Sberbank will pay $ 1 billion for 80% of the Troika Dialog shares, and buy the rest after 2-3 years. This became known to the newspaper Vedomosti . To announce the deal that the market was waiting for several months is planned on Thursday. Sberbank President German Gref and the head of Troika Dialog, Ruben Vardanyan agreed that the investmentBank costs $ 1.25 billion. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, first Sberbank will buy a “more control” package, that is, 80% of the Three.

The Kremlin says that they are not interested in the “activities and everyday life of pensioner Luzhkov” and are perplexed in connection with the ex-mayor of information about “pressure” on it. The Kremlin source of Interfax noted Luzhkov’s persistence in attempts to get visas to various European countries and suggested that the former mayor has “big plans for the study of cultural heritage”.

In Russia, 22 state corporations in 2010 defended only about 1 thousand patents, the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina said at a meeting of the Commission for the Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economics, dedicated to the development of R&D in large companies with state participation, which took place in Arzamas on January 31.

Governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergei Morozov ordered the creation of a working group to develop the brand “homeland of the Simbirsk kolobok”. The Interfax agency reported this on January 29. The idea to “settle” Kolobok in the Ulyanovsk region belongs to Ulyanovsk State University associate professor Sergei Petrov.

Yesterday, the President-Otherta was presented by the book “Correspondence of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin with the heads of state and governments” with the preface of Dmitry Medvedev. The collection was published for the anniversary of Yeltsin and covers the correspondence of the first Russian president from 1996 to 1999. The compilers of the two -volume - Sergey Prikhodko and Vladimir Shevchenko, were both assistants to Boris Yeltsin during his presidency.

Medical experts have not yet been able to establish with one hundred percent confidence the cause of the death of a pupil of a boarding school in the village of Kargasko, Tomsk Region. This was told to reporters by the head of the regional department of SK Pavel Sabyshko, RIA Novosti reports. Recall, on October 19 last year, the girl first fell under the wheels of the car of a drunken policeman, and then an ambulance moved.

The first calls for protests in Syria appeared on social networks Facebook and Twitter. The authors of such messages propose to hold protests on Friday and Saturday, and some announced their readiness to go outside today and picket the parliament building in the center of Damascus.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin positively refers to the appearance on the air of “Channel One” of representatives of the opposition. He stated this, answering the question of Vladimir Pozner during communication with the employees of Channel One in Ostankino. Putin noted that from time to time he sees opposition representatives on the screens, who "act and criticize quite sharply." “When I sometimes listen to some things, I know what really happens in life.

The investigation does not exclude that in the case of the theft of funds at the Bank of Moscow can interrogate seniorly, including the ex-mayor of the ex-mayor of Moscow, Elena Baturina. This was announced today at a press conference in Moscow by the head of the Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Alexei Anichin, ITAR-TASS reports.

Alexey Vodovozov Recently, various “doctors' affairs” fall on the pages of the media increasingly. And more and more often the primary source becomes a blogosphere.

One of the world's largest mobile operators, the British company Vodafone Group PLC. It reports that the Egyptian authorities used the law on the emergency and forced the company to send pro -government SMS, the Air Force reports. The cell operator called this unacceptable and demanded that the Egyptian authorities emphasize that the messages are sent to the country's government. In Egypt, clashes of protesters with people who call themselves supporters of Mubarak and the police continue.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) satisfied the request of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs to remove diplomatic immunity from another employee of the Russian Bank, which is suspected of financial fraud, BBC reports. At the very beginning of the year, four employees of the Russian Directorate of the EBRD, including the former bank director from Russia, Elena Kotova, were already deprived of immunity.

On the eve of a meeting with the Channel One team, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke about the thesis that some of the Russians refers to United Russia as a “fierce but inertive power”, almost as much as the CPSU in the Soviet years. “I think that criticism of any ruling party is always justified, because abuse, inaccurate actions, and errors are connected with the authorities,” said Put In.

In Moscow, at the 83rd year of her life, the famous actress Operetta, Theater and Cinema Tatyana Shmyga died, RIA Novosti reports. The actress continued to play until the end of her life, became famous for parties in the operettes “Bat”, “Merry Widow” and “Count Luxembourg”. Recently, she could be seen in the operetta "Catherine" Anton Kremer and his own musical "Jane" based on the works of Maugham, set specifically for Tatyana Shmyga.

The Supreme Court decided to initiate supervisory proceedings in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The court expressed doubt on the legality of the decision on the extension of their arrest for three months, which on August 16, 2010 adopted the Khamovnican Court, and then approved the Moscow City Court, reports the Moscow Komsomolets .