The plenary session of the European Parliament will take place in Strasbourg from 15 to 18 April. Among the main issues on the agenda are proposals for banking reform, which MEPs will take up on Tuesday. According to parliamentarians, the proposed package is the largest initiative to reform the banking sector that has ever been put to a vote in the European Parliament.

FAS proposes to deregulate this service The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) proposes to abolish price regulation for the call termination service (when the call goes through the networks of several operators in different regions). Currently, prices for this service are regulated for significant operators that occupy a significant market share, primarily Rostelecom. As a result, the call termination fee may increase, and hence the cost of the call for subscribers, market participants fear.

VTB Group, at the request of the Serbian government, stopped negotiations on the sale of its banking subsidiary in Serbia; it is planned that this bank will become the base for servicing economic relations between the two countries, the Prime agency reports, citing a source in the group. “VTB Group, indeed, planned to sell the Bank of Moscow (Belgrade), but at the request of the Serbian government, negotiations on the sale were stopped.

1K 1 min. ... Last week, North Korea asked all foreigners in South Korea to leave the country for their own safety. In turn, the South Korean authorities increased the level of combat readiness to the second ("ultimate threat") - the highest in peacetime. At least one North Korean ballistic missile with a probable range of 3,000 km is fueled and ready to launch, according to the US and South Korean militaries.

The government has prepared a concept for reform of arbitration courts in the hope that the business community will be able to solve its problems on its own. After studying the document, Vlast came to the conclusion: business cannot escape Russian courts, even if the proposals of the concept are implemented.

Top 10 (from April 12, 2013) 1. Victor Pelevin. Batman Apollo. Eksmo, 2013. - 512 p. (150,000 copies) 2. Max Fry. Tubur game. A story told by Numminoricus Kuta. Amphora, Petroglyph, 2013. - 380 p. 3. This is what Faina Ranevskaya said. 6th edition. Phoenix, 2013. - 92 p. (5000 copies) 4. Boris Akunin. Black city. Zakharov, 2012. - 368 p. (200,000 copies) 5. Basinsky P.V. Saint vs Leo. John of Kronstadt and Leo Tolstoy: the story of one enmity. AST, 2013. - 572 p. (12,500 copies) 6.

BY BIG SCORE 100 French troops left Mali last week as part of the ongoing withdrawal of French troops stationed in that country. The place of the French should be taken by a contingent of African Union troops numbering 11 thousand people, operating in accordance with the UN mandate. Photo: Reuters 4 thousand people make up the French military contingent in Mali. 1 thousand French troops will remain in Mali until the end of this year. 6,300 African Union troops are currently in Mali.

At today's trading, the price of North Sea Brent oil dropped to $110 per barrel for the first time since July last year. Falling demand has raised concerns about the state of the economy USA and China. In this situation, ruble assets in the stock market and ruble assets in the foreign exchange market suffered. Photo: Reuters Today, the price of North Sea Brent oil on the spot market, according to Reuters , has come close to $110 per barrel for the first time since July last year.

Nicolas Maduro won the early presidential elections in Venezuela, the National Electoral Council announced. Mr. Maduro won 50.76% of the vote, his rival Henrique Capriles 49.07%, Reuters reports. Read about how the presidential elections were held in Venezuela in the Kommersant-Online article “Venezuela decided not to part with Chavez’s legacy.”

Conjuncture 264 1 min. ... At the next meeting, the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) may consider the issue of allocating frequencies of 1980-2000 MHz to the Antares group of companies owned by entrepreneur Evgeniy Roitman, several managers of telecom operators told Kommersant. According to the agenda available to Kommersant, the next meeting of the SCRF may take place on April 30.

85 1 min. ... 15.04 The BZK includes the Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory and the Moscow Academic Choir. The program includes works by Rossini, Sviridov, arrangements of folk songs. 16.04 At the Moscow Museum of Modern Art there is an exhibition of cartoonist Andrei Bilzho. 17.04 At the Musical Theater named after. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Korean singer Sumi Cho will present the program “Madness of Love”.

47 1 min. ... I can call Mikhail Vadimovich Seslavinsky my friend, we have known each other for a long time, since difficult times for Russia. It’s rare to meet a person who so selflessly not only loves a book, but also understands and feels it. And in this sense, his public service absolutely corresponds to his convictions, his passion. He loves the book, he serves the book. And this gives me a special feeling for him.

The size of the Russian IT market has surpassed pre-crisis figures, but its growth, once the fastest in the domestic economy, has slowed. Having lost momentum and undergone therapeutic starvation, the Russian IT business has become more mature and intelligent. "Money" represents the tenth rating of Russian IT companies - based on the results of 2012. IGOR PICHUGIN Crisis route After the crisis, the Russian IT market recovered faster than the research company IDC Russia predicted.

The European Commission reports a sharp increase in the number of cases of human trafficking in the EU countries and a drop in the detection rate of such crimes. In its first report on this problem, the European Commission notes that the vast majority of victims of criminals are women and children, many of whom are subjected to sexual violence. Between 2008 and 2010, more than 20 thousand people became victims of human traffickers in EU countries.

The Moscow City Duma published declarations for 2012 5K 2 minutes. ... Deputies of the Moscow City Duma (MGD) reported on their income for 2012. The top three leaders are traditionally United Russia members - Alexander Semennikov, Alexander Milyavsky, Evgeny Gerasimov. Most deputies have declared 5–6 million rubles, and their property list includes snow and swamp-going vehicles, a parking lot and hectares of agricultural land. Last year's leader, Mr.