US President Barack Obama will visit Russia in early September, US Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul said on the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday. "In June, at the G8, they (the presidents of Russia and the United States) are meeting in Northern Ireland, and most likely, it is not yet known exactly, but I expect that he (Barack Obama) will be here (in Russia) in early September," McFaul said. In September, the G20 summit will take place in St.

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Nikolay Fedorov "We need to preserve such a category as 'agricultural lands', which require special state, legal, historical <...> protection." Speaking in the Federation Council, the Minister of Agriculture criticized the government-backed bill that abolishes the categorization of lands.

Deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Alexey Makarov sent a request to Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, asking for an explanation as to the circumstances under which the State Budgetary Institution “Center for Improving the Efficiency of State Property Use” was created to provide logistical support for the activities of the KUGI, and whether the KUGI transferred the powers of the owner to this institution.

President Vladimir Putin called on the State Duma to speed up the adoption of a bill providing for the destruction of counterfeit products. "I ask the State Duma deputies to speed up the adoption of this law. Only by such decisive measures can we protect the industry from unfair competition," Putin said on Thursday in Vologda at a meeting on the situation in the country's light industry.

March 07, 2013, 11:54 / Auto Renault may increase car production at Avtoframos Vedomosti French automaker Renault may increase vehicle production at the Avtoframos plant in Moscow by 12.3% this year, despite a slowdown in the Russian auto market. “If the market grows as it has, we can produce 188,000 cars,” Bruno Ancelin, head of Renault in Russia, told reporters at a round table at the Geneva Motor Show. In 2012, the plant increased production by 19% - to 167,400 units.

07 March 2013, 13:38 / Management Bolshoi Theater soloist Dmitrichenko arrested Vedomosti The Tagansky court arrested Bolshoi Theater soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko, who is suspected of organizing an assassination attempt on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater Sergei Filin. Judge Marina Orlova granted the investigation's request. The dancer was arrested until April 18, and the investigation into the attempted murder case was extended for the same period.

March 07, 2013, 17:04 / Finance Sberbank will not make business lending profitable Its corporate loan portfolio is declining for the second month in a row Tatyana Voronova M. Stulov / Vedomosti In February, the state bank reduced reserve expenses and allocated 3.3 billion rubles there, which supported its profit, according to Alfa Bank analysts , although a month earlier expenses amounted to 11.5 billion rubles.

France will begin withdrawing its troops from Mali in April 2013, President Francois Hollande said. According to the BBC, he specified that the final phase of the French military operation in Mali will continue until the end of March, and in April the French military presence in the country will begin to be wound down. It was previously assumed that the withdrawal of troops would begin in March.

The U.S. trade deficit in January widened by $6.3 billion from a revised figure for December last year to $44.4 billion, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said in a press release. The initial figure for December was $38.5 billion, which was revised to $38.1 billion. The data came in worse than expected.

The cause of death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was a massive heart attack, the commander of the presidential guard, General Jose Ornella, told the AP. He gave an interview near the Military Academy in Caracas, where Chavez's body was brought on March 6. According to the general, before his death, the president suffered greatly and silently told those around him that he did not want to die. Ornella recalled that Chavez could not speak after a tracheotomy.

March 07, 2013, 00:57 / Finance The spring deposit season has begun in the banking market Where can you place rubles at 12-12.5% ​​per annum Lyudmila Koval E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti After the New Year, many large and small retail banks gradually reduced ruble rates on basic deposits. In January - February, interest rates were reduced on all or part of the deposits of Uniastrum Bank, Trust, Home Credit, Sovcombank , Orient Express, MDM Bank, MKB , Renaissance Credit, Unicredit Bank and etc.

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William Browder / Virginia Mayo / AP The president of the Hermitage Capital investment fund, William Browder, has been charged in absentia in a case involving the illegal purchase of Gazprom shares, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Thursday.

March 07, 2013, 21:20 / Auto Ferrari FF: Formula 1 Lessons What is the most attractive thing about Ferrari: speed, driving pleasure, originality of engineering solutions, design, the brand itself? Ferrari FF offers many correct answers Alexander Gubsky Kirill Kharatyan A.