ecosystem is complex, there are no industrial standards, and the pilot The status of NFC-based projects is delayed.

895 billion rubles. amounted to the collections of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) to the federal budget in January-February 2013. This is 5.5% less than the revenues received in the first two months of last year, when customs officers raised 947 billion rubles into the state treasury.

The State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU) has begun forward purchases of 2 million tons of corn, said Minister of Agrarian Policy Nikolai Prisyazhnyuk. “The GPZKU has started forward purchases, that is, it will buy 2 million tons of corn forward and finance farmers in advance, this financing will be within UAH 3 billion,” he said. Based on materials from RBC-Ukraine

The Lipetsk administration has decided to create a city housing inspectorate to strengthen control over management companies, the press service of the mayor's office reported. The new structure, consisting of 12 people, will be given the right to punish those management companies that violate the terms of the contract for the provision of services to the population. In this case, the amount of the fine will be up to 5 thousand rubles. for individuals and up to 400 thousand for legal entities.

In February, consumer prices fell by 0.1%, the State Statistics Service reported. Including prices for food and non-alcoholic drinks in February decreased by 0.2%, for clothing and footwear - decreased by 0.9%, for housing and communal services - did not change, for services related to health care - increased by 0.5%, for education - increased by 0.2%. In January-February, inflation was 0.1%. Compared to February 2012, in February 2013 consumer prices decreased by 0.5%.

State Duma deputy on the initiative of Senator Benjamin Cardin An American politician proposed banning entry into the United States for Russian officials who approved the response to the Magnitsky Act. The State Duma is not afraid of possible sanctions. The administration of President Barack Obama will not aggravate relations with Russia, in turn, political scientists are sure.

Officials and businesses during the VI European Forum on the Future of Agriculture tried to figure out how to meet the growing demand for food in the face of stricter environmental requirements and at the same time protect Europeans from fluctuations in world food prices. For the EU, the situation is further complicated by plans to reduce state support for agriculture, which forces European farmers to look for investment opportunities outside of Europe.

The founder of Potok (formerly Mirax Group) Sergei Polonsky explained why he broke the deal with Alexey Alyakin to sell the company - the buyer, in his opinion, did not plan to fulfill in good faith his obligations to purchase Potok shares. “I hereby notify all interested parties that Alexey Alyakin misled me into entering into a transaction with him to sell shares of Potok Corporation (formerly Mirax Group) that I owned.

The Public Chamber will teach schoolchildren to correctly understand the classics: a new concept for teaching literature in middle and high schools is being developed here, the media write. Public Chamber council member Pavel Pozhigailo and writer Sergei Shargunov answered questions from host Andrei Norkin.