Rules of the game: Sechin's risks For the second time in two weeks we have to defend Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. First, he correctly said that Russia does not need production sharing agreements (although he gave the wrong reason). Secondly, it is possible that accusations that a long-term agreement with China is unprofitable for our country are groundless. Further This blog post [ ? ] acteon

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance is strengthening laboratory control over dairy products coming from Lithuania, Itar-TASS reports.

Russian bookmakers are ready to pay significantly more taxes to the treasury, but would like to do so in accordance with personally developed amendments to the legislation. This was announced today at a specially convened press conference by the heads of the National Association of Bookmakers (NAB).

The end of 2009 will be favorable for countries in the EMEA region ( Europe, Middle East and Africa). This is stated in the report from Banc of America Securities - Merrill Lynch . Despite the fact that a reduction in unemployment and a recovery in credit should not be expected, fiscal stimulus measures have finally had a positive impact on the EMEA economy.

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The stock market opened the week with good growth. The recovery in oil prices and positive external markets helped. A barrel of Brent rose to $67.58 after a week's decline, WTI - to $68.70. Over the day, the MICEX index added 2.43%, the RTS index - 2.77%. The published macroeconomic statistics for Germany turned out to be better than expected.

ARKTEL.RU Yesterday, Moscow Regional Arbitration Court Judge Svetlana Beloded granted the claim of ZAO Lider (managed by NPF Gazfond) against MOITK to recover 997.3 million rubles in debt for 25% minus 5 shares of OAO Arktel. A Vedomosti correspondent attended the court hearing. JSC "Arktel" wireline communications operator. Owners: 75% plus 5 shares – RIGroup, 25% minus 5 shares – ZAO Lider. Financial results (2008, RAS): revenue – 1.44 billion rubles, net loss – 239 million rubles.

Severstal Metallurgical holding. The largest owner is Alexey Mordashov (82% of shares). Capitalization is $6.55 billion. Financial indicators (2008, IFRS): revenue - $22.39 billion, net profit - $2.034 billion. Severstal reported under IFRS for the first half of 2009. The company's revenue was $5.65 billion (half as much as for the same period in 2008), EBITDA was minus $161 million (in 2008, the profit was $2.8 billion), and net loss was $944 million (against a profit of $1.9 billion).

After visiting Libya, Algeria, Syria and Iran, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Turkmenistan yesterday, where he invited the country's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov to join a cartel of the world's largest gas-producing countries. The Venezuelan president is also scheduled to visit Russia and Belarus.

Burdened with debts of 12 billion rubles, KD Avia will completely cease flight operations from September 14. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport is looking for a new designated carrier for regular international flights from Kaliningrad. Rosaviatsia has sent several airlines, including Aeroflot, UTair and Red Wings, an offer to participate in the competition for the rights to operate flights, a Ministry of Transport official said.

OOO "Port Vyborgsky" Stevedoring company. Owner – OMG Ports (100%). Financial indicators (2008, SPARK-Interfax): revenue – 322 million rubles, loss – 43 million rubles. Over the seven months of 2009, 193,200 tons of cargo were handled. Yesterday, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region satisfied the claim of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosmorport demanding the termination of the lease agreement for nine berths with Port Vyborgsky.

On September 2, NPF Norilsk Nickel sent a claim to the Management Company of Rosbank in connection with the fact that as a result of the management company’s work in 2008, a loss of 926.9 million rubles was revealed. UK Rosbank management company. The main owner is Sergey Koshelenko. ASSETS (RAS, June 30, 2009): 239 million rubles. The volume of pension reserves under management (June 30, 2009, according to investfunds.ru) is 5.1 billion rubles.

Russia's international reserves grew by $7.6 billion to $409.6 billion in August, the Central Bank reported: they were shrinking for two weeks and growing for two weeks. The largest increase was in the week ending August 28 (+$6.6 billion). And from August 21 to September 1, reserves grew by $11.3 billion. The volume of SDRs (special drawing rights, the IMF's virtual currency) in the structure of international reserves increased 2,300-fold in August to $6.9 billion.

The Russian Accounts Chamber is ready to make a number of changes to tax and budget legislation, having prepared a conclusion on the draft law on the federal budget for 2010 and the planning period 2011-2012. This was announced on Tuesday by the head of the Accounts Chamber, Sergei Stepashin.

The total volume of unfulfilled federal budget expenditures in relation to the consolidated budget breakdown, taking into account changes, amounted to 166.9 billion rubles or 2.2% in 2008. This is stated in the conclusion of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation on the report of the Government of the Russian Federation on the execution of the federal budget for 2008, the press service of the department reports.