The main purchases and sales of the year In the nineties of the last century, mega-deals were called mergers and acquisitions worth over $100 million. Gradually, this bar grew, the prefix “mega-” began to be unofficially valued at $1 billion. In Russia, such transactions were extremely rare, and in the domestic business press a mega-deal was An exchange of assets worth over 1 billion could well have done, but rubles.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said that the department does not agree with the limit on foreign players adopted in the Russian Football Premier League. Earlier, the executive committee of the Russian Football Union approved a new limit scheme for foreign players: 10 foreign players and 15 Russian citizens can be included in the application. “The Ministry does not agree with the law on legionnaires in the form in which it was adopted.

The insurance company sold the manager One of the oldest Russian management companies (MCs) - Alliance Investments - has changed its owner. The insurance company (IC) "Alliance" sold it to the "April Group" of Anatoly Milyukov. The new owners are going to focus on developing trust management services for private investors. However, in the current conditions, the development of this area will require large investments, including in the brand and agent network, market participants note.

Vostochny Express Bank denied information about a temporary limitation on the amount of cash withdrawals from cards. “No daily or monthly limits on cash withdrawals from bank credit and debit cards have been introduced and will not be introduced. For cash withdrawals, as well as for non-cash transactions, all funds are available within the account balance, as well as within the credit limit,” says the message from Vostochny Bank .

The Presnensky Court of Moscow postponed the interrogation of former Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov to December 25 due to the illness of one of the defendants in the case. Mr. Serdyukov, who is a witness in this case, did not appear in court, RIA Novosti reports. In July, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow began questioning prosecution witnesses in the case of theft of funds and property of the Ministry of Defense through the structures of Oboronservis OJSC.

The Ukrainian government has submitted a number of anti-crisis bills to parliament, in particular on the introduction of an import tax to stabilize the balance of payments and increase budget revenues, RIA Novosti reported on December 23. The texts of the documents were posted on the Verkhovna Rada website on Tuesday night, the agency notes.

Crimean Bulgarians decided to create a regional national-cultural autonomy, RIA Novosti reported on December 23. The Institute of National-Cultural Autonomy was created in Russia in 1996; it gives national minorities the opportunity to independently develop culture, language and national education. Several hundred such autonomies have already been created. National-cultural autonomies of Armenians and Germans have already been created in Crimea.

Yesterday in Chelyabinsk the trial of the head of the city department of physical culture and sports Evgeny Ivanov began, who is accused of receiving a bribe from the Traktor hockey club in exchange for funding from the municipal budget. According to the prosecution, Evgeny Ivanov and his wife made a trip to Italy and Switzerland in the summer of 2011 at the expense of the hockey club. The trip cost more than 160 thousand rubles.

An electric train traveling from Nizhny Tagil to Yekaterinburg had its last two carriages with passengers uncoupled at full speed. As TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Sverdlovsk Railway, no one was injured as a result of the incident at the Elektrodepo railway station. The situation did not affect the movement of trains, the causes of the incident are being clarified. Kommersant-Online

The leasing company Yugra SPb filed two claims against UTair airlines in the amount of 1.1 and 2 billion rubles. According to the case materials of the KhMAO Arbitration Court, the claims have not yet been accepted for proceedings. Previously, the leasing company demanded to recover 687 million and 653 million rubles from the air carrier. Kommersant-Online

Tournaments The decision that Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova would be included in the Russian national team to participate in the European Championship without qualifying for the national championship was not made, said Alexander Gorshkov, president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR). Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant / buy photo The fact that Sotnikova, who missed the first half of the season, will not compete at the Russian Championships, became known on Thursday.

"After the war. 1945-1956" at the Academy of Arts "After the War. 1945-1956" - the second in a series of exhibitions of student works by students of the Academy of Arts over different years - attracts primarily with its exhibition design. PAVEL GERASIMENKO was surprised by the radical transformation of the long-familiar halls.

As Kommersant learned, the board of directors of Bashkir River Shipping Company OJSC (BRP, controlled by the government of Bashkiria) at a meeting on December 26 plans to consider the issue of early termination of the contract with general director Pavel Yurchenko. Mr. Yurchenko has been running the company since December last year; previously he managed a subsidiary of BRP, the Ufa ship repair plant.

An anti-Islamic demonstration took place in Dresden (Germany), in which more than 17 thousand people took part, Interfax reported on December 23. Similar demonstrations took place in some other German cities. The demonstration was organized by the PEGIDA movement - “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West.” For their part, the demonstrators deny that they are representatives of extremist or right-wing parties.

The bill proposed to the Verkhovna Rada, proposing to expand the powers of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, did not receive support from deputies. 223 deputies voted for the adoption of the bill, with the minimum required 226. The bill was sent for re-reading, Interfax reports.