Import duties on new cars will be reduced from 30 to 25% from the moment Russia joins the WTO, Maxim Medvedkov, director of the trade negotiations department at the Ministry of Economic Development, said on Friday (his words are quoted by Interfax). This is stipulated by the 2006 agreements, he recalled: Russia must gradually reduce duties from 25 to 15% over seven years.

On Friday, the Urban Development Council reviewed the reconstruction project for the unfinished hotel on the Karpovka River Embankment, 31. OOO Severnaya Korona, which is handling the project, is going to demolish the unfinished hotel, leaving only the foundation. The residential complex project commissioned by Severnaya Korona was completed by OOO Architectural Workshop Yassa. Instead of the hotel, which has an area of ​​about 50,000 square meters, a residential complex will appear.

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Sergei Sobyanin privatizes like Luzhkov The new Moscow authorities have grandiose plans for privatization: in a year or two they will sell off property worth more than 200 billion rubles, officials say.

GC PIK Development company. Owners: Suleiman Kerimov (38.3%), Kirill Pisarev and Yuri Zhukov (22.5%). Capitalization (MICEX) – 66.22 billion rubles. Financial indicators (1st half of 2010, IFRS): revenue – 15.13 billion rubles, net loss – 5.17 billion rubles. The suspension of trading was reported by PIK Group itself, and information is also available on the FSA website.

February 14, 2011, 00:48 / Business Centrobuv will conduct an initial public offering of shares Alexander Kreknin CJSC "Trading company Tsentrobuv" Retail network. The owner (according to SPARK) is Latsia Consulting Ltd. (100%), beneficiaries are Anatoly Gurevich, Dmitry Svetlov, Sergey Lomakin, Artem Khachatryan. Financial indicators (RAS, 2009): revenue – 14.24 billion rubles, profit – 23.7 million rubles. The largest Russian shoe retailer, Centrobuv, may enter the stock exchange.

S. Nikolaev Government Resolution No. 53, published Friday and signed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on February 4, cuts by about a third the number of professional sergeants and petty officers the Armed Forces can afford to hire until 2015. The resolution amends the Federal Target Program for the Professionalization of NCOs, adopted in August 2008, which is scheduled to last until this year.

M. Stulov This morning, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the completion of the deal to sell 10% of VTB shares and held a meeting with the bank's president, Andrei Kostin. The placement price of 10% minus two VTB shares during the privatization of the state-owned stake was also announced. VTB's statement noted that the placement price was $6.25 per depositary receipt (2,000 shares) and 9.1468 kopecks per share.

The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is rapidly turning into a farce. "And I cried because I was really deceived," former Bolshoi Theatre prima Anastasia Volochkova complained to Radio Liberty two weeks ago. She left the ruling party in a scandal because, according to her, five years ago "people from United Russia" tricked her into signing a letter against Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Sberbank and VEB are the only creditors of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg high-speed highway construction project; there are no plans to involve foreign banks in the project yet. This was announced by Sberbank President German Gref at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. According to him, the decision to issue a syndicated loan from Sberbank and VEB to finance this project has been made, and he expressed hope that its financing will begin soon.

Vitaly Vancev / M. Stulov "I'm a happy person - I don't get stuck in traffic jams," says Vantsev. He rarely leaves his airport "for the city" (meaning Moscow). There is a major construction project going on at Vnukovo that requires close monitoring: since 2006, a new passenger terminal has been under construction, which, according to Vantsev's plan, will be the largest in Moscow.

The resolution on the creation of the state budget institution "Center for Improving the Efficiency of State Property Use" was signed on January 28. The agency should be created within two months, says Olga Barashkina, a representative of the KUGI. The staff will be about 30 people. The creation of the center will speed up and reduce the cost of evicting former tenants; specialists will provide legal support for evictions and, if necessary, attract external contractors, says Barashkina.

AP Photo Citi analysts predict a recovery of the euro to 2009 levels - $1.48 by the end of 2011 and $1.5 at the beginning of 2012. These are the conclusions of the technical analysis of the euro/dollar pair. The chart of the rate change is very similar to the dynamics of 1991-1995 (the rate of the "synthetic" euro), Tom Fitzpatrick, chief technical strategist at Citigroup, told Bloomberg in an interview.

February 14, 2011, 13:00 / Management The crisis has tempered the career ambitions of Russians Mikhail Malykhin The crisis has moderated the career ambitions of Russians, conclude experts from the personnel holding Ankor, having surveyed 5,652 Russians in the largest cities of the country in December 2010 and compared the results with the data of a similar survey before the crisis in 2007.

What do Anastasia Volochkova and Natalya Vasilyeva have in common? The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is rapidly turning into a farce. “ And I cried because I was really deceived,” two ex-prime singer of the Bolshoi Theater Anastasia Volochkova complained to Radio Liberty weeks ago. She left the ranks of the ruling party with a scandal because, according to her, five years ago “ people from United Russia deceived her into signing a letter against Mikhail Khodorkovsky.