For the second quarter of the fiscal year, Cisco Systems' net profit was $2.2 billion, or $0.4 per share, compared to $1.5 billion and $0.27 per share a year earlier. The company's business grew during this period in all segments except for the government procurement segment. Revenue for the quarter grew by 10.6% to $11.5 billion, with a forecast of $11.23 billion. Profit excluding one-time payments was $0.47 per share, with a forecast of $0.4.

China's oil consumption will rise 5 percent to 9.9 million barrels a day in 2012, state oil company CNPC predicts. That's below its forecast for GDP growth (8.3 percent) and industrial output (11 percent), and means China's oil consumption growth rate will slow from 6.8 percent in 2011 (Reuters calculation). CNPC forecasts that oil refining capacity will increase by 5.4% to 470 million tonnes, or 9.4 million barrels per day.

The PIK Group of Companies expects to become one of the largest builders of city orders in Moscow. PIK plans to increase the volume of construction under city orders in Moscow to 80,000 square meters in 2012, the group's vice president Konstantin Kuznetsov said at a board meeting of the capital's construction complex.

Vasily Lvovich rented this small one-story mansion from 1820 to 1824. This house is mentioned in many memoirs – Pyotr Vyazemsky, Denis Davydov, Anton Delvig, Ivan Dmitriev, whose fables Vasily Lvovich considered exemplary, visited here. On September 8, 1826, after the famous conversation with the sovereign, during which he offered to become the poet’s sole censor, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin went straight here, to his uncle. And yet, the fact that the house has survived is a miracle.

Yulia Danilova has been appointed director of the Allianz Eurasia Business Services operations center ( Voronezh). Danilova was born in 1981 in Vladimir. In 2003, she graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​at Vladimir State University. Since 2001, she has been a correspondent for the state television and radio company Vladimir . From 2005 to 2008, she worked as a press secretary for the Vladimir branch Centertelecom of .

09 February 2012, 16:13 / Management / Finance Alexey Titov has again become president of Solidarity Bank and promises to rethink its budget Anton Osipov Elena Mangileva Titov was born on August 31, 1974 in Kuibyshev. In 1996 he graduated from the Samara State Academy of Planning and Economics. Since 1996 – accountant, economist in the corporate securities department of Solidarity Bank. From 1997 to 1998, he was deputy manager of the Samara branch of Alfa Bank .

Car production in China in January fell by 27.47% compared to January 2011, amounting to about 1.3 million, sales fell by 26.4% to 1.39 million, the Automotive Industry Association of China ( AAIC) reported on Thursday. . Association experts cite the New Year celebration according to the traditional calendar, which fell this year in the last week of January, as one of the two main reasons for the decline in the Chinese auto industry in January.

Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has proposed shortening the New Year and Christmas holidays in Russia by adding a day off in May. He announced this before his speech at the RSPP congress. "It would be entirely possible to limit all these Christmas holidays to, let's say, January 7 (Christmas). And everything that accumulates further is transferred, say, to May - which is what people want," Interfax quotes the prime minister as saying.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Central Election Commission's refusal to register Yavlinsky as a presidential candidate. In January, the Central Election Commission rejected more than 7% of the signatures collected in his support, with the acceptable rejection rate being 5%. Most of the signature sheets were declared invalid - they turned out to be photocopies. Yavlinsky challenged this decision in the Supreme Court.

D.Grishkin / Vedomosti The working group headed by the Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov sent the draft of the new edition of the Civil Code to the president. On the instructions of Dmitry Medvedev, the document had been prepared since 2008. The draft proposes to prohibit top managers, including presidents and CEOs, from being elected to the boards of directors of their companies.

The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled not to equate overtaking, started through a broken line and completed by returning through a solid line, to driving into the oncoming traffic lane. The corresponding amendments were made to the resolution of the SC plenum, which was adopted on Thursday in Moscow. The possibility of equalizing the punishment for such maneuvers was considered during the discussion of the previous version of the resolution.

The volume of Russia's international reserves as of February 3, 2012, was $507.3 billion, compared to $504.0 billion as of January 27, 2012, the Bank of Russia's Department of External and Public Relations reported on Thursday. Thus, international reserves grew by $3.3 billion over the week; in the week from January 20 to 27, they again exceeded the $500 billion mark, increasing by $4.3 billion.

Opposition representatives are discussing the format of the February 26 rally, one of the ideas is to surround the center of Moscow with a human ring. Sergei Udaltsov, a member of the organizing committee of the "For Fair Elections" rallies and coordinator of the "Left Front", suggested that opposition members come to the rally in support of Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin on February 23 to talk to people.

Former deputy chairmen of Sberbank's North-West Bank Petr Morsin and Alexander Pustovalov, who left the bank at the beginning of the year, have found work. Morsin, who was responsible for retail business, will oversee this area at Binbank in Moscow, the bank's press service reported, declining to comment further.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes that the Defense Ministry has not prepared the housing and utilities facilities at its disposal for winter satisfactorily. "We talked to the minister (Serdyukov) in a timely manner. I drew the minister's attention to the need to pay close attention to winter preparations. Because there were failures last year.