The plans of UTair are discussed in the airline's presentation (Vedomosti has a copy): by 2017, it plans to transport 15 million passengers a year (2.6 times more than last year's result) and expects to become the second carrier in the country in this indicator (it currently ranks third after Aeroflot and Transaero ). UTair intends to retain first place in helicopter transportation. The capitalization of UTair should reach $2.5 billion by 2017, according to the document.

The Ministry of Justice has registered the "Russian Party of Motorists of Russia" (ROSPA), the department's website reports. The party's chairman is Nikolai Nechayev. ROSPA was registered on September 24, but information about this appeared only on October 1.

October 01, 2012, 22:24 / Management / Auto / Business Russian Machines has changed its general director and will search for new industrial partners Executive Director Manfred Eibeck will head the company, and his predecessor Alexander Filatov will concentrate on the production of road construction equipment Vladimir Shtanov Manfred Aibek / V.

01 October 2012, 11:37 / Finance VTB consolidated 99.6% of Transcreditbank shares Vedomosti VTB , the second Russian bank by assets, consolidated 99.6% of the shares of Transcreditbank (TKB), purchasing 21.8% of TKB shares from Russian Railways OJSC . The transaction amount is not disclosed. Last week, Interfax and Prime reported that Russian Railways would receive about 20 billion rubles for its shares.

01 October 2012, 16:49 / Finance Sberbank raised rates on mortgages and car loans Russia's largest bank explains its move by increasing funding costs; According to his own statement, he does not plan new rate increases Daria Borisyak D.

A Facebook research and development center may appear in Russia. As the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov reported on his Twitter, this issue was raised today at a meeting with the head of the government Dmitry Medvedev. According to Zuckerberg, he came to Moscow, among other things, to talk to Russian developers of social networking applications. "We need various social applications and products that are produced by Russian companies," he said.

In the Sverdlovsk region, workers dismissed from the Verkhnesinyachikhinsky branch of OOO NIGMAS (former Verkhnesinyachikhinsky Metallurgical Plant, Verkhnyaya Sinyachikha) have resumed their hunger strike. 54 people are taking part in the action. As reported by Andrey Zhukov, a representative of the initiative group, the hunger strikers' demand is compensation for August-September of this year for dismissal from the enterprise.

From October 1, Azerbaijan introduced a ban on the import of Russian VAZ-21144 and VAZ-21154 cars into the country. Chairman of the State Customs Committee (SCC) of the Republic Aidyn Aliyev told reporters about this today. “The ban is due to the absence of an ABS braking system and airbags in these cars,” explained the head of the State Customs Committee.

October 01, 2012, 15:42 / Finance Galina Kamneva Baring Vostok has created the largest fund in Russia Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund LP V raised $1.5 billion; The fund's first investment is a share in Vostochny Express Bank and First Collection Bureau Galina Kamneva Michael Calvey / E.

Kovalev was born in 1975 in Leningrad. In 1997 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, and until 2001 he was a graduate student at this university. Since 2001, he has worked his way up from a leading economist in corporate lending to the head of the credit administration department for corporate clients at Raiffeisenbank Austria.

From October 1, 2012, salaries of federal public sector employees will increase by 6%, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection reported. This will affect employees of federal government, budgetary and autonomous institutions, employees of federal government agencies, civilian personnel of military units, institutions and divisions of federal executive authorities. Salaries will also increase for employees of state academies of sciences and institutions subordinate to them.

P.Khimshiashvili / Vedomosti The session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has begun in Strasbourg, which was supposed to be a major event in Russia's relations with the organization. The session was expected to hear a speech by State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin until the end of last week.

Australian miner Arrium Ltd. has rejected a merger offer from a consortium of investors that includes Asia's largest commodity trader Noble Group Ltd. and South Korean metals giant Posco. The investors offered Arrium about $0.80 per share, or 8% above the three-month average price of the shares at auction, Bloomberg reported, citing corporate documents obtained by it. The Australian company's management considered the price not high enough.

A Texas collector has bought a gun found on legendary robbers Bonnie and Clyde the day they died at auction for $504,000. According to Reuters, the .38 Colt revolver that police found under a bandage on Bonnie Parker's leg went under the hammer for $264,000. The same buyer paid $240,000 for the .45 Colt found on Clyde Barrow's belt. The collector wished to remain anonymous; the previous owner of the robbers' guns, Robert Davis, bought them in 1986, paying about $50,000 for each gun.

The Investigative Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sverdlovsk Region decided not to insist on the arrest of the accountant of the Ura.ru news agency Natalia Popova. On Monday, the court released her, said the head of the press service of the department, Valery Gorelykh. He recalled that Popova was detained last Friday on suspicion of involvement in the theft of about 10 million rubles from Ura.ru accounts.