At the oceanarium under construction in Vladivostok, President Vladimir Putin was shown how octopuses are bred. An employee of the oceanarium took one octopus out of the tank and offered Putin to pet it. Putin also visited a laboratory where Baikal seals are bred. The president was also shown a dolphinarium, a stuffed gray whale, and areas where visitors can watch fish swimming above their heads.

06 September 2012, 21:33 / Finance The court will reconsider the claim of Ingosstrakh minority shareholders undefined Vedomosti The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District overturned the decisions of lower courts and returned for reconsideration the case on the illegality of the approval by the meeting of shareholders of Ingosstrakh Insurance Company of interested party transactions in 2011, according to a statement from the controlling minority shareholders of Ingosstrakh, PPF

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Facebook, Inc. Social network. Major shareholders: Mark Zuckerberg – 28.1% of voting shares (taking into account powers of attorney issued to him – 57.6%), Accel Partners – 1.4%, Dustin Moskovitz – 8.5%, DST Global – 5.2%, Mail.ru Group – 2.3%, Microsoft – 1.7%. Capitalization – $39.81 billion. Financial indicators (US GAAP, 2011): revenue – $3.71 billion, net profit – $1 billion.

The volume of the Russian recruitment market by 2012 amounted to 9.725 billion rubles, as was first calculated by analysts of the Association of Private Employment Agencies ( ACHA) and the Association of Personnel Selection Consultants ( AKPP). By market volume, researchers mean the total revenue of 1,556 staffing companies from 46 largest Russian cities ( with a population of over 500,000 people).

Rosneft President Igor Sechin has asked Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to assist in preparing a government directive on paying additional dividends to Rosneft in order to increase payments to 25% of net profit under IFRS. "Yesterday I spoke with Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich on this issue and asked him for help so that an agreed position could be reached.

Yesterday, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region introduced a monitoring procedure at ZAO Vagonmash until March 6, 2013. Yuri Ovchinnikov, a member of the Pacific SRO, was appointed as the bankruptcy trustee. The procedure was introduced at the request of one of the creditors, Private Security Organization Kundao LLC, whose claims amount to 420,000 rubles.

06 September 2012, 22:15 / Auto Ford introduced the new Mondeo for the European market The car will be produced in three body types, a minimalist version with a three-cylinder engine and an all-wheel drive version with a diesel engine Gennady Anisimov Ford Motor The new Ford Mondeo is created on the global Ford CD-class platform (CD3) and will be produced for the European market in three body types - hatchback, station wagon and sedan, the company said.

S. Porter / Vedomosti The new gallery opened on a site that has been taken over by contemporary art. The former confectionery factory "Red October" hosted many events that are pleasant to remember. For example, the super show of the champion of art trade Larry Gagosian, who brought us super things by the most sought-after artists on the market four years ago. The place is the same, the circumstances have changed.

According to preliminary data, the pilot of the MiG-29 fighter jet that crashed near Chita on Thursday has died, the plane was completely destroyed, a source in the region's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti by telephone. "Body fragments have been found, the pilot has died," he said. According to him, the emergency occurred at 17:20 Moscow time near the Domna airfield, 27 km southwest of Chita.

A place in the top ten world exporters will cost the Russian budget 1.24 trillion rubles, according to the draft state program "Development of Foreign Economic Activity" for 2013-2018 (published on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development). This is 7.3% of the export volume in 2011.

NMTP lost on course NCSP's net profit under IFRS in the first half of the year decreased by 36.6% to $141 million due to exchange rate differences, the company reported. Revenue increased by 9.5% to $541.1 million, EBITDA by 31% to $318.6 million, and profitability for this indicator increased by 10 percentage points to 59%. Net debt decreased by 10.5% to $2.1 billion.

Calls to 21st Century TV payphones go through the cellular networks of the Big Three operators, says Kozlovsky. VimpelCom and Megafon do not have an agreement with this company to provide payphone services, their representatives say. An MTS representative did not respond to a request for comment. The program for installing payphones "People's Telephone" was launched in November 2011, Alexey Kozlovsky, a representative of the company "21st Century - TV", told Vedomosti.

06 September 2012, 02:49 / Business The dairy company "Vamin" - the family business of Senator Mingazov - is suspected of withdrawing assets Five banks accuse top managers of the large Russian milk producer Vamin-Tatarstan, owned by the family of Senator Vagiz Mingazov, of deception in obtaining loans and illegal withdrawal of assets.

The mobile communications market is clearly segmented, the study showed. The "big three" operators retain their leading positions, although the share of the fourth operator, Tele2, is significant. 29% of users in Russia as a whole name MTS as their main operator, 26% - Megafon , 24% - VimpelCom (Beeline trademark). Nokia remains the leader in popularity among users (49%). More than a third (37%) of city residents use Samsung phones for communication.