Activists of the All-Tatar Public Center (ATPC) organized a traditional rally and mourning procession with banners and the slogan "Down with the genocide of Russia!" in the center of Kazan today. In this way, the nationalists marked the 458th anniversary of the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible (October 15, 1552).

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U.S. auto giant General Motors Co may hold an initial public offering (IPO) during the week of Nov. 15, according to people familiar with the deal. The decision follows meetings between the company and sovereign wealth funds in Asia and the Middle East over the past two weeks. Separately, analysts from 10 banks involved in the IPO began a series of meetings last week to determine the value of the leading U.S. automaker, two of the people said.

No wonder Swiss banks fought desperately to maintain banking secrecy. This has helped them generate a net inflow of assets worth more than 50 billion francs ($53 billion) since the end of 2007, Bloomberg reports. Over the past two and a half years, UBS clients have withdrawn 248 billion francs from the bank. However, according to Bloomberg, the influx of funds into 19 of the country's other largest banks managed to push the total into the black.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson 's quarterly profit fell short of analysts' forecasts due to lower-than-expected shipments of handsets, although the company noted strong demand for its high-end models. The company's pre-tax profit in the third quarter was €62 million, well below the €72 million analysts had expected. Sales were also below forecast - 1.6 billion euros instead of 1.8 billion euros, the number of phones delivered was 10.4 million.

October 15, 2010, 16:44 / Business WSJ: TPG investment fund wants to make hard drive manufacturer Seagate private again Dmitry Dmitrienko The TPG investment fund wants to make hard drive manufacturer Seagate a private company again, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing informed sources. It is not known whether he plans to carry out this transaction, estimated based on the company's current capitalization of approximately $6 billion, independently or in partnership.

An open letter to copyright holders and legislators was written by the heads of the Russian offices of Google, Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler, and VKontakte. They complained that currently Russian legislation does not clearly define who exactly is responsible for posting counterfeit content on the Internet. And copyright holders prefer to sue Internet companies rather than the users posting their content. Companies cannot track every user action and assess its legality.

Japanese oil and gas company Inpex Corporation has decided to finally withdraw from the project to develop the giant Azadegan oil field in Iran due to international sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reports. Inpex, which owns 10% in the project, has entered into a corresponding agreement with the Iranian state-owned company National Iranian Oil Co. The parties did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement, but Inpex emphasizes that it does not contain any penalties.

The republican government gave its consent to the acquisition of assets from Tatenergo (owned by the Tatarstan government through the state holding Svyazinvestneftekhim) in February. The final price of the deal is 8 billion rubles, said Dmitry Nemanov, press secretary of the Taif group. "The acquisition of generating assets with borrowed funds is a precedent in the domestic electric power industry," notes Vladimir Sklyar, an analyst at Renaissance Capital.

October 15, 2010, 16:50 / Business Strabag extended the validity of Deripaska's option to buy back a blocking stake Vedomosti The Austrian construction concern Strabag has extended until November 5 the deadline for exercising the option of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska for the right to repurchase a 25% stake in the concern, Strabag and Rasperia Trading, controlled by the Basic Element holding, reported in a joint press release.

Moscow authorities have decided to create a special task force that will be responsible for ensuring the release of territories designated for the construction of the city's road network, a source in the city mayor's office said on Friday. "Acting head of the city's road, bridge and engineering construction department Aleksandr Levchenko has been appointed head of the task force," he noted.

On the RTS derivatives market, FORTS, two types of futures contracts are currently traded: for Brent oil, the standard on the European oil market, and for Russian Urals oil. The exchange decided to first test options trading on more liquid futures. New options contracts will be executed, like the underlying asset - Brent oil futures, every month.

October 15, 2010, 16:41 / Finance / News Kudrin: the 2011 budget can be deficit-free with an oil price of $109 undefined Vedomosti The budget in 2011 can reach a deficit-free level with an oil price of $109 per barrel, in 2012 - $105 per barrel, in 2013 - also $105 per barrel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin said on Friday at a meeting of the United Russia faction in the State Duma.

October 15, 2010, 14:00 / Business Trefilov, co-owner of the Marta retail chain, is wanted Business Group LLC, controlled by Trefilov, took loans from six banks for more than 1 billion rubles. secured by the same commercial equipment.

The Farnborough Air Show is taking place this time without the Russian Knights aerobatic team, which, due to bureaucratic delays associated with the overload of the UK visa center in Moscow, have not received the necessary documents. The Zoological Museum of Moscow University has been operating in the building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya since 1911. It contains more than ten thousand exhibits, and in terms of the volume of scientific funds it is one of the largest collections in the world.