The Moscow Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has recognized as justified Alexei Navalny's complaint against the actions of the state-owned company Russian Highways (Avtodor State Corporation). Earlier, Navalny complained about the actions of Avtodor during the auction for the purchase of BMW cars. During the examination of the case materials, it was revealed that the customer had not posted information about the tender on the official website of state procurement.

The Supreme Court of Russia on Tuesday refused to cancel the year-round "summer time" in Russia, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. Thus, the court rejected the application of the president of the "League for the Protection of Patients" Alexander Saversky, who believes that due to the difference in astronomical and clock time, Russians are deprived of the right to rest and health.

The share of non-cash transactions in the total volume of transactions made with bank cards exceeded the share of cash withdrawal transactions for the first time in 2012, said Roman Prokhorov, Director of the Bank of Russia's Settlement Regulation Department, at the UEC conference.

The Belarusian IOOO Omsk Carbon Mogilev (part of Omsk Carbon Group) is starting construction of a plant for the production of technical carbon for the manufacture of automobile tires. The plant will be located next to Mogilevkhimvolokno in the free economic zone (FEZ) Mogilev, Omsk Carbon Group reported. The company is leasing a 23-hectare plot of land for 99 years, says Stanislav Skalin, CEO of Omsk Carbon Mogilev.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti As analysts noted, housing prices in Russia were constantly growing throughout 2012. According to the monitoring that the federal real estate portal "World of Apartments" conducts monthly in 40 major cities of the country, a square meter on the secondary housing market has increased in price by 10% or more in 27 centers studied.

Our authorities should be grateful to Cyprus and the EU leadership, which is pushing the island towards confiscatory decisions. No, it is clear, of course, that this story is not enough to return Russian capital to the country. It has been said a million times that conditions inside Russia need to be corrected, and you can’t argue with that. But all the same, the problems in Cyprus objectively play in favor of the government’s declared course of deoffshorization.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the West Siberian District in Tyumen upheld the cassation appeal of Severneft, associated with the family of the first vice-president of Rosneft Eduard Khudainatov, rejecting all the claims of the Latvian Reverta. Representatives of both sides of the process spoke about this. Reverta claimed that the Russian company acted as guarantor for Severorgsintez's $75 million loan and insisted that it be included in the register of Severneft's creditors.

The Chernushinsky District Court of the Perm Territory, at the request of the prosecutor's office, declared the information contained on the MMM websites prohibited for dissemination in Russia, the press service of the regional supervisory agency reported on Tuesday. “In the Chernushinsky district, the prosecutor’s office judicially recognized the information on the websites of the MMM financial pyramid as prohibited for distribution in Russia.

The post-mortem position of former Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky - he was found lying on the bathroom floor - does not rule out hanging as a possible cause of death , a Thames Valley Police spokesman said on Tuesday. " The fact that the body was found on the floor does not exclude the possibility that it was hanging at some point," police said. On Tuesday night, preliminary results of the autopsy of Berezovsky's body, conducted by a British Home Office pathologist, were made public.

March 26, 2013, 21:15 / Business Magnit will pay industry-record dividends The retailer can pay shareholders 31% of net profit despite high capital costs Alexander Kreknin A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The board of directors of Magnit recommended that shareholders approve the payment of 5.2 billion rubles. dividends, or 55.02 rubles. per share, based on the results of the 2012 financial year, the retailer said in a statement. The annual meeting of shareholders is scheduled for May 24.

At the end of 2012, the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (NLMK) group received a US GAAP net profit of $596 million, which is 56% less than in 2011 ($1.358 billion), the company said. The figure is below the consensus forecast of analysts surveyed by the Prime agency ($739 million). NLMK's revenue for the reporting period increased by 4% to $12.157 billion, EBITDA decreased by 16% to $1.9 billion. These results correspond to experts' expectations.

In the article “ Rosneft ” refused the offer” (No. 50 of 25.03.2013, p. 10), the position and place of work of the head of the litigation practice at Linklaters, Konstantin Lukoyanov, are incorrectly indicated.

Roman Rosenthal, CEO of Mirland Development / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Mirland Development development company. Main shareholder – Fishman Group. Asset value – $773.2 million. Net assets – $317.3 million. Net loss for 2012 – $42.3 million. Revenue – $59 million (2012). Mirland Development, part of the Israeli Fishman Group, showed good financial results in 2012: revenue increased by 24% compared to 2011 – to $59 million, net operating income – by 44% to $32.6 million.

A few years ago, linguistics professor Antonella Sorace met with employees of the Frankfurt branch of the European Central Bank to talk about her research on bilingualism, i.e. the knowledge and use of two languages ​​at once. What struck her most about her conversations with the bank’s multinational staff was that the employees were worried about their main family asset: their children.

It will be even more difficult for children to access harmful information / O. Tverev / Photoxpress The State Duma adopted in the second and third readings amendments to the laws “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development,” “On Information,” and “On the Media,” which define a new type of harmful information: information about children who have suffered from illegal actions.