The Ministry of Finance has prepared amendments to the Budget Code that will allow the government to create a special agency to manage public finances, Deputy Director of the Ministry's Department Petr Kazakevich told Vedomosti; the bill was submitted to the government on Thursday. The document (see www.vedomosti.ru) allows the Ministry of Finance to engage the agency to manage sovereign funds and government debt.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to expand the rights of shareholders of public companies. Starting in 2011, investors who have owned 3% of a company's shares for at least three years will be able to propose candidates for the board of directors (from one candidate to 25% of the board), whom companies will be required to include on the voting ballot.

August 30, 2010, 02:03 / Business The largest Russian TV channels are acquiring film studios The largest Russian television channels are acquiring film studios. VGTRK agrees to build a studio in St. Petersburg together with AFK Sistema.

How little, in essence, is needed to become a leader of public opinion in today's scorched and stifled Russia! Long ago famous as a singer, Yuri Shevchuk first simply debated with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: without servility, one might say, to the point, quite politely, but firmly conveying exactly what he wanted to convey - and immediately earned at least the interest of the people.

S. Porter Representatives of MTS , VimpelCom and MegaFon reported that their companies have not received any official requests from law enforcement agencies related to Inkormedia or the short number 1350. However, VimpelCom will conduct its own investigation and if the facts of fraud using Inkormedia short numbers are confirmed, then this content provider may be subject to fines, says the operator's representative Anna Aybasheva.

V.Baranov The Federal Protective Service has published information about the incomes of some executives with a significant delay. The agency had not previously planned to make this data public. According to the agency, FSO Director Yevgeny Murov received 5.8 million rubles in 2009, and his wife received 77,000 rubles.

Russia has submitted proposals to China to create three joint ventures (JV) for uranium mining, Rosatom CEO Sergei Kiriyenko told reporters in Beijing on Monday.

Nikolay Tsukanov was today invested with the powers of the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region. As a result of a secret vote at an extraordinary session of the regional Duma, his candidacy was supported by 30 deputies, and 9 parliamentarians voted against. On August 23, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Kaliningrad Regional Duma the candidacy of Nikolai Tsukanov for the appointment of the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region.

1994 founded the Thunder company for the wholesale trade of cosmetics from Avon, Johnson & Johnson, etc. 1998 opened the first grocery discounter "Magnit" in Krasnodar 2006 took over the post of General Director of the Magnit discount chain $2.9 billion – this is the size of Sergei Galitsky’s fortune, according to Forbes.

The United Russia social-conservative club, headed by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy Andrey Isayev, has put forward an initiative to introduce food certificates for vulnerable groups of the population. The idea was voiced back in 2008, but the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of Economic Development were against it. In the conditions of an abnormal summer, the program may get a second wind, Isayev believes.

Aeroflot has been returned the stolen goods Renault is interested in AvtoVAZ technologies Renault considers it possible to acquire from AvtoVAZ the rights to manufacture and sell the Lada Granta model in third countries, the corporation reported. Production of the budget model Lada 2190 – Lada Granta will begin at the end of 2011. The car is based on the Kalina platform. PRIME-TASS $52 million has been transferred to Aeroflot's account in Zurich.

August 30, 2010, 02:30 / Finance Mezhprombank bondholders will demand payment Tatiana Voronova International Industrial Bank Commercial Bank. Main owners: family of Federation Council member from Tuva Sergei Pugachev (81%). Financial indicators (RAS, as of August 1, 2010): assets - 174.7 billion rubles, capital - 24.9 billion rubles, profit - 441 million rubles.

The Oxford English Dictionary may cease to be printed as more people choose to read it online, Oxford University Press CEO Nigel Portwood told The Sunday Times on Sunday. The last printed version of the dictionary, published in 1989, has 20 volumes and contains more than 290,000 entries. The dictionary weighs almost 6 kg and costs 750 pounds ($1,165). Now a team of 80 lexicographers is working on its third edition.

August 30, 2010, 03:11 / Business The Ministry of Industry and Trade is changing the industrial assembly regime for foreign cars The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to extend the industrial assembly of cars to companies that are ready to produce more than 300,000 cars with localization of at least 60%. These are alliances involving AvtoVAZ and Sollers Alexey Nepomnyashchy E. Kuzmina Russian share.