However, mortgage loans will not remain on the bank's balance sheet for long. "The bank wants to enter the secondary mortgage market through the mortgage program," Popkov admits. And according to a source at BCS , one of the buyers could be KIT Finance, with which a cooperation agreement is being prepared for signing. According to it, KIT Finance will buy small packages of mortgages in the amount of 50 million rubles - 100 million rubles.

April 20, 2007, 00:00 Reiman persuaded Anastasia Golitsyna Currently, licensed software is installed on only a third of the 670,000 computers in Russian schools, Minister of Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Reiman said yesterday at a meeting of the government commission on combating violations in the field of intellectual property, its legal protection and use. This was revealed as a result of an audit carried out as part of a project to connect schools to the Internet.

Television is promoting First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov against the backdrop of, unfortunately, few achievements in science and industry. The strategic nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky, launched from a workshop in Severodvinsk on Sunday, is an undoubted achievement of this kind, despite all the complaints about this project. The main complaint is the lack of a tested weapon for this submarine, the Bulava missile, the last three launches of which were unsuccessful.

Gazprom's minority shareholders are not bothered by the monopoly's stinginess. Shareholders earn money not from dividends, but from the growth of their rate, concludes Alfa Bank analyst Konstantin Batunin. The size of Gazprom's dividends for last year was determined yesterday by the concern's board. It recommended paying 2.54 rubles per share, the monopoly's manager told Vedomosti.

Over the past year and a half, the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office has conducted four inspections of construction companies and found about 230 violations of equity holders' rights, according to a statement from its press service. In particular, 139 equity participation agreements that had not been registered with the state were found in the Most-Prom company, which is carrying out construction on Morskoy Pekhoty Street.

The four-year term of office of the regional electoral commission (OEC) of the Nizhny Novgorod region expires on June 25, 2007. As Leonid Litvinenko, first deputy director of the state and legal department of the regional administration, told Vedomosti, a working group of the Legislative Assembly and the regional government has already been created and has begun work. Stanislav Bisin has been the permanent head of the OEC since 1999.

The Nizhny Novgorod government expects to increase housing construction volumes to 1.3-1.5 million square meters per year in the coming years. According to the Minister of Construction of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Valery Anglichaninov, the task has been set to deliver 800,000 square meters of housing per year, and to reach the figure of 1.6 million square meters by 2010. However, market participants fear that companies will not find specialists to implement these plans.

Getting clothes dirty is not a problem in Russia either, but only the Swiss Research and Technology Institute of Materials can do it in such a way that any two samples of the same nomenclature are absolutely identical. Rostest-Moscow did not spare money on 15 types of pollutants. After all, it has a serious customer: on the eve of the advertising campaign, Henkel decided to obtain proof that its Power Persil washes better than “just Persil”.

In the article “Bankers instead of farmers” (No. 70 from 19.04.2007, p. A1) the words of Sergei Galitsky should be read: “Forbes’ assessment is calculated based on the value of my share in the Magnit chain, and this is 95% of my assets.” In the article “New Riddle” (No. 69 of 18.04.2007, p. B1), the position of Finam analyst Semyon Birg is incorrectly indicated. The editors apologize.

In 2008, RAO UES of Russia will sell its stake in Power Machines. The board of directors of the energy holding has already decided to sell a blocking stake in Power Machines to a strategic Russian investor, recalls RAO representative Marita Nagoga. But Siemens was the first to announce its intention to participate in the tender for the sale of this package. As Siemens President in Russia Dietrich Möller told journalists yesterday, his company would like to manage Power Machines.

A put option is a contract that gives the buyer the right (but not the obligation) to sell the underlying financial instrument (for example, an oil contract) at a specified price within a specified time. A certain amount (a premium) is paid to obtain this right. If the oil price at the time of the option execution is lower than the one stipulated in the option, the buyer makes a profit, explains Ilya Efimchuk, CEO of the Derivative Expert agency.

Vice Mayor Leonid Pechatnikov on how medicine will change in Moscow 10 Alexey Taranin A website has been created where you can get reading recommendations based on the experiences of other readers with similar tastes, and leave your own review Looked - pay Soon Russian online libraries will begin to work as reading rooms: you can download or print a book only for money Alexander Sergeev For Friday 20.04.2007, 14 (51) By the beginning of May, online libraries will become reading rooms.

Travel agency for ministers On the article “Gref walked along Tverskaya” (No. 69 of 18.04.2007, p. A3) I am thinking of opening a travel agency for high-ranking officials.

On December 20, in Lesogorsk, located near the Russian-Finnish border, the launch of the hydraulic unit of the Lesogorsk HPP took place. Thus, TGK1, part of Gazprom, completed the reconstruction of the Vuoksa cascade, which produces electricity, partially exported to Finland. An important concept that could clarify something in Russian history is self-righteousness, an unshakable belief in one’s rightness Pushing the boundaries There is a pause in the humanities right now.

Natalia Milchakova, head of the fundamental analysis department at FC Otkritie , is surprised by Nutritek's activity. "The average per capita consumption of baby food in Russia is three times less than in Eastern Europe, and seven times less than in Western Europe and the USA," she says. Thus, in 2006, growth in the baby food sector at VBD and Lebedyansky was 33.5% and 63%, respectively.