November 17, 2010, 13:32 / Finance Seizure of documents took place at Mezhprombank offices Law enforcement agencies tried to find documents related to the bank's activities over the past few years. Tatiana Seyranyan D. Grishkin Documents were seized in the offices of Mezhprombank, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

Main Directorate of Internal Affairs for Moscow On Wednesday, the Moscow City Court ruled that the case regarding the traffic accident on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow involving the official car of Lukoil Vice President Anatoly Barkov, which resulted in the deaths of two women - Olga Aleksandrina and Vera Sidelnikova, was legal. Thus, the court rejected the cassation appeal of the defense of the relatives of the victims.

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer is 3-4 times faster than Apple's iPad, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing a statement from RIM Deputy CEO Jim Balsillie. The statement continues a confrontation that Steve Jobs started when he said devices like the PlayBook were "stillborn" and couldn't compete with the iPad. Jobs also said that RIM would have a hard time getting app developers to work with the PlayBook.

Valentin Serov, Portrait of T. P. Karsavina. 1909 This exhibition, like everything that the Tretyakov Gallery's graphic department does, is a series of small but enjoyable discoveries. Graphic art is rarely exhibited - such are the conditions of storage - and therefore cannot become boring, like painting, which often occupies the same wall throughout our lives. So we have to remember watercolors, pastels and drawings on occasion and happily examine them for something new.

November 17, 2010, 11:43 am / Finance The wedding of a British prince will not help the economy Tatiana Seyranyan The most magnificent royal celebration in the last thirty years will take place next year in the UK: the second heir to the throne, Prince William, proposed to his long-time girlfriend, and they are due to get married in the spring or autumn of 2011, writes the Financial Times. However, analysts doubt that such an event will help the economy.

"Sibur - Russian tires" tire holding. Owner – Sibur Holding (100%). Financial indicators (company data, 2009): revenue – 20.1 billion rubles, net loss – 659.6 million rubles. "Nizhnekamskshina" tire manufacturer. Owner: Tatneft (73.5%). Financial indicators (RAS, 9 months of 2010): revenue – 5.6 billion rubles, net loss – 114.1 million rubles. The merger of Sibur's tire assets and Tatneft's Nizhnekamskshina should result in Russia's largest tire manufacturer.

E. Kuzmina The auction for the sale of the plot on Marshal Blucher Avenue was held by the property fund a week ago. The starting price for 33.5 hectares under power transmission lines (PTL) was 1.55 million rubles, and participants had to pay the same amount as a deposit. The winner must move the PTL underground (cabling). Because the price was growing too fast, the fund announced a break. The second stage ended with the victory of Technopark Tsiolkovsky CJSC, which offered 3.1 billion rubles.

"Edas" law firm. Partners: Igor Akimov, Evgeny Branetsky, Igor Kurochkin, Ilya Lifshits, Anton Yarmak. Financial indicators are not disclosed. Founded in 1990. The development of antimonopoly legislation together with the activity of the FAS RF law enforcement activities has led to a significant increase in disputes related to antimonopoly regulation.

November 17, 2010, 14:17 / Finance / News DIA proposes to create a structure to identify financial "pyramids" undefined Vedomosti The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) proposes to create a structure that would monitor the Russian financial market for the emergence of “pyramids” and identify them at an early stage, DIA Deputy General Director Andrei Melnikov told reporters on Wednesday.

China Construction Bank Chairman Guo Shuqing believes the International Monetary Fund should immediately include the yuan in the SDR (Special Drawing Rights) basket of currencies, China Daily reported today.

Foreign trade turnover of the Russian Federation in January - September increased by 35.4% Russia's foreign trade turnover in January-September 2010 increased by 35.4% compared to the same period in 2009 and amounted to $459.3 billion. This is stated in the calculations of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation using the balance of payments methodology. Russia in January-September 2010 increased exports by 38.1% to $287 billion, and imports by 31% to $172.2 billion.

Severstal Loses Again in America In Q3, Severstal reduced its revenue by 7.3% to $3.9 billion, EBITDA by 21.44 to $751 million, and net profit increased almost 2-fold to $368 million, the company reported. Among Severstal's divisions, only the resource division improved its performance: revenue increased by 5.1% to $914 million, EBITDA by 5.2% to $442 million. Russian Steel and Severstal International reduced their revenue by 6.3 and 19.8% to $2.3 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively.

November 17, 2010, 02:00 / Business Capital Tour tourists were left without tours for two days One of the largest travel companies in Russia, Capital Tour, has suspended operations today – for two days for now. Due to the arrest of accounts following a claim by creditors, she was unable to pay hoteliers and airlines Elena Vinogradova Tatyana Romanova A. Makhonin Capital Tour yesterday informed its retail partners about the suspension of activities for two days starting November 17.

Ak Bars Bank has launched specialized programs for civil servants and public sector employees – the Preferential consumer loan and the Ak Bars Preferential car loan. For them, the minimum down payment will be 5% instead of the usual 15-30% of the total cost of the car, and interest rates will be lower by 0.4% – 14.5%, said the bank’s press secretary Rishat Khamidullin. For consumer loans, rates will be reduced by 3 percentage points – to 16.9%.

The company "Inteko", owned by Elena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, is operating as usual, despite rumors about the sale of the company and the initiation of criminal cases against "Inteko" and Baturina, said on Wednesday the director of the company's external communications department, Gennady Terebkov.