Rosaviatsia will distribute quotas among airlines for hiring foreign aircraft commanders (ACs) in proportion to the volume of passengers and cargo transported in the previous calendar year, according to a draft resolution prepared by the Ministry of Transport. The four largest Russian airlines are Aeroflot , Transaero , UTair , and Siberia. The largest cargo carriers are Airbridgecargo and Volga-Dnepr.

08 July 2013, 14:30 / Real estate Krasnaya Polyana plans to raise 22 billion rubles. due to additional issue VEB insists on issuing new securities: the construction of Olympic facilities can be partially financed by money from shareholders Maria Dranishnikova A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The Krasnaya Polyana company, which is building the Gornaya Karusel sports and tourist complex, announced the placement price of additional shares at 755,375 per share.

Academician Vladimir Fortov has been confirmed as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The corresponding decree was signed by President Vladimir Putin. It came into force from the moment of signing. The head of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Fortov, was elected president of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the end of May 2012. He received 58% of the votes in the first round; his main rival was Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov.

08 July 2013, 00:00 The state budget has failed The budget deficit affected not only government spending, but also the ratings of the banks it owns Tatyana Bochkareva Dmitry Kazmin Olga Kuvshinova Olga Plotonova V.

08 July 2013, 00:00 Sberbank sold debts at a profit Sberbank received a record profit this year in June, which was dry for banks. Helped with the sale of overdue debts Tatyana Voronova The state bank's income recovered not only due to the low base effect in the holiday-filled May, but also due to profits from non-core activities, Alfa Bank analysts indicate . In June, the bank sold overdue debts worth 18 billion rubles, notes BKF Bank analyst Maxim Osadchiy.

The latest publication, based on materials given to journalists by Edward Snowden, says that the National Security Agency's systems allow for the monitoring of communications, in particular, in Russia. The article, however, is primarily devoted to Brazil and was published in a Brazilian newspaper. There are not many revelations about the nature of the activities of American and other intelligence agencies in these publications, experts agree.

Alex Knaster, according to Forbes, is ranked 882nd on the list of the world's richest people, with a fortune of $1.7 billion. He earned it thanks to his partnership with Alfa: according to Forbes, Knaster owns 4.3% of ABH Holdings, which owns Alfa's banking assets, and 2.2% of Altimo, which owns the group's telecom assets. Knaster also owned a stake in one of Alfa's structures, which owned TNK-BP.

Egypt's Health Ministry said on Monday that at least 35 people were killed in an incident outside the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo, Egyptian television reported. The Egyptian army has already called the events in Cairo a "terrorist attack on a military facility." At the same time, Reuters reports that the death toll has already reached 42. On Monday night, a group of armed men attacked the building of the officers' house of the Republican Guard complex in Cairo.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti The government may grant individual entrepreneurs (IE) who have undergone state registration for the first time a two-year tax amnesty. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the relevant ministries to work on this issue together with the Delovaya Rossiya organization. It is planned to exempt entrepreneurs from all taxes and contributions. This is a radical change in the approach to taxation of entrepreneurs.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will be the main platform for the IPO of 25% of Sovcomflot shares, several sources close to the board of directors of the state company told Vedomosti. This was proposed by the shipping company's management and Deutsche Bank, the government-selected organizer of the placement, one of them clarified.

Tea Party activists rally at the Capitol on June 19, 2013, to express their dissatisfaction with IRS bias and growing bureaucracy / J.Applewhite / AP Recently, a scandal broke out in the United States: the director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Stephen Miller was dismissed because his department put pressure on non-profit organizations (NPOs) considered to be in opposition to the White House. The latter had been waiting for tax-exempt status much longer than other organizations.

The Internet publication "Public Post" was closed only because the project was unprofitable, its CEO Alexey Gorshkov told Lenta.ru. He suggested leaving the journalists' statements that the portal was closed for political reasons on the conscience of those who made them. The management of "Public Post" was going to make the project self-sufficient in 3-4 years.

08 July 2013, 18:26 / Finance The Ministry of Internal Affairs caught underground bankers who cashed out $1 billion As Vedomosti found out, the organizer of the fraud is Sergei Magin, its main participants are Mast Bank, Oksky, Intercapital and Aspect banks, and in total more than 400 people and more than 100 companies are involved in illegal activities Olga Plotonova Svetlana A .Petrova Dmitry Kazmin PhotoXPress Law enforcement agencies have uncovered a large underground group of bankers

ITAR-TASS / IDR The property of the former Moscow Region Finance Minister Alexey Kuznetsov, who was detained in France, has been seized. As the Investigative Committee specifies, eight land plots in the Moscow Region, two apartments in Moscow and two cars have been seized for the purpose of possible confiscation. Kuznetsov's arrest became known on Saturday. He had been wanted internationally through Interpol since November last year.

Following trading on the Korean Stock Exchange on Friday, shares of South Korean Samsung Electronics fell by 3.9%. The company's capitalization lost $6.5 billion, amounting to $32.7 billion. The day before, the Korean company reported an increase in operating profit from $8.2 billion in the second quarter of 2012 to $8.5 billion in the second quarter of 2013.