M. Stulov Marshall Capital Partners has signed an agreement to buy out from Gazprombank a fund that owns shares in the subsidiaries of the state holding Svyazinvest – seven interregional companies (IRCs) and Rostelecom. This was reported to Vedomosti by Marshall Capital Partners Managing Partner Konstantin Malofeev and confirmed by the head of the Gazprombank Group asset trust management business Anatoly Milyukov. The deal should be closed within a month, Malofeev expects.

The government is ready to introduce joint liability for debts remaining after the liquidation of companies for managers, founders and members of liquidation commissions. The corresponding amendments to the laws on insolvency, joint-stock companies and limited liability companies were introduced by the chairman of the State Duma property committee Viktor Pleskachevsky back in February 2009.

On Friday, at a meeting at Rusnano , Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed measures of state regulation of the microelectronics market with officials and businessmen. The officials agreed with all proposals of Rusnano and AFK Sistema to support demand for these products, Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais told journalists after the meeting. This was confirmed by a representative of AFK, adding: no orders or instructions have been issued yet.

Many Muscovites and residents of St. Petersburg were shocked the other day by the unusual appearance of streets and courtyards in the center of the two capitals. Tens of thousands of followers of Islam, who gathered around the main capital mosques on the day of one of the main Muslim holidays - Eid al-Fitr, frightened some city residents and caused a wave of xenophobic statements in the blogosphere.

The Russian president will get behind the wheel of a Pobeda on September 17-18. The international motor rally along the route St. Petersburg - Kiev, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first motor rally for the prize of Emperor Nicholas II, starts on Monday from the St. Petersburg suburb of Pushkin. The rally is intended to repeat the historical race along the route St. Petersburg - Kyiv - Moscow - St.

E.Kuzmina Bank Saint Petersburg earned a solid profit in the first half of 2010 — 1.1 billion rubles, according to its international report. Of this, 750 million rubles of net profit came from the second quarter. The bank was able to double the volume of net interest income to 6.1 billion rubles in six months. The bank's interest income was able to cover growing expenses and reserves (the volume of deductions for the quarter increased by 41% - to 3.96 billion rubles).

British oil company BP is confident that the total amount of compensation paid to people and companies affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will not exceed $20 billion. "BP's incoming chief executive Robert Dudley has said that, given current estimates of claims, a $20 billion fund should be sufficient," Citigroup analysts wrote in a report after meeting with Dudley.

In July of this year, Microsoft introduced a new version of the Microsoft Office 2010 software package to the Russian mass market. It is sold in stores for about 3,000 rubles. Vedomosti tested Office 2010 for a week on a demonstration Toshiba Satellite L650D laptop. The laptop worked fine, but sometimes it slowed down and buzzed while charging, which, I hope, is not related to the increased demands of Office on computer performance.

September 13, 2010, 19:51 / Business Deloitte plans to hire 50,000 employees per year over the next 5 years Dmitry Dmitrienko International audit company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu intends to hire an average of 50,000 new employees per year over the next five years, expecting an increase in demand for its services. The company announced this on Monday, presenting its financial report for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, which ended May 31.

Established in 2006, the factoring company Eurokommerts quickly became the market leader: by mid-2008, it had provided more than 110 billion rubles to more than 24,000 companies, mainly through loans and public credits. The company's bankruptcy was one of the most high-profile in Russia: according to its reporting for the first quarter of 2009, its debts to approximately 3,000 creditors exceeded 38 billion rubles.

JSC "Russian Agrarian Project" The parent company of the agroholding Rusagroproekt. Financial indicators (2009, company data for the group): revenue – 2.71 billion rubles, EBITDA – 715 million rubles. The FAS approved David Yakobashvili's petition to purchase 50% of the shares of Russian Agrarian Project CJSC (Rusagroproekt). Thus, together with the package he had, Yakobashvili consolidated all 100% of the company's shares.

ITAR-TASS Sergey Tsyvin, head of the Vernadsky office of the suburban real estate department of Inkom-Real Estate:  – The number of alternative transactions, when an apartment is exchanged for a house, is small. Most often, an apartment in the city is exchanged for a country house (about 20% of transactions), less often, when improving housing conditions, a house is exchanged for a house. It is difficult to call this a trend.

Alfa Bank may place Eurobonds worth between $500 million and $1 billion, a source in banking circles reported. According to the source, the placement period will be between 7 and 10 years. Earlier it was reported that Alfa-Bank will hold meetings with investors in Asia, Europe and the USA on September 13-17. Deutsche Bank, UBS and Alfa-Bank itself have been appointed as the organizers of the meetings.

Representatives of the world's central banks and banking supervisors agreed on rules to increase reserves in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the global financial crisis at a meeting in Basel on September 12. The new rules, called Basel III, represent a "fundamental strengthening of global capital standards," according to European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet.

A. Makhonin Developers actively use this resource, but they say that there are too many problems with the implementation of projects. And the health risks for future residents may be too high.