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January 31, 2011, 10:12 am / Business AAR will try to deprive BP of dividends Tatiana Seyranyan BP's Russian partners in TNK-BP have called an emergency board meeting to discuss another way to put pressure on the British company in connection with its alliance with Rosneft. The only issue on the agenda of the meeting, which will be held by Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR), is the refusal to pay BP dividends for the fourth quarter of last year.

AP Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak insists on economic and political reforms and promises to expand dialogue with the opposition, according to an address by the president to Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, who was appointed on Saturday, read on Egyptian television channel Nile TV on Sunday. "The current situation requires us to review the country's development priorities in order to satisfy the legitimate demands of the people," the president said in his address.

Institutions of representation have traditionally had difficulty taking root in the Arab world. Many political scientists even believed that there could be no other political systems here in principle, except for authoritarian regimes and imitation democracies. Indeed, the Middle Eastern Arab countries remained untouched by the wave of democratization of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Inflation in Russia in 2011 will again exceed the official forecast and reach 7-8%, the Ministry of Economic Development expects. "Indeed, inflation is higher than we expected, especially fruit and vegetable products [are becoming more expensive]. Most likely, inflation will be higher than 7%. For now, we are proceeding from the fact that it will be within 7-8%," said Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Klepach at a briefing on Monday.

Russia, excluding Moscow, accounted for 6% of investments in commercial real estate in 2010, according to analysts from Cushman & Wakefield. In 2010, Moscow accounted for 94% of all investments in commercial real estate, with the majority of investments being made with Russian capital. This is the conclusion reached by analysts at Cushman & Wakefield after studying the investment market in 2010.

Gazprombank has won a license to develop a uranium deposit in Niger, Bloomberg reported, citing the country's government. The bank promised to invest $5 million in the project. Russian companies have long been expanding in foreign markets. The state holding Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ) bought control over the world's fifth uranium player, the Canadian Uranium One, is eyeing the largest uranium deposits in Mongolia, and is buying a company in Tanzania.

Merrill Lynch raised its recommendation on PIK Group GDRs from “sell” to “hold” and its target price from $3.79 to $4.75. Uralsib has renewed its assessment of Pharmstandard GDRs with a “hold” recommendation and a target price of $31. Credit Suisse downgraded its recommendation for Pharmstandard GDRs from “buy” to “hold”, the target price of $30 remained unchanged. Goldman Sachs raised its forecast price for Rosneft shares from $8 to $8.4, the “hold” recommendation remained unchanged.

Aeroexpress LLC will increase the cost of travel on electric trains to and from Moscow Aviation Hub airports by 7% to 320 rubles from February 1, 2011, the company said in a statement. A child's ticket will cost 110 rubles instead of 100 rubles, and a business class ticket will cost 550 rubles instead of 500 rubles. Benefits for travel on electric trains for privileged categories of citizens are retained.

January 31, 2011, 03:01 / Interviews and profiles How Gazprom managers are connected to its suppliers Suppliers of the Russian gas monopoly are connected not only with Vladimir Putin’s acquaintances, but also with its top managers Roman Shleinov AP The gas concern pays its suppliers good money: Gazprom Komplektatsiya only for “material and technical resources” in 2008–2010. spent 666 billion rubles.

M. Stulov The investigation has closed the criminal case against Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, his lawyer Andrei Romashov reported. He explained that the case was closed as a result of the decision of the arbitration court, which in late November recognized the Finance Ministry's debt to Sodexim in the amount of $43.4 million. This made the criminal case against the official, which cost him 11 months in prison, meaningless.

At the end of last year, the Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (SPbU ITMO) became one of the two main participants in the Eureka project of the Russian-American non-profit foundation USRF.

Slightly less than half ( 42%) of working Russians do not consider their workplace comfortable, according to specialists from the Superjob.ru research center, who surveyed 1,800 respondents from all federal districts of the country in January. Those surveyed aged 35 to 45 years ( 49%), as well as respondents with a monthly income of 45,000 rubles or more, most often consider their current workplace convenient. ( 51%). 42% of employed Russians cannot call their workplace comfortable.

On Friday, a department of civil service and personnel was created in the government apparatus. It was headed by Ivan Lobanov, a fellow countryman and long-time associate of the chief of staff of Vyacheslav Volodin: he was a United Russia deputy of the State Duma from the Saratov region.

Corrected version. The original published version can be viewed in the Vedomosti archive (smart version) In St. Petersburg, a competition for the construction of a network of public garages for 250,000 spaces has been cancelled. The property fund announced a tender for the right to lease 462 plots of land with a total area of ​​3.8 million square meters as a single lot for the design and construction of multi-story garages for approximately 250,000 parking spaces at the end of December.