The St. Petersburg UFAS has contacted the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) with a request to collect fines from Agrotorg LLC (Pyaterochka chain), Perekrestok Trading House CJSC, and Norma LLC. On Friday, proceedings were initiated based on writs of execution against Agrotorg, says a representative of the FSSP office in St. Petersburg. According to him, the bailiffs will begin enforcement on Monday. A representative of X5 Retail Group declined to comment. Norma could not be reached.

Until recently, it seemed that the countries that emerged from the collapse of the USSR (called "post-Soviet" or "newly independent") had sunk into stagnation. In Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych's team, with the opposition weakening, gradually sought to implement, and in places not without success, the Russian experience of building an authoritarian political system.

The leader of the Other Russia movement, Eduard Limonov, has filed an application for the Strategy-31 action on Triumfalnaya Square on December 31. There, the opposition wants to hold a rally of up to 1,000 people in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution. The politician believes that the rally will not be approved. According to Limonov, the organizing committee for the event includes Konstantin Kosyakin, Lolita Tsariya and Vladimir Bukovsky.

The European Parliament and EU member states have reached a preliminary agreement that in all banks operating in the EU, the bonus cannot exceed the fixed salary of employees. In some cases, the bonus can be double the fixed salary – this would require approval of the payment by a qualified majority of shareholders. The final legislative decision on limiting bonuses could be taken as early as this week.

A special commission of the Primorsky Legislative Assembly conducted an inspection and confirmed the prosecutor's office's statement that more than a third of the deputies reported their income in violation of the law. As reported by the press service of the regional parliament, written explanations were taken from all the deputies who violated the law, and the commission also heard their explanations.

The Ford plant in Leningrad Oblast - Ford Motor Company JSC - has stopped its conveyor belt from December 17 until January 8, 2013. This was reported by the press service of Ford Sollers. "The Ford Sollers joint venture has begun implementing a set of planned measures to change the supply channels for components to the plant in Vsevolozhsk.

Dmitry Strashnov / D.Abramov / Vedomosti The Ministry of Communications and the government have been trying to replace Provotorov since September 2012. According to one federal official, the goal is to reduce the influence of Konstantin Malofeev, the founder of the Marshal Capital fund, which shares control over 10.5% of the operator with Gazprombank, on Rostelecom . Provotorov is a friend of Malofeev and the former CEO of Marshal Capital.

Rostelecom is a state-owned company with a transparent ownership structure / E.Razumny for Vedomosti According to documents from the High Court of London, which heard Malofeev’s dispute with VTB , the shares that the businessman is considered to own belong to Universal Telecom Investment Strategies Fund SPC, registered in the Cayman Islands. This fund is managed by Universal Telecom Management.

Stefan Reutter has been appointed head of UBS's private wealth management division in Russia. He will be responsible for the advisory office and corporate advisory group in Russia, replacing Gregg Robins. Reutter was born on October 31, 1969 in Switzerland. In 1993 he graduated from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

Dmitry Medvedev decided to limit the cost of loans / D. Astakhov / RIA Novosti Money to the people.

No decisions have been made on the allocation of sites for the construction of new mosques in Moscow, as reported on Monday by a number of media outlets, according to a letter signed by Moskomstroyinvest Chairman Konstantin Timofeev, which is available to Interfax.

The popular microblogging service Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to download an archive of their messages, TechCrunch reports, citing user messages. This feature has only appeared for some Twitter users so far. Large Internet services often use the practice of gradually launching new features, so it is likely that the ability to download an archive will appear for all users in the near future. "You can request a file with your information, starting with the first tweet.

While building the power vertical, Putin either ignored or did not know that the “star” structure he initially conceived was, for natural reasons, transformed first into a “wheel” and then into a “ring.” As a result, connections between peripheral elements and the center (Putin) are broken and control disappears. An example of this is the failure to fulfill Putin’s election promises: there is no money! But this vertical was aimed at establishing control over financial flows.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the rules for citizens to evaluate the effectiveness of the authorities in providing them with government services. Russians will evaluate this work on a five-point scale; the corresponding document is posted on the Cabinet website.

So now it’s official. The IMF has endorsed capital controls, thereby legitimizing the introduction of taxes and other barriers to cross-border financial flows. The Fund has, in effect, acknowledged that financial globalization can have a destructive effect, triggering financial crises and causing exchange rate movements that are detrimental to the economy. We have witnessed another dramatic turn in the never-ending love-hate relationship with capital controls.