The Committee for Property Management intends to change the method for calculating rent for premises that the St. Petersburg administration leases out, Dmitry Kurakin, Chairman of the Committee for Property Management, said at the end of last week. The Committee is preparing amendments to the city law on the procedure for determining rent for non-residential premises that will allow moving away from the mass method for calculating rental rates for city premises to an individual assessment.

In March, the index of confidence of German entrepreneurs in the country's economy rose to 109.8 points, according to data from the Ifo research institute. In February, this index was 109.6 points. Analysts polled by Bloomberg did not expect this indicator to change. The indicator has been growing for five months in a row. The Ifo index of business expectations for the near future rose to 102.7 points this month, compared with 102.3 points in February.

March 26, 2012, 14:40 / Business The ban on flights between Minsk and Moscow has been temporarily lifted On Monday, Belavia was banned from flying to Moscow, Aeroflot suspended flights to Minsk; on Thursday, the aviation authorities of the countries will begin to agree on the number of flights Ekaterina Sobol Sergey Smirnov V.

The winner in the nomination "Best Foreign Performance Shown in Russia in 2011" has been determined. According to the results of a survey of the theatre community, the winner was the performance "(A)pollonia" by director Krzysztof Warlikowski. The honorary prize will be presented to the director at a ceremony on April 16. Goldenmask.ru

The dollar exchange rate fell below 29 rubles. for the first time in almost a month, according to MICEX-RTS data. By 16.25 Moscow time, the dollar exchange rate with “tomorrow” calculations decreased by 30 kopecks - to 28.99 rubles. Such a low value of the American currency has not been observed since the end of February.

March 26, 2012, 18:10 / Finance / Management Fed: US GDP must grow faster to reduce unemployment Vedomosti The US economy must grow faster to create enough jobs to further reduce unemployment, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday. Bernanke added that the recent decline in the unemployment rate, which fell from 9.1% last summer to 8.3% in February, "does not coincide" with the rather modest pace of economic growth.

Bank St. Petersburg, one of the thirty largest banks in Russia, in 2011 increased its net profit according to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) by 1.4 times to 5.9 billion rubles. from 4.1 billion rubles. a year earlier, the bank's message shows. In the fourth quarter, the bank received 247.4 million rubles. net profit.

The development of the hotel segment in the regions today resembles Brownian motion - it is so chaotic and unpredictable. There are several reasons for this phenomenon. The first is the deficit. The lack of quality accommodation facilities in the vast majority of Russian regions is obvious.

Sergei Shoigu, who headed the Ministry of Emergency Situations for more than 20 years, will move to the post of governor of the Moscow Region in May. The secret of the new regional functionary's longevity is simple: professionalism in work and loyalty to the authorities.

The Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of Crimea proposes to consider the possibility of simplifying the procedure for crossing the state border of Ukraine for Russian tourists who come to the autonomy by road transport, in particular by tourist buses. According to the Main Directorate of Information Policy of the Council of Ministers of Crimea, this issue was discussed at a staff meeting led by Crimean Prime Minister Anatoly Mogilev on Monday.

Far Eastern Federal University Sunny House The solar house project by Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) professor Pavel Kazantsev has received the prestigious Energy Globe Awards in Austria. The technology developed by the professor can be used in mass low-rise construction. The solar house is oriented to the south (to obtain maximum solar energy) and includes buffer zones (a greenhouse to the south, a garage to the north, etc.), which allows for savings on heating of up to 30–50%.

The Netherlands, the fifth-largest economy in the eurozone, is at risk of being excluded from the core of the currency union's economies with the highest credit ratings, Bloomberg reports, citing Citigroup experts. "The Netherlands' weak economic performance makes it more difficult to reduce the country's budget deficit," says Citigroup's chief eurozone economist Jurgen Michels.

At an expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry on March 20, Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced that the formation of a new unit, the 130th separate motorized rifle brigade, had begun. As a Defense Ministry officer told Vedomosti, the matter concerns the formation of the first military police brigade of central subordination, stationed in Moscow, with a strength of over 2,500 people.

Commenting on rumors about the possible resignation of Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov made it clear that this is unlikely. He said this in an interview with the magazine "Itogi". "A state that rushes to start one reform without completing the previous one is not worth a dime," the official said. He also noted that the state has a consistent line in domestic policy, so talking about a "new police reform" is absurd.

American Exxon-Mobil is unhappy with the profitability of its retail business in Europe and plans to sell some of its gas stations, writes the French newspaper Les Echos. At the end of March, the company plans to begin consultations on the sale of gas station networks in Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Belgium, according to a source at ExxonMobil.