June 11, 2013, 19:12 / Auto The court rejected the claim against GM for $3 billion for the deliberate bankruptcy of Saab The judge considered that the American manufacturer had every right to stop the change of ownership of the Swedish company Gennady Anisimov Spyker CEO and former Saab CEO Victor Muller / Erik Abel / Bloomberg An American court has rejected the claim of the Dutch sports car manufacturer Spyker NV, which accused General Motors of deliberately driving the Swedish automaker Saab

The organizer of the privatization of the 7% stake in AK Alrosa, which is owned by Yakutia, will be OAO Republican Joint-Stock Company, Yakutia President Yegor Borisov told journalists. The final decision on the sale of 14% of Alrosa must be made by the government by June 25, so that the placement can take place in October-November, the president of the diamond mining giant Fyodor Andreyev said earlier.

June 11, 2013, 01:27 / Finance There will be no offshore in Russia There will most likely not be an offshore in Russia - the Ministry of Finance did not like the idea of ​​​​creating it on the basis of the International Investment Bank (IIB) Margarita Papchenkova Maxim Tovkaylo The Ministry of Finance does not allow the construction of an offshore in Russia / PhotoXpress Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposed creating an internal offshore company in Russia in April.

The Gorbachev Foundation denies reports of the hospitalization of 82-year-old former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev. "I know that there was some report about hospitalization, but this is not true," a representative of the Gorbachev Foundation press service told RIA Novosti. However, he declined to comment on the details.

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Moscow offices are among the most expensive in the world. On average, $850 is asked for 1 sq. m. of Class A premises in the capital. But in the central business district of the city, the rates are even higher - $870 per sq. m. per year. There are only five cities in the world where offices are more expensive than Moscow ones: Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Paris, according to analysts from Colliers International .

June 11, 2013, 01:31 / Finance VTB has set an ambitious target for net profit The retail business of VTB Group is going to receive 100 billion rubles in 2016. net profit - more than the entire VTB Group earned last year Natalia Biyanova Mikhail Zadornov wants to earn more for VTB in three years than the entire group now / M.

Corrected version. The original published version can be viewed in the Vedomosti archive (smart version) Ak Bars Development LLC Co-owners: Technomart Holdings Ltd. (60%), Bolvenost Marketing Inc. (23%), Klemarent Global Ltd. (17%), registered in the British Virgin Islands. Financial indicators (2011): Revenue - 977.8 million rubles, net profit - 242,000 rubles.

Over 70 years of working with the largest companies around the world, we can say for sure what distinguishes leading companies from ordinary ones. The DNA of the best companies is the constant transformation of their business. Those who, having started the transformation, decide to stop, sooner or later become victims of external troubles, to which the company's management shifts the blame for the failure to fulfill budgets and plans.

The draft amendments, developed by deputies Vladimir Bortko, Elena Drapeko and Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs, allowing Internet providers to block sites with pirated content, do not require approval from the government. This follows from the response of the State Duma Legal Department to a request from deputy Pavel Krasheninnikov.

Three years ago, the Ministry of Defense sold this mansion for 657 million rubles / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti The Military Prosecutor's Office of the St. Petersburg Garrison checked the legality of the sale of the property located on the embankment of the Malaya Nevka River, 16-18, letters X and Yu, and found violations of the requirements of the legislation on land use, the website Fontanka.ru reported yesterday.

Law enforcement agencies are investigating Richard's role in the so-called Bernard Tapie affair. This is about a dubious court decision that allowed businessman Tapie to win a lawsuit against Credit Lyonnais bank and receive more than 400 million euros, allegedly as a reward for supporting Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential elections. Richard himself denies that he participated in the abuses. Tapie’s dispute with Credit Lyonnais dates back to the late 1990s.

The ruble hit multi-month lows at the opening of trading on Tuesday, following the general trends of emerging market currencies and commodity markets, from which flight continues amid a possible reduction in monetary stimulus programs by the US Federal Reserve and weak Chinese statistics. Quotations of the ruble against the bi-currency basket ( $0.55 and 0.45 euros) at MICEX trading by 10.25 Moscow time were at the level of 37.18, the value of the basket increased by 13 kopecks.

11 June 2013, 14:08 / Business Lukoil bought a section of the Ivory Coast shelf Irina Kezik Lukoil . has acquired a 65% stake in the exploration, development and production project at offshore block CI-504 in the waters of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire in the Gulf of Guinea, the company reports The share in the project was acquired from the private Nigerian company Taleveras Energy, which after the transaction remains 25%, and the remaining 10% belongs to the state company PETROCI Holding.

The introduction of the Unified State Exam (USE) and the history of its application in Russia are typical of attempts to introduce any institution that establishes equal rules of the game in a particular area. The USE was conceived as a universal tool for assessing the knowledge of schoolchildren, sharply reducing the role of personal discretion of teachers and university admissions committees. Of course, the USE has encountered united resistance from the corruption lobby.