Employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped the activities of an international criminal group, preventing the theft of more than 1.5 billion rubles from Russian banks. “Members of the criminal group compromised the largest international payment systems, which allowed them to carry out multimillion-dollar thefts. In addition, the attackers specialized in “hacking” ATMs, using specially manufactured technical devices and modifying the software of bank terminals.

The Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal postponed until December 9 the hearing on Mechel’s complaint against the decision of a lower metropolitan court, which collected 50.2 billion rubles from it. in favor of VTB. “As soon as the bank receives interest from Mechel in accordance with the agreements, we will be ready to abandon the claim,” RIA Novosti reports a statement from a VTB representative.

The Department of Property Relations of the Perm Administration has announced an auction for the sale of municipal property. The list of objects included several buildings and land plots. The most expensive lot, the auction for which is scheduled for December 11, is part of the Avngard stadium in the Kirov region (Svetlogorskaya, 14). The lot included a separate one-story locker room building with an area of ​​176 sq. m. m with outbuildings, as well as a land plot of 2.5 hectares.

They said that Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, having learned that her husband was no longer the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and not the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, said to her friend, the wife of the new first secretary of the Central Committee Victoria Petrovna Brezhneva: “Well, now it’s not I you, but you me You will be invited to the Bolshoi Theater in a box." But she, apparently, had no idea how the new first lady of the USSR really treated her (in the

The BRICS Fund has ceased to exist and is now included in the Emerging Markets Support Fund, reports Bloomberg . According to the authors of the idea, the merger of funds should attract investors, since the number of countries and investment options is expanding. The main reason for the changes, according to the agency, was financial losses - the fund’s income over the past five years decreased by 21%, and assets decreased from $842 million to $98 million.

PAYMENT FOR TRAVEL 59 1 min. ... Many people call all MINI cars mini-Coopers, but this is wrong. Cooper is the name of one of the modifications, implying a medium-power gasoline engine. A MINI car can be a One - this is the designation for models with the weakest engines, a Cooper S is no longer a simple, but a charged engine, or maybe a JCW - John Cooper Works - the most powerful versions are produced under this abbreviation.

Deputies supported the region's draft budget for 2016 and recommended it for adoption in the first reading; the corresponding decision was made on Monday at a meeting of the budget committee of the Samara Provincial Duma. Regional budget revenues for 2016 are planned in the amount of 118.1 billion rubles, expenses - 123.7 billion rubles, the size of the deficit is correspondingly equal to 5.6 billion rubles, or 4.7%. This is below the planned budget indicators for the current year.

409 1 min. ... Last Thursday, two books were presented in Rome, revealing, according to their authors and publishers, new data about corruption in the Vatican. Their appearance might not have been so loud if it had not been preceded by the arrest in the Vatican of two advisers to Pope Francis. Spanish priest Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda and Italian Francesca Chauchi were detained on charges of stealing and transferring secret documents to third parties.

The company announced dividends for three quarters Norilsk Nickel announced the payment of dividends for the nine months of 2015, which will amount to more than 50.9 billion rubles. The company this year began paying dividends more than twice a year and has already paid interim dividends for the first half of the year, which leaves just over $400 million before full payment of the required $2 billion for the year.

159 1 min. ... In recent years, the main elements of the national innovation ecosystem have been formed in Russia, but the results achieved do not meet expectations. Below are some of the findings from the National Innovation Report. The share of innovative products in total output is 8-9% (in leading countries ~15%) and has not been growing over the past three years. Labor productivity in non-resource sectors is 18% lower than in the economy as a whole.

Work as a sport at the Worldskills international competition. Nikita Aronov — Ekaterinburg Will the international competition Worldskills, where the best workers are selected, increase the prestige of labor specialties in Russia?

The Ufa Sotsinvestbank (SIB), whose reorganization is being carried out by a subsidiary of the Deposit Insurance Agency - Russian Capital - announced the start of an issue of bank shares in favor of the sanatorium. On November 6, the Central Bank registered the issue of 3.33 quadrillion ordinary shares of the bank with a par value of 1/333,333,334 rubles. for a total amount of 10 million rubles. Today the bank began placing securities by private subscription at par in favor of Russian Capital.

“Morning Reception” with Andrey Bilzho “You’ll get ears from a dead donkey, you defective one!” Thus, with a quote from the book by Ilf and Petrov, Dmitry Rogozin commented on the plans of the Baltic countries to demand compensation from Russia for the “Soviet occupation.” The Deputy Prime Minister traditionally made a striking statement on his Twitter. Earlier, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia gathered to present monetary claims to Moscow.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 occurred in Kronotsky Bay off the eastern coast of Kamchatka, Interfax reports, citing a representative of the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “The seismic event occurred at a depth of 66 km on Monday at 15:37 (6:37 Moscow time). Its epicenter was 200 km northeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,” the agency’s interlocutor said. He noted that the energy class of the earthquake was 10.8.

interview A decrease in real incomes of the population, instability in the labor market, changes in conditions and requirements for borrowers from banks limit citizens from large-scale purchases. Nevertheless, financiers are trying to reshape their portfolios of offers so that stable clients have the opportunity to obtain a loan or mortgage.