Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will have to explain exactly what taxpayers will receive for the Treasury Department's agreement to receive several divisions of the insurance giant AIG in exchange for forgiveness of $25 billion of the national debt, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said, Bloomberg writes. “The debt-for-equity swap still leaves taxpayer funds at serious risk,” Grassley said in a letter to Geithner.

The Assembly Hall showed two compact productions by the choreographer. One dates back to 2006, and the other is celebrating its 10th anniversary. In a genre where everything is mobile and momentary, they should be perceived as classics. These two mini-performances, following Galotte's major projects, reveal his interest in plot constructions. However, he understands the plot differently from how it is taught at the GITIS ballet department.

Ukraine has "a lot of work to do" on its way to joining NATO's Membership Action Plan (MAP) and becoming a member of the North Atlantic alliance, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday. In 2008, Kyiv applied to join the MAP, but the NATO foreign ministers rejected the application. NATO foreign ministers approved a new format of relations with Ukraine in December last year within the framework of the so-called annual national programs.

03 December 2009, 13:46 / Finance RSA will introduce a new procedure for issuing MTPL policy forms to insurers Vedomosti The Russian Union of Auto Insurers (RUA) will introduce a new procedure for issuing MTPL policy forms to insurers, Andrey Baturkin, vice-president of the RCA, told reporters. According to him, this procedure has already been approved by the board of the RSA and will be considered at the presidium of the union on December 24, 2009.

December 03, 2009, 06:46 / Finance Gazenergoprombank is going to sell Sobinbank The reason for the sale is the impending changes in the composition of the shareholders of Gazenergoprombank itself, writes the Kommersant newspaper. Oksana Shevelkova A. Makhonin Gazenergoprombank may withdraw from the Sobinbank rehabilitation project. The Kommersant newspaper writes today about plans to sell Sobinbank, citing a source close to Gazenergoprombank.

Valery Zorkin "If the 'dissenting opinion' serves to say that Aunt Manya, who spoke about the Constitution, is a fool and is generally such, then that is different." According to the chairman, judges who issue dissenting opinions are not expelled from the Constitutional Court, although not all of them speak on the case.

December 03, 2009, 01:59 / Finance Non-banking business brought owners of Alfa Group $110 million in dividends Non-banking business has already brought the main owners of Alfa Group $110 million in dividends this year Alexey Rozhkov CTF controls 77.86% in the non-banking business of Alfa Group: in the insurance business, direct investment management company Alfa Capital Partners, as well as stakes in TNK-BP, Turkcell, CTC Media.

The article “Watches of the Motherland” (No. 202 of 26.10.2009, p. A6) and the letter “How to Communicate with a Seller” (No. 209 of 5.11.2009, p. A4) incorrectly state the case material and price of the Ulysse Nardin GMT +/- Big Date watch owned by Anatoly Chubais. According to Ulysse Nardin SA, the retail price of this watch in a steel case in Switzerland was 4,800 Swiss francs. The editors apologize.

At the Asian trades, gold for immediate delivery once again set a new record - the price of the precious metal exceeded the $1,225 mark per troy ounce, rising by 0.8%, Bloomberg reports. February gold futures rose 1.1% to $1,226 an ounce on the Comex electronic trading platform in New York yesterday. Since the beginning of the year, the metal has risen 39%, while the dollar has fallen by 8% against the currencies of six major US trading partners. 4%.

Russian gas giant Gazprom and Italy's Eni have signed an agreement on the South Stream project. As Gazprom's official representative Sergey Kupriyanov told reporters, this bilateral memorandum is a continuation of the document signed last Friday by Gazprom with France's EDF on its participation in the project. According to Kupriyanov, a trilateral agreement on this issue is planned to be signed within three months.

Moscow authorities will provide financial assistance to the families of those killed in the Nevsky Express crash and to those injured in the accident, a source in the city administration reported. "Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed an order to provide assistance to those injured in the crash of passenger train No. 166 "Nevsky Express" on November 27.

The largest US lender Bank of America is ready to return $45 billion of government aid received during the crisis. This step will allow the financial institution to free itself from problems with compensation for the management and hire a new head, Bloomberg notes. Of the amount to be paid, $26.2 billion is “excess liquidity” and $18.8 billion is proceeds from the sale of securities, the company said in a statement.

In Russia, wireless mobile Internet access networks using WiMax technology are commercially operated by three operators: Scartel, Comstar-OTS, and Synterra. According to J'son & Partners, by the end of 2009, they will earn about 1.5 billion rubles together. The largest part of this amount – about 1.1 billion rubles – will come from Scartel, expects Vitaly Solonin, leading consultant at J'son & Partners.

Russia's fifth-largest oil producer, Gazprom Neft, has returned to the idea of ​​a secondary public offering (SPO) on Russian and international stock exchanges, but the final decision is up to Gazprom, three sources told Reuters. "The company is thinking about an SPO... in 2010, discussed it with bankers... The share [of the SPO] has not yet been determined, this issue must first be agreed upon with Gazprom," a source in banking circles told Reuters.

This was announced at the Soccerex conference in Johannesburg (where Russia and 11 other bidding countries submitted their bids to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups) by Alexey Sorokin, CEO of the Russia 2018 bid committee. According to the British publications The Times and Guardian, the bid campaign will cost the Russian budget approximately $20 million. Sorokin plans to receive the same amount from Roman Abramovich and other major businessmen interested in football.