Sberbank's Turkish subsidiary Denizbank plans to increase its profit by 37% to 1 billion Turkish lira (about $555 million) in 2013. This was announced by the bank's head Hakan Ates on the sidelines of the annual EBRD congress. Denizbank will direct last year's profit, which Sberbank President German Gref previously estimated at $405 million, to capital. "Paying dividends is not on the agenda, Sberbank wants to capitalize our profit for the bank's business growth," Ates said.

Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky is asking Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to fire the CEO of JSC Oboronservis Sergei Khursevich. This was reported by Kommersant, citing a letter from Fridinsky dated March 29, 2013.

13 May 2013, 13:15 / Finance Kostin found an adviser in United Russia The head of the party project "Personnel Reserve" Yuri Kotler will look for clients for VTB in government bodies and among public sector enterprises Natalya Raibman Yuri Kotler / R. Krivobok / RIA Novosti Yuri Kotler has been appointed Senior Vice President of VTB, Advisor to the President - Chairman of the Board of the Bank Andrei Kostin, Interfax reported with reference to a VTB press release.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has refused to register four more parties - "For the Right of the Slavic", the Imperial Party, the Netocratic Party of Russia and the Russian Socialist Party. Thus, the list of organizations that have been refused registration includes 11 parties, including the party of Alexei Navalny's supporters, the People's Alliance. In early April last year, a law came into force in the country that simplified the procedure for registering political parties.

May 13, 2013, 03:28 / Business Kerimov continues to buy shares of Kazakhstan's ENRC Suleiman Kerimov continues to buy shares of the Kazakh ENRC, which was at the center of several scandals. The main owners are planning to delist the company. From this Kerimov can earn about $70 million in net profit Vitaly Petlevoy Suleiman Kerimov can earn about $71 million from the delisting of Kazakh ENRC / V.

May 13, 2013, 08:12 / Management Financial Times named the best providers of corporate programs and open training in the world As last year, IMD is the leader in the open programs category, and Duke Corporate Education is the leader in the corporate programs category Tatyana Martyanova IMD Business school On May 13, the Financial Times published for the 15th time its ranking of the best business schools offering open and corporate Executive Education programs for 2013.

So what happens – the great and previously quite terrible Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov lost a duel to Vladimir Ivanovich Markin in one wicket? A general, of course, and a high-ranking source in the plum, i.e., pardon me, security structures, but still occupying a seemingly much less important position in the bureaucratic hierarchy.

The Blackrock fund controls 5.01% of Polymetal International plc shares, the company reported. On the London Stock Exchange, such a package is worth about 142 million pounds sterling. Since the beginning of the year, Polymetal shares on the LSE have lost about 40% of their value, while since March 18, the gold miner's shares have been included in the Stoxx Europe 600 index of Europe's largest enterprises.

Murmansk Regional Duma deputy Dmitry Gavrikov, who is hiding from the investigation into an attempted theft of almost 2 billion rubles, reported on time about the income he received last year, regional parliament deputy Vladimir Mishchenko told Interfax. "He filed an income declaration, despite the fact that he is on the international wanted list," he said.

A draft federal law has been submitted to the government that provides for an increase in the insurance period to which a woman caring for newborn children is entitled, said Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. "All proposals that have been submitted increase this period to four and a half years," Golodets said.

The idea to support light industry by introducing mandatory school uniforms has received a logical development: the State Duma will prescribe the requirements for uniforms in a federal law. After all, 36 billion rubles cannot be given to the discretion of regional and especially municipal authorities. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets distributed the president's instructions to the ministries, given following the conference of the All-Russia People's Front (ONF) "Building Social Justice".

13 May 2013, 14:18 / Finance Hedge funds plan to make "phenomenal" profits from the recapitalization of Greek banks The terms of the additional issue of the Greek Alpha Bank provide private investors with “free leverage with limited risk of loss” Mikhail Overchenko S.Dawson / Bloomberg Inspired by hedge fund Third Point, which made one of the biggest bets in global markets last year by betting on the recovery of depreciated Greek bonds, Western managers are trying to repeat the success with

May 13, 2013, 01:23 / Finance Mortgages continue to grow at an accelerated pace Mortgage lending, which reached record levels last year, continues to grow faster than official forecasts Natalia Biyanova M. Stulov / Vedomosti Banks are increasing the issuance of mortgages - in March alone, almost 100 billion rubles in loans were issued, and in the first quarter, which is not seasonally the most active in mortgages, more than 225 billion. This is 25% more than in the first quarter of last year.

Moscow has brought its land legislation into line with federal law. The city government is starting to sell commercial property owners land adjacent to their buildings. Previously, owners could only register land under the buildings themselves. When Moscow allowed land sales, prices had already risen: after the land was registered in the cadastre, it went up in price by 40-60%, Kommersant writes .

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