M. Novikov for Vedomosti Demand for shares of Internet companies turned out to be higher than for securities of companies from some other sectors of the economy. For example, the retailer Euroset, which planned an IPO for April, did not collect enough applications from investors and postponed the placement. Russian Helicopters, Koks, Nord Gold, Monocrystal, Vital Development, and the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant did the same. 2011 saw the peak of “tech” IPOs.

Moscow is concerned about the escalation of the situation in the Gaza Strip and calls on Israelis and Palestinians to refrain from using force. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. They are convinced that the conflict can be resolved exclusively by political and diplomatic means on a generally accepted international legal basis. Moscow believes that it is important to make efforts to resume bilateral negotiations.

In February, several RTS shareholders, who together own a controlling stake in the exchange, signed an agreement to sell their shares to MICEX, thus deciding the fate of the oldest Russian exchange, which had recently ceased to exist as a separate legal entity. The process, which many brokers had already taken a hostile attitude to, was not without its difficulties.

December 30, 2011, 19:03 / Finance Belarus received the second tranche of a loan from the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund Vedomosti Belarus received the second tranche of the loan from the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund. The Eurasian Development Bank transferred $440 million to Minsk after the Belarusian side fulfilled the creditors’ conditions. On December 23, President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree on the transfer of non-core assets of the National Bank in the country.

Ten people were killed and two dozen were injured in a car bomb explosion in Quetta. According to the Pakistani newspaper Geo News, the explosion occurred in a residential area. Several houses caught fire, and the blast wave blew out windows in almost the entire area. The alleged target of the attack was the home of the son of former federal minister Nasir Mengal. After the explosion, unknown individuals opened fire on police officers who appeared at the scene of the terrorist attack.

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.

William Blake and the British Visionaries "William Blake and the British Visionaries" is a large display of graphics by the artist, poet and visionary. English visionary art is represented by several almost random works by painters who revered Blake. Pushkin Museum im. Pushkina, st. Volkhonka, 12, tel. 609-9520. Caravaggio at the Pushkin Museum.

December 30, 2011, 02:00 / Finance Crisis phenomena are diluted with money The question of the stability of individual banks and the entire system has become one of the most pressing against the backdrop of a possible worsening of the crisis situation Tatyana Voronova The biggest story of the year was the acquisition of the Bank of Moscow by state-owned VTB.

December 30, 2011, 01:52 / Business UC Rusal and Interros never made peace UC Rusal three times refused to sell a blocking stake in Norilsk Nickel, despite the wishes of the company’s minority shareholders Alexander Terentyev Either UC Rusal will be able to convince the majority of shareholders of the advisability of merging Norilsk Nickel with UC Rusal, or it will have to leave Norilsk Nickel,” Interros President Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with Vedomosti.

The Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra is interested in buying part of the Swedish manufacturer Saab, which is under bankruptcy proceedings, reports Automotive News . Representatives of India's largest SUV manufacturer are going to meet with lawyers appointed by the court to liquidate the company on January 5, sources tell LeftLane . The Indian company may be interested in buying the Saab brand and its ultra-modern plant in Trollhättan.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been transferred from a pretrial detention center to the Kachanivska women's prison in Kharkiv, Unian reports, citing lawyer Sergei Vlasenko. Tymoshenko has been sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power during the signing of gas contracts with Russia in 2009. The Batkivshchyna party, citing a "well-informed source," stated that Tymoshenko would be transferred on New Year's Eve to one of the penal colonies in the Kharkiv region.

Medvedev again visited the journalism department of Moscow State University. Students began asking the president uncomfortable questions - from the fight against their criminal uncle to their readiness to appear before the people's court. Read more at Vedomosti.ru US President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening delivered his last annual State of the Union address to Congress ahead of the presidential election on November 6, 2012.

International rating agency Fitch Ratings has downgraded Egypt's long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to BB- from BB and its long-term local currency IDR to BB from BB+, with a negative outlook, the agency said in a statement. "The downgrade and negative outlook reflect the significant and ongoing erosion of Egypt's international reserves in 2011, which intensified in October-November.

The Supreme Court's Cassation Collegium on Friday upheld the Central Election Commission's refusal to register a group of voters to nominate publicist Boris Mironov as a candidate for President of Russia, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. Thus, the collegium, on the complaint of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Central Election Commission, overturned the decision of the first instance, which had found the CEC's decision illegal.

December 30, 2011, 09:31 / Management The ex-governor of the Tula region Vasily Starodubtsev has died Vedomosti The former governor of the Tula region, Vasily Starodubtsev, has died, said the current governor of the region, Vladimir Gruzdev. “Tonight, State Duma deputy from the Tula region, honorary citizen of the region Vasily Starodubtsev died. Sincere condolences to his family and friends,” Gruzdev wrote on his microblog on Twitter.