Russia's international reserves as of September 9, 2011, totaled $538.8 billion, down from $543.4 billion on September 2, the Bank of Russia reported Thursday. The reserves thus fell by $4.6 billion, or 0.85%, over the week.

The management of the multi-industry German concern Siemens has decided to postpone the planned IPO of the Osram division, the world's second-largest lighting manufacturer, this fall, Siemens said in a statement. The company is not abandoning plans for an Osram IPO, but is postponing it indefinitely due to high market volatility. In the long term, the parent company intends to maintain a minority stake in Osram.

The leader of the Right Cause, Mikhail Prokhorov, suggested that his supporters leave this party and form a new one. Yesterday, on the day of the beginning of the party congress, Prokhorov accused a number of party members of attempting a hostile takeover. On Thursday, there will be two congresses of the Right Cause - supporters and opponents of Prokhorov. "The congress was falsified, but it is difficult to sue, from a formal point of view.

September 15, 2011, 02:01 / Finance The FFMS hopes to increase competition in the financial market without reducing the role of state banks Consolidation and tightening of requirements for market participants are sometimes harmful for it, says FFMS Anton Trifonov Head of the Federal Financial Markets Service Dmitry Pankin / S. Porter The foundation of the financial market is laid by several large institutions competing with each other.

September 15, 2011, 19:43 / Finance The Greek Ministry of Finance expects the recession to continue in 2012. undefined Vedomosti Greece will show a decline in GDP in 2012 for the fourth year in a row, the country's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos admitted on Thursday. "(Lenders) need to understand that the Greek people are paying the price. There is a three-year cumulative decline in GDP that will now turn into four years of recession," Venizelos told the country's parliament.

Gryzlov's son left REN TV after an offer to work for money Natalya Raibman Vedomosti.ru 15.09.2011, 14:03 The son of State Duma Speaker Dmitry Gryzlov is leaving the St. Petersburg branch of the REN TV channel, where he worked as a TV presenter for a year. On his VKontakte page, he made it clear that he used to work on a voluntary basis, but the general director recently decided that he was promoting himself in this way. Gryzlov Jr. refused the offer to continue working on commercial terms.

OGK-2 Energy company. Capitalization (MICEX) – 35.91 billion rubles. Revenue (IFRS, 1st half of 2011) – 28 billion rubles. Net profit – 2.8 billion rubles. OGK-6 Energy company. Capitalization – 29.08 billion rubles. Revenue (IFRS, 1st half of 2011) – 26.5 billion rubles. Net profit – 1.2 billion rubles. The FAS has allowed Gazprom Energoholding to merge OGK-2 and OGK-6, Denis Fedorov, CEO of the concern's energy subsidiary, told Vedomosti.

Goldman Sachs lowered its forecast price for Aeroflot shares from $3.36 to $3, but its “buy” recommendation remained unchanged.

Electricity is getting cheaper – investors are running away The fight of officials against rising electricity prices is already bearing fruit. But not at all the ones the government had hoped for. Officials have limited the tariff revenues of energy companies, which in turn have rushed to cut investment programs. Yesterday, the first and so far only state-owned Holding MRSK reported on the results of such work.

The construction of the Lyubertsy line of the Moscow metro may be given over to a concession, the head of the city's construction department, Andrei Bochkarev, announced at a conference at RIA Novosti on Thursday. He specified that the decision could be made early this winter. "We are considering the issue of attracting private capital, including the transfer of construction (of the Lyuberetskaya line - Ed.) to a concession," Bochkarev explained.

Honda wants to agree on industrial assembly of foreign cars in Russia under the old regime - with localization of component production in the amount of 30% - and to build a full-cycle plant in Russia. Sources close to the Ministry of Economic Development told Kommersant about this. On September 15, the Japanese company must present its project to this ministry. According to the new rules, which have been in effect since 2011, the level of localization of components must be increased to 60%.

Patrick Herrera The story of how two lonely Russian émigrés met in Paris in the mid-1930s – a white general and a young female waitress, also one of the former – is included in the collection of short stories “Dark Alleys”. Krymov staged the entire cycle this winter at his Laboratory – and left only this short story for Baryshnikov.

"Right Cause" without Mikhail Prokhorov will reorient its electoral approach from a "monospeaker", which was Mikhail Prokhorov, to "a large number of regional figures", the acting chairman of the party, head of the executive committee Andrei Dunayev told journalists following the congress held on Thursday at the International Trade Center. "The congress suspended its work until Tuesday [September 20], when the list of candidates for deputy from the party should be approved.

Yesterday it became clear that the negotiations between the delegation of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Central Election Commission ended without result.

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